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As a book category, "Autocatalytic sets" gathers works—both nonfiction and fiction—that explore self-sustaining networks of mutual reinforcement and emergence. It includes popular science and academic titles on the origin of life, systems biology, complexity theory and network dynamics, alongside speculative fiction and social-science narratives that dramatize ecosystems of ideas, technologies, economies or communities that catalyze their own growth and transformation. Common themes are feedback loops, mutual causation, co-dependence, resilience and fragility, and the rise of novelty from interacting parts; stylistically these books often use modular or braided structures, interdisciplinary perspectives, and metaphors or models of networks. Readers can expect conceptual world‑building and thought experiments that foreground distributed agency and emergent order across biology, culture and technology.

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