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Books like Coldwire: 9 series to read next

Coldwire is science fiction and cyberpunk, about virtual reality, set in virtual world, dark in register. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Coldwire is 1 book, from 2025.

“The first book in The StrangeLoom Trilogy, it is told through the alternating perspectives of Eirale and Lia, who live in a virtual reality world owned by the conglomerate NileCorp.”
from the catalogue description

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Ready Player One
Sprawl Trilogy
The Handmaid's Tale
Otherland
Avatar Chronicles
Space Merchants
The Mortality Doctrine
Skylar Cruz
The Hunger Games

Ready Player OneSeries

seriesErnest Cline & Andy Weir3 books2011

Adventurous in tone, about quests.

“The 2020 sequel, Ready Player Two, picks up after Wade has gained control of the OASIS and follows him and his friends into a new quest built around a brain-computer interface the creator left behind.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Ready Player One →

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

About artificial intelligence, set in 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 →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

About gender and society and rebellion and revolution, set in north america.

“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 →

OtherlandSeries

seriesTad Williams6 books1996

About artificial intelligence, set in our 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 →

Avatar ChroniclesSeries

seriesConor Kostick3 books2004

Science fiction, about virtual reality, set in virtual world and near future.

Start with Epic →

Space MerchantsSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth2 books1953

Set in venus & inner planets.

“Together the two books form a compact bookend pair rather than an ongoing series.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Space Merchants →

The Mortality DoctrineSeries

seriesJames Dashner4 books2013

About artificial intelligence.

“The Eye of Minds opens James Dashner's Mortality Doctrine trilogy in a near-future where a teenage gamer is recruited to help stop a rogue hacker named Kaine who threatens mass destruction from inside the virtual world he haunts.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Gunner Skale →

Skylar CruzSeries

seriesDonna Freitas3 books2016

Science fiction and dystopia, tense in tone, about virtual reality, set in virtual world and near future.

“Without warning, the border between worlds suddenly closes.”
from the catalogue description of Unplugged

Start with Unplugged →

The Hunger GamesUniverse

universe5 books2008

About rebellion and revolution and survival, set in far future and north america.

“Panem, they call it now — a nation raised on the drowned bones of North America, a glittering Capitol ringed by twelve districts it once starved into obedience.”
from the catalogue description

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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 Coldwire?: Ready Player One — the closest match to Coldwire on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Coldwire?: Coldwire. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Coldwire.
How big is Coldwire?: Coldwire is 1 book, from 2025.

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