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A dizzying, grotesque, and strangely beautiful chronicle of humanity's evolutionary mutations across a billion years of deep time. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with All Tomorrows.
- unsettling
- existential
- grotesque
- sublime
- 01
All Yesterdays
John Conway and Darren Naish
A mind-expanding gallery of prehistoric life that dares to imagine dinosaurs not as movie monsters, but as weird, wonderful, and entirely real animals.
- 02
After man
Dougal Dixon · 1981
A stunning, speculative field guide that invites readers to marvel at the exotic creatures of tomorrow.
- 03
Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials
Wayne Douglas Barlowe · 1979
A meticulously illustrated naturalist's field guide to the most iconic creatures of classic science fiction.
- 04
Blue Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
A sweeping, deeply philosophical meditation on time, ecology, and the monumental effort required to build a utopian society.
- 05
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
A sweeping, deep-time evolutionary epic that will make you root for the most unlikely of sentient species.
- 06
Man after Man
Dougal Dixon · 1990
A deeply unsettling, illustrated field guide to the grotesque and fascinating deep-time future of human evolution.
- 07
Green Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
A sweeping, scientifically rigorous epic that immerses you in the slow, monumental work of building a new world and a new society.
- 08
Semiosis
Sue Burke
A multi-generational puzzle box of survival where the environment isn't just a setting, but a calculating, sentient participant.
- 09
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Becky Chambers
A quiet, awe-filled love letter to science, exploration, and the resilience of the human spirit.
- 10
Blue remembered Earth
Alastair Reynolds
A sprawling, sunlit journey across a utopian solar system where the weight of family history threatens to shatter a fragile peace.
- 11
Saturn's Children
Charles Stross · 2008
A cheeky, high-octane romp through a solar system where humanity is dead but their bureaucratic and capitalist hangovers are alive and well.
- 12
A City on Mars
Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
A hilarious, reality-checking splash of cold water on the sci-fi dream of escaping Earth's problems.
