After The Windup Girl
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
If you fell for The Windup Girl's climate-ravaged Bangkok and corporate biotech nightmares, you need the gene-altered wasteland of Borne—where flawed scavengers navigate monstrous creations and shadowy power plays in a post-collapse city that refuses to sanitize the cost of playing god. VanderMeer's visceral prose drags you through decay, mutation, and survival intrigue with the same unflinching intensity Bacigalupi delivered, but cranks the weird factor into overdrive.