If you were drawn to Marîd Audran's ethically complex investigations in When Gravity Fails, you'll love Lethem's Conrad Metcalf—a private eye operating in a hallucinatory, noir-inspired future where morality is slippery and everyone has something to hide. The protagonist's ambiguous motivations and the story's exploration of crime and corruption will feel right at home.

If the intricate, multicultural cityscape of Budayeen fascinated you in When Gravity Fails, you’ll be captivated by Miéville’s twin cities of Besźel and Ul Qoma. The meticulous worldbuilding blends noir mystery with a vividly realized, layered urban setting where the rules of society are as strange as any technology.

If you enjoyed the violent, noir-infused atmosphere and uncompromising tone of When Gravity Fails, Altered Carbon pushes those elements even further. Takeshi Kovacs navigates a brutal world of shifting identities, seedy underworlds, and graphic violence—all wrapped in a relentless, hard-boiled mystery.

If you appreciated the intimate focus on Marîd and his close circle within the Budayeen, Trouble and Her Friends offers a similarly close-knit, character-driven cyberpunk narrative. The novel intimately explores the lives of hackers Trouble and Cerise as they navigate both personal and communal loyalties in a marginalized digital underworld.

If you found the explorations of identity, culture, and social transformation in When Gravity Fails compelling, Schismatrix will intrigue you with its focus on the fractured, evolving human societies of the Shaper/Mechanist universe. The novel delves into how technology and social dynamics reshape what it means to be human.