If the scenes in Land Under England where the subterranean Romans use telepathic coercion to break the narrator’s will—and the chilling rituals of indoctrination in their underground city—stuck with you, you’ll be gripped by Winston Smith’s battle against the Party. From O’Brien’s calculated betrayals to the horrors of Room 101, Nineteen Eighty-Four dives even deeper into the machinery of thought control and the psychological erosion of dissent.

You were drawn to the underground society’s telepathic domination and the narrator’s frightening brush with assimilation in Land Under England. In Wyndham’s The Chrysalids, David and his secretly telepathic friends struggle to survive in a rigid community that would destroy them for their minds alone. From David’s bond with the exiled Sophie to the tense, mind‑to‑mind rescues and the distant promise of Sealand, this is soft SF that fuses psychic connection with social peril.

If the lost Roman world beneath Britain—its amphitheatres, hierarchies, and telepathic subjugation—captivated you in Land Under England, you’ll relish the discovery of the Vril‑ya. Their underground cities, winged elites, and all‑powerful vril staffs create a meticulously imagined culture where mind‑force governs everything, from courtship to punishment. The narrator’s uneasy immersion in their customs mirrors the awe and dread of exploring O’Neill’s hidden empire.

If the most haunting part of Land Under England was the narrator’s internal fight to keep his selfhood intact under telepathic pressure, The Lathe of Heaven will resonate. George Orr’s "effective dreams" let Dr. Haber reshape reality itself, turning therapy into coercion. Watching Orr resist Haber’s rationalized dominion—through shifting worlds, gray aliens, and moral dead ends—echoes the same claustrophobic battle for mental autonomy.

If you loved the tense flight through tunnels and caverns in Land Under England—the scramble to evade captors and reclaim the open air—follow Lina and Doon as they decipher a damaged set of instructions and navigate Ember’s failing lights and dangerous Pipeworks. Their race to the river and risky ascent echo the same pulse‑pounding escape from a collapsing subterranean world.