After Stand on Zanzibar
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Stand on Zanzibar rewired a generation with its collage of overpopulation dread and tech ethics gone feral. If you craved that fragmented sensory assault—the vignettes that refused heroes, the brutal societal mirror—you need fiction that drowns demographic anxiety in fifty feet of seawater and trades Malthusian panic for climate collapse, all while keeping Brunner's prophetic swagger intact.