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24 alternatives to Pym: A Novel

Mat Johnson = James Baldwin +Kurt Vonnegut + Jules Verne

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Pym: A Novel launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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The Pragmatic Programmer▲87
Solid advice and awesome analogies
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
Dark Matter of the Mind▲67
The Culturally Articulated Unconscious
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
On Books - Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country▲53
Part 2
2016 · onbooks.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
4
The Dark Forest▲71
Part to of the acclaimed Three-Body Problem
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
5
Gutshot: Stories▲128
Isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark edges
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
6
Thought Flights▲61
Robert Musil's newly translated essays and short stories.
2016 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
7
Future Visions▲66
Original science fiction inspired by Microsoft
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
8
The Flicker Men: An Novel▲54
Modern "sci fi" thriller about science, theology, and fate
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
9
The Right Sort: a Twitter Fiction ▲53
Booker Prize nom. author David Mitchell writes for twitter
2015 · x.com · its alternatives →
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Making Ideas Happen▲75
Overcoming the obstacles between vision and reality
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite▲72
Turning logic and common sense on its head
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
12
H is for Hawk▲67
2014 Samuel Johnson Prizewinner, Costa Book of the Year
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
13
Black Swan▲80
The impact of the highly improbable
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
Ender's Game▲93
The enemy's gate is down
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
Flatland▲64
The mind-bending science fiction epic of geometry
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
16
Mason & Dixon▲58
A sprawling, complex, and comic work from Thomas Pynchon.
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut▲61
A podcast about ilfe-changing books
2016 · castig.org · its alternatives →
18
Machines of Loving Grace▲54
The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Looking for Feedback on My “Computer Science Fiction” Novel Blue Screen▲60
This has been my Covid burnout project and I would love any thoughts or input, especially about the Bash code. I just am finishing the first chapter of the audiobook and would love any thoughts, positive or negative. The full pdf here: https://KyleBenzle.com/BlueScreen.pdf Free first chapter of the audiobook: https://soundcloud.com/landgrant/blue-screen-chapter-1 Giving away the Amazon ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084GHLYSX Blurb: Peter Gustafson wants to save the world. In the year 2984, Peter is an average kid with a secret; he’s…
2023 · its alternatives →
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Ancillary Justice▲60
An AI space opera with surprising emotional depth
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
21
Gödel, Escher, Bach▲60
A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines
2016 · openlibrary.org · its alternatives →
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Hamlet on the Holodeck▲67
The future of narrative in cyberspace
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
23
Psychedelic Suburbia▲70
David Bowie and the Beckenham Arts Lab
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Understanding Media▲70
The Extensions of Man
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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