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Heat Death

Chronology set at the final point of total thermodynamic entropy, facing the literal end of time and existential closure.

The chill of absolute cold silence, the finality of existence, and the profound existential closure of the universe's last moments. It is the ultimate end of all things, a quiet fading into nothingness.

Books

The End of EternityIsaac Asimov
Harrow the NinthTamsyn Muir
The Last HeroTerry Pratchett
The Poison BeltArthur Conan Doyle
TimescapeGregory Benford
The Time ShipsStephen Baxter
RingStephen Baxter
Marooned in RealtimeVernor Vinge
The Big TimeFritz Leiber
The Wheel of OsheimMark Lawrence
Tomorrow and TomorrowCharles Sheffield
The Last DarkStephen R. Donaldson
UltimaStephen Baxter
One Day All This Will Be YoursAdrian Tchaikovsky
Earth's Last CitadelC. L. Moore
West of JanuaryDave Duncan
WinterlongElizabeth Hand
The Discord of GodsJenn Lyons
The Hollow LandsMichael Moorcock
City at World's EndEdmond Hamilton
We Burned So BrightT. J. Klune
The CollapsiumWil McCarthy
ExtinctionLisa Smedman
Seal of the WormAdrian Tchaikovsky
The waking engineDavid Edison
The End Of All SongsMichael Moorcock
Empress of EternityL. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Time Machine IIGeorge Pal
The Thousand EarthsStephen Baxter
Shadows Upon TimeChristopher Ruocchio
In Other WorldsA. A. Attanasio
BirthrightNigel Robinson
Endless ThingsJohn Crowley
Time SiegeWesley Chu
CosmicomicsItalo Calvino
The Warriors of DayJames Blish
God of ClocksAlan Campbell
The wall of yearsAndrew M. Stephenson
NecropheniaRobert Rankin
Venusian lullabyPaul Leonard
Black HarvestM. C. Planck
10 Billion Days & 100 Billion NightsRyu Mitsuse
The Fatal TreeStephen R. Lawhead
Death's Gray LandMike Shupp
Moments AsunderDayton Ward
Timewyrm: ApocalypseNigel Robinson
The Time AxisHenry Kuttner
The War of the ProphetsGarfield Reeves-Stevens
The Walking ShadowBrian Stableford
The Star to Every WanderingDavid R. George III
Riding the CrocodileRiding the CrocodileGreg Egan
Dear AbbeyTerry Bisson
Xeelee: RedemptionStephen Baxter
The Black GrailDamien Broderick
Oblivion's GateDavid Mack
Man of Two WorldsRaymond F. Jones
The Falling SkyDavid Hair
Judge of AgesJohn C. Wright
The Gallifrey ChroniclesLance Parkin
Timewyrm: RevelationPaul Cornell

Related

Temporal ExpanseEntropic DecayTwilight AgeEra of StagnationDyschronic RealityCosmic IndifferenceLong NightUniversalTemporal DisplacementThe Breach