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universe123 books1940

About robots, set in far future.

“There is a science that reads the future of quadrillions the way an astronomer reads the orbits of stars.”
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Start with Foundation →

includes The Collected Fiction of Isaac Asimov, Trantorian Empire, The Positronic Robot Stories, Foundation, Second Foundation Trilogy, Foundation (Original Stories)

H. G. Wells' War of the WorldsUniverse

universe65 books1898

Alien invasion.

“No one would have believed, in the closing years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely from the timeless worlds of space.”
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Start with The War of the Worlds →

includes The War of the Worlds

TimescapeNovel

Gregory Benfordstandalone novel1980

Hard science fiction, tense in tone, about ecological collapse.

“WorldCat: In the year 1998, a group of scientists works desperately to communicate with the scientists of 1962, warning of an ecological disaster that will destroy the oceans in the future--if it is not averted in the past.”
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Childhood's EndNovel

Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1953

First contact, bittersweet in tone, about aliens, set in near future.

When the Sleeper WakesNovel

H. G. Wellsstandalone novel1899

Dystopia, about political intrigue and rebellion and revolution, set in far future.

“Graham, an insomniac Englishman in 1890s London, takes a course of sleep-inducing drugs and falls into a coma that lasts two centuries.”
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Up the LineNovel

Robert Silverbergstandalone novel1969

Funny in tone, about identity.

“The plot revolves mainly around the paradoxes brought about by time travel and is considered an example of the more sexually-permissive era of late 1960s American science-fiction, a reflection of the counterculture of its day.”
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