Books like 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.
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The Shadow of the Torturer
Severian, an apprentice in the guild of torturers on a far-future, dying Earth, is exiled for showing mercy to a prisoner, and begins the journey that opens The Book of the New Sun.
Children of Time
Spiders inherit a terraformed world meant for humans and evolve into a civilisation, until the last human ark ship arrives to claim what was never theirs.
The Pastel City
In the far future, on an Earth littered with the relics of forgotten civilisations, the ageing lord tegeus-Cromis, who thinks himself a better poet than swordsman, is called back to fight when the northmen invade the Pastel City of Viriconium.
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.
Schismatrix
In a solar system split between the Shapers, who remake their bodies with genetics, and the Mechanists, who remake theirs with machines, Abelard Lindsay, a disgraced diplomat, lives through centuries of change.
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.
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 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.
2001: A Space Odyssey
A mysterious black monolith guides human evolution from ape to astronaut, culminating in a voyage to Jupiter that transforms a man into something beyond human.
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.
Childhood's End
Vast alien ships appear over Earth's cities, and their unseen Overlords end war and want, but the golden age they bring comes at a price humanity cannot yet understand.
Hyperion
Seven pilgrims travel to the Time Tombs on Hyperion, each carrying a tale that reveals a different facet of a galaxy at war.