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* The end of [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s [[Time Enough for Love]] involves the protagonist travelling back to the time of his own childhood and dealing with the difficulties thereby. Despite being a 2000+ year old pansexual incestual time traveller speaking what, after 2000+ years, might as well be a foreign language in a ''very'' alien culture, he encounters no problems. However, his plan to escape having to fight in WWI is to hustle pool and flee to Brazil. He then realizes that that might get him killed by German or French agents as a spy.
* The [[Time Scout]] series doesn't say you'll be caught as a spy, but the results are the same. Get caught, get killed. Usually for apostasy or some such.
* One of [[H. Beam Piper]]'s short stories, "Crossroads of Destiny," involves a man who's briefly suspected of being a spy — except that the military intelligence officer dismisses the notion, because the fellow is '''too''' obviously odd; a real foreign agent would be trained to fit right in. The narrator alone then realizes this stranger accidentally came from an alternate universe ... one in which {{spoiler|[[George Washington]] '''didn't''' die in battle, and Benedict Arnold '''didn't''' lead the [[American Revolution]] to victory and become the first president}}.
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