Decode your taste →

Books like We Are Legion

We Are Legion by Dennis E. Taylor reads as humorous, adventurous. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

What We Are Legion is like to read

A breezy, geek-friendly sci-fi adventure: engineer-turned-AI-probe narrates his predicament with dry wit while dodging rival nations and alien threats. Short scenes and a chatty first-person voice keep it moving fast. Best for: readers who want accessible, humor-tinged hard-ish SF with a likable everyman narrator.

Project Hail Mary cover
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir · 2021
An amnesiac scientist wakes alone in deep space and problem-solves his way toward saving humanity, one giddy eureka at a time.
creepy, not gorycomplete story
The Martian cover
The Martian
Andy Weir · 2011
A relentlessly propulsive survival story told largely through log entries, where each engineering crisis is met with wisecracks and duct-taped ingenuity.
creepy, not gorycomplete story
Artificial Condition cover
Artificial Condition
Martha Wells · 2018
A short, propulsive AI-noir where a self-named 'Murderbot' investigates its own gap-riddled past alongside a snarky research transport — plot moves fast while the real interest is the narrator's uneasy self-inquiry.
mildly eeriedeep cut
For We Are Many cover
For We Are Many
Dennis E. Taylor · 2017
A multi-strand space-adventure following Bob and his self-replicating copies as they juggle a devastated Earth, a genocidal faction, and a newly discovered predator species — plot-forward and expansive in scope.
deep cut
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor cover
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Hank Green · 2020
A fast-talking, idea-dense sequel that mixes internet-culture satire with genuine anxiety about fame, technology, and what it means to be human.
deep cut
Redshirts cover
Redshirts
John Scalzi · 2012
A brisk, jokey metafictional romp that skewers Star Trek away-mission logic while giving its doomed crew a real shot at rewriting their fate.
mildly eeriecomplete storydeep cut
Recursion cover
Recursion
Blake Crouch · 2019
A high-concept sci-fi thriller braiding a detective's investigation with a neuroscientist's memory technology as reality itself begins to unravel.
creepy, not gorycomplete storydeep cut
Earth Girl cover
Earth Girl
Janet Edwards · 2012
Shares the human thread
On The Steel Breeze cover
On The Steel Breeze
Alastair Reynolds · 2013
A far-future space opera following humanity's multi-generational journey across the galaxy while encountering alien life and confronting questions of species identity and survival.
deep cut
Columbus Day cover
Columbus Day
Craig Alanson · 2016
Shares the human thread
The Fourth Closet cover
The Fourth Closet
Scott Cawthon · 2021
A horror continuation of the Five Nights at Freddy's saga, pitched at fans of the games' animatronic dread and unresolved mysteries.
deep cut
Saturn's Children cover
Saturn's Children
Charles Stross · 2008
A brisk interplanetary chase thriller narrated by a synthetic 'geisha' android navigating a solar system run by other androids after humanity's extinction — fast, plot-driven, and
deep cut

About We Are Legion — what the genome says

Is We Are Legion a complete story or a cliffhanger?

The main arc resolves, with wider series threads left open.

How scary is We Are Legion?

Mildly eerie — tension without real scares.

Who is We Are Legion for?

readers who want accessible, humor-tinged hard-ish SF with a likable everyman narrator

Find your next read by its genome

Tell Novelome one book you love — get recommendations tuned to your taste, including the ones other sites never surface.

Start free →
More readalikes: Books like THE LET THEM THEORY · Books like EXTREME OWNERSHIP · Books like WINGS OF STARLIGHT · Books like DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK, EXPANDED EDITION · Books like I WILL TEACH YOU TO BE RICH, SECOND EDITION · Books like FAKE SKATING · Books like THE CREATIVE ACT · Books like IF ONLY I HAD TOLD HER