12 Top science fiction books like The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison

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The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

By: M. John Harrison

3.39

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a deca…

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Ice

By: Anna Kavan

3.67

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more

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  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."

-Anna Kavan, Ice

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2. Travesti

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Travesti este povestea lui Victor, un scriitor de succes, care-si rememoreaza adolescenta, mai cu s… read more

Similar categories in Mircea Cărtărescu's Travesti book and M. John Harrison's The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. number9dream

By: David Mitchell

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work… read more

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  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • fantasy

4. Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

By: Patrick Hamilton

3.50

Format: None pages,

A timeless classic of sleazy London life in the 1930s, a world of streets, full of cruelty and kind… read more

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5. The Vorrh

By: Alan Moore , Brian Catling

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, a daring debut that Alan Moor… read more

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6. The Doll's Alphabet

By: Camilla Grudova

3.60

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Surreal, ambitious, and exquisitely conceived, The Doll's Alphabetis a collection of stories in the… read more

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7. The Drowned World

By: Martin Amis , J.G. Ballard

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terr… read more

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8. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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9. Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

By: Ann Leckie

4.05

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, for… read more

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  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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10. Parti e omicidi

By: Sayaka Murata

3.76

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Parti e omicidi è una raccolta di racconti ambientati in una Tokyo di un futuro non ben precisato, … read more

Similar categories in Sayaka Murata's Parti e omicidi book and M. John Harrison's The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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11. Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

3.13

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more

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  • novels
  • magical realism
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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12. The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold

By: Sam Knight

3.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From a rising star New Yorker staff writer, the incredible and gripping true story of John Barker, … read more

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13. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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14. Diego Garcia

By: Natasha Soobramanien

3.89

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

Edinburgh, 2014: N. and L., two writer friends arrive from London, a city they believe killed L.'s … read more

Similar categories in Natasha Soobramanien's Diego Garcia book and M. John Harrison's The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

  • fiction
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15. 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

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"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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16. Night Side of the River

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's Night Side of the River book and M. John Harrison's The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
"That's the trouble with time. Never happens when it should."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"Nobody's looking at me. Nobody does look at middle-aged women."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"We're always roaming around in the past or the future. The present is a hard place to live."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

"It's hard, you know, getting divorced.' Billy gave me a hug. 'Love is hard--whether you got it or you don't."

-Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River

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17. Dhalgren

By: Samuel R. Delany

3.77

Format: 836 pages, Kindle Edition

A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects ar… read more

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  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"What?"

-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

"He wanted to talk and had nothing to say."

-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

"An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit."

-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

"I heard Bellona was where it was at. It must be, now. I’m here."

-Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

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18. The Perfect Golden Circle

By: Benjamin Myers

3.92

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's The Perfect Golden Circle book and M. John Harrison's The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Red Pill

By: Hari Kunzru

3.67

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the widely acclaimed author of White Tears, a bold new novel about searching for order in a w… read more

Similar categories in Hari Kunzru's Red Pill book and M. John Harrison's The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Now what I think of when I think of my “self"

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

"You do strike me more as the secular type. A believer in progress, religion of the liberals."

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

"Plot is the artificial reduction of life’s complexity and randomness. It is a way to give aesthetic form to reality."

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

"Ο άνθρωπος μόνος του είναι κρέας για τους λύκους. Έτσι μας θέλουν. Απομονωμένους. Θηράματα. Άρα πρέπει να βρούμε ο ένας τον άλλον. Πρέπει να θυμόμαστε ότι δεν μπορούμε να υπάρξουμε μόνοι."

-Hari Kunzru, Red Pill

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20. Lost in the Garden

By: Adam S. Leslie

3.73

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more

Similar categories in Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden book and M. John Harrison's The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • horror
  • fantasy
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21. Hollow

By: Brian Catling

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of the Vorrh Trilogy comes an epic odyssey following a group of mercenari… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
Cover of Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner

22. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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23. The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

By: M. John Harrison

3.39

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a deca… read more

Similar categories in M. John Harrison's The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again book and M. John Harrison's The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

  • magical realism
  • novels
  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • 21st century
  • contemporary
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • science fiction
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24. Sterling Karat Gold

By: Isabel Waidner

3.69

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Sterling is arrested one morning without having done anything wrong. Plunged into a terrifying and … read more

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  • novels
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. Emergency

By: Daisy Hildyard

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Emergency is a novel about the dissolving boundaries between all life on earth. Stuck at home alone… read more

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  • 21st century
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back by Guy Shrubsole

26. Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.23

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? Behind this simple q… read more

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27. Sunken Lands: A Journey Through Flooded Kingdoms and Lost Worlds

By: Gareth E. Rees

3.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Travel through drowned forests, vanished villages and sinking cities: the lost lands of our past, p… read more

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28. If You Take My Meaning

By: Charlie Jane Anders

3.66

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

As an ex-smuggler and two-time reluctant revolutionary, Alyssa is used to staring into the razor-sh… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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29. Conquest

By: Nina Allan

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Rachel's boyfriend Frank is different from other people. His strangeness is part of what she loves … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World by Georgina Voss

30. Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World

By: Georgina Voss

3.43

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A toolbox for comprehending and changing our networked world by writer, artist, and scholar Georgin… read more

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Cover of Capitalism: A Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination by Jon Greenaway

31. Capitalism: A Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination

By: Jon Greenaway

4.24

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

A horror-story history of capitalism and its relationship to the haunted and the gothic, and a mani… read more

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  • horror

5 Best speculative fiction books like The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison

Transform Your Habits

Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

Ann Leckie

4.05

Transform Your Habits

In Ascension

Martin MacInnes

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Dhalgren

Samuel R. Delany

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

M. John Harrison

3.39

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Everyday Sexism

Laura Bates

4.26

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Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

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Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

Sathnam Sanghera

4.10

Transform Your Habits

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

4.45

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