science fiction + time travel

6 books tagged both “science fiction” and “time travel”.

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler · 1979

Dana pulled from 1976 to slave Maryland must save Rufus who owns her kin.

2,244-word summary · 10 min read

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel · 2022

Edwin in 1912, Olive in 2203, and Gaspery in 2401 hear the same impossible sound and chase an anomaly across time.

2,236-word summary · 10 min read

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone · 2019

Rival time agents Red and Blue trade secret letters across history, and falling in love could get them killed by their own sides.

2,393-word summary · 11 min read

Recursion

Blake Crouch · 2019

False pasts feel truer than true ones as a memory chair lets the grieving rewrite deaths.

1,995-word summary · 9 min read

The Time Machine

H.G. Wells · 1895

Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.

2,335-word summary · 10 min read

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle · 1962

Meg Murry, Charles Wallace and Calvin tessar past Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which to Camazotz to free Mr Murry from IT.

2,055-word summary · 9 min read