Books like Blindsight, according to Reddit

The read-alike list

Ranked by co-mention strength — how often each book shares a thread with Blindsight, normalized so ubiquitous books don't dominate.

#1

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

A terraforming experiment goes wrong, a nanovirus lands on spiders instead of monkeys, and evolution builds a civilization nobody planned for.

683 shared threads · praised

#2

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

Seven pilgrims journey toward a monster that grants one wish and kills everyone else, and each tells the story of why they came.

710 shared threads · mixed

#3

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin

A Chinese radio astronomer's decades-old reply to an alien signal puts Earth on a collision course with an invasion fleet centuries out.

490 shared threads · panned

#4

Dune

Frank Herbert

A duke's son survives his family's betrayal on a desert planet and becomes the prophet who leads its people to war.

522 shared threads · mixed

#5

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

A high-school teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of how he got there and one job left: save Earth.

319 shared threads · praised

#6

Neuromancer

William Gibson

A burned-out hacker banned from cyberspace takes one last job to breach the AI that might already own a piece of him.

346 shared threads · praised

#7

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

An envoy is sent alone to a planet where everyone is genderless most of the month, and he has to unlearn who he assumes is in charge.

350 shared threads · praised

#8

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries)

Martha Wells

A security robot hacks its own governor module, gains free will, and spends its days streaming soap operas instead of killing anyone.

383 shared threads · mixed

#9

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

A physicist from an anarchist moon colony travels to the wealthy world that exiled his people, carrying a theory that could reunite them or arm their enemies.

296 shared threads · mixed

#10

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

A six-year-old is drafted into a war academy that trains him to command a fleet, and he doesn't find out what he actually did until it's over.

293 shared threads · praised

#11

The Martian

Andy Weir

A botanist gets left for dead on Mars and has to grow food on a planet that wants him gone, one duct-taped fix at a time.

296 shared threads · mixed

#12

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

A pizza-delivery samurai and a skateboard courier chase a mind-hacking virus through a franchised, corporate America.

261 shared threads · mixed

The overlap, in numbers

Where each pairing actually shows up. Click through for the full Reddit verdict on each book.

1. #1 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky — 683 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
2. #2 Hyperion by Dan Simmons — 710 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
3. #3 The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin — 490 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
4. #4 Dune by Frank Herbert — 522 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
5. #5 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir — 319 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
6. #6 Neuromancer by William Gibson — 346 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
7. #7 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin — 350 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
8. #8 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells — 383 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
9. #9 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin — 296 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
10. #10 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card — 293 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
11. #11 The Martian by Andy Weir — 296 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
12. #12 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson — 261 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF