Recs if you like Ubik...

For when reading a classic feels too daunting. Classics under 200 pages!

As seen on Lithub

sci-fi books about simulations!!

Time Magazine’s All-Time Best 100 English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as published in 2005.

Classics and must-reads of Science Fiction from the 1960s and 70s designated as part of the New Wave of that era.

Time Magazine’s compilation of the 100 best novels published since 1923.

(101 because “The Berlin Stories” is an omnibus of “Mr Norris Changes Trains” and “Goodbye To Berlin.”)

Enter the dizzying mind of Philip K. Dick, one of the most prolific and impactful science fiction writers of all time; explore paranoia, grief, mind-altering substances, the nature of existence and what defines our humanity, distinguishes us from ersatz counterfeits, and altered and simulated realities warped by technology and drugs.

Just saw it again in the cinema and you know what, I don't want to quit those immaculate creepy vibes just yet and I will die on this hill.

compiled from several sources, inspired by crizzybooks' 2026 youtube video "books like cyberpunk 2077"

Science fiction books in english published between 1960 and 1969 (going by when it was published as a book, generally).