If the way Everfair rewrites Congo’s past—pitting Fabian Socialists and African American missionaries against Leopold’s atrocities while debating liberation—hooked you, you’ll be riveted by the Dutch Empire’s “clakkers” in The Mechanical. It delivers that same sharp, what‑if lens on empire and autonomy, as enslaved automata struggle for free will. The ethical fights over invention and control echo Everfair’s arguments in council halls and workshops, right down to the wrenching consequences of using technology to free—or bind—people.

Loved Everfair’s brass‑and‑steam ingenuity—from battlefield prosthetics to daring airship sorties—and its clash with colonial power? In 1912 Cairo, Agent Fatma el‑Sha’arawi investigates a djinn‑tinged conspiracy amid guilds, automata, and world diplomacy. The exuberant inventions and anti‑imperial undercurrent will scratch the same itch as watching Daisy Albin, Lisette Toutournier, and their comrades harness tech to defend a fragile utopia.

If the many‑voiced storytelling of Everfair—shifting among settlers, revolutionaries, and Congolese royals—pulled you in, you’ll relish the layered perspectives of The Dervish House. Six residents of an Istanbul block—traders, scholars, a boy with a toy robot—collide after a terror attack, threading nanotech, finance, and faith into one intricate picture. That same kaleidoscopic structure that made Everfair’s councils and skirmishes feel panoramic is on full display here.

If you admired how Everfair spans decades—from resistance to Leopold through the turmoil of World War I—this novel widens the lens to centuries. Following recurring souls through revolutions, scientific renaissances, and shifting empires, it offers the same patient, big‑canvas payoff: ideals forged in one era echo into the next, much as Everfair’s hard‑won compromises ripple beyond Daisy and Lisette’s moment.

If Everfair’s struggle to build a just nation under the shadow of European conquest gripped you, Baru’s calculated infiltration of the Masquerade will hit the same nerve. Watching her weaponize finance and policy against colonizers mirrors Everfair’s council‑room battles over treaties, trade, and survival—where every alliance, like those Daisy and Lisette broker, cuts both ways.