I recently read the trilogy, and absolutely fell in LOVE with this type of story. To clarify, to me, the three body problem trilogy felt like a modern take on cosmic horror, while im not looking specifically for horror. I’m looking for the feeling that this trilogy gave me, a sort of feeling of awe and excitement over the unknown. I love the unknown, but especially i love the idea of the unknown in reality, so stories that ground science fiction worries in reality a bit, but also aren’t entirely afraid to pull out some less realistic ideas to get across certain points. I am looking for any books that remotely feel like this trilogy in that sense.

I feel like such books would be very uncommon however.

EDIT: Do any of you listen to music while you read? I started recently making specific playlists for reading various kinds of books, so far i’ve made a playlist for reading warhammer 40k books and a playlist for reading cosmic horror and creepy stories in general, i came up with the idea while reading three body problem. after i started listening while reading, it made the experience even creepier, which i loved.

EDIT EDIT: For anyone else making suggestions, since theres a few suggestions i already have in my collection i plan to read here. i will provide a list of books i have in my collection that i plan to read. This isn’t all of them, this is just my “cosmic stuff” folder. Some of it is a bit less sci fi and is more just personally interesting for other reasons.

Ballad of black tom- victor lavalle

Blindsight+echopraxia- peter watts (suggested by this thread, already had it, more inclined to read now)

The void trilogy- peter hamilton

Phyl Undhu, Abstract horror, exterminator- Nick Land

The killing star- charles R pellegrino

The revelation space collection- alastair reynolds (newly added thanks to this thread)

The tinfoil dossier trilogy- Caitlin R Kiernan

vacuum diagrams/xeelee sequence- Stephen Baxter (newly added from this thread)

The expanse- james S.A. Corey (haven’t grabbed yet, but plan to)