Books like Dhalgren
A young man who cannot remember his name walks into Bellona, a Midwestern city cut off from the rest of America after an unexplained disaster, where two moons sometimes hang in the sky and the people who stayed live by their own rules.
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The Einstein Intersection
After alien invaders abandon Earth, the mutated humans left behind reenact the myths of Orpheus and Theseus in a transformed, hallucinatory landscape.
The Box Man
A nameless man cuts a window in a cardboard box, puts it over his head and begins to live inside it, writing the notebook the reader holds.
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
A young man is sent across a country where a mad scientist's machines make desires manifest and dismantle reality.
Nova Swing
In Saudade City, on the edge of an event site where the laws of physics have broken down, Vic Serotonin makes a living taking tourists into the site, while Detective Lens Aschemann investigates what comes out of it.
Stand on Zanzibar
In an overpopulated 2010 of surveillance, violence and information overload, an executive and a spy are drawn into a scheme to develop an African nation and a breakthrough in genetic engineering in Southeast Asia, in Brunner's 1968 collage novel.
The Obscene Bird of Night
Humberto Peñaloza, a failed writer turned servant who calls himself Mudito, narrates from a crumbling Santiago house of retreat for old women, retelling his service to an aristocratic family and the deformed heir they hid away on an estate peopled by monsters.
Vurt
In a future Manchester, Scribble and his gang take feathers that send them into the Vurt, a shared dream world, and Scribble's sister Desdemona has been lost inside it.
Biography of X
After the death of her wife, a famous and secretive artist known only as X, a journalist sets out to write her biography, in an alternate America that was split apart after World War II.
The Memoirs of a Survivor
In a British city falling apart after an unnamed collapse, a middle-aged woman is left in charge of a teenage girl, Emily, and discovers another world behind the wall of her flat.
Lanark
A man with no memory arrives by train in Unthank, a city without daylight where people grow dragonhide and disappear, and names himself Lanark. Between his chapters the novel tells the life of Duncan Thaw, an asthmatic art student in postwar Glasgow.
Solenoid
A failed writer teaching Romanian at a Bucharest school in the 1980s keeps a diary of his dreams, his memories and the strange machine buried under his house.
Borne
In a ruined city stalked by Mord, a giant flying bear, Rachel, a scavenger, finds a small green creature caught in Mord's fur and takes it home, against the wishes of her partner, Wick, who deals in biotech that alters memory.