Books set in worlds where things impossible in our reality are completely normal and everyday there. Worlds that don't follow our rules of physics or chemistry — universes with totally different fundamental laws of reality.
omg i loved “house of leaves” for this exact vibe.. the way the house is bigger on the inside than the outside and the whole book layout gets weird with the text too.
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I’ve only just started it, but Piranesi.
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Dude the shadow of the leviathan series is off the charts cool. Many people are augmented with ‘grafts’ that give them specific abilities. Also so much of the architecture is made with live plants because they’ve figured out how to control/direct plant growth and that’s outside the fact that it’s a cool murder mystery
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The Gods Themselves, — Asimov’s award‑winning 1972 novel
The Mode Series, (very controversial)
The Number Of The Beast
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Here are some you might like:
* Lady of Mazes by Karl Schroeder. Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder. They’re set in the same universe but in very different parts of it.
* The Bel Dame Apocrypha series by Kameron Hurley. Sci fi fantasy where for the most part things can be believably explained by futuristic sci fi technology and alien ecology, but there are some things that work apparently by magic, but it’s not what people refer to as magic in universe!
* Any of the short fiction by Ted Chiang. Both of his anthologies are great, Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation.
* The Book of All Skies by Greg Egan
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Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror by Michelle lüthi gets pretty wild
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The Mirror Visitor series by Christelle Dabos
omg i loved “house of leaves” for this exact vibe.. the way the house is bigger on the inside than the outside and the whole book layout gets weird with the text too.
I’ve only just started it, but Piranesi.
Dude the shadow of the leviathan series is off the charts cool. Many people are augmented with ‘grafts’ that give them specific abilities. Also so much of the architecture is made with live plants because they’ve figured out how to control/direct plant growth and that’s outside the fact that it’s a cool murder mystery
The Gods Themselves, — Asimov’s award‑winning 1972 novel
The Mode Series, (very controversial)
The Number Of The Beast
anathem neal stephenson
Here are some you might like:
* Lady of Mazes by Karl Schroeder. Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder. They’re set in the same universe but in very different parts of it.
* The Bel Dame Apocrypha series by Kameron Hurley. Sci fi fantasy where for the most part things can be believably explained by futuristic sci fi technology and alien ecology, but there are some things that work apparently by magic, but it’s not what people refer to as magic in universe!
* Any of the short fiction by Ted Chiang. Both of his anthologies are great, Stories of Your Life and Others and Exhalation.
* The Book of All Skies by Greg Egan
Pilgrim: A Medieval Horror by Michelle lüthi gets pretty wild