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Books like Frank Carlucci: 9 series to read next

Frank Carlucci is science fiction and mystery & detective. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Frank Carlucci is 3 books, 1992–1997.

“Barnes&Noble: In the crumbling San Francisco of tomorrow, a former narcotics-squad cop is reluctantly drawn into the investigation of a serial killer's return.”
from the catalogue description of Destroying Angel

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Sprawl Trilogy
Blade Runner Universe
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
Hardwired
Bridge Trilogy
Lock In
Space Merchants
The Circle (Eggers)
The Synth Crisis

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

Cyberpunk, 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 →

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

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

Cyberpunk, 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? →

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 →

HardwiredSeries

seriesWalter Jon Williams3 books1986

Cyberpunk, set in 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 →

Bridge TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson4 books1990

Cyberpunk.

“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 →

Lock InSeries

seriesJohn Scalzi3 books2014

Police procedural, mysterious in tone.

“John Scalzi's series follows a rookie FBI agent investigating crimes that exploit this new class of disability and technology, across the novels Lock In and Head On plus the interstitial oral history Unlocked.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Lock In →

Space MerchantsSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth2 books1953

Dystopia, about class conflict, 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 Circle (Eggers)Series

seriesDave Eggers2 books2013

Dystopia, about totalitarianism.

“Dave Eggers's The Circle follows Mae's rise inside the company as she buys further and further into its ideology, at increasing cost to her own privacy and the people around her.”
from the catalogue description

Start with The Circle →

The Synth CrisisSeries

seriesGreg Dragon5 books2017

Cyberpunk, about robots.

“After a devastating war forced humans to rely on synths for survival, the two have learned to coexist peacefully.”
from the catalogue description of Dhata Mays

Start with Dhata Mays →

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 Frank Carlucci?: Sprawl Trilogy — the closest match to Frank Carlucci on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Frank Carlucci?: Destroying Angel. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Frank Carlucci.
How big is Frank Carlucci?: Frank Carlucci is 3 books, 1992–1997.

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