10 best-selling science fiction books like They: A Sequence of Unease by Kay Dick

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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…

"It was no good listening for footsteps; they wore no shoes."

-Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease

"It was no good listening for footsteps; they wore no shoes."

-Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease

If you liked the science fiction plot in They: A Sequence of Unease by Kay Dick , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Wall by Shaun Whiteside, Marlen Haushofer

1. The Wall

By: Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on … read more

Similar categories in Shaun Whiteside's The Wall book and Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • classics
  • fiction
"Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

"My only teacher is as ignorant and untrained as I am, for my only teacher is myself."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

"Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

"External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom."

-Shaun Whiteside, The Wall

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2. Nälkävuosi

By: Aki Ollikainen

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Nalka on se kissanpentu jonka Paju-Lauri pisti sakkiin ja hukutti avantoon. Se raapii pienilla kyns… read more

Similar categories in Aki Ollikainen's Nälkävuosi book and Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • novella
  • fiction

3. The Girls

By: John Bowen

4.02

Format: 288 pages, paperback

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

4. 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 Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • 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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5. Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more

Similar categories in Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea book and Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."

-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

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6. 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 Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • dystopia
  • fiction
"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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7. Zły syn

By: Jarek Skurzyński

3.60

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Czy dziecko musi kochać rodzica? Historia matki samotnie wychowującej syna w małej, osiedlowej s… read more

Similar categories in Jarek Skurzyński's Zły syn book and Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • audiobook
Cover of Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

8. Mrs. Caliban

By: Rachel Ingalls

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Now back in print, Mrs. Caliban is “totally unforgettable” ( The New York Times Book Review ) and “… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Ingalls's Mrs. Caliban book and Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • classics
  • novella
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"Drugs,"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"Why do you call him a monster?"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"I can’t imagine living in a different time,"

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

"Still, people would notice a man with a green head. I guess I should get you a wig."

-Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban

Cover of Termush by Sven Holm

9. 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 Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • classics
  • novella
  • dystopia
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"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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10. 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 Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • science fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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 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 Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

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

-Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease

Cover of Medianera by Leandro Ávalos Blacha

12. Medianera

By: Leandro Ávalos Blacha

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

En un mundo en el que una empresa de teléfonos celulares ejerce una tiranía difusa, en el que en ca… read more

Similar categories in Leandro Ávalos Blacha's Medianera book and Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • short stories
Cover of Legendy by Torgny Lindgren

13. Legendy

By: Torgny Lindgren

3.69

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Legendy w tłumaczeniu Tomasza Feliksa, to zbiór opowiadań, który mieści kilkanaście miniatur, pisan… read more

Similar categories in Torgny Lindgren's Legendy book and Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • short stories
  • fiction
Cover of Wniebogłos by Aleksandra Tarnowska

14. Wniebogłos

By: Aleksandra Tarnowska

3.93

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Polska wieś lat 70. oczami dziecka. Dwunastoletni Rysiek ze wsi Tuklęcz marzy tylko o jednym – b… read more

Similar categories in Aleksandra Tarnowska's Wniebogłos book and Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Doloriad by Missouri Williams

15. The Doloriad

By: Missouri Williams

3.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the M… read more

Similar categories in Missouri Williams's The Doloriad book and Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
"...the story of the city was always a story of disintegration."

-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad

"...and one day the rain would wash them away entirely, the sounds of the dead city and her memories of them, and then the Matriarch would finally be free of it—the past and its language."

-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad

"...the way that the words hung together to produce meaning had a logic that he could not follow, and sometimes he thought that this was because they spoke in images, immediate, sensuous images, that …"

-Missouri Williams, The Doloriad

Cover of Gruby by Michał Michalski

16. Gruby

By: Michał Michalski

3.47

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Chłopięca przyjaźń, początki dorastania, społeczne wykluczenie i potransformacyjna rzeczywistość, w… read more

Similar categories in Michał Michalski's Gruby book and Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • audiobook
Cover of El ruido de una época by Ariana Harwicz

17. El ruido de una época

By: Ariana Harwicz

3.52

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

La gran diferencia entre un escritor y un trabajador de la escritura (o un escritor profesional) es… read more

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Cover of We Called Them Giants by Kieron Gillen

18. We Called Them Giants

By: Kieron Gillen

3.75

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

"What an astonishing piece of work. Beautiful and moving." —Neil Gaiman We Called Them Giants is… read more

Similar categories in Kieron Gillen's We Called Them Giants book and Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
Cover of Private Rites by Julia Armfield

19. 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 Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • lgbt
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • queer
"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 Los escogidos by Patricia Nieto

20. Los escogidos

By: Patricia Nieto

4.20

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Hay al este de Medellín un pueblo que se alarga sobre el cauce del río Magdalena, un lugar donde la… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Nieto's Los escogidos book and Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

Cover of He ovat suolaa ja valoa by Terhi Törmälehto

21. He ovat suolaa ja valoa

By: Terhi Törmälehto

3.77

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

”Koneen matkustajista kaksi on matkalla kaupunkiin, jossa maailma loppuu.” Kevät 2023 Israelissa… read more

Similar categories in Terhi Törmälehto's He ovat suolaa ja valoa book and Kay Dick's They: A Sequence of Unease

  • fiction
  • audiobook

15 Best fiction books like They: A Sequence of Unease by Kay Dick

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The Wall

Shaun Whiteside , Marlen Haushofer

4.04

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Aki Ollikainen

4.07

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I Who Have Never Known Men

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4.22

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Julia Armfield

3.78

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Anne Bruce , Merethe Lindstrøm

3.53

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Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak

4.44

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Fernanda Melchor

4.17

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Bartosz Józefiak

4.20

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