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An enigmatic piece of American science fiction that invites readers into a speculative reality. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Exterminator! A novel.
- curious
- otherworldly
- contemplative
- 01
Nova Express
William S. Burroughs · 1964
A hallucinatory, cut-up transmission from a dystopian nightmare where language itself is a weapon of control.
- 02
The Soft Machine
William S. Burroughs
A hallucinatory, fragmented assault on the senses that dismantles language and reality to expose the hidden machinery of control.
- 03
Synthetic Men of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs · 1986
A weird, wild plunge into vintage planetary romance where swashbuckling heroism meets grotesque mad science.
- 04
Lost in the funhouse
John Barth · 1968
A dizzying, self-aware labyrinth of language that constantly pulls back the curtain on its own creation.
- 05
The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge
Harry Harrison
A fast-talking, gadget-wielding romp through the galaxy with a charming con man who always has a trick up his sleeve.
- 06
A maze of death
Philip K. Dick · 2001
A claustrophobic, paranoid descent into a reality that refuses to hold its shape, where the greatest threat is the human mind itself.
- 07
Three by Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
A snappy, retro-futuristic ride through alien paranoia, eccentric genius, and bureaucratic magic.
- 08
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.
- 09
Isle of the dead
Roger Zelazny · 1970
A cynical, immortal world-builder is forced out of retirement to fight a cosmic grudge match on a planet of his own making.
- 10
Dying Earth - Baen
Jack Vance · 1986
A baroque and cynical stroll through the twilight of a dying world where magic and science are indistinguishable.
- 11
Cugel saga
Jack Vance · 2000
A delightfully cynical romp through a decaying world, led by fantasy's most eloquent and unrepentant scoundrel.
- 12
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Robert Shea
A psychedelic, paranoid rollercoaster ride through every conspiracy theory ever conceived, wrapped in a subversive countercultural manifesto.
