I feel that W.G. Sebald‘s writing has a similarly calming effect on me as K. Ishiguro’s
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[Beautiful Shining People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Shining_People) by Michael Grothaus, especially if you liked Klara and the Sun and Never Let Me Go. Grothaus examines how aspects of technology, like AI, impact not just society but individuals and their relationships. BSP, in my opinion, was much better than Klara, even though Klara got more attention.
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If you like his restraint (which i think is the genius of his writing) you would like The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The prose is more experimental though, and it’s more overtly sad. But they both are very good at restraint and having you read between the lines if you’re willing to try something slightly different!
Otherwise maybe The Memory Police reminds me of Never Let Me Go
Or Flowers for Algernon kinda reminds me of Klara and the Sun
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Thank you all very much, I shall get started on hunting some of these out!
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Tan Twan Eng!!!!! Check out Garden of the Evening Mists or The Gift of Rain.
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I love his books! Ted Chiang and Ken Liu also write speculative fiction like that, though I’ve only read their short stories.
Ted Chiang:
– Exhalation
– Story of Your Life and Others (Arrival is based off of Story of Your Life)
Ken Liu:
– The Paper Menagerie and other stories
– The Hidden Girl and other stories
From looking him up I just saw he has another short story anthology coming out this September, yay!
Ken Liu was also the translator of the Three Body Problem, another great book (and this one isn’t a short story anthology)
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Remains of the Day:
End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Go-Between by LP Hartley
Never Let Me Go:
Cloud Atlas, and Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
Floating World:
A Fine Balance by Rohinson Mistry
Pale View of Hills
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
Chang-rae Lee or Susan Choi
I feel that W.G. Sebald‘s writing has a similarly calming effect on me as K. Ishiguro’s
[Beautiful Shining People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Shining_People) by Michael Grothaus, especially if you liked Klara and the Sun and Never Let Me Go. Grothaus examines how aspects of technology, like AI, impact not just society but individuals and their relationships. BSP, in my opinion, was much better than Klara, even though Klara got more attention.
If you like his restraint (which i think is the genius of his writing) you would like The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The prose is more experimental though, and it’s more overtly sad. But they both are very good at restraint and having you read between the lines if you’re willing to try something slightly different!
Otherwise maybe The Memory Police reminds me of Never Let Me Go
Or Flowers for Algernon kinda reminds me of Klara and the Sun
Thank you all very much, I shall get started on hunting some of these out!
Tan Twan Eng!!!!! Check out Garden of the Evening Mists or The Gift of Rain.
I love his books! Ted Chiang and Ken Liu also write speculative fiction like that, though I’ve only read their short stories.
Ted Chiang:
– Exhalation
– Story of Your Life and Others (Arrival is based off of Story of Your Life)
Ken Liu:
– The Paper Menagerie and other stories
– The Hidden Girl and other stories
From looking him up I just saw he has another short story anthology coming out this September, yay!
Ken Liu was also the translator of the Three Body Problem, another great book (and this one isn’t a short story anthology)