Science fiction explores the effects of real or imagined science and technology on people and society. Stories often take place in the future, in space, or in other worlds.
C.S. Lewis's 'That Hideous Strength' is the final book in the Space Trilogy. A powerful scientific institute called N.I.C.E. threatens to take over Britain while ancient forces and ordinary people resist in a battle between good and evil.
C.S. Lewis's 'Perelandra' sends Dr Elwin Ransom to Venus, an unfallen paradise. He must help its queen resist temptation as evil tries to cause a new Fall on this innocent world.
C.S. Lewis's 'Out of the Silent Planet' follows Dr Elwin Ransom as he is kidnapped and taken to Mars. There he discovers an unfallen, harmonious world and sees the fallen state of Earth from a new perspective.
Terry Pratchett's 'Going Postal' follows a charming conman named Moist von Lipwig. He gets a second chance to revive the broken post office in Ankh-Morpork. A funny and sharp story about words, power, and beating bureaucracy.
H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine tells of an inventor who builds a device to travel through time. He goes far into the future, to the year 802701 AD, where he finds humans split into two kinds: the gentle Eloi who live above ground and the brutal Morlocks who dwell below.