🏷️ World Building
6 entries tagged with this trope
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2020
A man lives in a vast House full of marble statues and tidal oceans. He knows no other world. Slowly, clues suggest everything he believes is wrong. Haunting and beautiful.
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2020
A man lives in a House of infinite halls filled with statues and an ocean. He knows everything about the House and nothing about himself.
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969
An envoy visits a planet where people have no fixed gender. The exploration of identity, trust, and love is decades ahead of its time.
Exhalation
Ted Chiang · 2019
Nine stories that will rewire your brain. Each one is a perfect philosophical puzzle wrapped in gorgeous prose. Ted Chiang doesn't miss.
The Power
Naomi Alderman · 2016
Women develop the ability to electrocute people. The world inverts. Written as history, it's a perfect mirror for every 'but what if women had power?' question.
Children of Ruin
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2019
Uplifted octopuses meet the spider civilization from book one. If you loved intelligent arachnids, wait until you meet the octopuses. Cephalopod consciousness done perfectly.