9 Best dystopia books like Termush by Sven Holm

Cover of Termush by Sven Holm

Termush

By: Sven Holm

3.31

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca…

"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

If you liked the dystopia plot in Termush by Sven Holm , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of I Who Have Never Known Men by Ros Schwartz, Jacqueline Harpman

1. I Who Have Never Known Men

By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more

Similar categories in Ros Schwartz's I Who Have Never Known Men book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • classics
  • fiction
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

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2. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

Similar categories in Olga Ravn's The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • novella
  • denmark
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • danish
"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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3. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • fiction
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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4. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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5. Nails and Eyes

By: Kaori Fujino

3.43

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more

Similar categories in Kaori Fujino's Nails and Eyes book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

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6. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Tuttle's My Death book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Termush by Sven Holm

7. Termush

By: Sven Holm

3.31

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Introduced by Jeff VanderMeer, welcome to a luxury hotel at the end of the world in this post-apoca… read more

Similar categories in Sven Holm's Termush book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • classics
  • post apocalyptic
  • novella
  • denmark
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • danish
"An inspired lie could be preferred to a malignant truth."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"I must ask myself whether I am not colouring what I see with my own views."

-Sven Holm, Termush

"- I do have some faith in democracy, but I don't think that this vote can be regarded as a matter of course as democratic. The voters knew too little about the alternatives. - They are always Ill-inf…"

-Sven Holm, Termush

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8. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Cover of Your Utopia by Bora Chung

9. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

Similar categories in Bora Chung's Your Utopia book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei

10. The Membranes

By: Chi Ta-wei

3.98

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all … read more

Similar categories in Chi Ta-wei's The Membranes book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • dystopia
  • fiction
Cover of They: A Sequence of Unease by Kay Dick

11. They: A Sequence of Unease

By: Kay Dick

3.38

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

They is a dream, a surreal nightmare which sends a shock right to the heart of our cultural complac… read more

Similar categories in Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • classics
  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"It was no good listening for footsteps; they wore no shoes."

-Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease

Cover of Nothing but the Rain by Naomi Salman

12. Nothing but the Rain

By: Naomi Salman

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman's d… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Salman's Nothing but the Rain book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of The Country Will Bring Us No Peace by Matthieu Simard

13. The Country Will Bring Us No Peace

By: Matthieu Simard

3.66

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where … read more

Similar categories in Matthieu Simard's The Country Will Bring Us No Peace book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Harlequin Butterfly by Toh EnJoe

14. Harlequin Butterfly

By: Toh EnJoe

3.37

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

A surreal novella about the global pursuit of a mysterious writer who somehow writes in dozens of l… read more

Similar categories in Toh EnJoe's Harlequin Butterfly book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Everything You Ever Wanted by Luiza Sauma

15. Everything You Ever Wanted

By: Luiza Sauma

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

You wake up. You go to work. You don't go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy mee… read more

Similar categories in Luiza Sauma's Everything You Ever Wanted book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
Cover of A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig

16. A Devil Comes to Town

By: Paolo Maurensig

3.53

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldly making their way i… read more

Similar categories in Paolo Maurensig's A Devil Comes to Town book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • fiction
Cover of Lamb by Matt   Hill

17. Lamb

By: Matt Hill

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

‘It’s inside every parent to want to carry their child’s terror. It’s the thing they never tell yo… read more

Similar categories in Matt Hill's Lamb book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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18. Cannibals

By: Shin'ya Tanaka

2.92

Format: 70 pages, Kindle Edition

During the hot, dry summer of 1988, in a forgotten neighborhood known as the riverside, seventeen-y… read more

Similar categories in Shin'ya Tanaka's Cannibals book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • fiction
Cover of Hackenfeller's Ape by Brigid Brophy

19. Hackenfeller's Ape

By: Brigid Brophy

3.71

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When my species has destroyed itself, we may need yours to start it all again. In London Zoo, Profe… read more

Similar categories in Brigid Brophy's Hackenfeller's Ape book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • fiction
  • 20th century
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20. Private Rites

By: Julia Armfield

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Private Rites book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"

-Julia Armfield, Private Rites

Cover of Where I End by Sophie White

21. Where I End

By: Sophie White

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

My mother. At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her. Through our thin shar… read more

Similar categories in Sophie White's Where I End book and Sven Holm's Termush

  • fiction

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4.22

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3.67

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3.90

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3.25

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Christina Henry

3.22

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