If it was the breathless leap from a Victorian parlor into peril—racing to recover the stolen machine beneath the White Sphinx, rescuing Weena, dodging Morlocks—that hooked you, you’ll love the way The Anubis Gates hurls Brendan Doyle into 1810 London and tangles him in time’s knots. Powers mixes scholarly curiosity with knife-edge survival: sorcerers like Dr. Romany, the terrifying body-thief “Dog-Faced Joe,” and alleyway intrigues make Doyle’s scramble through the past feel as urgent and twisty as the Time Traveller’s fight to reclaim his device.

Wells’s journey to the far shore of time—the crimson sky, the monstrous crabs, the dying sun—finds its grandest echo here. Last and First Men charts the rise and fall of successive human species across aeons, from planetary disasters to migrations to Neptune. If the Time Traveller’s glimpse of humanity’s distant fate made your scalp prickle, this cosmic chronicle turns that sensation into an overwhelming panorama of extinction, rebirth, and ultimate twilight.

You pondered what the Eloi and Morlocks say about where we’re headed—and what the last beach beneath the fading sun means for our species. In Childhood’s End, Karellen and the Overlords shepherd humanity toward a transhuman destiny that’s as awe-inspiring as it is unsettling. Like Wells’s cool, philosophical voice at the dinner table, Clarke invites you to weigh progress, purpose, and the price of transcendence as Earth approaches a transformation as final as any the Time Traveller witnessed.

If the Eloi’s frailty and the Morlocks’ underworld labor struck you as a sharp parable of stratified society, The Dispossessed gives that insight profound, character-driven depth. Physicist Shevek—another restless thinker like the Time Traveller—moves between the anarchist moon Anarres and the class-stratified world Urras, testing whether any system can avoid creating its own Morlocks. The political choices, moral costs, and scientific breakthroughs echo the social questions Wells threaded through the Time Traveller’s sojourn among the Eloi.

When the Time Traveller coolly investigates the White Sphinx, maps the Eloi’s habits, and dissects Morlock tunnels by lantern light, the thrill is discovery itself. Rendezvous with Rama offers that same scientific wonder as Commander Norton’s crew enters an enigmatic cylindrical starship: they pace its curving “streets,” cross the frozen sea that later thaws, puzzle over biots, and depart with mysteries intact. If you loved the sober, empirical awe of Wells’s explorations, this meticulous expedition will light up that same part of your brain.