Liu Cixin 2008
- What it is
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Meeting beings from another world · a threat that keeps growing
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Feels
- Epic Cerebral Unsettling Mysterious Tense
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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Full of big ideas · meeting beings from another world
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It grabs you with a mystery and alien contact
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A mystery you want to solve · you'll finish it in two nights
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It grabs you with a mystery and epic
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You'll keep turning it over for days · a place nobody can leave
The Way of Kings
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A mystery you want to solve · you won't want to come back
Kushiel's dart
Jacqueline Carey 2002
It grabs you with a mystery, but in fantasy
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov 1953
It messes with your head · a crime, and the clues to solve it yourself
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch 2016
Nothing is quite what it seems · you'll finish it in two nights
Caliban's War
James S. A. Corey 2012
The truth comes out bit by bit · one more chapter, then another
Six wakes
Mur Lafferty 2017
It messes with your head · you can't put it down
The Raw Shark Texts
Steven Hall 2008
You'll keep turning it over for days, but in literary fiction
Recursion
Blake Crouch 2019
Nothing is quite what it seems · you'll finish it in two nights
Wanderers
Chuck Wendig 2019
You need to know how it ends · a big story that sweeps you along
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer 2014
Nothing is quite what it seems · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
Vita Nostra
Marina & Sergey Dyachenko 2018
You'll keep turning it over for days · it ties your stomach in a knot
Red Moon
Kim Stanley Robinson 2018
Full of big ideas · you can't put it down
7 books
Alien contact and epic
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Sneak Peek
Christopher Paolini 1905
Unsettling from the first page · you'll finish it in two nights
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
Nothing is quite what it seems · one to read slowly
Solaris
Stanisław Lem 2002
You'll keep turning it over for days · you'll want to talk it over with someone
Agent to the Stars
John Scalzi 2005
In common with yours: alien contact · odd and endearing
In Ascension
Martin MacInnes 2023
You'll keep turning it over for days · one to read slowly
3 books · Alike in just one
Only it grabs you with a mystery
11/22/63
Stephen King 1925
Readers put them together in Protagonists playing the long game
Eversion
Alastair Reynolds 2022
It's hiding a secret · in search of a lost world or a treasure
American elsewhere
Robert Jackson Bennett 2012
It's hiding a secret, but in fantasy
1 book · Alike in just one
Only alien contact
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut 2004
Like yours: alien contact · adventure with a touch of madness
18 books · Alike in just one
Only epic
Foundation
Isaac Asimov 1951
A reader shelved it with yours in Protagonists playing the long game
Passage
Justin Cronin 2010
You read it holding your breath · you won't want to come back
Spin
Robert Charles Wilson 2005
Full of big ideas · told in two timelines
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015
Full of big ideas · one more chapter, then another
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick 2007
Nothing is quite what it seems · no clean hands here
Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1 - 6
Frank Herbert 1965
Full of big ideas · a world to get lost in
Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson 1999
Full of big ideas, but in fantasy
Use of Weapons
Iain Banks 1990
It messes with your head · nobody is entirely good
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie 2013
You'll keep turning it over for days · you end up rooting for the wrong people
End of October
Lawrence Wright 2020
You read it holding your breath · a world to get lost in
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel 1999
You'll keep turning it over for days · tender and sad at once
Roadside Picnic
Strugatsky 1978
It messes with your head · it gets under your skin
2034
Elliot Ackerman 2021
Nothing is quite what it seems · you'll finish it in two nights
FAIL-SAFE
Eugene Burdick 1963
It messes with your head · it gets under your skin
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