Books Like The Peripheral
If The Peripheral by William Gibson 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.
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
Failsafe
Mich Solo
"A smart, edgy, and crisply paced cyberthriller that effortlessly blends its big themes with explosive action."— Kirkus Reviews Nathan Carter has a steady career, a marriage of twenty years, and a run of good luck he's never thought to question. When a work AI refuses a simple command and a stranger tells him his life has been managed, the surface cracks. What's underneath is impossible to unsee, and Nathan has a choice to make: accept the life he was handed, or risk everything to live a life of his own. "Emotional depth of this sort isn't always a part of dystopian fiction... executed so deftly in a punchy and no-nonsense style." — Kirkus Reviews A near-future literary thriller about free will, identity, and the cost of knowing who you really are. For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro, Ted Chiang, and Blake Crouch.
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