Books like Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
12 books with a reading profile close to Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson. Deep; a demanding read.
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Sprawl (Necromancer) Series
Also deep · dense, science fiction
The Sprawl series follows Henry Dorsett Case, a data thief hired by a mysterious entity to bypass the ice securing a massive artificial intelligence.
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Cloud Atlas
Also deep · dense, science fiction
Cloud Atlas follows six interlocking narratives that span from the mid-nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean to a post-apocalyptic Hawaiian future.
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3
Mona Lisa Overdrive
science fiction, experimental
The narrative follows four converging plotlines eight years after the events of Count Zero: a young Japanese girl sent to London for safety, a prostitute named Mona who undergoes surgical alteration to impersonate a fam…
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4
1985
by Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess
Also deep · science fiction, experimental
Anthony Burgess divides this work into a critical analysis and a fictional response to George Orwell’s dystopian vision.
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There Is No Antimemetics Division
by qntm
Also deep · science fiction, experimental
The story follows the Antimemetics Division, a secret department within the SCP Foundation tasked with containing ideas that defend themselves through censorship or memory erasure.
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6
Heretics of Dune
Also deep · dense, science fiction
Fifteen hundred years after the death of the Tyrant, humanity returns from the Scattering to a transformed galaxy.
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7
Akira, Vol. 1
science fiction, experimental
Set in the year 2019, thirty-one years after a nuclear explosion leveled Tokyo, the story follows a teenage biker gang navigating the neon-lit ruins of Neo-Tokyo.
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A Clockwork Orange
Also deep · dense, science fiction
Alex is a teenage delinquent who leads his gang of droogs through a landscape of ultra-violence and theft in a future London.
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Oryx and Crake
Also deep · science fiction, experimental
Snowman, formerly known as Jimmy, is the last human survivor in a world populated by the Crakers, a floor-model species of genetically engineered humanoids.
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10
Galápagos
Also deep · science fiction, experimental
Set one million years in the future, the ghost of Leon Trout narrates the regression of the human race.
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VALIS
Also deep · dense, science fiction
In 1974, a protagonist named Horselover Fat experiences a psychiatric fracture after a beam of pink light transmits vast amounts of information directly into his brain.
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The City & the City
Also deep · science fiction, experimental
Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad begins a routine murder investigation in Besźel, a crumbling city that geographically overlaps with the prosperous, modern metropolis of Ul Qoma.
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