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Books like Ware: 9 series to read next

Ware is science fiction and cyberpunk, about artificial intelligence and robots, set in near future. The 9 series below are ranked by how much of that they share — each card says which parts.

Ware is 5 books, 1982–2000.

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Blade Runner Universe
Sprawl Trilogy
Man Plus
Sunrise Alley
Otherland
Dogs of War (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
Ready Player One
A Clockwork Orange
Hardwired

Blade Runner UniverseSeries

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

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? →

Sprawl TrilogySeries

seriesWilliam Gibson & Terry Bisson10 books1981

Tense in tone, about virtual reality, 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 →

Man PlusSeries

seriesFrederik Pohl & Thomas T. Thomas2 books1976

Tense in tone, about space colonization, set in mars.

“Thomas T. Thomas wrote the sequel Mars Plus, continuing the story of the Martian colony years later.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Man Plus →

Sunrise AlleySeries

seriesCatherine Asaro2 books2004

Tense in tone, about survival.

“The man said is name was Turner Pascal - but Pascal was dead, killed in a car wreck.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Sunrise Alley →

OtherlandSeries

seriesTad Williams6 books1996

Tense in tone, about virtual reality, set in virtual world.

“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 →

Dogs of War (Adrian Tchaikovsky)Series

seriesAdrian Tchaikovsky3 books2017

Science fiction and cyberpunk, set in near future and our world.

“Dogs of War, Bear Head, and Bee Speaker widen from that first book's battlefield into questions of AI rights, corporate power, and non-human consciousness across a near-future Earth.”
from the catalogue description

Start with Dogs of War →

Ready Player OneSeries

seriesErnest Cline & Andy Weir3 books2011

Dystopia, about virtual reality and 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 →

A Clockwork OrangeSeries

seriesAnthony Burgess4 books1962

Dystopia, about totalitarianism, set in big city.

“After his crimes catch up with him, Alex is made the subject of a controversial state program meant to forcibly reform his behavior, and the novel uses his ordeal to question whether imposed goodness is worth the loss of free will.”
from the catalogue description

Start with A Clockwork Orange →

HardwiredSeries

seriesWalter Jon Williams3 books1986

Tense in tone.

“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 →

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 Ware?: Blade Runner Universe — the closest match to Ware on what it is about, not on what sells.
Where do I start with Ware?: Software. It is the entry the catalogue recommends for Ware.
How big is Ware?: Ware is 5 books, 1982–2000.

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