#27 in Dystopian
QualityLand
- German Science Fiction Prize for best novel
Affiliate link: buying through it supports BookRank at no extra cost to you.
Editor’s note Marc-Uwe Kling’s 2017 satire is set in a near-future country that has rebranded itself QualityLand, where algorithms pick your partner, your job and your purchases before you know you want them. Peter Arbeitsloser, who runs a scrapyard for defective machines, receives a pink dolphin-shaped vibrator from the online giant TheShop and simply wants to send it back. The German edition came out in a light and a dark version with different interludes; the novel won the German Science Fiction Prize in 2018, and a sequel followed in 2020.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.1 across 202 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 57% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Dystopian average of 7.7. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.5 | 13 | 6% |
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 189 | 94% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“This is overall a quite good book. at the beginning I wasn't sure what to think about it then I really enjoyed it. But it didn't really go in the direction I thought it would and this maybe not a very fair aspect to critique…”
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
Same shelf — Dystopian — with scores between 7.8 and 8.3, closest to this book.
