If you were hooked by Takeshi Kovacs tracing the truth behind Laurens Bancroft’s supposed “suicide,” you’ll love the way When Gravity Fails drops Marîd Audran into a brutal, neon-lit manhunt. Like Kovacs navigating Bay City’s brothels and the AI-run Hendrix Hotel, Audran prowls the Budayeen’s alleys and bars, using illicit neural upgrades and black-market personality mods to chase a serial killer who keeps swapping identities. It’s the same gritty, twisty detective engine—just as punchy, just as dangerous.

If the stack-and-sleeve quandaries in Altered Carbon—from Kovacs’s resleeving to the ethics of double-sleeving and Bancroft’s backup-induced amnesia—lit you up, Permutation City goes even deeper. Egan’s digital “Copies” wrestle with whether continuity of consciousness survives substrate swaps, mirroring Kovacs’s existential shocks whenever his mind lands in a new body. It’s the same mind-bending question that haunts Kovacs and Quellcrist’s philosophy—pushed to its most dazzling, unsettling extreme.

If the blood-and-chrome vibe of Bay City—yakuza enforcers, brothel raids like “Head in the Clouds,” and back-alley resleeves—worked for you, Neuromancer delivers that same knife’s-edge aesthetic. Case and Molly navigate Chiba City’s alleys and corporate labyrinths with the same lethal urgency Kovacs brings to his Envoy tactics, while shadowy powers pull strings from above—much like the Meths. It’s the quintessential hit of cyberpunk grime and adrenaline.

If Kovacs’s Envoy cool—his ruthless choices with Ortega, his psychological feints, his readiness to break bodies and rules alike—was your jam, The Quantum Thief offers Jean le Flambeur, a brilliant thief sprung from a game-theoretic prison to pull impossible cons across the Solar System. Like Kovacs juggling Meth agendas and Envoy conditioning, Jean navigates opaque power structures and privacy tech while a tenacious detective closes in. It’s sleek, cerebral, and gloriously anti-heroic.

If the Aerium’s Meth palaces towering over Bay City’s streets—and the way Bancroft’s wealth lets him rewrite consequences—stuck with you, The Space Between Worlds hits the same nerve. Cara, like Kovacs, is exploited by elites who weaponize technology; her multiverse travel only works because her other selves are dead, turning tech into a tool for class control as stark as stacks and backups. It’s a sharp, propulsive look at power, privilege, and survival.