Books like Sea of Tranquility
A glitch in time links an exiled Englishman in a 1912 British Columbia forest to a moon-colony novelist on a pandemic book tour, and an investigator from the future goes back to learn whether reality is a simulation.
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Station Eleven
A travelling Shakespeare company performs King Lear in the Great Lakes region twenty years after a flu pandemic wiped out civilisation.
Exhalation
Nine stories that use science fiction premises to explore free will, time, language, and the nature of consciousness with philosophical precision.
The Martian Chronicles
Human colonists on Mars encounter the ghostly remnants of a dead civilisation, and the planet slowly remakes them in its image.
The End of Eternity
A technician in a time-altering organisation makes unauthorised changes to history to save a woman he loves, threatening the existence of eternity itself.
The Time Machine
A late-Victorian inventor travels eight hundred thousand years into a future where humanity has split into two species, and then continues to the cold red beach at the end of the world.
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Four astronauts on a mission funded by people back on Earth reshape their own bodies to survive the life-bearing worlds they have come to survey around a distant star, and record what they find for whoever is still listening at home.
Doomsday Book
Kivrin, a history student at Oxford in 2054, is sent back to an English village in 1320, just as an epidemic breaks out in the Oxford of her own time.
Klara and the Sun
A robot designed to be a companion for a dying child observes human love from the outside, powered by the sun and an innocent faith in its warmth.
The Big Time
In the Place, a rest station outside time for soldiers of the Change War, the hostess Greta Forzane tells of the night the station was cut off and someone brought in an atomic bomb.
No Enemy But Time
A modern man is sent back in time to Pleistocene Africa, where he must live among early hominids and question what it means to be human.
Timescape
In 1998, with the world dying of ecological collapse, Cambridge scientists try to warn the past using tachyons, and in 1962 a young physicist in California picks up the strange noise in his experiment and tries to make sense of it.
Out of the Silent Planet
Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge philologist on a walking holiday, is drugged and kidnapped by two men who take him by spaceship to Malacandra, where they mean to hand him over to its inhabitants.