Books like Agency
25 science fiction books to read after Agency, by Gibson, William, the closest match first.
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The Jackpot Trilogy book 1 Start here
1. The Peripheral
by Gibson, William
- Same series
- Same author
In a run-down part of America's rural South where jobs are scarce, Flynne and her veteran brother, Burton, make a precarious offering security services in an online game. But in...
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The Locked Tomb book 2
2. Harrow the Ninth
by Muir, Tamsyn
- On the same lists
"She answered the Emperor's call.She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.In victory, her world has turned to ash.After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn...
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The Murderbot Diaries book 5
3. Network Effect
by Wells, Martha
- On the same lists
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet...
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Lady Astronaut book 3
4. The Relentless Moon
by Mary Robinette Kowal
- On the same lists
It's 1963, and riots and sabotage plague the space program. The climate change caused by the Meteor is becoming more and more clear, but tensions are rising, and the IAC's...
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5. The Vanished Birds
by Simon Jimenez
- On the same lists
Nia Imani captains a freighter, and because of the way she travels through space she lives out of step with everyone she loves, who age while she experiences only months....
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6. The Animals in That Country
by Laura Jean McKay
- On the same lists
Jean is a foul-mouthed, animal-loving guide at an outback wildlife park when a flu-like pandemic begins to let people understand the language of animals, and the noise drives many of...
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7. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
by Paolini, Christopher
- On the same lists
Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds. Now she's awakened a nightmare. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's...
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8. The Space Between Worlds
by Micaiah Johnson
- On the same lists
Cara is a traverser for the Eldridge Institute: she collects data from alternate Earths, but she can only cross to worlds where her counterpart is already dead, and the other...
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9. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
by Hank Green
- On the same lists
The Carls have vanished as suddenly as they appeared, and April May, who discovered them, is missing and presumed dead. Her friends are still trying to understand what happened: Andy...
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10. Axiom's End
by Lindsay Ellis
- On the same lists
In 2007, the world is on the verge of first contact, and Cora Sherman, a young woman, is secretly in contact with an alien being. In this alternate history, conspiracy...
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11. Riot Baby
by Tochi Onyebuchi
- On the same lists
Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both gifted with extraordinary power. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by structural racism and brutality. Their futures might alter the world. When...
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12. The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
by Liu, Ken
- On the same lists
A collection of stories by Ken Liu that range across science fiction, fantasy and history. The tales explore memory, grief, technology and identity.
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13. Chilling Effect
by Valerie Valdes
- On the same lists
Eva Innocente captains La Sirena Negra, a ship whose crew takes small cargo jobs for little money, until a criminal syndicate called the Fridge kidnaps her sister Mari and keeps...
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14. The Infinite
by Patience Agbabi
- On the same lists
Elle Ifie was born on 29 February, which makes her a Leapling, and she can travel through time. On her twelfth birthday she and her best friend Big Ben go...
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15. Vagabonds
by Jingfang Hao
- On the same lists
"A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the...
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16. The New Wilderness
by Diane Cook
- On the same lists
In a near future where city air is toxic, Bea's young daughter Agnes is dying, and Bea takes her into the Wilderness State, a protected tract of land where a...
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17. The End of October
by Lawrence Wright
- On the same lists
"IAt an internment camp in Indonesia, within one week, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When the microbiologist and epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of...
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The Interdependency book 3
18. The Last Emperox
by John Scalzi
- On the same lists
The Interdependency is collapsing as the Flow streams, which link its worlds, fail. Grayland II, the new emperox, has to unite her people and defeat those who profit from the...
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19. The Book of Koli
by M. R. Carey
- On the same lists
Koli grows up in Mythen Rood, a village hemmed in by trees that kill, in a world long after the old technology failed. When his own life goes wrong, he...
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The Sprawl book 1 Start here
20. Neuromancer (1985)
by Gibson, William
- Same author
Gibson is the father of Cyberpunk and this novel in particular is significant. In this novel the term cyberspace is coined.
Case was the best hacker in the Sprawl until his employers damaged his nervous system, and now he can no longer reach cyberspace. He drifts through the criminal underworld of...
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21. Count Zero
by Gibson, William
- Same author
Bobby Newmark, the self-styled 'Count Zero' is just getting started as a hacker, and is still an amateur. There comes a day when he is asked to test some new...
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22. Mona Lisa Overdrive
by Gibson, William
- Same author
Mona Lisa Overdrive is the final novel of the William Gibson's cyberpunk Sprawl trilogy. Living in the vast computer landscape of cyberspace, young Mona taps into the mind of world-famous...
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Blue Ant book 1 Start here
23. Pattern Recognition
by Gibson, William
- Same author
One of the few books on this list that is set in the current day, Cayce Pollard reacts to logos and corporate advertising in an allergic fashion. So itâs no...
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Blue Ant book 2
24. Spook Country
by Gibson, William
- Same author
Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.Hollis Henry is...
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Blue Ant book 3
25. Zero History
by Gibson, William
- Same author
Set among London's dark and tangled streets after the money-crash , Zero History is a thriller about the hidden webs and patterns that underlie the new century. Former rock singer...
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