Books like The Memoirs of a Survivor
In a British city falling apart after an unnamed collapse, a middle-aged woman is left in charge of a teenage girl, Emily, and discovers another world behind the wall of her flat.
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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.
The Testament of Jessie Lamb
A virus released by terrorists means every pregnant woman in the world now dies, and Jessie Lamb, sixteen, writes her account from the room where her father has locked her up to stop what she has decided to do.
We
In the One State, a city of glass a thousand years from now where every hour is scheduled, D-503, the mathematician building the spaceship Integral, begins a journal in praise of its perfect order, and then he meets I-330.
Vurt
In a future Manchester, Scribble and his gang take feathers that send them into the Vurt, a shared dream world, and Scribble's sister Desdemona has been lost inside it.
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
As pollution and plague leave humanity sterile, the wealthy Sumner family, in their isolated Appalachian valley, prepare by building a hospital and a cloning laboratory.
A Clockwork Orange
A teenage thug in a future England narrates his ultraviolent nights in a private Russian-English slang, then gets reconditioned by the state until even his taste for Beethoven hurts.
Shikasta
Reports and documents from the emissaries of Canopus, a benevolent galactic empire, on the troubled planet Shikasta, which is Earth.
The Sheep Look Up
Over a single year in a near-future United States choked by pollution, where water has to be filtered, the air calls for masks and crops are failing, dozens of lives cross around Austin Train, an environmental prophet who has gone into hiding.
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.
The Other Side
An artist invited to a remote 'Dream Realm' in Central Asia watches the impossible city and its exiled population collapse into entropy and violence.
The War of the Worlds
A cylinder falls from the sky onto Horsell Common in Surrey, and the narrator, a writer living nearby, joins the crowd that gathers round it as its top begins to unscrew.
War with the Newts
A sea captain discovers intelligent newts in a lagoon on an island in the Indian Ocean and starts trading them as labour, and the newts multiply.