Robert Charles Wilson 2005
- What it is
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Told in two timelines · full of big ideas
- 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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Solaris
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Roadside Picnic
Strugatsky 1978
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Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer 2014
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The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall 2008
You'll keep turning it over for days, but in literary fiction
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley 2004
Nothing is quite what it seems · it stirs you up inside
Prestige
Christopher Priest 1995
You'll keep turning it over for days · you read it holding your breath
The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami 2025
Nothing is quite what it seems · unsettling from the first page
Caliban's War
James S. A. Corey 2012
The truth comes out bit by bit · you read it holding your breath
Six wakes
Mur Lafferty 2017
It messes with your head · a threat that keeps growing
S.
J.J. Abrams 2013
You'll keep turning it over for days, but in a mystery
2 books · Alike in just one
Only it's hiding a secret
Eversion
Alastair Reynolds 2022
A reader shelved it with yours in First contact with something we can't explain
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Rendezvous with Rama
Arthur C. Clarke 1953
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Contact
Carl Sagan 1986
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In Ascension
Martin MacInnes 2023
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2001
Arthur C. Clarke 1994
A reader shelved it with yours in First contact with something we can't explain
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015
Full of big ideas · you read it holding your breath
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick 2007
Nothing is quite what it seems · no clean hands here
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel 1999
You'll keep turning it over for days · tender and sad at once
Witch's Heart
Genevieve Gornichec 2021
It restores your faith in people, but in fantasy
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu 2008
Full of big ideas · a mystery you want to solve
Fifth Head of Cerberus
Gene Wolfe 1999
It messes with your head · it changes how you see things
The First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells 2015
Full of big ideas · meeting beings from another world
Way Station
Clifford D. Simak 1980
Full of big ideas · one to read slowly
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie 2013
You'll keep turning it over for days · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Red Moon
Kim Stanley Robinson 2018
Full of big ideas · it grabs you with a mystery
Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1 - 6
Frank Herbert 1965
Full of big ideas · a world to get lost in
Tainted Cup
Robert Jackson Bennett 2024
It messes with your head, but in fantasy
Use of Weapons
Iain Banks 1990
It messes with your head · nobody is entirely good
A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine 2019
Nothing is quite what it seems · a mystery you want to solve
First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North 2014
Full of big ideas · travelling in time
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov 1953
It messes with your head · it grabs you with a mystery
The Every
Dave Eggers 2021
It messes with your head · it gets under your skin
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Sneak Peek
Christopher Paolini 1905
Unsettling from the first page · you'll finish it in two nights
Earth abides
George Rippey Stewart 1949
It hurts, and then it heals · it changes how you see things
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