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A sprawling, hopeful love letter to a drowned but defiant metropolis. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with New York 2140.
- bustling
- aquatic
- hopeful
- immersive
- 01
The years of rice and salt
Kim Stanley Robinson
A sweeping, centuries-spanning tapestry of reincarnation and alternate history that reimagines the evolution of human civilization.
- 02
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
A sweeping, polyphonic blueprint for survival that wades through the terror of the climate crisis to find a pragmatic hope.
- 03
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.
- 04
Blackfish City: A Novel
Sam J. Miller
A gritty, ice-cold plunge into a floating dystopian metropolis where political fury meets mythic wonder.
- 05
Flood
Stephen Baxter
A methodical, dread-inducing chronicle of a world slowly and inevitably swallowed by water.
- 06
Blue remembered Earth
Alastair Reynolds
A sprawling, sunlit journey across a utopian solar system where the weight of family history threatens to shatter a fragile peace.
- 07
The Drowned World
J. G. Ballard · 1962
A hallucinatory descent into a sweltering, flooded world where the human mind regresses alongside the collapsing environment.
- 08
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler · 1993
A harrowing, deeply empathetic journey through a collapsing world that plants the seeds of a radical new future.
- 09
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
A meticulously engineered, high-stakes thought experiment about the end of the world and the grueling, orbital mechanics of human survival.
- 10
The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin
A fierce, reality-bending love letter to the messy, beating heart of a metropolis under siege.
- 11
Record of a Spaceborn Few
Becky Chambers
A warm, quiet slice-of-life journey through the everyday lives of people finding their place in a vast, changing universe.
- 12
Accelerando
Charles Stross · 2005
A relentless, jargon-fueled rollercoaster ride through the technological singularity that will leave your brain feeling overclocked.
