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Books like Mirador: 9 series to read next

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

Mirador is 3 books, 2016–2018.

“Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections.”
from the catalogue description of Bluescreen

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Sprawl Trilogy
The Thousandth Floor
Blade Runner Universe
Bridge Trilogy
Halting State
Hardwired
Ready Player One
BZRK
The Handmaid's Tale

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

Cyberpunk and science fiction, tense and dark in tone, about virtual reality and artificial intelligence, 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 →

The Thousandth FloorSeries

seriesKatharine McGee3 books2016

Dystopia.

“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 →

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

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

About robots and identity.

“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

Science fiction and cyberpunk, set in near future and big city.

“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 →

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 →

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 →

Ready Player OneSeries

seriesErnest Cline & Andy Weir3 books2011

Dystopia, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in virtual world.

“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 →

BZRKSeries

seriesMichael Grant3 books2012

About nanotechnology and totalitarianism.

“On one side Charles and Benjamin Armstrong, owners of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation have a goal to turn the world into their version of utopia.”
from the catalogue description
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with BZRK →

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

seriesMargaret Atwood3 books1985

Dystopia, 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 →

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 Mirador?: Sprawl Trilogy — the closest match to Mirador on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Mirador?: Bluescreen. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Mirador.
How big is Mirador?: Mirador is 3 books, 2016–2018.

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