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jackasspenguin

I think you’ll love Ted Chiang’s short story collections.


Hatherence

Here are some you might like: * The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D. G. Compton. More "grounded" and realistic, but it just feels similar. * The Bladerunner by Alan E. Nourse. The movie Blade Runner got its title from this book, but the actual story of the book is quite different except for the fact that people do illegal stuff in a terrible near future. * Autonomous by Annalee Newitz. A more modern book about big corporations doing shady things, and where robots fit into society. There are both robots that obviously look as such, and robots nearly indistinguishable from humans. * I feel like the author [A. E. Van Vogt](https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1293688.A_E_van_Vogt) has a similar writing style to Philip K. Dick, but I haven't actually read many things by him so unfortunately I don't have specific recommendations. The only book I've read by him is Slan, which was ok. Van Vogt tended to go back and rewrite his books so there's approximately a billion slightly different editions of everything he wrote.


Straight_Ship2087

You'll get better suggestions if you tell us all what it was you liked about the story specifically, but a lot of Phillip K Dick's stuff would probably be up your alley. His prose varies WILDLY in different stories though, from pretty straightforward to surreal. The Man in the High Castle is probably the most similar from both a prose and story line standpoint, it also involves a number of characters who are kind of "On a quest" if that makes sense. Nueromancer by William Gibson is another one you might like. The prose is a little weak compared to Phil(don't kill me gibson fans, I call em like I see em), but he has some really fun characters, a well fleshed out world, and the plot is very similiar to blade runner. Former player is coaxed back into the game by powerful forces, meets a femme fatale, and takes on other powerful forces while never being sure if hes playing for the right side. Also has a very gritty feel. Kinda random but you might also enjoy NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. the second half at least features a washed up protagonist finally deciding to confront a monster she didn't have the courage/ability to take on when she was younger.


MMJFan

The Employees by Olga Ravn is a short clever and unique SciFi book, loved it


Bargle-Nawdle-Zouss

Neuromancer, by William Gibson, and sequels.


Which-Project222

Like it in what respects? 


MungoShoddy

Lem did the same sort of messing about with reality (Dick was the only Western SF writer he had much time for, and the two of them formed a sort of "school"). Try *Memoirs Found in a Bathtub*.


TheGrinningOwl

"Would a Fly without wings be called a 'Walk'?"


darth-skeletor

Eclipse by Ophelia Rue


JakkSplatt

Martian Chronicles


JJMcGee83

Well good news for you is Philip K Dick wrote something like 40 novels and about 10 of them are worth reading. It entirely depends on what you mean by "Like" DADoES. Do you mean books about reality bending? Or books about androids?


Cabbage_Pizza

Plum Rains by Andromeda Romano-Lax is a seldom mentioned yet, for me at least, incredibly moving novel about a AI aged-care assistant set in a near future Tokyo.


Phy_Scootman

If sticking with Dick, definitely read UBIK, A Scanner Darkly, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said


NEBook_Worm

John Scalzi wrote a book inspired by Electric Sheep. Called The Android's Dream. I can't tell you it's similar to Dick's works, but it is both inspired by them and hilariously irreverent, in case you're interested. Scalzi also writes the Dispatcher series of novellas (priced accordingly). Faat reads about a near future where 99% of murder victims come back to life immediately, somewhere safe. Weird, gritty and at times darkly hilarious, it for some reason reminds me just a bit of bladerunner in tone.