Neom by Lavie Tidhar

Set in a near-future landscape dominated by a glittering desert megaproject, the novel follows a shifting cast—tourists, developers, locals and a weary narrator—whose lives intersect in a hyper-surveilled, hyper-commercialized attempt to manufacture a utopia; blending noir, travelogue and satire, it interrogates techno-utopianism, colonial extraction, the erasure of history and the human and ecological costs of turning land and people into branded spectacle.

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