Hey there,
this may be a bit too specific. But I’m looking for novels that don’t necessarily have complex plots -or maybe no linear plot at all-, but rather stories about very specific experiences of its characters, even if the storyline or world don’t actually make sense.
Examples:
I have no mouth and I must Scream:
it’s a short story so talking about it in any way will spoil a good part of it
Iron lung:
it’s an indie game where your task is to explore a moon with sea of blood using a half functional submarine with no windows after an apocalyptic event had occurred. the event itself isn’t super important nor what you actually need to find down there, the most important part is the horror and claustrophobic experience of being stuck in that small submarine while trying to navigate an alien world filled with horrors lurking outside
Blame!:
a famous sci fi comic about a person who wanders in a gigantic megastructure -it’s so large it might as well be endless- full of robotic monsters, looking for a certain thing, he wanders for thousands or even millions of years, the events occur in such a long time that centuries pass within a single page but you don’t feel it because it’s irrelevant and insignificant, the core experience here is the loneliness of wandering around this hellish, semi dead world for millenia regardless of the end goal of the journey.
by dudeicantfindnames