If the moments that hooked you were the ITC team stepping through to 1357—racing a fixed return window while trying to extract Professor Johnston—then you’ll love how Doomsday Book drops historian Kivrin into the Middle Ages with protocols, calibration errors, and real consequences. The same mix of meticulous period detail you saw around Castelgard and La Roque is here, but with the emotional punch of a mission that goes wrong and a rescue complicated by contagion and bureaucracy. It’s that blend of brainy setup and harrowing stakes you felt from the first SOS parchment to the final dash for the markers.

Did the quantum-foam briefings, marker beacons, and Doniger’s corporatized tech make you grin because the science actually mattered? The Time Ships doubles down on that itch. Baxter treats time travel with the same nuts-and-bolts seriousness—unpacking causality, branching histories, and engineering challenges—so the stakes feel as real as when Marek and Kate used hard-won knowledge to navigate medieval warfare. If you liked how ITC’s rules shaped every decision in the past, this will scratch the same cerebral, high-consequence vibe.

If you tore through the pages where Chris, Kate, and Marek have six hours to retrieve Johnston before the markers burn out, The Martian gives you that same relentless objective energy. Mark Watney’s survival and the race to bring him home echo the tight, step-by-step ingenuity you enjoyed—from decoding the SOS parchment to improvising armor and tactics under siege. It’s that satisfying rhythm of smart fixes under impossible deadlines.

If the headlong momentum of the Castelgard skirmishes, the monastery escape routes, and the knife-edge confrontations with de Kere kept you up late, Dark Matter delivers the same throttle. It’s a sprint of hairpin turns where each scientific reveal escalates the danger, much like how every discovery in 1357 forces another desperate gambit to make the next marker in time.

If what lingered for you was the texture—the re-created 14th-century world, the monastery passages, the feel of vellum and script as clues—then The Name of the Rose is your feast. Eco’s abbey is as vivid and tactile as the Dordogne dig and the ruins that hide Johnston’s trail. You’ll get scholarly sleuthing, coded manuscripts, and the sense that every artifact and stone has a story, much like the parchment that triggered the entire ITC mission.