If you were fascinated by the nightmarish, hallucinatory cityscapes of Dr. Adder, you'll be pulled into the bizarre, vividly realized neighborhoods of Only Forward. Smith's novel offers an equally immersive and unsettling world—where each district is shaped by the obsessions of its inhabitants and reality itself bends to the city’s psychological logic. You’ll relish the inventive, disorienting sense of place as much as you did in Jeter’s Los Angeles.

If the ambiguous ethics and antiheroic tendencies of Dr. Adder himself drew you in, you'll find Takeshi Kovacs in Altered Carbon equally compelling. Kovacs navigates a brutal, future society where the lines between right and wrong are blurred, and personal codes of conduct are constantly tested. Like Dr. Adder, Kovacs is both a product of—and a rebel against—a corrupt world.

If you appreciated the psychological intensity and fractured, disturbing visions in Dr. Adder, you’ll be fascinated by The Atrocity Exhibition. Ballard’s book is a surreal, nonlinear exploration of trauma and obsession, filled with imagery as unsettling and provocative as Jeter’s, and delving deeply into the mental unraveling of its protagonist.

If the grim, chaotic atmosphere and graphic violence of Dr. Adder stuck with you, A Scanner Darkly offers a similar descent into paranoia and self-destruction. Through Bob Arctor’s tangled existence as a narcotics agent and addict, Dick weaves a dark, gritty narrative that’s both emotionally raw and saturated with the kind of bleak urban decay you found so compelling in Jeter’s work.

If you enjoyed the wild, unpredictable shifts in Dr. Adder’s narrative, you’ll love the breakneck pace and constant surprises in Snow Crash. Hiro Protagonist’s journey through a hyperviolent, anarchic near-future America is full of shocking developments, bizarre characters, and mind-bending twists that keep you guessing until the very end.