Books like Neuromancer, according to Reddit

The read-alike list

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

#1

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

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

384 shared threads · mixed

#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.

439 shared threads · mixed

#3

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.

397 shared threads · mixed

#4

Blindsight

Peter Watts

A crew of post-human specialists meets first contact and reports back that consciousness might be what's holding humanity back.

346 shared threads · praised

#5

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.

255 shared threads · praised

#6

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.

227 shared threads · praised

#7

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.

225 shared threads · mixed

#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.

273 shared threads · mixed

#9

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.

303 shared threads · praised

#10

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.

231 shared threads · panned

#11

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Earth gets demolished for a hyperspace bypass minutes after a man's house is demolished for a road, and his best friend turns out to be an alien with a towel.

153 shared threads · praised

#12

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.

209 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 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson — 384 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
2. #2 Hyperion by Dan Simmons — 439 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
3. #3 Dune by Frank Herbert — 397 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
4. #4 Blindsight by Peter Watts — 346 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
5. #5 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin — 255 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
6. #6 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card — 227 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
7. #7 The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin — 225 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
8. #8 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells — 273 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
9. #9 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky — 303 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
10. #10 The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin — 231 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
11. #11 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams — 153 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF
12. #12 The Martian by Andy Weir — 209 shared threads , mostly in r/printSF