**The Cabin at the End of the World** by Paul Tremblay. Note, it’s pretty brutal. But so is Black Mirror, often.
ollyollyollyolly on
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah, or his most recent book, chain gang all stars.. The first is short stories and the latter a full length novel. Both gave me shades of the darker black mirror stuff with some humour, dystopia, but still very human/real
macaronipickle on
Circadian Algorithms is kinda like a Black Mirror episode where the new technology is a procedure that allows you to get by with less sleep, though obviously there are side effects.
es153 on
Ted chiang’s short stories aren’t as bleak as black mirror but I find them similarly contemplative. There’s a free one published online by the New Yorker that is a good introduction
perpetualmotionmachi on
Radicalized Four Tales of our Present Moment by Cory Doctorow, it’s four novellas in one book, so the whole thing is like a season of Black Mirror. They were supposed to make a black mirror book with him doing one of the stories in it, but I think that’s been cancelled. He’s really good at the near future dystopian stuff.
Iamthatiamthati on
J.G. Ballard
kendradrawsthings on
I recently read The Passengers by John Marrs and it was pretty black mirror-ish
Supercooloutrageous on
The One and the Marriage Act by John Marrs
onlyhereforthedoggos on
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
sincerelyansell on
Foe by Iain Reid. Has similar elements of futuristic technology/sci fi.
10 Comments
**The Cabin at the End of the World** by Paul Tremblay. Note, it’s pretty brutal. But so is Black Mirror, often.
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah, or his most recent book, chain gang all stars.. The first is short stories and the latter a full length novel. Both gave me shades of the darker black mirror stuff with some humour, dystopia, but still very human/real
Circadian Algorithms is kinda like a Black Mirror episode where the new technology is a procedure that allows you to get by with less sleep, though obviously there are side effects.
Ted chiang’s short stories aren’t as bleak as black mirror but I find them similarly contemplative. There’s a free one published online by the New Yorker that is a good introduction
Radicalized Four Tales of our Present Moment by Cory Doctorow, it’s four novellas in one book, so the whole thing is like a season of Black Mirror. They were supposed to make a black mirror book with him doing one of the stories in it, but I think that’s been cancelled. He’s really good at the near future dystopian stuff.
J.G. Ballard
I recently read The Passengers by John Marrs and it was pretty black mirror-ish
The One and the Marriage Act by John Marrs
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
Foe by Iain Reid. Has similar elements of futuristic technology/sci fi.