# library.forgemesh.io – Time Travel Fiction Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io – Time Travel Fiction Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain time-travel fiction books with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/time-travel-fiction
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-time-travel-fiction-shelf-9676357f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Z_8Z0aoEyfUmHnrS8fVZm

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability library-forgemesh-io-time-travel-fiction-shelf-9676357f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Show me up to 30 public-domain time-travel fiction books from the Forgemesh library — I want to browse the ranked list and find something like The Time Machine or A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-filtered collection of public-domain time-travel fiction books with ranked results and drill-down access to full texts, rather than doing a broad keyword search across the entire corpus. It is ideal for browsing or building reading lists within this specific genre without needing to filter or rank results yourself.

## Known failure modes

- Limit parameter exceeds max of 50 — may return an error or be capped
- Payment not processed (x402) — endpoint returns 402 Payment Required
- Network timeout on POST request
- Empty result if the shelf index is temporarily unavailable

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Time travel -- Fiction — 152 public-domain books including A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Time Machine, The weird of the wanderer : $b Being the papyrus records of some incidents in one of the previous lives of Mr. Nicholas Crabbe. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of up to 50 public-domain time-travel fiction books (default 20), including titles such as A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and The Time Machine, along with drill-down routes that allow the agent or user to retrieve the full text of each book.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court",
    "author": "Twain, Mark",
    "book_id": 86,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 22731
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Time travel -- Fiction",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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