Books › Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town › Books like it
If you loved
Books like Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
A surreal, tech-infused urban fantasy where the ghosts of a deeply weird childhood collide with the gritty reality of building a utopian future. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
- surreal
- gritty
- bohemian
- unsettling
- 01
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.
- 02
Eastern standard tribe
Cory Doctorow
A manic, tech-fueled satire of digital tribalism and corporate espionage told from inside a psychiatric ward.
- 03
Islands in the Net
Bruce Sterling · 2002
A globe-trotting, idea-dense plunge into the dark, data-pirated underbelly of a seemingly utopian corporate future.
- 04
WWW
Robert J. Sawyer
A hopeful, idea-driven exploration of what happens when the internet wakes up and needs a friend.
- 05
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.
- 06
CyberStorm
Matthew Mather
A chillingly plausible descent into urban survival where the digital and physical worlds collapse simultaneously.
- 07
Brown Girl in the Ring
Nalo Hopkinson
A gritty, pulse-pounding descent into a ruined city where ancestral magic and urban survival violently collide.
- 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
The Hidden Family
Charles Stross · 2005
A clever collision of modern business savvy and alternate-world intrigue where survival means disrupting the family trade.
- 10
A stranger in Olondria
Sofia Samatar
A lush, dreamlike love letter to language that haunts the reader long after the final page is turned.
- 11
Diaspora
Greg Egan
A dizzying, unapologetically cerebral plunge into post-human consciousness and the terrifying, awe-inspiring scale of the multiverse.
- 12
Infomocracy
Malka Older
A cerebral, high-stakes political thriller where data is the ultimate weapon and democracy is a fragile, hackable experiment.
