David Bowman, the last survivor of the Discovery mission, travels through the Star Gate near Saturn’s moon Iapetus and is transformed by an alien intelligence into the Star-Child, a new kind of being.

Doctor Moreau is killed by a puma he was turning into a human, and his assistant Montgomery dies soon after in a drunken fight with the Beast Folk.

Griffin, the scientist who made himself invisible and became violent, is cornered and beaten to death by a crowd in Port Burdock.

Phileas Fogg thinks he has lost his bet by arriving in London five minutes late, but he discovers he gained a full day by travelling east around the world.

After ten months as prisoners aboard Captain Nemo’s submarine, the Nautilus, Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil and the harpooner Ned Land escape in a small boat as the ship is caught in the Maelstrom off Norway.

After escaping the Morlocks in the year 802,701 and travelling millions of years into a dying future where a red sun hangs over a dark beach, the Time Traveller returns to tell his story.

Ryland Grace sends the beetle probes carrying the cure for the sun-dimming Astrophage back to Earth, then turns his ship around to save his alien friend Rocky, whose crew and ship are in danger.

Dana Franklin, a Black woman from 1976 pulled back in time to a Maryland plantation to save her white ancestor Rufus Weylin, finally kills Rufus when he tries to rape her.

Estraven, the exiled Karhide politician who helped Genly Ai cross the ice, is shot by border guards while trying to sneak back into Karhide.

Juliana Frink reaches Hawthorne Abendsen, author of a banned novel in which the Allies won World War II, and learns that he wrote it using the I Ching.