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A sarcastic, neon-soaked fever dream that lures you in with weird cityscapes and then breaks your heart with its psychological depth. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Only forward.
- neon-drenched
- dreamlike
- unsettling
- melancholic
- 01
Spares
Michael Marshall Smith · 1997
A breathless, surreal sprint through a disturbing near-future where human life is the ultimate commodity.
- 02
One of us
Michael Marshall Smith · 1998
A tense, mind-bending descent into a paranoid nightmare where your own memories might be your greatest threat.
- 03
Accelerando
Charles Stross · 2005
A relentless, jargon-fueled rollercoaster ride through the technological singularity that will leave your brain feeling overclocked.
- 04
Iron sunrise
Charles Stross · 2004
A frantic, physics-heavy race against time where cosmic espionage meets mind-bending post-human technology.
- 05
Vurt
Jeff Noon · 1993
A feverish, neon-soaked plunge into a hallucinatory underworld where dreams and reality violently collide.
- 06
Excession
Iain M. Banks
A dizzying, witty plunge into the hyper-speed group chats of god-like AIs facing something they cannot comprehend.
- 07
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.
- 08
Embassytown
China Miéville
A mind-bending, linguistic puzzle box of a novel that explores the terrifying and transformative power of language.
- 09
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.
- 10
Infomocracy
Malka Older
A cerebral, high-stakes political thriller where data is the ultimate weapon and democracy is a fragile, hackable experiment.
- 11
Doors of Eden
Adrian Tchaikovsky
A speculative journey that contrasts the unfathomable depths of evolutionary time with the immediate lives of a diverse ensemble.
- 12
Walkaway
Cory Doctorow
A fiercely optimistic, idea-dense joyride through a post-scarcity apocalypse where building a better world means fighting the billionaires who want to live forever.
