Books like Islands in the Net

Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling reads as gritty, speculative. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Hardwired

Walter Jon Williams · 1986

Both explore cybernetics & corporate espionage

70% genome match

Mirrorshades - Una Antologia Ciberpunk

Bruce Sterling · 1986

Both explore cybernetics

67% genome match

Koukaku Kidoutai

Masamune Shirow · 1995

Both explore cybernetics

67% genome match

Daemon

Daniel Suarez · 2009

Same sci-fi feel

54% genome match

Distrust that particular flavor

William Gibson · 2012

Same sci-fi feel

41% genome match

Little Brother

Cory Doctorow · 2008

Same sci-fi feel

52% genome match

The Turing option

Harry Harrison · 1992

Same sci-fi feel

57% genome match

Software (Ware Tetralogy #1)

Rudy Rucker · 1982

Same sci-fi feel

46% genome match

The adolescence of P-1

Thomas J. Ryan · 1977

Same sci-fi feel

46% genome match

Infomocracy

Malka Older · 2016

Same sci-fi feel

57% genome match

Darwin among the machines

George Dyson · 1997

Both explore cybernetics

59% genome match

The Singularity Is Near

Ray Kurzweil · 2005

Same sci-fi feel

54% genome match