If you were gripped by Teresa Simons tracing the Bulverton spree while dipping into XE simulations to reconstruct events, you'll love how Inspector Borlú investigates a murder that straddles two interwoven cities. Like the way the Extreme Experience blurs what Teresa can and can’t acknowledge, the "unseeing" in The City & the City turns perception into procedure, making every clue feel dangerous. It's a razor-edged mystery wrapped in a mind-bending jurisdiction.

Teresa’s repeated dives into XE scenarios make you question which version of events is genuine—especially as the VR reenactments start bleeding into her waking life. Ubik amplifies that same unease: after a botched mission, reality peels back in contradictory layers, and every revelation forces you to reassess what’s simulation, what’s memory, and who’s steering the show. If the final turns in The Extremes made you doubt every prior scene, this will scratch that itch.

As Teresa methodically re-enters XE—chasing the Bulverton gunman and her own grief—you get that creeping, dreamlike distortion where the inquiry reshapes the inquirer. In Annihilation, the Biologist’s expedition into Area X mirrors that vibe: field notes slide into hallucination, evidence contradicts itself, and the act of investigating becomes the real danger. If you loved how The Extremes turned procedure into a surreal abyss, this will pull you under.

Teresa’s grief over her husband’s death powers every choice she makes, and the XE immersions feel like psychic rooms she must enter to put herself back together. The Bridge offers a similarly intense interiority: a man in a liminal world explores shifting realities that echo his trauma, with clues to his identity embedded in the architecture of the place. If you connected to the raw, inward pull of The Extremes, this is a haunting companion.

The way The Extremes questions responsibility, media, and memory—using XE’s staged violence to probe the ethics of recreating trauma—echoes the philosophical riddles in The Affirmation. Here, a man’s written account and his lived experience collapse into each other, inviting you to ask what counts as truth. If Teresa’s final realizations made you ponder perception and meaning as much as plot, this is Priest’s most elegant mind-knot.