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Books like Dead Girls: 9 series to read next

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

Dead Girls is 5 books, 1992–2012.

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Sprawl Trilogy
Blade Runner Universe
Bridge Trilogy
A Clockwork Orange
Hardwired
Deadpan Allie
The Idlewild Trilogy
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
Dogs of War (Adrian Tchaikovsky)

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

Tense in tone, about artificial intelligence.

“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? →

Bridge TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson4 books1990

Set in north america.

“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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Start with Virtual Light →

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

Dystopia, challenging in tone, about totalitarianism.

“After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Clockwork Orange →

HardwiredSeries

seriesWalter Jon Williams3 books1986

Tense in tone.

“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 →

Deadpan AllieSeries

seriesPat Cadigan6 books1981

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

Start with The Pathosfinder →

The Idlewild TrilogySeries

seriesNick Sagan3 books2003

About survival.

Start with Idlewild →

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 →

Dogs of War (Adrian Tchaikovsky)Series

seriesAdrian Tchaikovsky3 books2017

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

“Dogs of War, Bear Head, and Bee Speaker widen from that first book's battlefield into questions of AI rights, corporate power, and non-human consciousness across a near-future Earth.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dogs of War →

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 Dead Girls?: Sprawl Trilogy — the closest match to Dead Girls on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Dead Girls?: Dead Girls. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Dead Girls.
How big is Dead Girls?: Dead Girls is 5 books, 1992–2012.

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