For someone who loves Ted Chiang, what adjacent writers would people recommend? I tried Borges, and I like him, he just seems less accessible and intentionally opaque at points.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Only barely sci-fi, but shares the same lyrical precision as Ted Chiang. Somehow it's the first thing that came to mind.
I'd also recommend short stories by Kafka. Not just his most famous ones like Metamorphosis (which is fairly long), but his very short stories are quite intense and have a similar sort of "weight".
