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What's a (fiction) book that's written intimately and will make me feel awe? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by stillitcomes@lemm.ee to c/bookrecs@literature.cafe

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I read Martin McInnes's In Ascension recently. What I loved about it is that it felt both intimate and sweeping. Intimate in the sense of going deep into the protagonist's thoughts and feelings; sweeping in the nature of the things she thinks and does. Discovering and investigating things beyond all human knowledge, monologuing about the cyclic nature of life... The former keeps it grounded, the latter makes it exciting.

Another book that made me feel a similar way is Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation, although it's a very different kind of awe. Being a horror book and all.

What are other books that can make me feel that way again?

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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama gave me a real feeling of awe. It doesn't have much in the way of characterization; the amazing part is the setting, the mystery of the incomprehensible.