Hello everyone, looking for politically driven contemporary fiction (preferably last few years). Speculative fiction, horror, weird, eerie, scifi (but not too sci-fi-y), all welcome.
I like writers like JG Ballard, Kelly Link, Eliza Clark, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ottessa Moshfegh, Vladimir Nabokov.
Also books that might fall under something that Mark Fisher would write about? But that's come out in the last few years.
Thank you!
by mashtowns
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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“The City and the City” by China Miéville. Murder mystery in a city with a rather… unique geographic/political/cultural setup. Feels like spooky, paranoid, weird sci-fi except there’s nothing scientific (or fantastic or paranormal) about the point of departure with our world.
I like to recommend Samanta Schweblin in cases like this. She writes in Spanish but most of her ouvre is available in translation. Her novella *Fever Dream* is absolutely top rate. I am also a sucker for her short fiction; her collection *Mouthful of Birds* should scratch that itch for you. She definitely has that speculative/magical-realism horror feel you get from someone like Moshfegh or Link.
Mariana Enriquez has got several short story collections (The things we Lost in The Fire, A Sunny Place for Shady People, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed) that are pretty similar to Her Body and Other Parties in terms of tone and themes.