Books like The Book of Strange New Things
12 books with a reading profile close to The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
The Lathe of Heaven
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, science fiction
George Orr lives in a future Portland where his dreams physically alter reality.
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2
Machines like Me
by Ian McEwan
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
In a version of 1982 where Britain lost the Falklands War, Alan Turing is alive and artificial intelligence has advanced a long way.
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3
A Scanner Darkly
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
Bob Arctor is a narcotics agent living undercover in a drug-addicted suburban household in a near-future California.
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4
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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5
Roadside Picnic
Also deep · philosophy, science fiction
The narrative follows Redrick Schuhart, a professional stalker who illegally ventures into the Zone, one of several locations on Earth littered with mysterious debris following a brief extraterrestrial visit.
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6
Frankissstein
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
The narrative follows two parallel timelines.
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7
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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The Left Hand of Darkness
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
Genly Ai arrives on the frozen planet Gethen as an envoy representing the Ekumen, a coalition of human worlds.
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Yol
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
A father and his son are the only characters who really matter in this novel.
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The Road
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
An unnamed father and his young son walk southward through a scorched American landscape years after an unspecified cataclysm.
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11
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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12
A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki
Also deep and inward-looking · philosophy, science fiction
On a remote island in British Columbia, a novelist named Ruth finds the washed-up diary of Nao, a sixteen-year-old girl living in Tokyo.
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