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Books like Warcross: 9 series to read next

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

Warcross is 2 books, 2017–2018.

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Ready Player One
Sprawl Trilogy
The Mortality Doctrine
Otherland
Halting State
Richard Forthrast
Avatar Chronicles
BZRK
Bridge Trilogy

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 →

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

Dark in tone, 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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Avatar ChroniclesSeries

seriesConor Kostick3 books2004

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

Start with Epic →

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 →

Bridge TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson4 books1990

Set in big city and north america.

“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
Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0

Start with Virtual Light →

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 Warcross?: Ready Player One — the closest match to Warcross on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Warcross?: Warcross. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Warcross.
How big is Warcross?: Warcross is 2 books, 2017–2018.

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