Books like The Man in the High Castle
12 books with a reading profile close to The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick. Deep and open-ended; a moderate read.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, narrative
Genly Ai arrives on the frozen planet Gethen as an envoy representing the Ekumen, a coalition of human worlds.
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
by Claire North
philosophy, narrative
Harry August is a kalachakra, a man who lives his life in a loop.
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3
Yol
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, narrative
A father and his son are the only characters who really matter in this novel.
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4
The Road
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, narrative
An unnamed father and his young son walk southward through a scorched American landscape years after an unspecified cataclysm.
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5
Contact
by Carl Sagan
philosophy, narrative
Radio astronomer Ellie Arroway detects a structured signal originating from the star Vega, transmitted in a sequence of prime numbers.
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Soumission
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, narrative
Set in a near-future France, the narrative follows François, a lonely academic specializing in the works of Joris-Karl Huysmans.
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7
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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A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, narrative
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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9
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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The Anomaly
narrative, science fiction
In March 2021, an Air France flight from Paris to New York flies into a violent storm and lands safely at JFK.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Also deep · philosophy, narrative
Valentine Michael Smith is a human born on Mars and raised by its ancient, non-human inhabitants.
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Timequake
narrative, science fiction
In 2001 the universe's expansion hits a snag and snaps back to 1991, forcing everyone to relive the following ten years exactly as before, unable to change a thing.
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