1. 160
   Die Vereinigung jiddischer Polizisten von 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
   Die unsichtbaren Städte von 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
   Niemalsland: Roman von Neil Gaiman (ahstrick)
4. 91
   Anathem von 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 von Jeff VanderMeer (ShelfMonkey)
6. 70
   Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius [short story] von Jorge Luis Borges (bertilak)
7. 60
   Un Lon Dun von 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.… (mehr)

8. 61
   Geschichten aus Orsinien. Science Fiction Erzählungen aus einem erfundenen Land. von 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 von 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
    Wächter der Nacht von Sergei Lukyanenko (julienne_preacher)

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

11. 30
    Die Gabe von Naomi Alderman (charl08)

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

12. 30
    Irrgarten des Todes von Philip K. Dick (AlanPoulter)

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

13. 20
    Die Freundlichen. Roman. von Melissa Scott (sandstone78)

    sandstone78: Similar themes of parallel societies.

14. 20
    The Other City von 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
    Stadt der Fremden von China Miéville (Anonymer Nutzer)
16. 20
    Book of the New Sun: Shadow and Claw Vol 1 (Fantasy Masterworks) von 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.… (mehr)

17. 20
    Weisen der Welterzeugung von 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
    Biokrieg von Paolo Bacigalupi (sturlington)
19. 20
    A Man of Shadows von 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 von Nick Harkaway (paradoxosalpha)

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

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