10 books for fans of Pattern Recognition
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Count Zero
Sprawl • Book 2
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Gibson weaves corporate mercenaries, biochip theft, and emergent AI consciousness into a sequel that expands the Sprawl universe in unexpected directions.
★ 4.02 Goodreads (60.4K ratings) - 2
Mona Lisa Overdrive
Sprawl • Book 3
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Cyberspace's founding father completes his cyberpunk trilogy by merging artificial intelligence, corporate intrigue, and virtual reality as multiple characters navigate the boundary between human and digital consciousness.
★ 4.02 Goodreads (48.9K ratings) - 3
Agency
Jackpot • Book 2
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Verity's talent for understanding apps leads her to a mysterious startup and an AI that exists in a timeline where Trump never became president. Gibson explores how technology and politics shape alternate realities.
★ 3.81 Goodreads (14.6K ratings) - 4
Neuromancer
Sprawl Trilogy Series • Book 1
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Interface cowboy Case and mercenary Molly with computer eyes face off against a corporate empire in cyberspace, where minds meet circuitry in Gibson's cyberpunk foundation.
★ 3.68 Goodreads (765 ratings) - 5
The Peripheral
Jackpot • Book 1
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What starts as easy money playing a realistic game connects small-town Flynne to a post-apocalyptic London where her actions have life-and-death consequences across timelines.
★ 3.89 Goodreads (33.6K ratings) - 6
L'Ogive du Jugement dernier
Dungeon Crawler Carl • Book 2
by Matt Dinniman, Chloé Atangana
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The deadly dungeon crawler reality show continues as Carl and his cat companion must choose character builds that will define their survival—or doom them completely.
★ 4.50 Goodreads (209.9K ratings) - 7
For We Are Many
Bobiverse • Book 2
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Bob's AI copies have spent forty years searching for habitable worlds, but now face system-wide civil war and an alien species that wants humanity extinct.
★ 4.37 Goodreads (75.2K ratings) - 8
Kindred
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A contemporary Black woman finds herself repeatedly transported to a Maryland plantation to save her white ancestor, forcing her to navigate slavery's horrors firsthand. Butler's time-travel premise creates visceral connections between historical trauma and present-day racism.
★ 4.31 Goodreads (278.5K ratings) - 9
Not Till We Are Lost
Bobiverse • Book 5
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Post-Starfleet War, the Bobs no longer gather as one happy family, and their scattered existence makes them vulnerable to a challenge that could end everything.
★ 4.31 Goodreads (19.1K ratings) - 10
Assembly's Folly (Antecedents' Legacy Book 5)
Antecedents' Legacy • Book 5
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When wiping out three massive alien threats with minimal casualties makes you a political target, survival becomes more complex than combat. Schinhofen delivers space opera where legendary military feats create deadlier enemies in boardrooms.
★ 4.75 Goodreads (904 ratings)