Dan Simmons 1991
- What it is
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A story hidden inside another · it messes with your head
- Genre
- Science fiction
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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Like yours: retelling · the truth comes out bit by bit
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Like yours: retelling · it's hiding a secret
Uprooted
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In common with yours: retelling · the truth comes out bit by bit
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Mysterious and story within a story
The Caves of Steel
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A reader shelved it with yours in Science fiction where AIs live among us as people
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Nothing is quite what it seems · a mystery you want to solve
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You'll keep turning it over for days · you'll want to talk it over with someone
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You'll keep turning it over for days · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Roadside Picnic
Strugatsky 1978
It messes with your head · it's hiding a secret
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel 1999
You'll keep turning it over for days · full of big ideas
Red Moon
Kim Stanley Robinson 2018
It messes with your head · full of big ideas
Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1 - 6
Frank Herbert 1965
Nothing is quite what it seems · a world to get lost in
Prestige
Christopher Priest 1995
You'll keep turning it over for days · the truth comes out bit by bit
Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson Bennett 2024
It messes with your head, but in fantasy
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke 1953
Nothing is quite what it seems · full of big ideas
S.
J.J. Abrams 2013
You'll keep turning it over for days, but in a mystery
Trust
Hernán Díaz 2022
You'll keep turning it over for days, but in literary fiction
The Thirteenth Tale
Diane Setterfield 2006
Like yours: story within a story · it leaves you thinking
2 books
Retelling and story within a story
Till We Have Faces
C. S. Lewis 1956
You'll keep turning it over for days, but in a classic
4 books · Alike in just one
Only mysterious
Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson 2020
Fierce and defiant · it tells it with no filter
Six wakes
Mur Lafferty 2017
It messes with your head · it's hiding a secret
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer 2014
Nothing is quite what it seems · it won't tell you everything at once
Eversion
Alastair Reynolds 2022
It's hiding a secret · a threat that keeps growing
6 books · Alike in just one
Only retelling
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Dan Simmons 2006
In common with yours: retelling · full of big ideas
Kaikeyi
Vaishnavi Patel 2022
In common with yours: retelling · a big story that sweeps you along
Witch's Heart
Genevieve Gornichec 2021
In common with yours: retelling · it restores your faith in people
Gospel of Loki
Joanne Harris 2014
In common with yours: retelling · comedy with teeth
The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 2008
In common with yours: retelling · a world to get lost in
Circe
Madeline Miller 2018
Like yours: retelling
11 books · Alike in just one
Only story within a story
Player of Games
Iain Banks 1988
A reader shelved it with yours in Science fiction where AIs live among us as people
The Lifecycle of Software Objects
Ted Chiang 2010
A reader shelved it with yours in Science fiction where AIs live among us as people
The left hand of darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin 1969
It leaves you thinking · tender and sad at once
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015
Full of big ideas · you read it holding your breath
Spin
Robert Charles Wilson 2005
You'll keep turning it over for days · full of big ideas
The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells 2015
Full of big ideas · meeting beings from another world
The Dark Forest
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Nothing is quite what it seems · full of big ideas
Use of Weapons
Iain Banks 1990
It messes with your head · nobody is entirely good
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