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books like Neuromancer
A curated list of cyberpunk and postmodern sci-fi novels with themes of hacking, AI, dystopia, and high-tech low-life aesthetics similar to William Gibson's Neuromancer.
Books Like Neuromancer
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Snow Crash
A pizza-delivering hacker stumbles upon a digital virus that also infects the human mind.
Blends sharp satire, linguistics, and virtual reality with breakneck pacing akin to Neuromancer.
Altered Carbon
In a future where consciousness can be transferred between bodies, a mercenary investigates a wealthy man’s death.
Shares Neuromancer’s noir tone, body-swapping tech, and critiques of immortality and class.
Mona Lisa Overdrive
Interweaving stories of hackers, AIs, and street kids converging on a digital singularity.
Gibson’s own follow-up to Neuromancer; same universe, dense prose, and visionary tech.
The Diamond Age
A young girl gains access to an advanced interactive book that shapes her destiny in a fractured future.
Explores information as power and education as revolution, echoing Neuromancer’s tech determinism.
Count Zero
A sequel to Neuromancer following new characters entangled with emergent AIs and corporate espionage.
Direct continuation of Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy with similar tone and themes.
Software
An aging programmer agrees to have his mind uploaded into a robot body to continue his work.
Darkly comic take on immortality and machine consciousness, resonant with Neuromancer’s tech dread.
Reamde
Cybercriminals, hackers, and terrorists collide over a virus in a massively multiplayer online game.
Modern thriller with Neuromancer-like global intrigue and digital subcultures.
Synners
Artists and engineers push neural tech to its limits, creating viral artificial minds.
William Gibson meets Pat Cadigan—explores creation, control, and collapse of digital life.
Heavy Weather
Storm chasers in a climate-ravaged future encounter a sentient AI hiding in data streams.
Combines ecological collapse with rogue AI, evoking Neuromancer’s sense of hidden systems.
Permutation City
Uploaded human copies explore identity and existence in self-modifying simulations.
Philosophical depth on consciousness and simulation parallels Neuromancer’s AI themes.
Idoru
A journalist investigates a rock star’s plan to marry a digital AI constructed from media fragments.
Gibson again blending celebrity, technology, and the blurring line between real and virtual.
Ghost in the Shell
A cyborg investigator confronts a sentient AI known as the Puppet Master in a high-tech future.
Matches Neuromancer’s fusion of philosophy, cybernetics, and political intrigue.
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