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Books like Last Reality: 9 series to read next

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

Last Reality is 3 books, 2017–2019.

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Ready Player One
Otherland
The Mortality Doctrine
Sprawl Trilogy
Halting State
Avatar Chronicles
Richard Forthrast
Web
Tripods

Ready Player OneSeries

seriesErnest Cline & Andy Weir3 books2011

Dystopia, 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 →

OtherlandSeries

seriesTad Williams6 books1996

“Otherland is a science fiction tetralogy by American writer Tad Williams, published between 1996 and 2001.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with City of Golden Shadow →

The Mortality DoctrineSeries

seriesJames Dashner4 books2013

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

“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 →

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

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 →

Halting StateSeries

seriesCharles Stross2 books2007

About surveillance.

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

Start with Halting State →

Avatar ChroniclesSeries

seriesConor Kostick3 books2004

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

Start with Epic →

Richard ForthrastSeries

seriesNeal Stephenson2 books2011

Set in north america.

“The sequel Fall; or, Dodge in Hell shifts registers entirely, following Richard's digitally preserved mind after death into an afterlife simulation built from his scanned brain.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Reamde →

WebSeries

seriesEric Brown, Maggie Furey, Stephen Baxter, Graham Joyce, James Lovegrove, Ken MacLeod, Pat Cadigan, Peter F. Hamilton & Stephen Bowkett14 books1997

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

“All over the world the celebrations are in full swing.”
from the catalogue description of Gulliverzone
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Gulliverzone →

TripodsSeries

seriesJohn Christopher4 books1967

Post-apocalyptic and alien invasion, about aliens and rebellion and revolution.

“The first two books were the basis of a science fiction TV series, produced in the United Kingdom in the 1980s.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with When the Tripods Came →

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 Last Reality?: Ready Player One — the closest match to Last Reality on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Last Reality?: Otherworld. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Last Reality.
How big is Last Reality?: Last Reality is 3 books, 2017–2019.

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