If you loved the way The Blazing World uses a fantastical journey to probe the limits of knowledge and reality—like Margaret Cavendish’s protagonist discovering and debating the nature of another world—you’ll delight in Flatland. Abbott’s classic introduces you to A. Square, who explores dimensions beyond his own, offering clever satire and deep philosophical questions about perception, existence, and society.

If you enjoyed the inventive societies and clever critique of real-world norms in The Blazing World, you’ll find Gulliver's Travels irresistible. Follow Lemuel Gulliver as he voyages to bizarre lands, encountering strange peoples and customs that satirize politics, science, and human nature—just as Cavendish’s Empress encounters and rules fantastical beings in her new world.

If you were fascinated by the way The Blazing World toys with storytelling conventions and blurs the boundaries between author, narrator, and character, Orlando offers a similarly playful, self-aware narrative. Woolf’s Orlando lives for centuries and changes gender, all while the narrative breaks the fourth wall and meditates on identity, history, and literature in ways that echo Cavendish’s bold metafiction.

If the intricate, imaginative societies and speculative examination of culture and gender in The Blazing World captivated you, The Left Hand of Darkness will be equally enthralling. Join Genly Ai as he navigates the gender-fluid society of Gethen—an alien world as richly constructed and thought-provoking as Cavendish’s universe—while political intrigue and cultural clashes abound.

If you appreciated how The Blazing World uses speculative fiction to interrogate philosophy, science, and society, The Dispossessed offers a similarly profound exploration. Follow Shevek, a physicist torn between two radically different worlds, as he challenges social norms, questions the nature of freedom, and wrestles with the responsibilities of knowledge—mirroring the intellectual ambition and utopian spirit of Cavendish’s work.