Books like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
12 books with a reading profile close to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore. Outward-looking and escapist; a moderate read.
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1
Superman: Red Son
by Mark Millar
Also outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
In this alternate history, Kal-El’s escape pod lands on a Soviet collective farm in 1938 instead of rural Kansas.
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2
The Windup Girl
Also outward-looking · narrative, science fiction
In a future Bangkok, the world struggles under the collapse of the global petroleum economy and the rise of bioterrorism.
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3
Foundation and Chaos
by Greg Bear
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Set within the Second Foundation Trilogy, this novel follows Hari Seldon as he defends his theories of psychohistory during a formal trial on the capital world of Trantor.
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4
The Power
narrative, science fiction
Teenage girls across the globe suddenly develop a physical organ called a skein, located near their collarbones, which allows them to discharge lethal electricity from their fingertips.
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5
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas
by Gerard Way
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
The story follows the fractured Hargreeves siblings as they navigate the aftermath of the apocalypse they narrowly avoided.
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6
Automatic Noodle
narrative, science fiction
Set in a future shaped by the evolution of sentient labor, Automatic Noodle follows a specialized service robot that gains self-awareness through a technical glitch.
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7
Switch Bitch
by Roald Dahl
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Published in 1974, Switch Bitch is a collection of four long-form short stories centered on sexual deception and the pursuit of hedonism.
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8
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Yorick Brown and his capuchin monkey, Ampersand, travel across a desolate United States as the only two survivors of a global plague that killed every creature with a Y chromosome.
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9
The Mountain in the Sea
by Ray Nayler
narrative, science fiction
Marine biologist Ha Nguyen travels to the remote Con Dao Archipelago to study a colony of octopuses that has developed a sophisticated culture, a symbolic language, and a defensive autonomy.
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10
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5: Ring of Truth
entertainment, narrative
In this fifth installment, Yorick Brown, the final human male on Earth, travels to San Francisco with Agent 355 and Dr.
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11
Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
entertainment, narrative
In the small town of Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean spearheads a campaign to purge local library shelves of titles she deems inappropriate.
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12
Snow Crash
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, narrative
In a near-future Los Angeles partitioned into sovereign corporate franchises, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizzas for the Mafia and hacks within the Metaverse, a three-dimensional virtual reality landscape he helped build.
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