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 nanovirus meant to uplift monkeys lands on spiders instead, and eight thousand years later the last human survivors arrive looking for a new Earth.

683 shared threads

#2

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

Seven pilgrims travel together to a planet that kills, each one carrying the private story of why they volunteered to go.

710 shared threads

#3

The Three-Body Problem

Liu Cixin

A disillusioned physicist's daughter answers a signal from another star and invites the invasion of Earth out of spite for humanity.

490 shared threads

#4

Dune

Frank Herbert

Paul Atreides survives his family's massacre on a desert planet and becomes the messiah the empire engineered him to be, then has to live with it.

522 shared threads

#5

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

A dying astronaut wakes up alone on a spaceship with amnesia, two corpses for company, and Earth's one shot at survival riding on him.

319 shared threads

#6

Neuromancer

William Gibson

A washed-up hacker gets his nervous system rebuilt for one last job, in a world Gibson invented before the internet existed to copy it.

346 shared threads

#7

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

A human envoy crosses a glacier on foot with the one alien on the planet capable of ambisexuality, and neither of them trusts the other yet.

350 shared threads

#8

All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries)

Martha Wells

A security android with no interest in gender, romance, or heroics just wants to watch its shows, and ends up saving its clients from a conspiracy anyway.

383 shared threads

#9

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

A physicist from an anarchist moon travels to the capitalist planet his people fled, carrying a theory of time that could unite both worlds or arm one of them.

296 shared threads

#10

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card

A child prodigy recruited into Battle School at six ends up commanding real war fleets, believing until the end that it's all just a simulation.

293 shared threads

#11

The Martian

Andy Weir

A botanist gets left for dead on Mars after a dust storm and has to grow his own food to survive until the next mission arrives, years later.

296 shared threads

#12

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for the Mafia, moonlights as a hacker-samurai, and stumbles into a virus that infects minds instead of computers.

261 shared threads

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