Books like Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
12 books with a reading profile close to Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Frankissstein
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
The narrative follows two parallel timelines.
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Ubik
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
In 1992, Glen Runciter runs a corporate security agency that employs inertials to neutralize the telepathic powers of industrial spies.
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The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
A fugitive on a remote, deserted island discovers he is not alone, but rather surrounded by a group of people who seem to be caught in a perpetual, unchangeable loop of their past.
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Watchmen
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
Set in an alternate 1985 where costumed vigilantes are real and Richard Nixon remains President, the narrative begins with the murder of Edward Blake, known as the Comedian.
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I Who Have Never Known Men
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, science fiction
Forty women live in an underground cage, guarded by silent men who never speak or touch them.
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Einstein’s Dreams
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
Set in Bern, Switzerland, in 1905, this novel presents a series of thirty fictional dreams experienced by a young Albert Einstein while he works as a patent clerk.
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Stories of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
Ted Chiang’s debut collection contains eight stories rooted in scientific inquiry and rigorous logic.
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Exhalation
by Ted Chiang
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
Exhalation is a collection of nine speculative stories that grapple with entropy, memory, and the mechanics of reality.
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The Employees
by Olga Ravn
Also deep and inward-looking · science fiction, literary
Set aboard the Six-Thousand Ship orbiting the planet New Discovery, the narrative unfolds through a series of witness statements delivered to an anonymous committee.
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Time Shelter
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, literary
Gospodinov's novel imagines a Swiss-run clinic that treats Alzheimer's patients by recreating the decade of their youth, with floors that look like the 1960s, 1970s and so on.
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The Book of Strange New Things
by Michel Faber
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, science fiction
Peter Leigh, a dedicated Christian pastor, leaves his wife Beatrice on a crumbling, disaster-stricken Earth to travel to the planet Oasis.
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Slaughterhouse-Five The Children's Crusade
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
Billy Pilgrim, an ill-suited American chaplain’s assistant, survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war held in an underground meat locker.
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