18 Top science fiction books like The Peripheral by William Gibson

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The Peripheral

By: William Gibson

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The New York Timesbestselling author of such "high-tech dystopian thriller[s]"* as Neuromancer and …

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Peripheral by William Gibson , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Dust (Silo, #3) by Hugh Howey

1. Dust (Silo, #3)

By: Hugh Howey

3.97

Format: 250 pages,

The much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy. In the aftermath of the uprising, the pe… read more

Similar categories in Hugh Howey's Dust (Silo, #3) book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

2. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

Similar categories in Peter Watts's Blindsight (Firefall, #1) book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

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3. The Peripheral

By: William Gibson

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The New York Timesbestselling author of such "high-tech dystopian thriller[s]"* as Neuromancer and … read more

Similar categories in William Gibson's The Peripheral book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • time travel
  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
Cover of The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) by Ken Liu, Liu Cixin

4. The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

4.08

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals in… read more

Similar categories in Ken Liu's The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"It’s easy to be led to the abyss."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

"Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

"Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

"A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything."

-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

5. Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)

By: Hugh Howey

4.22

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. It is for those who arrived… read more

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6. The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

By: Neal Stephenson

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson.… read more

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7. Shift (Shift, #1-3; Silo, #2)

By: Hugh Howey

2.00

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform… read more

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Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

8. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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9. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Translation State book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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10. Starter Villain

By: John Scalzi

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularl… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Starter Villain book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"So we’re like Spotify, but for evil."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Wait, is there a plot to take over the world with a giant laser?"

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"Dogs are the worst. They'll sell you out for a treat and a head pat."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

"DOGS ARE THE WORST. THEY’LL SELL YOU OUT FOR A TREAT AND A HEAD PAT."

-John Scalzi, Starter Villain

Cover of Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) by Alastair Reynolds

11. Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.36

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the king of modern space opera comes a new adventure in the Prefect Dreyfus series— Machine Ve… read more

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3) book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"A small request like that, who am I to turn it down? There is something you can do for me in return, though, especially now that you’re practically on our doorstep."

-Alastair Reynolds, Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

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12. The Terraformers

By: Annalee Newitz

3.37

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's The Terraformers book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

13. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

Cover of Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

14. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3) book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

Cover of Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) by John Scalzi

15. Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

By: John Scalzi

4.18

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human poten… read more

Similar categories in John Scalzi's Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6) book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6) by Martha Wells

16. Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

By: Martha Wells

4.31

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall. When M… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6) book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Tural left with the air of escaping before things got worse."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"The only thing worse than humans infantilizing bots was bots infantilizing themselves."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans so the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

"Humans do the "make it a question so it doesn't sound so bad" thing and it still sounds bad."

-Martha Wells, Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)

Cover of How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) by James S.A. Corey

17. How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.01

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

An astronaut’s interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhila… read more

Similar categories in James S.A. Corey's How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1) book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1) by Cory Doctorow

18. Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)

By: Cory Doctorow

3.90

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the wor… read more

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1) book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • cyberpunk
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields."

-Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)

Cover of Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) by M.R. Carey

19. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

By: M.R. Carey

4.17

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

 From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more

Similar categories in M.R. Carey's Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1) book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson

20. Termination Shock

By: Neal Stephenson

3.83

Format: 708 pages, Hardcover

A visionary technothriller about climate change. Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new nove… read more

Similar categories in Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction fantasy
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
Cover of Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) by Martha Wells

21. Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

By: Martha Wells

4.47

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

It calls itself Murderbot, but only when no one can hear. It worries about the fragile human cre… read more

Similar categories in Martha Wells's Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) book and William Gibson's The Peripheral

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"Ugh, emotions."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"So, you have a relationship with this transport."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"I'm a murderbot, I don't give a crap about boats."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

"I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups."

-Martha Wells, Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)

18 best-selling fiction books like The Peripheral by William Gibson

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Dust (Silo, #3)

Hugh Howey

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Peter Watts

4.01

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William Gibson

3.42

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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

Ken Liu , Liu Cixin

4.08

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Peter Watts

4.01

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Machine Vendetta (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, #3)

Alastair Reynolds

4.36

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Europa Deep

Gary Gibson

4.17

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Cory Doctorow

4.13

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