What to Read Next if You Love Black Mirror
Technology meets humanity with unpredictable results in these works of speculative fiction.
The Flinkwater Factor
Ginger is the only one who can save her very-plugged-in hometown from its rebellious robots in The Flinkwater Factor. (Middle Grades)
Never Let Me Go
Technology’s seamy underbelly is as genteelly managed as a British manor house in Never Let Me Go. (High School)
More Than This
A boy wakes up, naked and alone, in an empty world with no idea how he got there in More Than This. (High School)
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang’s questions launch a world of possibilities in Stories of Your Life and Others: What if we built a tower to heaven? What if math was actually not predictable fact? (High School)
Children of the New World
The short story collection Children of the New World eerily channels the dark possibilities of modern life, from robot siblings to memory-making emporiums to population control strategies targeting the unliked. (High School)
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