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Books like Virtual Kombat: 9 series to read next

Virtual Kombat is 3 books, 2012–2024.

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Ready Player One
Brave New World
Library of America P. K. Dick Collection
Sprawl Trilogy
Earthseed
Space Demons
The Mortality Doctrine
Rasmussem Corporation Games
Commonwealth

seriesErnest Cline & Andy Weir3 books2011

Adventurous in tone, about quests, set in virtual world and near future.

“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 →

Brave New WorldSeries

seriesAldous Huxley & H. A. Cartledge8 books1932

Dystopia, about class conflict, set in far future and otherworld.

“Some editions pair the novel with Huxley's own 1958 nonfiction essay collection, Brave New World Revisited, which reassesses the book's ideas rather than continuing its story.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Brave New World →

Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

seriesPhilip K. Dick9 books1962

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 →

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

Cyberpunk, about 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 →

EarthseedSeries

seriesOctavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, David Brame & John Jennings7 books1993

Dystopia, about survival, set in north america and near future.

“The two-book series was left unfinished at Butler's death; a planned third novel, Parable of the Trickster, was never completed.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Parable of the Sower →

Space DemonsSeries

seriesGillian Rubinstein & Richard Tulloch4 books1986

Set in our world and contemporary.

“Gillian Rubinstein's Space Demons follows a group of Australian schoolkids drawn into a mysterious video game that starts pulling them physically into its world, with consequences that follow them home.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Space Demons →

The Mortality DoctrineSeries

seriesJames Dashner4 books2013

Cyberpunk, tense in tone, set in virtual world and near future.

“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 →

Rasmussem Corporation GamesSeries

seriesVivian Vande Velde3 books1991

Set in virtual world and near future.

“User Unfriendly, Heir Apparent, and Deadly Pink share the same premise and company rather than a continuing cast or plot.”
from the catalogue description

Start with User Unfriendly →

CommonwealthUniverse

universe12 books2002

Space opera, set in far future.

“Step aboard the train at the Second Chance terminal and ride the wormhole to another star.”
from the catalogue description

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What should I read after Virtual Kombat?: Ready Player One — the closest match to Virtual Kombat on what it is about, not on what sells.
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How big is Virtual Kombat?: Virtual Kombat is 3 books, 2012–2024.

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