If what hooked you was Joe Bishop’s constant back-and-forth with the beer‑loving, insufferably smug AI “Skippy” while humans get yanked into Ruhar/Kristang politics, you’ll eat up the razor‑sharp wit in The Android’s Dream. A minor diplomatic incident (involving… well, a fart) spirals into a galaxy‑spanning mess, and hacker‑hero Harry Creek has to keep a rare sheep—and Earth’s fate—out of alien hands. It’s the same blend of laugh‑out‑loud dialogue, bureaucratic chaos, and big‑stakes alien maneuvering you loved—just with Scalzi’s trademark comic snap.

If you enjoyed the way Joe and his crew, riding a captured starship with Skippy’s ‘magic’ assists, had to outfox superior Ruhar/Kristang forces, Dauntless delivers that same white‑knuckle, tactical ride. Captain “Black Jack” Geary wakes up a legend and must shepherd a battered fleet across hostile space, fighting smarter instead of harder. The fleet actions have the punch of those Columbus Day skirmishes, and the constant “how do we survive the next jump?” tension feels right at home.

If Joe Bishop’s chatty, sardonic first‑person narration pulled you through firefights, alien first contacts, and jaw‑drop reveals, Old Man’s War offers a similarly personable voice in John Perry. You’ll ride along as Perry joins the Colonial Defense Forces, wakes up in a rebuilt body, and learns the brutal rules of alien war. It’s the same close‑up, you‑are‑there perspective that made Joe’s raids, starship theft, and Skippy‑assisted gambits so fun to inhabit.

If Skippy’s godlike hacks and ‘hold my beer’ solutions to impossible problems were your jam—like snatching a starship and threading it through enemy space—The Quantum Magician gives you Belisarius Arjona, a genetically‑tuned con artist who drops into a savant trance to bend physics and people to his schemes. The caper to move a fleet through a forbidden wormhole, the baroque factions (including the zealously engineered Puppets), and the cascade of clever twists scratch the same “technology-as-miracle” itch.

If the brisk pace of Joe and Skippy’s planet‑hopping, on‑the‑fly fixes—ducking Ruhar here, outwitting Kristang there—kept you flipping pages, We Are Legion (We Are Bob) hits the same tempo. Software‑uploaded Bob Johansson becomes a self‑replicating probe, cloning new Bobs (Riker! Homer!) as he races to colonize worlds, outmaneuver rivals, and face an existential alien threat. The quick wit, constant tinkering, and sprint from crisis to solution feel like Columbus Day’s momentum turned up to eleven.