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Looking for more scifi Neon Genesis Evangelion/Rebuild like novels.

Similar authors I've already enjoyed works from: PKD (especially Ubik, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch), Dan Simmons (Hyperion), Lem (Solaris), Strugatskys (especially the Time Wanderers), Watts (Blindsight + Echopraxia).

>> No.9965241

Try ian banks culture series

>> No.9965255

>>9965231
Surprised you didn't mention Arthur C. Clarke (Childhood's End, Space Odyssey)

>> No.9965275

>>9965255
I read CE and enjoyed/did not enjoy about 50:50 of the book but the part with the children was neat and I enjoyed his short stories a lot (The Nine Billion Names of God).

>>9965241
I couldn't really get into Banks. I tried the State of the Art and my favourite story from it was Descendant.

>> No.9965454

NGE actually borrowed the concept of human instrumentality from a Scifi writer who was also a weeb political scientist.

>> No.9966335

>>9965454
Who ?

>> No.9966389

>>9965454
>borrowed the concept of human instrumentality

Lol, no. It borrowed the name, not the concept, which has literally nothing to do with it.

>> No.9966926

>>9966389
>borrowed the name, not the concept
Eva in a nutshell.

>> No.9966941

>>9966335
>In the science fiction of Cordwainer Smith, the Instrumentality of Mankind refers both to Smith's personal future history and universe and to the central government of humanity. The Instrumentality of Mankind is also the title of a paperback collection of short stories by Cordwainer Smith published in 1979 (now superseded by the later The Rediscovery of Man, which collects all of Smith's short stories).
>The Human Instrumentality Project in the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series is a reference to Cordwainer's works.
>A password used in the anime Serial Experiments Lain, "Think Bule Count One Tow" (used by Lain's father) is a misspelled reference to Think Blue, Count Two.
>The Dreadstar comic book features the Church of the Instrumentality which is a space empire. The church has created a race of cat-people, similar to the underpeople of the Instrumentality of Mankind.
>In the light novel series Log Horizon, the animal-like Werecat, Wolf Fang, and Fox Tail races were created by what was called the Norstrilia Project, in reference to his novel.

There you go

>> No.9966967

Clarke, in particular Childhood's End and 2001 (haven't read the latter but EoE is obviously borrowing a lot from the Kubrick movie and I don't think the book is that different)