I was recommending U.B.I.K by Phillip K. Dick to someone and said it kind of reminded me of Inception. Made me wonder if anyone can think of any other stories like it.
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Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson might be compared. Stephenson is a bit bombastic, but he is one of the OG Cyberpunk writers.
The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. There is time travel and causality gets bent a lot. It isn't at all obvious who the bad guys are or what they want. Realty gets very squishy in the middle of the series, though it all makes perfect sense after you know what is going on. It is a series that is good for re-reading with a lot of depth.
SPOILER SPACE; Look away now.
Snow Crash is about altered reality and an ancient memetic mind-virus that suborns peoples agency. You can become an enemy agent by hearing or seeing something, which then causes your brain to your biochemistry to make it contagious by blood contamination.
Hyperion is definitely one hell of a trip. Still haven't read Book 3&4. Need to change that.
Have that book in my “books to read” mountain. Sounds very interesting