If the essays on episodes like “San Junipero,” “Be Right Back,” and “White Christmas” hooked you on the show’s brainy what-ifs, you’ll love how Exhalation turns similar thought experiments into unforgettable stories. “The Lifecycle of Software Objects” wrestles with the rights of digital beings much like the cloned “cookies” in “White Christmas” or the trapped avatars in “USS Callister,” while “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom” explores branching-timeline gadgets with the moral complexity of “Bandersnatch.” It’s the same blend of elegant ideas and ethical unease you came for—now distilled into crystalline fiction.

If the book’s take on “Nosedive” (social credit pressure) and “Hated in the Nation” (mob justice amplified by tech) grabbed you, The Circle will feel chillingly familiar. Following Mae Holland as she rises inside a gleaming tech giant, you’ll see TruYou’s total-identity system, SeeChange’s ubiquitous cameras, and those seductive slogans (“Secrets are Lies”) push transparency to coercion—the same ethical slope that Black Mirror dissects when a rating or a hashtag becomes a cudgel.

If the book’s discussions of “White Bear” (punishment as spectacle) and “Men Against Fire” (engineered dehumanization) drew you to the show’s darkest edge, Never Let Me Go delivers that same quiet, relentless ache. Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy grow up only to realize they exist for organ donation—a premise as morally razor‑sharp as any Black Mirror episode, but rendered with devastating restraint that lingers long after the final page.

If you appreciated how the essays hop from “Nosedive” to “Be Right Back” to “Black Museum,” weighing a new dilemma each time, this collection offers that same anthology thrill. “The Perfect Match” shows an assistant AI (Tilly) that shapes your choices à la Black Mirror’s algorithmic gatekeepers; “Simulacrum” raises consent questions around recorded memories; and “The Man Who Ended History” interrogates remembrance and justice with the severity you’d expect after “Hated in the Nation.” Each story is a fresh, incisive moral puzzle.

If the essays’ sharp dives into the ethics behind “White Christmas,” “Metalhead,” and “Be Right Back” excited you, Life 3.0 gives you a wider, deeper toolkit. Tegmark lays out concrete AI “aftermath scenarios,” control and alignment problems, and governance choices that echo the show’s core dilemmas—whether it’s autonomous weapons gone feral like “Metalhead” or sentient digital minds trapped like the “cookies” in “White Christmas.” It’s the same intellectual high, expanded to the real world.