7 best-selling science fiction books like Unlanguage by Michael Cisco

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Unlanguage

By: Michael Cisco

4.43

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

From Michael Cisco, one of the most innovative and subversive writers working today, comes the long…

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Cover of Borne (Borne, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer

1. Borne (Borne, #1)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.93

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger… read more

Similar categories in Jeff VanderMeer's Borne (Borne, #1) book and Michael Cisco's Unlanguage

  • weird fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"People with packs are people with purpose."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"It's not being hurt that hurts,' Borne said."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

"You forgive if you can forgive yourself. Or live with what you've done. If you cannot live with what you've done, you cannot live with what others have done either."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Borne (Borne, #1)

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2. Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

By: Jeff VanderMeer

3.64

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, reb… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
"What does the border look like?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"I hope to find Area X in Area X."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"The time for expeditions was over."

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

"Was this first contact, or last contact?"

-Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

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3. Against Nature

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness

3.87

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

With a title translated either as Against Natureor as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-d… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Là-Bas

By: Joris-Karl Huysmans , None

3.73

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

At the novel's center is Durtal, a writer obsessed with the life of one of the blackest figures in … read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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5. The Gone World

By: Tom Sweterlitsch

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and stagger… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of The Scar (Bas-Lag, #2) by China Miéville

6. The Scar (Bas-Lag, #2)

By: China Miéville

3.80

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque … read more

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  • science fiction
  • weird fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
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7. Only Forward

By: Michael Marshall Smith

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

Michael Marshall Smith's surreal, groundbreaking, and award-winning debut which resonates with wild… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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8. The Melancholy of Resistance

By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror
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9. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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10. Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

By: Clive Barker

4.04

Format: 210 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that h… read more

Similar categories in Clive Barker's Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1) book and Michael Cisco's Unlanguage

  • fiction
  • horror
"Logic is the last refuge of a coward."

-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

"Es war ekelerregend, es war sauberste Arbeit, und es verwirrte zutiefst."

-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

"En el mundo hay algo peor que el Terror... Hay sueños que se vuelven realidad."

-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

"I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies... "In the Hills, the Cities"

-Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volume One (Books of Blood, #1)

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11. The Cipher

By: Kathe Koja

3.54

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blo… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • novels

12. Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste

By: Vilém Flusser , None

3.42

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

How far apart are humans from animals--even the "vampire squid from hell"? Playing the scientist/ph… read more

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13. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to… read more

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14. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

Similar categories in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger (The Passenger #1) book and Michael Cisco's Unlanguage

  • novels
  • fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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15. Castle Faggot

By: Derek McCormack

3.85

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

A dark satire about an amusement park more deranged than anything Disney could imagine: a playland … read more

Similar categories in Derek McCormack's Castle Faggot book and Michael Cisco's Unlanguage

  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. Bonding

By: Maggie Siebert

4.13

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

"Maggie understands that splatter for splatter's sake is boring. Psychopathy is boring. Coldness is… read more

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  • weird fiction
  • fiction
  • horror
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17. You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant

By: Brad Neely

4.30

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A comically unorthodox “biography” Spanning from the birth of Ulysses S. Grant until his victory… read more

Similar categories in Brad Neely's You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant book and Michael Cisco's Unlanguage

  • fiction
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18. Violent Faculties

By: Charlene Elsby

4.04

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

A philosophy professor tests the limits of the soul and body by performing dehumanizing experiments… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
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19. Convulsive

By: Joe Koch

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New museums birth atrocity in every flex: fifteen horror stories of religion, abuse, desire, and ge… read more

Similar categories in Joe Koch's Convulsive book and Michael Cisco's Unlanguage

  • fiction
  • horror
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20. Unlanguage

By: Michael Cisco

4.43

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

From Michael Cisco, one of the most innovative and subversive writers working today, comes the long… read more

Similar categories in Michael Cisco's Unlanguage book and Michael Cisco's Unlanguage

  • weird fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
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21. The Acephalic Imperial

By: Damian Murphy

4.57

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Séverine takes a position as a live-in maid in a house of idleness and luxury. She's informed durin… read more

Similar categories in Damian Murphy's The Acephalic Imperial book and Michael Cisco's Unlanguage

  • fiction

18 must-read fiction books like Unlanguage by Michael Cisco

Transform Your Habits

Borne (Borne, #1)

Jeff VanderMeer

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)

Jeff VanderMeer

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Against Nature

Joris-Karl Huysmans , Patrick McGuinness , Robert Baldick , Patrick McGuiness

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Là-Bas

Joris-Karl Huysmans , None

3.73

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Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Omensetter's Luck

William H. Gass

4.17

Transform Your Habits

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

William H. Gass

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Melancholy of Resistance

George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai

2.50

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