Science Fiction · Speculative Fiction · Alternate Reality

3 hand-picked science fiction, speculative fiction, and alternate reality books curated by NextBookAfter.

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Cover of The City & The City

The City & The City

For fans of Chabon's alternate-history noir, this speculative mystery offers a mind-bending divided cityscape with political intrigue, dark humor, and a gritty detective unraveling cross-border conspiracies in a world where seeing is a crime.

Cover of The City & The City

The City & The City

This novel echoes the paranoia and alternate realities of Time Out of Joint with a mind-bending urban twist on perception and conspiracy, challenging readers to question the boundaries of their own world without retreading the same simulated suburbia.

Cover of The Raw Shark Texts

The Raw Shark Texts

For fans of Philip K. Dick's mind-warping exploration of fractured realities and existential uncertainty, this novel offers a thrilling chase through conceptual landscapes where memory, identity, and perception dissolve into a hallucinatory puzzle of self-discovery.