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Books like Bridge Trilogy: 9 series to read next

Bridge Trilogy is science fiction and cyberpunk, set in near future and big city. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Bridge Trilogy is 4 books, 1990–1999.

“Set in a near-future California, the novel takes place after an earthquake has damaged the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and turned it into an improvised settlement known as the Bridge.”
from the catalogue description of Virtual Light
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Sprawl Trilogy
Blade Runner Universe
Halting State
Otherland
The Handmaid's Tale
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
The Jackpot Trilogy
Hardwired
The Thousandth Floor

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

Science fiction and cyberpunk, tense and dark in tone, about artificial intelligence and virtual reality, set in near future and big city.

“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 →

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

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

About robots.

“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? →

Halting StateSeries

seriesCharles Stross2 books2007

Science fiction and cyberpunk, tense in tone, about artificial intelligence and surveillance, set in near future.

“The plot centres on a bank robbery in a virtual world.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Halting State →

OtherlandSeries

seriesTad Williams6 books1996

Science fiction and cyberpunk, tense in tone, about artificial intelligence and virtual reality, set in near future and virtual world.

“Otherland is a science fiction tetralogy by American writer Tad Williams, published between 1996 and 2001.”
from the catalogue description
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Start with City of Golden Shadow →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

About totalitarianism and gender and society.

“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Handmaid's Tale →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

Science fiction, set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
from the catalogue description of The Man in the High Castle

Start with The Man in the High Castle →

The Jackpot TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson2 books2014

Science fiction, tense and mysterious in tone, about surveillance, set in near future and north america.

“Gibson's 2020 book Agency is set in the same world.”
from the catalogue description of The Peripheral

Start with The Peripheral →

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 →

The Thousandth FloorSeries

seriesKatharine McGee3 books2016

“Katharine McGee's trilogy imagines Manhattan in 2118 as a single thousand-story tower housing every stratum of society, following five teenagers whose ambitions collide as they climb toward, or fall from, its highest floors.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Thousandth Floor →

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.

Questions readers ask

What should I read after Bridge Trilogy?: Sprawl Trilogy — the closest match to Bridge Trilogy on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Bridge Trilogy?: Virtual Light. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Bridge Trilogy.
How big is Bridge Trilogy?: Bridge Trilogy is 4 books, 1990–1999.

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