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Take Back Plenty
Colin Greenland
A fast-moving space adventure featuring mysterious aliens, a journey to a de-populated planet, a mad run from space cops, a ship captain in trouble, and her AI (Artificially Intelligent) companion/ship's computer.Winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke A...
Tau Zero
Poul Anderson
For the crew of the Leonora Christine, travelling close to the speed of light on a 30-light-year journey, subjective time slows down. Then buffeting by an interstellar dust cloud damages the ship's deceleration system and it achieves light speed, tau...
This is the Way the World Ends
James Morrow
When tombstone engraver George Paxman is offered a bargain, he doesn't hesitate. His beloved daughter gets an otherwise unaffordable survival suit to protect her from radioactive fall-out and all George has to do is sign a document admitting that, as...
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Philip K. Dick
For the exiles from a blistering Earth, Mars is a lonely place, made bearable only by drugs, specifically Can-D, which translates those who take in into a shared hallucination of a Barbie-esque world.But the new drug Chew-Z promises more than thatete...
The Time Machine; The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
In The Time Machine, Wells's Time Traveller journeys to the world of 802,701 AD, where humanity has divided into the effete, beautiful Eloi and the brutal subterranean Morlocks.In The War of the Worlds, the Martians - intellects 'vast and cool and un...
Time Out of Joint
Philip K. Dick
Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick's classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is.The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn't know that. He thinks it's 1959. He also thinks tha...
A Time of Changes
Robert Silverberg
The peace based on total selflessness that characterizes life on Velada Borthan is shattered when men from Earth bring with them a drug that makes the planet's inhabitants aware of their individuality.1972 Nebula AwardSF Masterworks #175
Timescape
Gregory Benford
Timescape [1]: Detecting strange patterns of interference in a lab experiment, Gordon Bernstein, an assistant researcher at a California university, investigates and begins to uncover something that will change his life forever.1981 Nebula Award1980 ...
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Connie Willis
A science-fiction fantasy in the guise of an old-fashioned Victorian novel, complete with epigraphs, brief outlines, and a rather ugly boxer in three-quarters profile at the start of each chapter. Or is it a Victorian novel in the guise of a time-tra...
Transfigurations
Michael Bishop
In a clearing of the great forest of the planet Bosk Veld, a strange, ape-like species of alien, the Asadi, act out their almost-incomprehensible rituals, rainbow eyes flashing, spinning like pinwheels.Egon Chaney, in his anthropological study, 'Deat...