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A kaleidoscopic journey through surreal futures and alternate realities that holds a mirror up to the complexities of modern society. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Invisible Planets.
- expansive
- surreal
- contemplative
- uncanny
- 01
To Hold Up the Sky
Cixin Liu
A mind-expanding journey that juxtaposes the fragile, mundane struggles of humanity with the cold, staggering majesty of the cosmos.
- 02
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu
A devastating, beautiful exploration of memory, magic, and the immigrant experience that will break your heart and carefully fold it back together.
- 03
The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
Cixin Liu
A chilling, mind-expanding exercise in cosmic paranoia and game theory that will permanently alter how you look at the night sky.
- 04
Six months, three days, five others
Charlie Jane Anders
A wry, offbeat collection of speculative tales that uses the bizarre to illuminate the deeply human.
- 05
The country of the blind
Herbert George Wells
A brisk, eerie journey through thought experiments that peel back the everyday to reveal the terrifying wonders of the unknown.
- 06
Love in a fallen city
Eileen Chang · 2006
A stark, lyrical exploration of longing and the treacherous, shifting dynamics of family and sexual politics.
- 07
The Redemption of Time
Baoshu
A dizzying plunge into the deepest, most mind-bending mysteries of a dark and unforgiving cosmos.
- 08
Galactic North
Alastair Reynolds
A chilling plunge into deep time and post-human evolution, where the universe is vast, cold, and indifferent to our survival.
- 09
A People's Future of the United States
Charlie Jane Anders, Lesley Nneka Arimah and others
A defiant, electrifying collection of speculative visions that dares to imagine marginalized communities surviving, resisting, and thriving in the face of systemic collapse.
- 10
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
A collection of mind-bending thought experiments that quietly break your heart while expanding your understanding of the universe.
- 11
Beyond the rift
Peter Watts
A gorgeously saturnine collection of edgy science fiction that blurs the line between the known and the alien.
- 12
Embassytown
China Miéville
A mind-bending, linguistic puzzle box of a novel that explores the terrifying and transformative power of language.
