1. 160
   De Jiddische politiebond door Michael Chabon (grizzly.anderson, kaipakartik)

   grizzly.anderson: Both are police procedural mysteries set in slightly alternate worlds.

   kaipakartik: Both are detective tales in alternate settings

2. 122
   De onzichtbare steden door Italo Calvino (snarkhunt)

   snarkhunt: Calvino's book is a travelogue of impossible societies while China's book is a sweet little noir stuck in the middle of one.

3. 112
   Niemandsland door Neil Gaiman (ahstrick)
4. 91
   Anathem door Neal Stephenson (chmod007, sturlington)

   chmod007: Both novels depict coexisting-but-dissociated societies — drastically foreign to the world we live in — but help us reflect on it.

5. 70
   Finch door Jeff VanderMeer (ShelfMonkey)
6. 70
   Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius [short story] door Jorge Luis Borges (bertilak)
7. 60
   Un Lun Dun door China Miéville (heidialice)

   heidialice: May be an obvious recommendation, but these books cover a similar (very original) premise in very different ways. Un Lun Dun is for young teens, smaller in scope and message-heavy; The City & The City for adults, deals with complex themes and offers no easy answers. Both display Mieville's consummate skills and elegant humor.… (meer)

8. 61
   Orsiniaanse vertellingen door Ursula K. Le Guin (ed.pendragon)

   ed.pendragon: Le Guin's Orsinia may have been an inspiration for Mieville's mythical Orciny in The City and the City.

9. 40
   Hav door Jan Morris (ed.pendragon)

   ed.pendragon: Miéville's The City and the City acknowledges Jan Morris as an influence on his fractured cities novel, and Morris' travel book novel Hav (fictional trips to a fictional state) is the most likely reference.

10. 41
    Nachtwacht door Sergei Lukyanenko (julienne_preacher)

    julienne_preacher: Both books are about divided realities (and both books are awesome).

11. 30
    The Power door Naomi Alderman (charl08)

    charl08: Both books ask questions about what we take for granted in our everyday realtors..

12. 30
    Vlucht in visioenen door Philip K. Dick (AlanPoulter)

    AlanPoulter: Two tales of paranoia and murder set in very odd worlds that just get stranger....

13. 20
    The Kindly Ones door Melissa Scott (sandstone78)

    sandstone78: Similar themes of parallel societies.

14. 20
    De andere stad door Michal Ajvaz (bunnygirl)

    bunnygirl: Czech novel about an alternate Prague; not mentioned as one of the influences for this novel, but perhaps going on a bit of the same (disputed?) territory

15. 31
    Embassytown door China Miéville (Anonieme gebruiker)
16. 20
    Shadow & Claw: The First Half of The Book of the New Sun door Gene Wolfe (LamontCranston)

    LamontCranston: In many of Wolfes works he writes like Mieville has in the first person of imagined lands, unlike Mieville his characters do not improbably stop to explain to themselves (and thus to the audience) what a term or reference means - the narrative provides enough information for the audience to figure it out themselves.… (meer)

17. 20
    Ways of Worldmaking door Nelson Goodman (sek_smith, sek_smith)

    sek_smith: Ways of World Making explains the cognitive processes that allow us to unsee and,thus, understand. The City & the City is a practical application of the concept, most rigorous and well weaved. Very entertaining fiction with plenty of meaning

    sek_smith: This is not a fiction book, but an essay on relativity applied to epistemology. For many interested in the psychological mechanisms at work in The city & the City, this is a good read.

18. 20
    The Windup Girl door Paolo Bacigalupi (sturlington)
19. 20
    A Man of Shadows door Jeff Noon (grizzly.anderson)

    grizzly.anderson: Detective stories set in cites that are turned about 90 degrees from the reality we understand.

20. 20
    Gnomon door Nick Harkaway (paradoxosalpha)

    paradoxosalpha: Sfnal police procedurals with an epistemological/metaphysical edge.

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