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A dizzying, high-velocity plunge into alternate histories, post-human futures, and bureaucratic cosmic horror. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Wireless.
- cerebral
- paranoid
- darkly comic
- mind-bending
- 01
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.
- 02
Saturn's Children
Charles Stross · 2008
A cheeky, high-octane romp through a solar system where humanity is dead but their bureaucratic and capitalist hangovers are alive and well.
- 03
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.
- 04
Schismatrix Plus
Bruce Sterling · 1996
A dizzying, idea-dense plunge into a post-human future where biology and machinery wage a relentless war for the next stage of evolution.
- 05
Galactic North
Alastair Reynolds
A chilling plunge into deep time and post-human evolution, where the universe is vast, cold, and indifferent to our survival.
- 06
Glasshouse
Charles Stross · 2006
A claustrophobic, mind-bending thriller that traps you in a terrifyingly mundane simulation to dissect the fragility of identity and gender.
- 07
Rapture of the Nerds
Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross
A hyperactive, satirical rollercoaster ride through a post-singularity world that is as absurd as it is technologically overwhelming.
- 08
Beyond the rift
Peter Watts
A gorgeously saturnine collection of edgy science fiction that blurs the line between the known and the alien.
- 09
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.
- 10
Three Moments of an Explosion
China Miéville
A cerebral, unsettling descent into a fractured reality where the mundane is constantly invaded by the grotesque and the impossible.
- 11
Pump Six and Other Stories
Paolo Bacigalupi
A visceral, dirt-under-the-fingernails plunge into broken futures where humanity has engineered its own obsolescence.
- 12
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.
