If Jack Holloway’s fast-talking banter, his prankish ingenuity (yes, including weaponizing Carl’s “button-pushing” habit), and the satirical skewering of ZaraCorp made you grin, you’ll love The Android’s Dream. It opens with an interstellar incident as ridiculous as any courtroom stunt in Fuzzy Nation, then spirals into a diplomatic/techno-legal caper packed with deadpan one-liners and audacious schemes. You get the same breezy momentum, gleeful twisting of bureaucratic rules, and a lead who can out-argue a boardroom as deftly as Jack dismantles corporate stonewalling in the sapience showdown.

If you were hooked by Jack Holloway’s slippery ethics—playing hardball with ZaraCorp one minute and championing the Fuzzies’ rights the next—meet Jean le Flambeur in The Quantum Thief. He’s a master thief trying to reclaim his past in a society built on privacy economies and cerebral games. Like Jack’s courtroom gambits and backfoot negotiations over sunstones and sapience, Jean moves through a world where cleverness, leverage, and nerve decide who wins. It’s sleek, audacious, and lets you root for a rule-bender who might just surprise you by choosing the higher road.

If the heart of Fuzzy Nation for you was watching scientists and lawyers wrestle with what makes the Fuzzies people—and seeing Jack and Isabel fight to have that recognized—then The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet will hit the same sweet spot. Aboard the Wayfarer, humans and aliens live, argue, and care for each other, probing culture and consent with the same compassion that underpins the sapience hearing. Where Fuzzy Nation builds to a legal recognition of personhood, this novel lets you live inside the everyday dignity, humor, and friction of cross-species community.

If you tore through Fuzzy Nation—from Jack’s strike and the sunstone discovery to the courtroom fireworks and corporate brinkmanship—Leviathan Wakes brings that same propulsive rush. Two protagonists chase a mystery that escalates from a single missing person to system-shaking consequences, with the kind of ticking-clock turns and “how will they outmaneuver this?” energy that powered Jack’s battles with ZaraCorp. It’s packed with reversals and big confrontations, but never loses the human stakes that made the Fuzzies’ fate matter.

If Jack Holloway’s first-person narration—wisecracks, contingency plans, and all—kept you glued to Fuzzy Nation, Mark Watney’s log entries in The Martian will feel like catnip. It swaps court filings for survival math, but the effect is the same: a charismatic problem-solver talking you through each trap and triumph. Where Jack spins legal traps to protect the Fuzzies, Watney hacks Mars itself to stay alive. Both voices make you feel like you’re right there inside the plan, grinning as another clever solution clicks into place.