6 books like October the First Is Too Late

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Behold the Man Michael Moorcock · 1968 · ★ 3.7 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job, and a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity and his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre obsession with the idea of the messiah. After the collapse of his latest affair and his introduction to… Shares: English Science fiction, Time Travel

Pebble in the Sky Isaac Asimov · 1950 · ★ 3.9 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Pebble in the Sky is Asimov's first full length novel. It begins with a retired tailor from the mid-20th Century, who is accidentally pitched forward into the future. By then, Earth has become radioactive and is a low-status part of a vast Galactic Empire. There is both a mystery and a power-struggle, and a lot of debate and human choices. The originality of the S.F. work is the choice of a very… Shares: Time, Time Travel

The Light of Other Days Stephen Baxter · 2000 · ★ 4.0 · 313p · ≈ 10h · Moderate From Arthur C. Clarke, the brilliant mind that brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stephen Baxter, one of the most cogent SF writers of his generation, comes a novel of a day, not so far in the future, when the barriers of time and distance have suddenly turned to glass. When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses cutting-edge physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see… Shares: English Science fiction, Time Travel

The War Of The Worlds/The Time Machine H. G. Wells · 1946 · ★ 4.5 · 269p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A compilation of the two stories by H. G. Wells, with original acknowledgements, etc., and no additional commentary. Shares: English Science fiction, Time Travel

Novels H. G. Wells · 1981 · ★ 3.9 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this collection you will find : Novels -The Time Machine -The War of the Worlds -The Invisible Man -The Island of Doctor Moreau -The Sleeper Awakes -A Modern Utopia -The Wheels of Chance -The First Men in the Moon -The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth -In the Days of the Comet -Ann Veronica Short Stories -Tales of Space and Time -The Red Room -The Diamond Maker -Æpyornis… Shares: English Science fiction, Time Travel

The Invisible Man H. G. Wells · ★ 3.6 · 124p · ≈ 4h · Moderate This book is the story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows. Shares: English Science fiction, Time Travel

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