You enjoyed how Schneider’s anthology walks through transporter puzzles, brains-in-vats, and the simulation argument; Anathem lets you live inside that seminar. Following Fraa Erasmas and his fellow avout through cloistered debates, "Saunt" lectures, and ultimately first contact with an otherworldly intelligence, you’ll get the same heady mix of metaphysics and cosmology—only now embedded in a sweeping narrative that makes questions about minds and reality feel urgent and concrete.

If the anthology’s teleportation/duplication cases and AI personhood debates grabbed you, Egan’s Permutation City is the purest fictional stress test of those ideas. You’ll follow Paul Durham as he spins up software selves, challenges what counts as a "real" observer with the Dust Theory, and collides with Maria Deluca’s virtual creation—pushing the same questions about continuity, rights, and reality that the book raises to mind-bending extremes.

When the anthology dissects the grandfather paradox, causal loops, and self-consistency, you get the conceptual thrill of time travel made logical. Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself takes Daniel Eakins and a time belt through diaries, meetings with multiple versions of himself, and increasingly tangled loops—dramatizing exactly the paradoxes and identity puzzles you enjoyed working through in the book.

If you liked how the anthology uses science fiction to think through moral frameworks—AI ethics, personhood, and social design—The Dispossessed gives you that depth on a societal scale. Following Shevek between Anarres and Urras, you’ll see competing visions of freedom, obligation, and progress tested through concrete lives and institutions, much like the book’s thought experiments but anchored in culture and consequence.

The anthology’s sections on consciousness, zombies, and the Chinese Room set you up perfectly for Blindsight. A posthuman crew—Siri Keeton, Susan James, and others aboard the Theseus—encounters an alien entity that may be hyperintelligent yet mindless. The mission’s brutal, data-driven revelations press the same questions you wrestled with about what consciousness is for, and whether intelligence requires a subjective inner life.