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🖥Speculative Fiction for People Who Think Too Much
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items Somewhere between science fiction and spiritual breakdown lives this kind of story - the one that hums like a broken fluorescent light. These books aren’t about escaping the world; they’re about noticing the seams, pulling the thread, and finding som...
Short fiction that balances tenderness and absurdity until both collapse into something deeply human. Feels like standing in a dream where everyone else read the script but you.
Under the Eye of the Big Bird: A Novel - Hiromi Kawakami
A near-future world where a virus traps people inside their minds and technology tries to save them. Smart, cynical, and unsettlingly plausible - like watching capitalism debug empathy.
Lock In - John Scalzi
Grief, water, and sisterhood blur in this submerged, speculative elegy.
Private Rites: A Novel - Julia Armfield
Biologist enters Area X. The forest looks back. The gold standard for weird ecological fiction.
Annihilation (Southern Reach Trilogy #1) - Jeff VanderMeer
Art persists after the world ends.
Station Eleven|Paperback
A haunting meditation on death, decay, and the endlessness of existence. Poetic existentialism with body horror’s pulse; you’ll finish it and still feel haunted.
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over - Anne de Marcken
A quiet masterpiece about meaningless work and creeping unreality. Kafka if he worked in HR.
The Factory - Hiroko Omayada
You die, wake up in a library, and must find your book to leave. Theologically terrifying, mathematically infinite, and weirdly comforting.
A Short Stay in Hell - Steven L. Peck
A world where humans are bred for consumption. Body horror as social commentary; sharp enough to cut through denial.
Tender Is the Flesh - Agustina Bazterrica
Stories of social mutation where love, death, and flesh get reprogrammed. Creepy, tender, and too plausible for comfort.
Life Ceremony: Stories - Sayaka Murata
An obsessive recluse builds his own apocalypse. Part allegory, part absurdist nightmare. Perfect if you’ve ever overthought survival.
The Ark Sakura - Kobo Abe
A group of women live underground, imprisoned for reasons no one remembers. Then the sirens stop. Minimalist, devastating, and painfully humane. Dystopia as an existential thought experiment. If you’ve ever stared at the sky and felt like you weren’t...
I Who Have Never Known Men|Paperback
Short stories about alienation so sharp they feel surgical. Grotesque, hilarious, and existentially sticky
Homesick for Another World - Ottessa Moshfegh