Is this the novelist that wrote the novel with the tachyon messages to our past generations warning them about the impending climate change disaster?
Edit: no, it's Timescape by Gragory Benford.
Edit: no, it's Timescape by Gragory Benford.
- "What's expected of us" by Ted Chiang, about a reverse time delay device that reveals the deterministic nature of physics and causes a societal crisis. It's eventually used to send a message to the past from the heat death of the universe: https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a
- "The Hundred Light-Year Diary" by Greg Egan, about a society that adapts to being able to receive messages from themselves one hundred years into the future. Every person gets a ration of 100 characters per day that they can send to their past self. This one also deals with questions of free will, and what we choose to omit from our "perfect" records when given the chance. Synposis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hundred_Light-Year_Diary
Timescape and Red Mars are very different in very different in nature and size. Timescape is a self-contained end-of-the-world story, but set in a multiverse, so some of the characters do get out alive. Red Mars is the first part of a lengthy trilogy, which is ultimately optimistic about humanity itself, even though the story contains environment collapse, devastation, and war.
[Edit] To be clear, the overall story of which Red Mars is just the first part is much longer than Timescape.