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Time is a flat circle, especially when it comes to humanitys ability to destroy itself.
Thats an overarching theme of 1959sA Canticle For Leibowitz.
The Three-Body Problemis the first in a trilogy that spans, in the end, millions of years.
Weissare making a TV series adaptationof it for Netflix.
The story jumps forward a few centuries every act and follows different characters with each jump.
Its a story with quirky moments that also tackles some big issues.
While sci-fi stories that span centuries or millennia often focus on big, civilization-level ideas,Cloud Atlasis different.
And while we meet different characters in each time period, its clear that the characters are connected.
But no one, it seems, can make his wife better.
Ever wondered what the world was like for our 65-million-year-old rat-like ancestors?
Looking for a murder mystery to go with your millennia-spanning story?
This detective arrives 10,000 years into the future to a point in time where humanity has been wiped out.
Its up to Brierson to solve the case and, in the process, maybe save humankind as well.
This 1930 novel took on the task of imagining how humans would change over 2 billion years.
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