Hannah Postlethwait is an author and Senior Features Writer for Screen Rant based in Ames, Iowa.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT While all science fiction bends the bounds of reality, some sci-fi books stand out against the rest as genuinely trippy. Many of the trippiest sci-fi books hail from the last half of the twentieth century, a psychedelic time in American history. Some writers used mind-altering substances that caused their works to be disorienting.
9 Neuromancer William Gibson Neuromancer by William Gibson can be hard to follow at times because it contains an abundance of futuristic terminology that can be difficult to grasp. Concepts like "cyberspace" and "the matrix" are now commonplace but were introduced by Gibson in Neuromancer. However, in Neuromancer, cyberspace is the virtual reality that people can enter and traverse rather than the more modern definition of cyberspace, which means the internet.
7 Solaris Stanisław Lem Stanisław Lem's Solaris is a trippy read because the story's narrative causes the characters to constantly question what is real and what is a figment of their imagination. The characters hover in a spaceship over a newly discovered planet where the ocean is an intelligent living being. The researchers on the ship are driven mad as they experience illusions of loved ones, lost relatives, nightmares, and secrets they have kept.
5 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange is a sci-fi novel that is disturbing in more ways than one. It's controversial due to its depictions of graphic violence that take place in the near future within a youth subculture fixated on extreme violence. The novel dabbles with substance use, with the story's main characters ingesting a mind-altering substance called "Moloko Plus," which is milk mixed with amphetamines, synthetic mescaline, or adrenochrome.
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