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Micromégas
Micromégas is a 1752 novella by the French Enlightenment philosopher and writer Voltaire. It tells the story of a massive extraterrestrial being from the star Sirius and his companion from Saturn who travel to Earth. While exploring the planet, they encounter microscopic human beings and engage in p...
apps Top Micromégas Alternatives
The top alternative to Micromégas in 2026 is Labyrinths (Borges) with a score of 9.67/10, followed by Austerlitz (9.47) and The Drowned and the Saved (9.41).
Labyrinths (Borges)
Published in 1962, Labyrinths gathers stories and essays by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges in an English-language an...
Austerlitz
Austerlitz is a 2001 novel by W. G. Sebald, written in German and narrated through the recollections of Jacques Austerli...
The Drowned and the Saved
First published in Italian in 1986, Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved is a work of nonfiction grounded in his exper...
The Republic
Written by Plato around 375 BCE, The Republic uses a Socratic dialogue to ask what justice means and whether a just life...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, follows a Russian judicial official whose terminal illn...
The Aleph
First published in 1949, Jorge Luis Borges's The Aleph is a short story collection in which speculative ideas become com...
In Search of Lost Time
Published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time follows a narrator through Fren...
The Inspector General
Nikolai Gogol's 1836 Russian satirical play in which officials of a corrupt provincial town lavish bribes on a penniless...
In the Penal Colony
In the Penal Colony is a short story by Franz Kafka, written in German in 1914 and first published in 1919. The narrativ...
Cosmicomics
Cosmicomics is a 1965 collection of short stories by Italian author Italo Calvino. Each story is narrated by an ageless,...
The Street of Crocodiles
The Street of Crocodiles is a collection of short stories by Polish author Bruno Schulz, originally published in 1934 as...
Rameau's Nephew
Rameau's Nephew is a philosophical dialogue by French Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot, composed between 1761 and 177...
Nathan the Wise
Nathan the Wise is a play by German Enlightenment author Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, published in 1779. Set in Jerusalem d...
Jacques the Fatalist
Denis Diderot's picaresque novel *Jacques the Fatalist* was written during the 1770s and 1780s, though not published unt...
The War with the Newts
*The War with the Newts* is a 1936 satirical science fiction novel by Czech author Karel Čapek. The story details the di...
Woodcutters
*Woodcutters* is a 1984 novel by Austrian author Thomas Bernhard that delivers a sustained critique of Vienna's cultural...
Bouvard and Pécuchet
*Bouvard and Pécuchet* is a satirical novel by French author Gustave Flaubert, published posthumously in 1881. The story...
The Elective Affinities
'The Elective Affinities' is a novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1809. The narrative centers on a...
Erewhon
"Erewhon" is a satirical novel written by Samuel Butler and published anonymously in 1872. The title is an anagram of "n...
Love in the Ruins
Love in the Ruins is a 1971 satirical novel by American author Walker Percy that explores moral and societal decay in a...
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| Alternative | Score | vs Micromégas | Action |
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| 9.67 Brilliant | +1.65 | Compare | |
| 9.47 Excellent | +1.45 | Compare | |
| 9.41 Excellent | +1.39 | Compare | |
| 9.20 Excellent | +1.18 | Compare | |
| 9.20 Excellent | +1.18 | Compare | |
| 9.20 Excellent | +1.18 | Compare | |
| 9.20 Excellent | +1.18 | Compare | |
| 8.83 Great | +0.81 | Compare | |
| 8.78 Great | +0.76 | Compare | |
| 8.62 Great | +0.60 | Compare |
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