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Books like One of us
A tense, mind-bending descent into a paranoid nightmare where your own memories might be your greatest threat. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with One of us.
- paranoid
- nightmarish
- mind-bending
- shadowy
- 01
Spares
Michael Marshall Smith · 1997
A breathless, surreal sprint through a disturbing near-future where human life is the ultimate commodity.
- 02
Only forward
Michael Marshall Smith · 1994
A sarcastic, neon-soaked fever dream that lures you in with weird cityscapes and then breaks your heart with its psychological depth.
- 03
Quantum Night
Robert J. Sawyer
A high-stakes, concept-driven thriller that collides quantum physics with the darkest corners of the human psyche.
- 04
Void Star
Zachary Mason
A tense, cerebral plunge into a flooded, drone-patrolled future where memory is a commodity and artificial intelligence borders on the incomprehensible.
- 05
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.
- 06
The Warehouse
Rob Hart (Fiction writer)
A chillingly plausible, fast-paced descent into a corporate dystopia where next-day delivery costs you your soul.
- 07
Crystal rain
Tobias S. Buckell
A high-stakes planetary adventure where a forgotten past holds the key to surviving a fearsome invasion.
- 08
Hammered
Elizabeth Bear
A gritty, neon-drenched cyberpunk thriller anchored by a world-weary heroine fighting for ownership of her own failing body.
- 09
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.
- 10
Under the skin
Michel Faber
A masterclass in creeping dread that slowly peels back the mundane to reveal something profoundly alien and devastating.
- 11
Touch
Claire North
A breathless, body-hopping thriller that wraps deep existential melancholy in a relentless game of cat and mouse.
- 12
Halting State
Charles Stross · 2007
A wry, hyper-connected near-future procedural that drops you directly into the driver's seat of a virtual bank heist.
