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A dazzling, kaleidoscopic puzzle box of a narrative that explores the aching human desire for connection in an age of hyper-surveillance. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Candy House.
- kaleidoscopic
- buzzing
- melancholic
- 01
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.
- 02
Bad behavior
Mary Gaitskill · 1988
A raw, disenchanted plunge into the longing and angst of an urban fringe generation desperate for connection.
- 03
Pastoralia
George Saunders · 2000
A hilarious, heartbreaking funhouse mirror reflecting the soul-crushing absurdities of modern work and life.
- 04
New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson
A sprawling, hopeful love letter to a drowned but defiant metropolis.
- 05
Look at Me
Jennifer Egan · 2001
An eerie, symphonic exploration of identity and alienation in a world where surface and reality are indistinguishable.
- 06
Angry candy
Harlan Ellison · 1988
A visionary collection of speculative tales that traverses bleak expanses of space and time to unearth a resilient faith in the future.
- 07
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.
- 08
The tsar of love and techno
Anthony Marra
A darkly funny, deeply humane tapestry of interconnected lives surviving the absurdities and tragedies of a fractured empire.
- 09
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.
- 10
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July
A tender, delightfully weird exploration of lonely people fumbling toward connection in the most unexpected ways.
- 11
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.
- 12
No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
A hyper-ironic scroll through the digital void that suddenly shatters into a profound meditation on embodied grief and love.
