If you loved following Mike’s eidetic-mind sleuthing as he audits the desert lab and picks apart the folding-space “Door,” you’ll click with the white‑knuckle, procedural drive of The Andromeda Strain. Crichton’s team attacks an alien biohazard with the same methodical intensity and escalating urgency you felt as the anomalies around the Door started stacking up—and every discovery tightens the screws.

Remember how the “teleportation” demo in The Fold spirals into something far darker—right down to the breach and the things that shouldn’t exist? The Gone World delivers that same gearshift, as an investigator chases a tech phenomenon that keeps widening into cosmic-scale horror. It races forward with the same momentum you felt once the Door’s true nature came to light.

If the moment in The Fold when the Door is revealed to be something other than “simple” teleportation gave you chills, Dark Matter will scratch that itch. Crouch builds a sleek mystery around cutting‑edge tech, then upends it with a mid‑book revelation that reframes everything—just like when Mike realizes the project hasn’t been moving objects the way everyone thinks.

You watched the Albuquerque Door feel miraculous—right up until the loopholes and side effects started showing teeth. The Punch Escrow plays in that same sandbox: consumer teleportation looks seamless, but one trip exposes how the tech really works and what it does to the person who steps through. It’s that slick, science-as-magic vibe with the same unsettling consequences you enjoyed unraveling with Mike.

If Mike’s dry quips and the wry back‑and‑forth in The Fold kept you grinning even as the Door grew scarier, The Kaiju Preservation Society brings that same playful voice to a parallel‑world monster ecosystem accessed through high‑weird science. It’s brisk, clever, and funny—balancing big, pulpy ideas with the kind of banter that made the lab scenes in The Fold so fun.