Emily dies and returns to her 12th birthday, but she cannot bear watching life go by so quickly.

Queenie Bligh, a white Englishwoman whose husband Bernard was away at war, gives birth to a mixed-race baby fathered by Michael Roberts, a Jamaican RAF airman.

The crew of the Endeavour explores the huge alien cylinder Rama as it passes through the solar system, but they never meet its builders.

Miss Marple reveals that the young dancer found dead in Colonel Bantry’s library was not Ruby Keene but a missing schoolgirl, Pamela Reeves, and that Ruby was killed separately.

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.