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Books like Avery Cates: 9 series to read next

Avery Cates is science fiction and cyberpunk, set in near future, dark and tense in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Avery Cates is 22 books, 2007–2022.

“Jeff Somers' cyberpunk series, beginning with The Electric Church, follows Cates through escalating jobs and betrayals across six novels.”
from the catalogue description

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Blade Runner Universe
Sprawl Trilogy
Forge of God
Hardwired
Maze Runner
Ship Breaker
Patternist
The Triffids
The Windup Universe

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

seriesK. W. Jeter, Archie Goodwin, Les Martin & Philip K. Dick6 books1968

About identity.

“Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? →

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

About virtual reality.

“Johnny Mnemonic, an early short story set in the same fictional milieu, predates the novels and introduces the courier Molly Millions before her role in the trilogy.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Neuromancer →

Forge of GodSeries

seriesGreg Bear2 books1987

About aliens.

“Earth faces destruction when an inscrutable and overwhelming alien form of life attacks.”
from the catalogue description of The Forge of God

Start with The Forge of God →

HardwiredSeries

seriesWalter Jon Williams3 books1986

Science fiction and cyberpunk, tense in tone, set in near future and our world.

“Voice of the Whirlwind, published three years later, is a loosely connected follow-up set in the same future, sharing its technological and political backdrop with a different cast of characters.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Hardwired →

Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

“A 16 year old boy awakens with amnesia in a community of other youths in the center of a maze, and realizes they must cooperate to escape.”
from the catalogue description of The Maze Runner
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Start with The Maze Runner →

Ship BreakerSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2010

“Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker follows Nailer as helping her pulls him out of his abusive father's orbit and into a much larger, more dangerous game involving her family's fortune.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ship Breaker →

PatternistSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler6 books1976

Science fiction, dark in tone, about genetic engineering.

“The Patternist series is a group of science fiction novels by Octavia E. Butler that detail a secret history continuing from the Ancient Egyptian period to the far future that involves telepathic mind control and an extraterrestrial plague.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Wild Seed →

The TriffidsSeries

seriesJohn Whitbourn, John Wyndham & Simon Clark3 books1951

Set in british isles.

“Together the three novels form a loose post-apocalyptic trilogy built on Wyndham's original premise rather than a tightly plotted single story.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Day of the Triffids →

The Windup UniverseSeries

seriesPaolo Bacigalupi3 books2005

About ecological collapse, set in southeast asia.

Start with The Calorie Man →

Why these

No sales rank, no star ratings, no readers also bought.

Shared terms are not a promise that a book feels the same. Two series can be far-future political intrigue and read nothing alike — what the ranking can say is what they are about, and each card says which parts it shares.

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What should I read after Avery Cates?: Blade Runner Universe — the closest match to Avery Cates on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Avery Cates?: The Electric Church. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Avery Cates.
How big is Avery Cates?: Avery Cates is 22 books, 2007–2022.

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