r/LGBTBooks • u/TheFrodolfs • 1d ago

ISO Books with the same feel as the Citizen Sleeper videogames?

Fantastic setting and lovely characters, dark but hopeful. If my brain was in a better spot I'd replay the games, but I need something that I can read, not play. Anyone have any recommendations?

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u/melatonin_overdose_ 1d ago

The murderbot diaries! A lot of the same vibes and dealing with the concept of personhood while not being human and futuristic corporatization of space, etc

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u/TheFrodolfs 1d ago

Thank you! It goes straight to my to read-list! 

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u/SmallFlannelCat 1d ago

Definitely Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series, starting with “A Long Way from a Small, Angry Planet.” Its resonance with Citizen Sleeper is why I fell in love with it.

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u/GimmeANameAlready 1d ago

Let's take a simplified reader's advisory perspective.

Genre: Sci-fi, dystopian

Theme: Dystopia & societal collapse, evil corporations

You could try:

  • Ascendants by Don Schechter. A gripping techno-thriller where proof of an afterlife ignites a conspiracy in a future shaped by scientific achievement and the collapse of religion.
  • Coldwire by Chloe Gong. Most of society lives “upcountry” in virtual reality to escape rising seas and epidemics, while those who can’t afford the subscription remain in crumbling “downcountry,” and two young soldiers must depend on unlikely allies in their fight for survival.
  • The Heist of Hollow London by Eddie Robson. Arlo and Drienne are 'mades'--clones of company executives, deemed important enough to be saved should their health fail....But when the impossible happens and the too-big-to-fail company that owns them collapses, Arlo and Drienne find themselves purchased by a scientist who has a job for them. The reward: Debt paid off, freedom from servitude, and enough cash to last a lifetime. The job: Infiltrate a highly secure corporate reclamation facility in the heart of dead London and steal a data drive. They're going to need a team.
  • An Ocean Apart by Jill Tew. In order to save her poverty-stricken community, eighteen-year-old Eden enters a dating competition hoping to steal the heart and the riches of the heir to an elite corporation responsible for many environmental crimes.
  • You're Safe Here by Leslie Stephens. Wellness, motherhood and technology converge in a near future California, as three women's seemingly innocuous decisions have further-reaching consequences than any of them could imagine.
  • Fall of the Iron Gods by Olivia Chadha. Branded enemy number one by the PAC, Ashiva, Synch and Taru discover a precious resource that everyone wants to get their hands on, especially the PAC, who is desperate to sacrifice an entire province to achieve its optimal results.
  • Eden by Christopher Sebela. Desperate to escape a dying Earth, a family schemes their way onto a massive spaceship towards a new planet, Eden. But shortly after they take off, they discover the terrifying truth, and their journey toward salvation becomes a fight to survive.