Isaac Asimov's The Last Question is an excellent short story that explores whether future civilizations will ever be able to reverse entropy. [1] Also, Ten Chi

Isaac Asimov's The Last Question is an excellent short story that explores whether future civilizations will ever be able to reverse entropy. [1] Also, Ten Chiang's Exhalation is another short story about trying to stave off the entropy-death of the universe. [2] 1. https://astronomy.org/moravian/C00-Last%20Question.pdf https://astronomy.org/moravian/C00-Last%20Question.pdf (pdf) 2. https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/