Specifically, I'm chasing that feeling from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, where they sail farther and farther and things get stranger (and it's not clear if they can ever get home). Or in The Farthest Shore by LeGuin, where Ged is sailing strange seas, to eventually go to a strange place beyond life.
It doesn't have to be sailing. I've had bits of that feeling in Robin Hobb's Assassin's Fate, when they're walking through the ice fortress, for example. Or in James Gurney's The World Beneath. Or the final dungeon in the game Trails in the Sky First Chapter. Chine Mieville's Railsea also has elements of this.
It can be an adventure or travelogue or whatever, open to either SF or F. I just really want that feeling of strangeness and mystery and going Very, Very Far.
Thanks in advance!
by ketita
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This one is older and, while I think it’s absolutely very eerie, it’s kind of a calm/serene type of eerie. But I think it still works perfectly here.
*Lost Horizon* by James Hilton
Books that have parts that give me “we might never be able to get back from here” vibes
House of Leaves
Annihilation
The expanse series
The broken earth trilogy
The forever war
2001
Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness.
Also Piranesi, although it’s not really ends of the earth, but very eerie.
And CS Lewis’ Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength)
The Dan Simmons Hyperion Cantos has a bit of this feeling