If you were captivated by the rigorous science and mind-bending biotechnology in Blood Music, you'll be enthralled by Blindsight. Watts crafts a story where a team of scientists—including the uniquely altered Siri Keeton—are sent to investigate an incomprehensible alien presence at the edge of the solar system. The novel’s speculative biology and exploration of consciousness evoke the same awe and sense of possibility found in Bear’s nanotechnological revolution.

Did you enjoy how Blood Music asked profound questions about the nature of consciousness and what it means to be alive? Anathem takes you even deeper, following Fraa Erasmus and his cloistered peers as they confront world-altering discoveries that force them to grapple with philosophy, mathematics, and parallel worlds. The novel’s ambitious intellectual scope will challenge and reward you in much the same way as Bear’s ideas.

If the apocalyptic spread and transformation in Blood Music thrilled you, The Girl With All the Gifts offers a similarly harrowing vision. As humanity is upended by a fungal infection, young Melanie—both victim and hope—navigates a world in collapse. The book’s chilling depiction of a species-wide metamorphosis and its emotional resonance echo the best of Bear’s dystopian storytelling.

Did the radical shifts and unforeseen consequences in Blood Music keep you on your toes? The Three-Body Problem delivers twists of cosmic scale as physicist Ye Wenjie and nanomaterials researcher Wang Miao find themselves at the center of an Earth-shattering scientific mystery. The novel’s revelations about alien contact and the fabric of reality will surprise and challenge you just as Bear’s nanotech apocalypse did.

If you found the intellectual puzzles and big questions of identity and existence in Blood Music fascinating, Permutation City will blow your mind. Egan’s novel centers on Paul Durham’s quest to push digital consciousness beyond the limits of physical reality, raising dizzying questions about what it means to be real. The philosophical depth and speculative daring will leave you thinking long after you finish.