Books like Sea of Tranquility
If you liked Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Station Eleven
Because also by Emily St. John Mandel; shares tags: science fiction, pandemic, literary fiction.
After a flu empties the world, a traveling troupe plays Shakespeare for small towns linked by one dead actor.
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
Because shares tags: science fiction, time travel.
Rival time agents Red and Blue trade secret letters across history, and falling in love could get them killed by their own sides.
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Kindred
Because shares tags: science fiction, time travel.
Dana pulled from 1976 to slave Maryland must save Rufus who owns her kin.
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Cloud Atlas
Because shares tags: science fiction, literary fiction.
Six lives from 1850 to a post-apocalypse nest inside each other, linked by a comet birthmark, as souls drift like clouds across power and…
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Recursion
Because shares tags: science fiction, time travel.
False pasts feel truer than true ones as a memory chair lets the grieving rewrite deaths.
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Breakfast of Champions
Because shares tags: literary fiction, science fiction.
A Pontiac dealer breaks down while a broke sci-fi writer brings the book that tells him others are robots.
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Artemis
Because shares tags: science fiction, moon.
Jazz Bashara, a porter and small-time smuggler in the Moon city Artemis, takes a sabotage job that drags her into a fight for the city.
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Klara and the Sun
Because shares tags: science fiction, literary fiction.
Solar robot Klara loves Josie and bargains with the Sun to save her.
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The Time Machine
Because shares tags: science fiction, time travel.
Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.
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A Wrinkle in Time
Because shares tags: science fiction, time travel.
Meg Murry, Charles Wallace and Calvin tessar past Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which to Camazotz to free Mr Murry from IT.
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The Time Traveler's Wife
Because shares tags: time travel, literary fiction.
Niffenegger's Time Traveler's Wife retold: Henry's jumps, Clare waiting, art, and a marriage in two tenses.
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Frankenstein
Because shares tags: science fiction, literary fiction.
Frankenstein retold: Victor builds, the creature wakes, Arctic letters, demand and refusal.
