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Books like Skylar Cruz: 9 series to read next

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

Skylar Cruz is 3 books, 2016–2017.

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

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Ready Player One
Otherland
Sprawl Trilogy
The Mortality Doctrine
Blade Runner Universe
Last Reality
Divergent
Coldwire
Maze Runner

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 →

OtherlandSeries

seriesTad Williams6 books1996

About artificial intelligence.

“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 →

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 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 →

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

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

About robots, set in big city.

“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? →

Last RealitySeries

seriesJason Segel & Kirsten Miller3 books2017

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

Start with Otherworld →

DivergentSeries

seriesVeronica Roth10 books2011

Set in north america and big city.

Start with The Transfer →

ColdwireSeries

seriesChloe Gong1 book2025

About class conflict and totalitarianism.

“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

Start with Coldwire →

Maze RunnerSeries

seriesJames Dashner11 books2009

Post-apocalyptic, about survival.

“A 16 year old boy awakens with amnesia in a community of other youths in the center of a maze, and realizes they must cooperate to escape.”
from the catalogue description of The Maze Runner
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with The Maze Runner →

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 Skylar Cruz?: Ready Player One — the closest match to Skylar Cruz on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Skylar Cruz?: Unplugged. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Skylar Cruz.
How big is Skylar Cruz?: Skylar Cruz is 3 books, 2016–2017.

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