Books like Timescape
12 books with a reading profile close to Timescape by Gregory Benford. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Playground
dense, narrative
Set against the backdrop of French Polynesia, the narrative tracks the intersection of four lives shaped by the Pacific Ocean.
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2
American War
narrative, science fiction
In the late twenty-first century, a second American Civil War erupts after federal legislation bans fossil fuels.
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3
The Mountain in the Sea
by Ray Nayler
narrative, science fiction
Marine biologist Ha Nguyen travels to the remote Con Dao Archipelago to study a colony of octopuses that has developed a sophisticated culture, a symbolic language, and a defensive autonomy.
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4
The Bees
by Laline Paull
narrative, science fiction
Flora 717 is born into the lowest caste of a rigid apiary society, a sanitation worker destined for silent labor.
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5
Timequake
narrative, science fiction
In 2001 the universe's expansion hits a snag and snaps back to 1991, forcing everyone to relive the following ten years exactly as before, unable to change a thing.
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6
The Anomaly
narrative, science fiction
In March 2021, an Air France flight from Paris to New York flies into a violent storm and lands safely at JFK.
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7
The Dream Hotel
by Laila Lalami
narrative, science fiction
Set in a near-future America, the narrative follows a museum curator named Miina who is detained after an algorithmic prediction identifies her as a potential threat to national security.
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8
The Children of Men
by P.D. James
narrative, science fiction
Set in 2021, the story follows Theo Faron, an Oxford historian living in a world where human sperm counts have dropped to zero, ending all births.
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9
Great Circle
dense, narrative
Marian Graves is a prohibited female aviator who disappears in 1950 while attempting a north-south circumnavigation of the globe.
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10
Yakma Zevki
by Ray Bradbury
narrative, science fiction
Yakma Zevki, or Pleasure to Burn, is a collection of sixteen short stories and early drafts that trace the evolution of the concept eventually known as Fahrenheit 451.
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11
The Windup Girl
narrative, science fiction
In a future Bangkok, the world struggles under the collapse of the global petroleum economy and the rise of bioterrorism.
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12
The Heart Goes Last
narrative, science fiction
Set in a near-future economic collapse, the story follows Stan and Charmaine, a couple living in their car to avoid roving gangs.
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