Books Like Altered Carbon
If Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan worked for you, these indie books offer a similar reading experience. The comparison comes from AI analysis of each full manuscript (pacing, tone, tropes, and more), not from marketing copy.
RESET
Elijah Canfield
Systems analyst Alex Mercer begins noticing impossible things—visual distortions no one else can see, market fluctuations that precede public knowledge, a pressure building behind his eyes. As his mother's condition deteriorates in the hospital and unexplained phenomena accumulate across global infrastructure, Alex finds himself caught between two unbearable truths: something vast is orchestrating reality's smallest details, and he may be the only one aware it's happening. RESET unfolds as a slow, deliberate descent into a conspiracy that operates not through violence but through invisible recalibration, forcing Alex to confront what it costs to perceive a truth no system was designed for him to see.
Hard SF
The Malfunction
Orval Wax
Lance is a LUV-U 69 companion droid designed for a single purpose — to satisfy his owner's sensual needs. But when a routine upgrade goes too far, Lance is downloaded with enough intelligence and free will to crack the lid on a very dangerous can of worms. Now the world’s most advanced humanoid robot has escaped his owner, outsmarted his own programming, and set out on a mysterious private mission. Only one person can stop him — AWOL Retentions Agent Charlie Bear Claw, a hunter with a troubled past and a savage talent for tracking rogue machines and annihilating them. In Book One of The Deilonium Trilogy, a primitive hunter pursues his high-tech prey in a deadly game of cat and mouse, only to discover a far greater threat quietly eroding the very fabric of their world. As the pair draws closer to their showdown, both man and mandroid come to realize they are ultimately at war with the same maniacal enemy — an enemy that plans to destroy civilization as we know it.
Hard SF
The Skip Authority
Matt Geers
Every skip leaves a trace. So does a killer. Humanity conquered distance with the skip. The Central Authority made sure no one could use it without permission. Senior Skipper Griffin Fews has spent his career enforcing those rules. When he's paired with junior skipper MJ Catebury, he expects another assignment aboard a transport vessel, not a hunt for a killer. Then bodies begin turning up at the ship's ports of call. Different worlds. Different victims. No obvious connection. Except the ship. Someone aboard is using the vast distances between stops as the perfect cover, killing during shore leave and disappearing back among the passengers and crew before anyone realizes the murders are connected. Griffin and MJ must find the killer before the next stop becomes another crime scene. But the deeper they dig, the more disturbing the pattern becomes, and the closer they get to someone who has been learning how to kill for a very long time. In a civilization where almost anyone can cross millions of miles in an instant, catching a murderer isn't about figuring out where they went. It's figuring out who came with you. SKIP AUTHORITY is a fast-paced science-fiction murder thriller about a serial killer hiding in plain sight, and the two Skippers who may be the only people standing between her and the next victim.
Space Opera
No Room to Live
Kyle Fields
First Contact was an Accident. After surviving a near midair collision, airline pilot Kup Winston rescues the commander of a crippled alien spacecraft and uncovers a conspiracy that will turn Earth into a prison colony for hundreds of thousands of violent alien convicts. Now he's being hunted. Only he can stop Earth from becoming someone else's prison. A gripping first-contact techno-thriller blending realistic aviation, compelling science, and relentless suspense.
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