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Recommend me weird fiction books, please! (lemmy.world)
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Enjoy weird fiction overall, sci-fi and "horror" (in a very general sense). I like some Lovecraft, VanderMeers, Ballard, China Miéville, Samanta Schweblin, late William Gibson, Mariana Enríquez... what recent books or writers caught your eye that may loosely fit the term or are similar to works of the above authors? Can be in English, Portuguese or Spanish.

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[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson.

The story follows Hiro Protagonist—a pizza delivery driver in a fractured, hyper-capitalized future reality and an elite hacker/swordfighter in the virtual "Metaverse".

If you like that, his other books are fantastic, especially Cryptonomicon, Anathem, and Diamond Age.

[-] SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

It's a great novel but I wouldn't call it "weird"?

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