Sue Burke 2018
- What it is
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Meeting beings from another world · it grabs you with a mystery
- 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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Isaac Asimov 1953
It messes with your head · full of big ideas
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You'll keep turning it over for days · spies, moles and state secrets
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It messes with your head · it's hiding a secret
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You'll keep turning it over for days · the truth comes out bit by bit
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You'll keep turning it over for days, but in literary fiction
Sphere
Michael Crichton 1987
You'll keep turning it over for days · the truth comes out bit by bit
Club Dumas
Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1993
It messes with your head, but in a mystery
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Nothing is quite what it seems · it won't tell you everything at once
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer 2014
Nothing is quite what it seems · it won't tell you everything at once
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Alien contact and cerebral
The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells 2015
Like yours: alien contact · full of big ideas
Way Station
Clifford D. Simak 1980
It makes you think, without a lecture · full of big ideas
Solaris
Stanisław Lem 2002
You'll keep turning it over for days · the truth comes out bit by bit
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut 2004
Like yours: alien contact · adventure with a touch of madness
In Ascension
Martin MacInnes 2023
You'll keep turning it over for days · full of big ideas
Agent to the Stars
John Scalzi 2005
In common with yours: alien contact · odd and endearing
1 book · Alike in just one
Only it grabs you with a mystery
Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson 2020
A mystery you want to solve · fierce and defiant
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Only alien contact
The Word for World is Forest
Ursula K. Le Guin 1972
A reader shelved it with yours in Solarpunk in Spanish
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Sneak Peek
Christopher Paolini 1905
You'll finish it in two nights · unsettling from the first page
Humans
Matt Haig 2013
In common with yours: alien contact · it makes you laugh
20 books · Alike in just one
Only cerebral
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie 2013
You'll keep turning it over for days · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel 1999
You'll keep turning it over for days · full of big ideas
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015
You'll keep turning it over for days · full of big ideas
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin 2020
Readers put them together in Solarpunk in Spanish
Ecotopia
Ernest Callenbach 1975
A reader shelved it with yours in Solarpunk in Spanish
Just City
Jo Walton 2001
You'll want to talk it over with someone · full of big ideas
Spin
Robert Charles Wilson 2005
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
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick 2007
Nothing is quite what it seems · no clean hands here
Roadside Picnic
Strugatsky 1978
It messes with your head · it's hiding a secret
Use of Weapons
Iain Banks 1990
It messes with your head · nobody is entirely good
Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson Bennett 2024
It messes with your head, but in fantasy
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Full of big ideas · travelling in time
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It messes with your head · sad, and in no hurry
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