30 Books like The Time Machine

The Time Machine / The Invisible Man

by H.G. Wells • 2007

A time traveler finds a future where humans are prey. An invisible man terrorizes Victorian England.

4.10

57k+

🧪 Mad Scientist 🥩 Human Livestock ⚠️ Cautionary Tale

The Time Machine / The Invisible Man Summary

The Time Machine / The Invisible Man 96%

A time traveler finds a future where humans are prey. An invisible man terrorizes Victorian England.

by H.G. Wells 2007

4.10

57k+ ratings

🧪 Mad Scientist 🥩 Human Livestock ⚠️ Cautionary Tale

The Accidental Time Machine

by Joe Haldeman • 2007

A failed physicist's broken calibrator is a one-way time machine, each jump exponentially longer.

3.73

11k+

⏩ One-Way Time Travel ⛪ Theocratic Dystopia 🌅 Post-Scarcity Society

The Accidental Time Machine 94%

A failed physicist's broken calibrator is a one-way time machine, each jump exponentially longer.

by Joe Haldeman 2007

3.73

11k+ ratings

⏩ One-Way Time Travel ⛪ Theocratic Dystopia 🌅 Post-Scarcity Society

The Stars, Like Dust

by Isaac Asimov • 1951

A student and a heiress seek a rebellion and a hidden document to topple a star empire.

3.74

27k+

🪐 Space Politics 🚀 Galactic Rebellion 📜 Hidden Document

The Stars, Like Dust 93%

A student and a heiress seek a rebellion and a hidden document to topple a star empire.

by Isaac Asimov 1951

3.74

27k+ ratings

🪐 Space Politics 🚀 Galactic Rebellion 📜 Hidden Document

The Time Ships

by Stephen Baxter • 1995

A Victorian inventor discovers his time machine has splintered the future into warring worlds.

3.95

7k+

🔀 Quantum Multiverse 🕰️ Cosmic Time Travel ⚔️ Time War

The Time Ships 92%

A Victorian inventor discovers his time machine has splintered the future into warring worlds.

by Stephen Baxter 1995

3.95

7k+ ratings

🔀 Quantum Multiverse 🕰️ Cosmic Time Travel ⚔️ Time War

Chronicles From The Future

by Achilleas Sirigos • 1972

From a coma in 1921, a teacher awakens inside a man of the year 3906.

3.78

569

🏙️ Utopian Future Society 🧠 Mental Time Travel 💀 Dying Narrator

Chronicles From The Future 92%

From a coma in 1921, a teacher awakens inside a man of the year 3906.

by Achilleas Sirigos 1972

3.78

569 ratings

🏙️ Utopian Future Society 🧠 Mental Time Travel 💀 Dying Narrator

The War of the Worlds

by H.G. Wells • 1898

Martians land in southern England, and one man records the extinction of everything he knew.

3.83

353k+

🛸 Alien Invasion ⚙️ Victorian Sci-Fi 📚 Invasion Literature

The War of the Worlds 91%

Martians land in southern England, and one man records the extinction of everything he knew.

by H.G. Wells 1898

3.83

353k+ ratings

🛸 Alien Invasion ⚙️ Victorian Sci-Fi 📚 Invasion Literature

Hyperion

by Dan Simmons • 1989

Seven pilgrims journey to a closed world, each carrying a wish only its monster can grant.

4.28

305k+

📚 Literary Science Fiction 👁️ Space Horror ⏳ Time Manipulation

Hyperion 91%

Seven pilgrims journey to a closed world, each carrying a wish only its monster can grant.

by Dan Simmons 1989

4.28

305k+ ratings

📚 Literary Science Fiction 👁️ Space Horror ⏳ Time Manipulation

The Shadow of the Torturer

by Gene Wolfe • 1980

An apprentice torturer's act of mercy exiles him into a dying world haunted by miracles.

3.84

36k+

🌑 Dying Earth ⚗️ Science Fantasy 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

The Shadow of the Torturer 91%

An apprentice torturer's act of mercy exiles him into a dying world haunted by miracles.

by Gene Wolfe 1980

3.84

36k+ ratings

🌑 Dying Earth ⚗️ Science Fantasy 🎭 Unreliable Narrator

All Tomorrows

by Nemo Ramjet • 2006

Humanity colonizes the galaxy, then an ancient species breaks it into a thousand bizarre new forms.

4.16

11k+

🧬 Speculative Biology ⏳ Future History 🦴 Deep Time

All Tomorrows 90%

Humanity colonizes the galaxy, then an ancient species breaks it into a thousand bizarre new forms.

by Nemo Ramjet 2006

4.16

11k+ ratings

🧬 Speculative Biology ⏳ Future History 🦴 Deep Time

The Philosopher's Stone

by Colin Wilson • 1969

A scientist's brain operation unlocks hidden powers and reveals ancient gods once ruled the world.

3.92

748

🌑 Cosmic Horror 🦑 Eldritch Gods 🧠 Consciousness Expansion

The Philosopher's Stone 90%

A scientist's brain operation unlocks hidden powers and reveals ancient gods once ruled the world.

by Colin Wilson 1969

3.92

748 ratings

🌑 Cosmic Horror 🦑 Eldritch Gods 🧠 Consciousness Expansion

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

by Claire North • 2014

Harry August relives his life, memory intact. A warning from the future: the world is ending.

4.03

101k+

🕰️ Time Loop Narrative 🔁 Immortal Protagonist 🧠 Memory As Burden

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Summary

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August 90%

Harry August relives his life, memory intact. A warning from the future: the world is ending.

by Claire North 2014

4.03

101k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Loop Narrative 🔁 Immortal Protagonist 🧠 Memory As Burden

Exhalation

by Ted Chiang • 2019

A merchant in ancient Baghdad steps through a time portal to undo a sorrow twenty years past.

4.27

113k+

⏳ Time Travel Fiction 🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi 🔄 Causal Loop

Exhalation 90%

A merchant in ancient Baghdad steps through a time portal to undo a sorrow twenty years past.

by Ted Chiang 2019

4.27

113k+ ratings

⏳ Time Travel Fiction 🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi 🔄 Causal Loop

Planet of the Apes

by Pierre Boulle • 1963

A journalist stranded among intelligent apes must outwit his captors before he becomes a specimen.

4.00

49k+

🧬 Anthropological Sci-Fi 🐒 Human As Animal 🦍 Role Reversal Satire

Planet of the Apes 90%

A journalist stranded among intelligent apes must outwit his captors before he becomes a specimen.

by Pierre Boulle 1963

4.00

49k+ ratings

🧬 Anthropological Sci-Fi 🐒 Human As Animal 🦍 Role Reversal Satire

The Forever War

by Joe Haldeman • 1974

An interstellar soldier fights a war that ages Earth by decades while he ages mere months.

4.14

182k+

🕰️ Time Dilation 💖 Love Across Time 🪖 Veteran Alienation

The Forever War 90%

An interstellar soldier fights a war that ages Earth by decades while he ages mere months.

by Joe Haldeman 1974

4.14

182k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Dilation 💖 Love Across Time 🪖 Veteran Alienation

Version Control

by Dexter Palmer • 2016

Her son is dead. The world feels wrong. Her husband's time machine rewrites reality without trace.

3.72

8k+

⏳ Literary Time Travel 🖤 Grieving Parents 💔 Marriage Under Strain

Version Control 90%

Her son is dead. The world feels wrong. Her husband's time machine rewrites reality without trace.

by Dexter Palmer 2016

3.72

8k+ ratings

⏳ Literary Time Travel 🖤 Grieving Parents 💔 Marriage Under Strain

Hazards of Time Travel

by Joyce Carol Oates • 2018

A teenager's forbidden questions land her in 1959 Wisconsin, where one wrong memory means erasure.

2.98

8k+

📚 Literary Dystopia 🧠 Memory Erasure 👁️ Surveillance State

Hazards of Time Travel 89%

A teenager's forbidden questions land her in 1959 Wisconsin, where one wrong memory means erasure.

by Joyce Carol Oates 2018

2.98

8k+ ratings

📚 Literary Dystopia 🧠 Memory Erasure 👁️ Surveillance State

Counter-Clock World

by Philip K. Dick • 1967

When time flows backward, a resurrectionist revives a prophet and fights the book-erasing Library.

3.55

5k+

⏳ Reversed Time 🧟 Resurrection Business 📚 Knowledge Suppression

Counter-Clock World 89%

When time flows backward, a resurrectionist revives a prophet and fights the book-erasing Library.

by Philip K. Dick 1967

3.55

5k+ ratings

⏳ Reversed Time 🧟 Resurrection Business 📚 Knowledge Suppression

Doomsday Book

by Connie Willis • 1992

A historian stranded in a medieval village faces the Black Death with no way home.

4.03

65k+

⏳ Time Travel Accident 😷 Medieval Plague 🔀 Dual Timelines

Doomsday Book 89%

A historian stranded in a medieval village faces the Black Death with no way home.

by Connie Willis 1992

4.03

65k+ ratings

⏳ Time Travel Accident 😷 Medieval Plague 🔀 Dual Timelines

And Then She Vanished

by Nick Jones • 2021

His touch reads object histories. Hypnosis sends him back, to the night his sister vanished.

3.97

10k+

🕰️ Time Travel Mystery 🔮 Psychic Abilities 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

And Then She Vanished 89%

His touch reads object histories. Hypnosis sends him back, to the night his sister vanished.

by Nick Jones 2021

3.97

10k+ ratings

🕰️ Time Travel Mystery 🔮 Psychic Abilities 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

2001

by Arthur C. Clarke • 1968

A monolith wakes on the moon and signals Saturn; two astronauts and a secretive computer follow.

4.18

339k+

🔬 Hard Sci-Fi 🛸 First Contact 🗿 Ancient Aliens

2001 89%

A monolith wakes on the moon and signals Saturn; two astronauts and a secretive computer follow.

by Arthur C. Clarke 1968

4.18

339k+ ratings

🔬 Hard Sci-Fi 🛸 First Contact 🗿 Ancient Aliens

The Anubis Gates

by Tim Powers • 1983

Marooned in 1810 London, a scholar discovers a city of sorcerer-clowns, body thieves, and old gods.

3.90

18k+

🕰️ Closed Time Loops 🫥 Body Theft 🏚️ Victorian Underworld

The Anubis Gates 89%

Marooned in 1810 London, a scholar discovers a city of sorcerer-clowns, body thieves, and old gods.

by Tim Powers 1983

3.90

18k+ ratings

🕰️ Closed Time Loops 🫥 Body Theft 🏚️ Victorian Underworld

War with the Newts

by Karel Čapek • 1990

Intelligent newts, found for pearls, become a global workforce that demands the planet for itself.

4.17

19k+

🏭 Satirical Dystopia 🧬 Speculative Evolution 🌍 Colonial Critique

War with the Newts 89%

Intelligent newts, found for pearls, become a global workforce that demands the planet for itself.

by Karel Čapek 1990

4.17

19k+ ratings

🏭 Satirical Dystopia 🧬 Speculative Evolution 🌍 Colonial Critique

The Peripheral

by William Gibson • 2014

Flynne Fisher pilots a drone sim, sees a murder in future London, and the killers know.

3.89

34k+

🔀 Parallel Timelines 🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 👁️ Witness To Murder

The Peripheral 89%

Flynne Fisher pilots a drone sim, sees a murder in future London, and the killers know.

by William Gibson 2014

3.89

34k+ ratings

🔀 Parallel Timelines 🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 👁️ Witness To Murder

The Lathe of Heaven

by Ursula K. Le Guin • 1971

When dreams reshape reality, a psychiatrist exploits his patient's gift to build utopia at any cost.

4.13

90k+

📚 Philosophical Sci-Fi 🌌 Reality Manipulation 🎭 Well-Meaning Villain

The Lathe of Heaven 89%

When dreams reshape reality, a psychiatrist exploits his patient's gift to build utopia at any cost.

by Ursula K. Le Guin 1971

4.13

90k+ ratings

📚 Philosophical Sci-Fi 🌌 Reality Manipulation 🎭 Well-Meaning Villain

Sea of Tranquility

by Emily St. John Mandel • 2022

A violin echoes across centuries, linking an exiled nobleman, a moon author, and a time detective.

4.05

303k+

💫 Literary Science Fiction 🔗 Interconnected Lives ⏳ Time Travel Anomaly

Sea of Tranquility 89%

A violin echoes across centuries, linking an exiled nobleman, a moon author, and a time detective.

by Emily St. John Mandel 2022

4.05

303k+ ratings

💫 Literary Science Fiction 🔗 Interconnected Lives ⏳ Time Travel Anomaly

The Best of Connie Willis

by Connie Willis • 1993

In worlds broken by time, war, and alien judgment, people still find reasons to sing.

4.10

2k+

🚀 Literary Sf 🌀 Genre Blending 🖤 Bittersweet

The Best of Connie Willis 89%

In worlds broken by time, war, and alien judgment, people still find reasons to sing.

by Connie Willis 1993

4.10

2k+ ratings

🚀 Literary Sf 🌀 Genre Blending 🖤 Bittersweet

Dune

by Frank Herbert • 1965

A young noble's inheritance is a desert planet that his enemies have rigged to destroy him.

4.29

1.6M+

🏰 Feudal Space Opera 🌿 Ecological Sci-Fi 🏜️ Desert Planet

Dune 89%

A young noble's inheritance is a desert planet that his enemies have rigged to destroy him.

by Frank Herbert 1965

4.29

1.6M+ ratings

🏰 Feudal Space Opera 🌿 Ecological Sci-Fi 🏜️ Desert Planet

Foundation

by Isaac Asimov • 1951

Predicting the Empire's fall, a mathematician exiles a colony to shorten the dark age.

4.17

602k+

📜 Future History 🌌 Galactic Empire 🏚️ Declining Empire

Foundation 89%

Predicting the Empire's fall, a mathematician exiles a colony to shorten the dark age.

by Isaac Asimov 1951

4.17

602k+ ratings

📜 Future History 🌌 Galactic Empire 🏚️ Declining Empire

Empire of Silence

by Christopher Ruocchio • 2018

Disowned and hunted, a nobleman fights in the gladiator pits of a backwater planet.

3.95

55k+

🏛️ Galactic Empire 👑 Fallen Noble 🤝 Found Family

Empire of Silence 89%

Disowned and hunted, a nobleman fights in the gladiator pits of a backwater planet.

by Christopher Ruocchio 2018

3.95

55k+ ratings

🏛️ Galactic Empire 👑 Fallen Noble 🤝 Found Family

Consider Phlebas

by Iain M. Banks • 1987

To save a crumbling empire, a shapeshifter must steal a runaway supermind from a dead world.

3.85

102k+

🦎 Shapeshifter Protagonist 🚀 Mercenary Crew 🛐 Alien Religion

Consider Phlebas 89%

To save a crumbling empire, a shapeshifter must steal a runaway supermind from a dead world.

by Iain M. Banks 1987

3.85

102k+ ratings

🦎 Shapeshifter Protagonist 🚀 Mercenary Crew 🛐 Alien Religion

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