Olive Kitteridge, a blunt retired maths teacher in Crosby, Maine, is widowed after her gentle husband Henry has a stroke and dies, and she remains estranged from her son Christopher.

The golden-eyed alien Children born in the English village of Midwich, who can control people’s minds, begin killing anyone who threatens them.

Writer Thad Beaumont faces George Stark, the violent pen name he “killed off” who has come to life and is murdering people connected to the mock burial.

Hedda Gabler, trapped in a dull marriage to the scholar George Tesman, burns the manuscript of her former lover Eilert Løvborg and urges him to die “beautifully” with one of her father’s pistols.

David Strorm and a small group of telepathic children in a strict, mutation-hating community called Waknuk are hunted after their abilities are discovered.

Psychologist Kris Kelvin, on a research station orbiting the planet Solaris, is visited by a copy of his dead wife Rheya, created by the planet’s living ocean from his memories.

Robert Neville, who believes he is the last human alive after a plague turned everyone into vampires, learns that some infected people have created a new society.

The penal colony on the Moon wins its independence from Earth in a revolution led by computer technician Manuel “Mannie” Garcia O’Kelly, the professor Bernardo de la Paz and the self-aware supercomputer Mike, who drops rocks on Earth to force a surrender.

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Alice Howland, a Harvard psychology professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at fifty, gradually loses her memory, career and independence.