Womb City

How it reads

Womb City is science fiction (dystopian body horror, specifically), and its dominant mood is eerie. It's atmospheric and uncanny, with a sense that something is wrong. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in a big city setting, in the future, told in the third person, staying close to one character. Its central concerns are power and politics, identity and class and society. In weight it's heavy and literary — denser, more serious, and more demanding of you.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending is left open, for you to argue about. At 416 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's a hidden gem — known to relatively few readers.