books about places that don't exist Public

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semi-realistic modern fiction about places that don't exist.

real enough to comprehend, unreal enough to tell the truth.

sometimes the amalgamation of various cultures, other times adjacent to existent cultures. somewhat bleak, but certainly post-kafkaesque. not strictly a commentary.

a way to examine how we exist together and how we might exist differently.

  1. Rina: a novel by  (Library of Korean literature -- 16)

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  2. The Queue by 

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  3. Houses of Ravicka by 

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    Since 2010 writer and artist Renee Gladman has placed fantastic and philosophical stories in the invented city-state of Ravicka, a …

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  4. Ana Patova Crosses A Bridge by 

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  5. The Ravickians by 

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  6. Hav: comprising last letters from Hav, Hav of the Myrmidons by 

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  7. The City & The City by 

    Inspector Tyador Borlú must travel to Ul Qoma to search for answers in the murder of a woman found in …

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  8. The plains by 

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  9. Among the Bieresch by ,

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  10. Event Factory by 

    A "linguist-traveler" arrives by plane to Ravicka, a city of yellow air in which an undefined crisis is causing the …

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  11. Ella Minnow Pea by 

    An epistolary novel set on a fictional island off the South Carolina coastline, Ella Minnow Pea brings readers to the …

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  12. The Memory Police by , ,

    **2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

    A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …

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