2026-05-07 18:16 UTC
@penwing@wandering.shop for Time Travel, I would be inclined to go with, say, The First 15 Lives of Harry August. The "time travel" is unconventional, but it's written arguably for a less genre-involved audience, and it does address many of the sub-genre's concerns.
For First Contact, even though it is "from the other side", if it doesn't have to be a novel , I might pick Iain Banks' The State of the Art. Like a lot of First Contact stories, it's *really* about humanity.
(Or, left field, Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon?)
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@penwing@wandering.shop 2026-05-07 18:32
@aoanla@hachyderm.io Harry August I have read, but it didn't leave much of an impression... But you have triggered reminding me of Ministry of Time by Kailine Bradley... 8-) Banks I have written off as not really right for a beginners' list - although again I remember very little of State of the Art Lagoon could be an interesting choice... but I'd probably go for the Binti Trilogy (Novellas, available as omnibus edition) for Okorafor...