Strugatsky 1978
- What it is
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In search of a lost world or a treasure · it gets under your skin
- Genre
- Science fiction Classics
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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2 books
It's hiding a secret and lost worlds and treasures
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A reader shelved it with yours in First contact with something we can't explain
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It's hiding a secret and cerebral
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Grouped with yours in First contact with something we can't explain
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Readers put them together in First contact with something we can't explain
Prestige
Christopher Priest 1995
You'll keep turning it over for days · you read it holding your breath
S.
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You'll keep turning it over for days, but in a mystery
The Dream Hotel
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Nothing is quite what it seems · full of big ideas
The Croning
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Nothing is quite what it seems, but in horror
3 books · Alike in just one
Only it's hiding a secret
American elsewhere
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It's hiding a secret, but in fantasy
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It won't tell you everything at once, but in horror
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Mur Lafferty 2017
It messes with your head · a threat that keeps growing
5 books · Alike in just one
Only lost worlds and treasures
Nautical Chart
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It messes with your head, but in a mystery
Congo
Michael Crichton 1980
Like yours: lost worlds and treasures · you need to know how it ends
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne 2007
Like yours: lost worlds and treasures · adventure with a touch of madness
Thunderhead
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child 1999
Like yours: lost worlds and treasures · a mystery you want to solve
27 books · Alike in just one
Only cerebral
Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke 1953
Grouped with yours in First contact with something we can't explain
2001
Arthur C. Clarke 1994
A reader shelved it with yours in First contact with something we can't explain
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville 2000
It messes with your head · full of big ideas
Spin
Robert Charles Wilson 2005
Readers put them together in First contact with something we can't explain
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine 2019
Nothing is quite what it seems · a mystery you want to solve
Sphere
Michael Crichton 1987
Readers put them together in First contact with something we can't explain
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick 2007
Nothing is quite what it seems · no clean hands here
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie 2013
You'll keep turning it over for days · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Count Zero
William Gibson 1986
It messes with your head · a threat that keeps growing
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov 1953
It messes with your head · full of big ideas
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel 1999
You'll keep turning it over for days · 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
Contact
Carl Sagan 1986
Readers put them together in First contact with something we can't explain
Red Moon
Kim Stanley Robinson 2018
It messes with your head · full of big ideas
Way Station
Clifford D. Simak 1980
Full of big ideas · one to read slowly
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury 1953
You'll keep turning it over for days · full of big ideas
Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson 1999
You'll keep turning it over for days, but in fantasy
The Talented Mr Ripley
Patricia Highsmith 1973
It messes with your head · nobody is entirely good
The left hand of darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin 1969
It leaves you thinking · tender and sad at once
The Every
Dave Eggers 2021
It messes with your head · full of big ideas
Use of Weapons
Iain Banks 1990
It messes with your head · nobody is entirely good
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid 2016
You'll keep turning it over for days, but in literary fiction
Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson Bennett 2024
It messes with your head, but in fantasy
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