Books like Reamde
12 books with a reading profile close to Reamde by Neal Stephenson. Outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; a moderate read.
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Micro
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
In this technothriller, seven graduate students travel to Hawaii for jobs at Vin Drake’s cutting-edge biotech firm, Nanigen.
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Tom Clancy's Net Force
by Tom Clancy, Steve R. Pieczenik
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Set in the year 2010, the narrative follows Commander Alex Michaels as he takes control of Net Force, a specialized division of the FBI tasked with policing the internet.
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State of Fear
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Environmental lawyer Peter Evans becomes entangled in a global conspiracy when he discovers that a radical group is orchestrating catastrophic weather events to simulate the effects of climate change.
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4
The Kill Order
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · thriller, entertainment
Set thirteen years before the Glade, this prequel documents the immediate aftermath of the sun flares that scorched the Earth.
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By the Light of the Moon
by Dean Koontz
Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Dylan O'Conner, a young man, and Jilly Jarvis, a stand-up comedian, are two people who cross paths after a stranger injects them with a mysterious substance.
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The Swarm
Also outward-looking and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Off the coast of Norway, a new species of aggressive worms destroys methane hydrate deposits, destabilizing the continental shelf.
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Shadowfires
by Dean Koontz
Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Rachael Leben believes her abusive ex-husband, Eric, is dead after a violent traffic accident.
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The Running Man
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Set in a decaying 2025 where industrial pollution chokes the poor, the story follows Ben Richards, a desperate man who enters a lethal reality television program to fund medical care for his dying daughter.
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Maze Runner 02. Die Auserwählten - In der Brandwüste
Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Thomas and the surviving Gladers escape the Maze only to find the outside world scorched by solar flares and ravaged by the Flare, a brain-eating virus.
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Upgrade
by Blake Crouch
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Logan Ramsay is a genetic enforcement agent working in a future where gene editing is strictly illegal following a global famine caused by a failed experiment.
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Dry
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
In a sudden environmental collapse known as the Tap-Out, Southern California’s water supply is terminated, leaving millions in a lethal drought.
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Vox
Also clear-cut and escapist · thriller, entertainment
In a near-future United States, a radical religious group called the Pure Movement seizes political control and strips women of their rights.
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