Books like 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.
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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 Light Brigade
Dietz joins the corporate army after the Blink wipes São Paulo off the map, and soldiers are broken down into light to be beamed to the front, and Dietz starts arriving at the wrong times.
Foundation
As the Galactic Empire decays, mathematician Hari Seldon plants a colony of scholars on a remote planet to shorten the coming dark age, and his successors survive crisis after crisis his equations foresaw.
Inverted World
On reaching the age of six hundred and fifty miles, Helward Mann leaves the crèche of the city called Earth, which is winched along rails across a hostile land to stay near a moving point its people call the optimum, and joins the guild that lays the track.
Babel-17
Rydra Wong, a poet and starship captain, is recruited to crack Babel-17, an enemy code behind a string of sabotage, and discovers that it is a language that changes the way its speakers think.
Rendezvous with Rama
A massive, empty alien spacecraft enters the solar system, and a crew of explorers boards it to discover its purpose.
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.
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.
The Peripheral
A young woman in near-future rural America takes a gig testing what she thinks is a video game and witnesses a murder in a London seventy years ahead.
This Immortal
Conrad Nomikos, an ageless Greek with a mysterious past, is assigned to guide a blue-skinned alien on a tour of an Earth left in ruins by nuclear war and largely bought up by aliens.
Armor
Felix, a scout in powered armour fighting an endless war against insectoid aliens on the planet Banshee, survives drop after drop by switching off everything but the Engine inside him.
Shards of Honor
Cordelia Naismith, captain of a Betan survey ship, is taken prisoner on an unexplored planet by Aral Vorkosigan, a Barrayaran commander with a brutal reputation, whose own crew has just mutinied.