Related Media for Thesis

Pontypool - That an intelligence that desires to spawn could infect an abstract concept, and learn to hijack that non-biological system towards it's own replication. The nature of virus intelligence - so alien we don't recognize it's ambition, all it is is ambition.

House of leaves - That it is work to read. That the text itself becomes a collage, and stitches the fiction in around you. That several layers of footnotes are going on at once, attacking one story from many angles. Footnotes become characters and time periods. That the story it's attacking is not one of a consistent event or characters - IIRC the two main storylines are pretty separated. Reread this.

The raw shark texts - Similar to House of Leaves but a little funnier, and more referential to it's own

The Athenian murders - More footnotes commenting on footnotes. Layers of narrative reality. Footnotes become characters and time periods.

Chuck Palahniuk Rant, Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle
Fragmented narration. Unreliable narrators.

The Endless The science fiction is supporting a very human story. The holes in reality that humans need to navigate around.

Fifth business - Romanticizing ones out life, canonizing the mundane. Also funny.

Coherence - Regular people trying to muddle their way through the absurd. I've never really understood the science behind this one, I don't know how realistic it is, but I like what I see. A celestial event fractures the continuum, and the characters end up in a kaleidoscope of themselves that last until it passes. It creates a portal through many different realities at once. Similarly The Endless and Something in the Dirt. That the characters are so terrible to them is the real terror.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - A characters perception of time and place does not match the media he is being presented in, so he can accidentally see through the seems of his own fictional world. (What if the entities knew they were fictional?)

OK these are games

Myst - You wrote a world, it's real now, you can go there. Uh oh, you did colonialism. You don't own a place and it's people just because you make it.

The Severed Arm - Tangible artifact narrative game!