If you loved
Books like Borne
A tender, hallucinatory fever dream about finding love and humanity in the toxic ruins of a bioengineered apocalypse. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Borne.
- hallucinatory
- claustrophobic
- bizarre
- toxic
- strangely beautiful
- 01
Acceptance
Jeff VanderMeer
A hallucinatory descent into a mutating wilderness that demands you surrender your understanding of what it means to be human.
- 02
Authority
Jeff VanderMeer
A claustrophobic descent into bureaucratic madness where the paperwork is just as terrifying as the unknown.
- 03
Hammered
Elizabeth Bear
A gritty, neon-drenched cyberpunk thriller anchored by a world-weary heroine fighting for ownership of her own failing body.
- 04
Behemoth
Peter Watts
A suffocating, dread-soaked plunge into the darkest depths of the ocean and the human psyche as the world ends.
- 05
Chimera
Mira Grant
A tense, apocalyptic fight for survival where the greatest threat might be the engineered nature within.
- 06
Beggars in Spain
Nancy Kress · 1994
A sweeping, intellectually rigorous exploration of what happens when human evolution outpaces human empathy.
- 07
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
A hallucinatory plunge into a sprawling, grimy metropolis where science, magic, and grotesque biology collide in a nightmare of urban decay.
- 08
Starfish
Peter Watts
A claustrophobic plunge into the crushing depths of the ocean and the darkest, most broken corners of the human psyche.
- 09
The Peripheral
William Gibson
A gritty, mind-bending plunge into a rusted-out future where virtual gig work bleeds into high-stakes, cross-temporal murder.
- 10
Schismatrix
Bruce Sterling · 1985
A dizzying, decades-spanning plunge into a post-human solar system where flesh and machine wage a relentless war for the future of evolution.
- 11
Permutation City
Greg Egan
A dizzying plunge into the deep end of hard science fiction that will leave you questioning the fundamental nature of your own consciousness.
- 12
Saturn's Children
Charles Stross · 2008
A cheeky, high-octane romp through a solar system where humanity is dead but their bureaucratic and capitalist hangovers are alive and well.
