Luminous Airplanes

8 best books like Luminous Airplanes (Paul La Farge): Sabrina, Trust Exercise, A Cosmology of Monsters, The Uses of Enchantment, Summer Frost, The Last Conversation, You Have Arrived at Your Destination, Skinner Box

Sabrina
AuthorNick Drnaso
Video games, conspiracy theories, breakdown, murder: Everything’s gonna be all right—until it isn’t...

How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Rate your overall mood from 1 to 5, 1 being poor. Rate your stress level from 1 to 5, 5 being severe. Are you experiencing depression...
Trust Exercise
AuthorSusan Choi
ISBN1250309883
Pulitzer Finalist Susan Choi's narrative-upending novel about what happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher

In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle...
A Cosmology of Monsters
AuthorShaun Hamill
A tender and terrifying literary horror novel - the author's debut - that tells the story of a family (creators of a haunted house attraction called the Wandering Dark) and the hereditary monsters - both metaphorical and all-too-real - that haunt them.

Monsters both figurative and very literal...
The Uses of Enchantment
AuthorHeidi Julavits
ISBN0385513232
In late afternoon on November 7, 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal was abducted after field hockey practice at her all-girls New England prep school.Or was she?

A few weeks later an unharmed Mary reappears as suddenly and mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming to have little memory of...
Summer Frost
AuthorBlake Crouch
A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion.

Maxine was made to do one thing: die. Except the minor non-player character in the world Riley...
The Last Conversation
AuthorPaul Tremblay
What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award–winning author explores the answer in a chilling story about identity and human consciousness.

Imagine you’ve woken up in an unfamiliar room with no memory of who you are, how you got there, or where...
You Have Arrived at Your Destination
AuthorAmor Towles
Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of the near future by the New York Times bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow.

When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next...
Skinner Box
AuthorCarole Johnstone
ISBN1250234379
"Skinner Box," a Tor.com Original short story from award-winning author Carole Johnston.

A disturbing science fiction story about space exploration and a seemingly routine scientific mission to Jupiter that is threatened by the interpersonal relationships of its crew.

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