If you were hooked by how Dr. Silas Coade’s first-person account keeps contradicting itself across the schooner, the airship, and finally the starship—only to collide with the truth of who he is inside the Edifice—you’ll love the way Piranesi slowly reveals the meaning behind its narrator’s journals. As with Coade, you’ll sift clues from an intensely personal voice until the world—and the self—rearranges beneath your feet.

The way Eversion loops through expeditions—schooner to airship to starship—only to snap into a new understanding at the end mirrors how Use of Weapons tells two timelines that spiral toward a devastating convergence. If you enjoyed how the pattern of Coade’s journeys reframed every prior scene once the truth surfaced inside the Edifice, Banks’s structural sleight of hand delivers that same whiplash of revelation.

Coade’s dawning awareness—piecing together that his memories and even his reality inside the Edifice might be constructed—sets up the kind of mind-tooled inquiry Blindsight excels at. A small crew confronts an impossible alien phenomenon, and every discovery forces you to reconsider perception, agency, and personhood. If the final reveal of Coade’s nature thrilled you, Watts pushes that fascination with sentience to its unnerving edge.

If the tight focus on Coade and a handful of crewmates repeatedly venturing into the Edifice’s impossible geometry grabbed you, Annihilation channels that same intimate unease. A compact team enters Area X, their journals diverge, and the environment reshapes what’s true. It’s the same creeping dread of exploration where the map—and the explorers—keep changing underfoot.

The way Eversion reboots its expedition—each iteration echoing the last until Coade grasps the pattern inside the Edifice—pairs perfectly with Recursion. Crouch stacks revelations as memories overwrite reality, letting you feel the mounting déjà vu and the emotional cost of remembering multiple lives. If those late-game rug-pulls in Eversion delighted you, this delivers them in relentless waves.