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A cool, hyper-observant stroll through the weirdness of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, guided by a mind that treats the present like science fiction. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Distrust that particular flavor.
- cool
- cerebral
- atmospheric
- nostalgic
- 01
Virtual light
William Gibson · 1993
A neon-drenched, high-speed chase through a fractured, hyper-capitalist California where high-tech surveillance meets duct-tape survival.
- 02
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.
- 03
Schismatrix Plus
Bruce Sterling · 1996
A dizzying, idea-dense plunge into a post-human future where biology and machinery wage a relentless war for the next stage of evolution.
- 04
Content
Cory Doctorow
An impassioned, geeky manifesto for the open internet that feels like a late-night debate with a brilliant hacker.
- 05
Angry candy
Harlan Ellison · 1988
A visionary collection of speculative tales that traverses bleak expanses of space and time to unearth a resilient faith in the future.
- 06
Consider the lobster, and other essays
David Foster Wallace · 2005
A dizzying, hyper-articulate plunge into the absurdities and moral anxieties of modern American life.
- 07
Life after God
Douglas Coupland · 1994
A quiet, wistful search for grace hidden in the lonely spaces of modern suburban life.
- 08
You are not a gadget
Jaron Lanier
A passionate, eccentric plea to reclaim your humanity from the flattening algorithms of the modern web.
- 09
Radicalized
Cory Doctorow
A sharp, urgent jolt of near-future anxiety that channels modern outrage into thrilling, terrifyingly plausible speculative fiction.
- 10
Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
A razor-sharp, dizzying plunge into the funhouse mirror of modern internet culture and millennial self-delusion.
- 11
The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
A dazzling, kaleidoscopic puzzle box of a narrative that explores the aching human desire for connection in an age of hyper-surveillance.
- 12
The State of the Art
Iain Banks
A wry, expansive look at humanity's messy reality through the lens of a highly advanced, slightly condescending utopian society.
