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Title: 100%    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2002    Category: Comics Series       Author: Paul Pope       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: The plot concerns six main characters in Manhattan, New York City in January 2038. Though the interweaving stories are romantic in nature, they are steeped in science fiction and cyberpunk environments.

Title: 2020 Visions    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Comics Series       Author: Jamie Delano       Publisher: Speakeasy Comics       Synopsis: Jamie Delano's tour de force follows the lives of a disjointed family, struggling to survive in the morally and socially decadent United States of 2020. From symbiotic venereal diseases to exclusive human breeding facilities, the future never looked so bleak, or so hopeful.

Title: 2090 Untamed: Book 1 Of Trashy Cinderella Series    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: 2090    Author: Ly Ann       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Half a decade after corporations took down governments worldwide, Ella, a twenty-four-year-old with a penchant for psychedelics, supports herself, in gang-ruled Los Angeles in 2090, the best way she can - high robbery. Forced into working as a spy for K-Top, a barricaded corporate state, she discovers their technological wonders, inaccessible to Outsiders like her. Ella uses her ingenuity and charm, as well as her seemingly otherwordly memory to seduce Dr. Hartley only to uncover a conspiracy set to reshape humankind.

Title: 23 Years On Fire (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cassandra Kresnov    Author: Joel Shepherd       Publisher: Pyr       Synopsis: Commander Cassandra Kresnov has her hands full. She must lead an assault against the Federation world of Pyeongwha, where a terrible sociological phenomenon has unleashed hell against the civilian population. Then she faces the threat from a portion of League space known as New Torah, in which a ruthless regime of surviving corporations are building new synthetic soldiers but taking the technology in alarming directions.

Title: 36 Streets    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: T.R. Napper       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Lin 'The Silent One' Vu is a gangster and sometime private investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider. Through grit and courage Lin has carved a place for herself in the Vietnamese underworld where Hanoi’s crime boss, Bao Nguyen, is training her to fight and lead. Bao drives her hard; on the streets there are no second chances. Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory – a dangerously addictive immersive simulation of the US-Vietnam war.

Title: A Cloud Of Unknowing (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Deserted Vineyard    Author: Andrew Gillsmith       Publisher: Mar Thoma Publishing       Synopsis: Broken and scattered, the survivors of the strange events in the Taklamakan Desert are trying to make sense of what happened while the rest of the world tries to store balance by scapegoating the artilects.

Title: A Cruel Cyber Summer Night    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novella       Series: Liquid Cool    Author: Austin Dragon       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: A novella in the Liquid Cool sci-fi/cyberpunk detective series. It's a world of colossal skyscrapers. Hovercars fly above in the dark, rainy skies and gray people walk below on the grimy, hard streets in the "Neon Jungle." Uber-governments and megacorporations fight for control of the super-city, but so does crime. In the distance, I could see the light show of red and blue flashing sirens. Did this mean that the official days of “cyber summer” had begun? The season of summer was a relative term in Metropolis, since it rained all the time.

Title: A Cyborg Manifesto    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1984    Category: Other       Author: Donna J. Haraway       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: "A Cyborg Manifesto" is an essay written by Donna Haraway and published in 1984. In it, the concept of the cyborg is a rejection of rigid boundaries, notably those separating "human" from "animal" and "human" from "machine." She writes: "The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust."

Title: A Dragon At The Gate (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: The New Aeneid Cycle    Author: Michael G. Munz       Publisher: Red Muse Press       Synopsis: His friends are either missing, in danger, or altered. Hired killers shadow his every move. And Jade, the mysterious, cyber-enhanced woman watching over him, will give no answers. Thrust into a blind search for the truth, Michael needs allies. Yet whom can he trust when once loyal friends may have turned against him? Meanwhile, an intelligence thought trapped within Paragon has escaped to Northgate. Driven to fulfill the goals of the mysterious “Planners,” it, too, seeks allies. When it finds them, it will transform the face of Northgate, the world, and the entire human race. The year 2051 draws to a close, and nothing will be the same.

Title: A Fire In The Sun    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1989    Category: Novel       Author: George Alec Effinger       Publisher: Doubleday       Synopsis: Taking place some months after the events described in When Gravity Fails, Marîd Audran, once a small-time hustler on the streets of the decadent Budayeen, finds himself as one of the lieutenants of Friedlander Bey or "Papa", the most influential man in the city. With his independence taken from him and being stationed as a liaison between Bey and the local law enforcement under the supervision of Sergeant Hajjar, Audran is forced to pair up with his colleague Jirji Shaknahyi in order to track down yet another serial killer who likes to remove some of the internal organs of their victims. Although Hajjar does not share his theory about the murders being connected, Audran begins to suspect there might be more to the recent killings than meets the eye, and wonders where the so-called Phoenix File fits in.

Title: A Mirage In The Memory (#0.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Slip Saga    Author: Simon Tull       Publisher: Ultraluminal Press       Synopsis: Dogged by a digital ghost and his own murky past, he must scour the city to kill the killer … or lose the woman he loves. Earth, post-Apocalypse. Thibault Allard is determined to save his wife. After he escapes the addictive virtual reality that enslaved them both, he works as a bounty hunter for their unsavoury captor to gain inside access and search for his beloved. But when the morally flexible immortal is handed a ruthless ultimatum, he derails his plans in order to pursue the man who terminated his boss's spouse.

Title: A Radiant Collapse    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Series: A Radiant Collapse    Author: N/A    Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: The past couple of weeks have been a tense time for the residents of Tempo. A new terrorist group calling itself the Kün Rix has claimed responsibility for several bombings across the capital. A Kün Rix general going by the alias of "Mr. B" navigates the sprawling metropolis of Central with another dirty bomb in hand. The clock is ticking down to the biggest massacre our galaxy has ever seen...

Title: A Scanner Darkly    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1977    Category: Novel       Author: Philip K. Dick       Publisher: Doubleday       Synopsis: The protagonist is Bob Arctor, member of a household of drug users, who is also living a parallel life as Agent Fred, an undercover police agent assigned to spy on Arctor's household. Arctor/Fred shields his identity from those in the drug subculture and from the police. (The requirement that narcotics agents remain anonymous, to avoid collusion and other forms of corruption, becomes a critical plot point late in the book.) While posing as a drug user, Arctor becomes addicted to "Substance D" (also referred to as "Slow Death", "Death" or "D"), a powerful psychoactive drug. A conflict is Arctor's love for Donna, a drug dealer, through whom he intends to identify high-level dealers of Substance D. Arctor's use of the drug causes the two hemispheres of his brain to function independently or "compete". Through a series of drug and psychological tests, Arctor's superiors at work discover that his addiction has made him incapable of performing his job as a narcotics agent. Donna takes Arctor to "New-Path", a rehabilitation clinic, just as Arctor begins to experience the symptoms of Substance D withdrawal. It is revealed that Donna has been a narcotics agent all along, working as part of a police operation to infiltrate New-Path and determine its funding source. Without his knowledge, Arctor has been selected to penetrate the organization.

Title: A Shadow In The Flames    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Novel       Author: Michael G. Munz       Publisher: Booktrope       Synopsis: Northgate is in turmoil. Decaying, violent, and corrupt, it is a common enough city in 2051, yet soon, discoveries beneath the Moon's surface will mark the city with their first distant echoes.

Title: A Spectre In The Stream (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Slip Saga    Author: Simon Tull       Publisher: Ultraluminal Press       Synopsis: In a world gone mad with bloodlust, can a girl with a fragmented past use her inner monster to save a boy from undying predators? Earth, post-Apocalypse. Prisma longs to understand herself. Two centuries after humanity died, the claustrophobic immortal is grateful she’s not driven by the thirst for blood plaguing every other enslaved survivor. But when she encounters a strange boy with a cryptic message about her origins, she fears his existence has made them both a deadly target.

Title: A Star Too Far    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel       Author: Alexander Mharcei       Publisher: Arkhelian       Synopsis: Kuyachi Rao is equipped with her own flavor of tech, a promise to her dead father, and a smoldering grudge against corpos. She's ready to burn, hack and slash a path of revenge -- but it's going to take more than that to succeed. She's going to need help, upgrades, and a dose of mysticism if she's going to twist her way through the ruins of San Diego, the Drop, and a past that refuses to let go of her future.

Title: A Witch's Sin (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Neon Ghosts    Author: Daniel B. Greene       Publisher: Wraithmarked Creative LLC       Synopsis: Bruised, stoned, and still adjusting to her latest wear implants, apprentice enforcer Taya Mint plunges into the darkest depths of Megastructure Seven Zero Three, challenging everything she thought she knew about life within the walls she has never stepped beyond. With only one assignment left to earn her full license, Taya finally stands a chance to rebuild a life wounded by grief. But soon she discovers the kidnapping she's investigating is just a piece of a puzzle, one that leads to grisly death and the greedy heart of power within the structure. When evidence points to a supernatural threat as the culprit, Taya finds herself needing to rely on cold-blooded allies just to survive the hell that is Seven Zero Three.

Title: A-Game (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Sommerfeld Experiment    Author: Al Davidson       Publisher: Destiny Engine       Synopsis: In forced trials, an experimental neural implant allows Joshua to push the boundaries of control over the Maelstrom’s nanomachines. Meanwhile, grueling simulations test his mental endurance, blurring the line between the Virtual and reality. The added threat of a permanent neural link to the Maelstrom only strengthens Joshua’s resolve to escape the most secure military installation on Earth.

Title: A.D. Police: Dead End City    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1989    Category: Comics Series       Author: Toshimichi Suzuki   Tony Takezaki       Publisher: VIZ Media   Samourai   Manga Books       Synopsis: The manga is set in 2032. The A.D. Police are an elite group of highly trained and specially equipped police officers, who have been formed to deal with terrorist activities and Boomer crimes in the city of Mega Tokyo. The A.D. Police are offered a great deal of leeway in their activities, often blockading large sections of the city and causing great amounts of property damage in the course of fulfilling their duty. Despite their dedication to their jobs, however, the citizens of Mega Tokyo tend to dislike and distrust members of the A.D. Police, seeing them as corrupt and ineffectual.

Title: A.I. Apocalypse    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel       Author: William Hertling       Publisher: Liquididea Press       Synopsis: Leon Tsarev is a high school student set on getting into a great college program, until his uncle, a member of the Russian mob, coerces him into developing a new computer virus for the mob’s botnet - the slave army of computers they used to commit digital crimes.

Title: A.I. Confidential (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Liquid Cool    Author: Austin Dragon       Publisher: Well-Tailored Books       Synopsis: The biggest caper in the supercity’s history? Cruz has tangled with some of the most dangerous, cunning, and sinister villains around—Blade Gunner, NeuroDancer, Mr. Viper, The Ripper, the “Alien”. But this case is even bigger?

Title: Accelerando    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2005    Category: Novel   Short Story       Author: Charles Stross       Publisher: Orbit   Ace       Synopsis: The book is a collection of nine short stories telling the tale of three generations of a family before, during, and after a technological singularity. It was originally written as a series of novelettes and novellas, all published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in the period 2001 to 2004. According to Stross, the initial inspiration for the stories was his experience working as a programmer for a high-growth company during the dot-com boom of the 1990s. The first three stories follow the character of agalmic "venture altruist" Manfred Macx, starting in the early 21st century; the second three stories follow his daughter Amber; and the final three focus largely on Amber's son Sirhan in the completely transformed world at the end of the century.

Title: Accelerate    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Comics       Author: Richard Kadrey       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: In futuristic L.A. where neo-tribes inhabit the urban sprawl, a reluctant leader named Marne is warned that a "Black Network" inside the LAPD is hunting down tribal leaders- and she's next on the list! When Marne discovers a secret dimension that can be accessed by a drug called Accelerate, she decides take on her enemies to save her tribe.

Title: Active Memory (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Mirador    Author: Dan Wells       Publisher: Balzer & Bray       Synopsis: For all the mysteries teen hacker Marisa Carneseca has solved, there has been one that has always eluded her: the truth behind the car accident in which she lost her arm and a mob boss’ wife, Zenaida de Maldonado, lost her life. Even in a world where technology exists to connect everyone’s mind to one another, it would seem that some secrets can still remain hidden.

Title: Acts Of The Apostles    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Novel       Author: John F.X. Sundman       Publisher: Smashworks Inc       Synopsis: In 1990, hardware engineer Todd Griffith is shot after discovering a secret function in a computer chip. Years later, Todd s best friend Nick stumbles onto a conspiracy involving nanomachines, mind control, Gulf War Syndrome and an insane Silicon Valley messiah. Nick must stop this madman and his apostles, but he needs Todd s help. And Todd s been in a coma for nearly half a dozen years.

Title: Adam (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyborgs: More Than Machines    Author: Eve Langlais       Publisher: Eve Langlais       Synopsis: Adam survived the great cyborg purge because the military made a mistake, a mistake they lived to regret. They crossed the line when they decided to take away his free will and turn him into a machine. They erroneously thought him a slave they could command. However, their biggest screw up of all was when they didn’t terminate him at the first sign cyborgs were regaining sentience.

Title: Aeon Flux    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2006    Category: Comics Series       Author: Mike Kennedy   Timothy Green II       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Four hundred years in the future, the last of Humanity will live behind the protective walls of Bregna, an idyllic utopia built to shelter them from the deadly jungle growing beyond. Life in Bregna is perfect, or as perfect as the government can make the people believe. But not everyone is fooled by their mood-altering propaganda — a small band of freedom fighters wish to see things change, and they just might manage to pull off this impossible dream with the help of their top secret agent, the sexy, deadly Aeon Flux. As Bregnan authorities prepare a new weapon to use against the jungle pounding at their walls, Aeon prepares to turn their plans against them. But this time she is not alone — she has been instructed to train a new agent, a fiery young woman named Sithandra, who may not be all that she appears.

Title: After Day One    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel       Author: Benjamin Levi Seims       Publisher: Booktrope       Synopsis: United States 2083, John Howe is a genetic, and cybernetic, enhanced cyber operations solider who came home After Day One only to find the country he fought for broken, and his wife and son murdered. By 2096 he rebuilt his home and was trying to live a comfortable life on the outskirts of the Free Territories, the Pacific North West.

Title: After Mind    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel       Author: Spencer Wolf       Publisher: BentStrong Books       Synopsis: Cessini Madden lives with an extremely rare medical condition… then his physical life ends before he reaches age thirteen. After an Artificial Intelligence breakthrough, Cessini is reborn as a young AI child named Packet. Scared and living alone in a technology center, Packet recognizes nothing from his past, save for one thing: he is deathly allergic to water.

Title: After The Revolution    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel       Author: Robert Evans       Publisher: AK Press       Synopsis: What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an edge-of-your-seat answer to that question. In the year 2070, twenty years after a civil war and societal collapse of the "old" United States, extremist militias battle in the crumbling Republic of Texas. As the violence spreads like wildfire and threatens the Free City of Austin, three unlikely allies will have to work together in an act of resistance to stop the advance of the forces of the white Christian ethnostate known as the "Heavenly Kingdom." Our three protagonists include Manny, a fixer that shuttles journalists in and out of war zones and provides footage for outside news agencies. Sasha is a teenage woman that joins the Heavenly Kingdom before she discovers the ugly truths behind their movement. Finally, we have Roland: A US Army vet kitted out with cyberware (including blood that heals major trauma wounds and a brain that can handle enough LSD to kill an elephant), tormented by broken memories, and 12,000 career kills under his belt. In the not-so-distant world Evans conjures we find advanced technology, a gender expansive culture, and a roving Burning Man-like city fueled by hedonistic excess.

Title: Afterglow (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Glow    Author: Tim Jordan       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: Six months after the events of Glow, a nanotech plague sweeps the Earth, taking control of its victims’ senses and feeding them false realities, slowly taking control of individuals, corporations, and whole societies as it stretches across the globe. Between the plague and the reforming of the pre-Nova-Insanity internet, humanity is communicating again, but the renewal of those connections allows an old danger to resurface: a supernova device so large and powerful, it could annihilate the entire planet.

Title: Agency    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: William Gibson       Publisher: Berkley       Synopsis: In William Gibson's first novel since 2014's New York Times bestselling The Peripheral, a gifted "app-whisperer" is hired by a mysterious San Francisco start-up and finds herself in contact with a unique and surprisingly combat-savvy AI.

Title: Agent G: Assassin (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Agent G    Author: C.T. Phipps       Publisher: Crossroad Press       Synopsis: Agent G, now going by the name Case, thought he'd won. He'd exposed his former employers, shared Black Technology with the world, and killed the man who'd started it all. Unfortunately, history slows for no man. After a volcanic eruption decimates the United States, G spends the next decade witnessing humanity rebuild itself into a corporate-run dystopia.

Title: Agent G: Infiltrator (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Agent G    Author: C.T. Phipps       Publisher: Amber Cove       Synopsis: The International Refugee Society has twenty-six cybernetically enhanced “Letters,” and for the right price, they’ll eliminate anyone. They’ve given up their families and their memories for ten years of service with the promise of a life of luxury awaiting them. Agent G is one of these “Letters,” but clues to his past are starting to emerge while he’s on a dangerous mission to infiltrate the Society’s most dangerous competitor. In the midst of all the violence, subterfuge, and deceit, he’ll need to keep his wits about him and trust sparingly.

Title: Agent G: Saboteur (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Agent G    Author: C.T. Phipps       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: The sequel to Agent G picks up a year after the first novel with our antihero cybernetic assassin now working for the United States government. So much better than being a private contractor, right? Wrong. Hunting down his former associates only makes things worse and he soon finds himself discovering even more dirt about his convoluted past. What is an amnesiac cyborg to do?

Title: Agnosis    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Novel       Author: Darren R. Hawkins       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Agnosis is a cyberpunk-ish techno thriller set in the distant future. John Dorian and Amara Cain are tech employees of the Masonic Archive Infocache, a personality/personal data digital archive. While tracking and eliminating a data spider that has infiltrated the Infocache, Dorian, the resident IT dork and erstwhile systems hacker, unwittingly uncovers a galaxy-spanning conspiracy to enslave all of humanity to a semi-divine alien race.

Title: AGŌN    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: Yann Xu       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: A new and powerful technology resurrects a long-dead warrior from the distant past, triggering a deadly game of corporate politics. As shadowy schemes spiral out of control, the ensuing bedlam upends life on the crowning achievement of corporatist innovation - Iceberg City. In the thick of confusion, fundamental values bend and then break as each player jostles, lies, cheats and kills for profit. But from within the tortured life of 'utility' emerges the ancient call towards the self-determination of meaning - a call which harbours inevitable self-destruction. "Agōn" is a post-modernist dark fantasy set in a science-fiction world where untrammelled human competition culminates in the breakdown of morality. From breakdown comes greater heights of reflection and morose delectation. At the core of its human drama lies the fraught odyssey through the vale of death, guided by the ultimate alienation of the human creature from its moralities. From this pitiless view of creatural existence-as-rebellion emerges the triumph of convolution and competition, a triumph that suspends all emotion in the soup of its tragedy.

Title: Airith: The Kentilan War    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Bryan Butvidas       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: My spectacular Alpha Sierra, a helical wonder, mystified in bright green and dark purple swirls, sprinkled with trillions upon trillions of pulsing stars, forming millions of solar systems. Not only remarkably beautiful but also incredibly massive, known as the third-largest galaxy in this universe and yet within your stimulating allure there is stowed away a tiny, decaying planet, Indio.

Title: Akira    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1982    Category: Comics Series       Author: Katsuhiro Otomo       Publisher: Kodansha   Dark Horse       Synopsis: Otomo’s seminal manga follows members of teenaged motorcycle gang who become entangled in (and help facilitate) the destruction of Neo Tokyo. After gang member Tetsuo begins to exhibit latent psychic powers, the military—which harbors its own psychics—detains him, prompting the gang’s leader, Kaneda, to join a faction of rebels and try to rescue his friend. As Tetsuo’s powers develop, he loses touch with reality and unleashes mass destruction upon the city. The comic’s 1988 animated feature adaptation is regarded as a high-water mark of animation, as well as a worldwide success that helped to popularize anime outside of Japan.

Title: Akiva (Volume #1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Author: Chase Hull       Publisher: Entheogen Publications       Synopsis: Humanity had hoped that through technological and scientific advances that they'd become galactic utopian societies. This is not the case. The futuristic promises of America, in the twenty-first century, were merely a façade for what they are...which is a multi-generational caste system living in a dystopian hell.

Title: Alex Ross Terminator: The Burning Earth    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Ron Fortier   Alex Ross   Jim Krueger       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Led by an adult John Conner, the Resistance has battled its way to the gates of Skynet's Colorado stronghold. The loss of life along the journey had been great, but humanity at last has an opportunity to destroy the super-computer that's long sought to exterminate all life on the planet.

Title: Aliens vs. Predator vs. the Terminator    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2001    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Mark Schultz   Mel Rubi       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Centuries after Skynet goes into hiding, it awakens only to create invincible Terminators by gene-splicing human tissue with the DNA of Aliens, and Earth's only chance for survival lies in the hands of the superhunters known as Predators.

Title: Alita    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2001    Category: Comics Series       Series: Alita Collection    Author: Yukito Kishiro       Publisher: Planet Manga       Synopsis: N/A

Title: All Systems Red (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novella Series       Series: The Murderbot Diaries    Author: Martha Wells       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid — a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

Title: All Tomorrow's Parties (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Novel Series       Series: Bridge    Author: William Gibson       Publisher: Viking Press       Synopsis: The book has three separate but overlapping stories, with the repeated appearance of shared characters. The San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge, the overarching setting of the trilogy, functions as a shared location of their convergence and resolution.

Title: Alpha Two    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Novel       Author: Andrew Seas       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: The year is 2105. True cyberspace has begun in the form of the neural-net, where humans interface their psyche to a virtual world. Helix Carone, a key programmer for the company that created the neural-net is now on the run, having sold the companies' source-code on the black-market. He’s hiding out in the LA Fire Zone, an irradiated area now infested with tech gangs and littered with societies outcasts.

Title: Alt.Cyberpunk.Chatsubo Anthology 2    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2005    Category: Other       Author: Peter Timusk       Publisher: iUniverse       Synopsis: Alt.Cyberpunk.Chatsubo Anthology 2 still a low rent hi tech literary usenet group hiding behind Charlie in the internet's back alleys.This is the second installment of a global collective bent on making their works read by as many people as will take the time to stop for a moment.This anthology you now hold in your hands in a collection of stories from writers all over the world connected by nothing more than usenet, email and the driving desire to make our works known to more than our small group.There are twenty four unique stories within, written by eleven authors from around the globe. We hope you enjoy them. Maybe you will even be tempted to order a drink at the bar just don't forget your machine gun etiquette.

Title: Altered Carbon (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2002    Category: Novel Series       Series: Takeshi Kovacs    Author: Richard K. Morgan       Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd       Synopsis: In the novel's somewhat dystopian world, human personalities can be stored digitally and downloaded into new bodies, called sleeves. Most people have cortical stacks in their spinal columns that store their memories. If their body dies, their stack can be stored indefinitely. Catholics have arranged that they will not be resleeved as they believe that the soul goes to Heaven when they die, and so would not pass on to the new sleeve. This makes Catholics targets for murder, since killers know their victim will not be resleeved to testify. A UN resolution to alter this legal position forms one strand of the novel's plot, to allow the authorities to sleeve a deceased Catholic woman temporarily to testify in a murder trial.

Title: Altered States    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Short Story       Author: Various       Publisher: Indie Authors Press       Synopsis: Take a flight of the imagination to near-future cyberpunk worlds, travel beyond the stars, and to divergent universes like and unlike our own. Travel to the enigmas of science and time…travel to the altered states of the mind. Stories by upcoming and established cyberpunk/sci- fi authors, curated by Roy C Booth and Jorge Salgado-Reyes. This anthology represents the very first publication of science fiction by Indie Authors Press.

Title: Altered States II: A Cyberpunk Anthology    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Short Story       Author: Various       Publisher: Indie Authors Press       Synopsis: Altered States II doesn't just have cyberpunk in it! Cyberpunk seeps from its pores. Cyberpunk forms its building blocks like DNA forms ours.

Title: American Flagg!    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1987    Category: Comics Series       Author: Howard Chaykin       Publisher: Titan Books       Synopsis: America, 2031. TV star Reuben Flagg is drafted to protect the citizens of Chicago as a Plexus Ranger, having pretended to be one onscreen. The inexperienced Flagg must tackle an America blighted by a biased and oppressive media, dubious 'wars', widespread political corruption and environmental disaster...Never-before-collected, this bitingly prescient satirical series is an all-time classic.

Title: Amped    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel       Author: Daniel H. Wilson       Publisher: Doubleday       Synopsis: As he did in Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson masterfully envisions a frightening near-future world. In Amped, people are implanted with a device that makes them capable of superhuman feats. The powerful technology has profound consequences for society, and soon a set of laws is passed that restricts the abilities—and rights—of "amplified" humans. On the day that the Supreme Court passes the first of these laws, twenty-nine-year-old Owen Gray joins the ranks of a new persecuted underclass known as "amps." Owen is forced to go on the run, desperate to reach an outpost in Oklahoma where, it is rumored, a group of the most enhanced amps may be about to change the world—or destroy it.

Title: Analog, Vol. 1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Comics Series       Author: Gerry Duggan       Publisher: Image Comics       Synopsis: It's 2024, and the internet is only for porn after the world is mass-doxxed. Every email, photo, and document ever sent rains down out of the cloud, and only a fool would send a secret over the web. This is the era of the "Paper Jockeys: " armed couriers with a briefcase of secrets that will get your sensitive information around the globe or die trying. Human punching-bag Jack McGinnis and his partner Oona are two of the best couriers in the business. For a price, they'll move your sensitive information where it needs to go as they fight off fascists, criminals, and spies. From new star David O'Sullivan and Gerry Duggan, writer of Deadpool and Uncanny Avengers.

Title: Anarchy Boyz (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk City    Author: D.L. Young       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Framed for a gruesome crime, Maddox finds himself at the top of the City’s most-wanted list, hunted twenty-four-seven by every cop in town. With the police closing in fast and nowhere to hide, there’s only one place left he might find help…and it’s the last place in the world he wants to go.

Title: And Shall Machines Surrender (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Machine Mandate    Author: Benjanun Sriduangkaew       Publisher: Prime Books       Synopsis: On the dyson sphere Shenzhen, artificial intelligences rule and humans live in luxury, vying to be chosen as host bodies—called haruspices—for the next generation of AI, and thus be worshiped as gods. Doctor Orfea Leung has come here to escape her past of mercenary violence. Krissana Khongtip has come here to reinvent herself from haunted spy to holy cyborg. But the utopian peace of Shenzhen is shattered when the haruspices begin committing suicide, and the pair are called upon to solve the mystery—and survive the silent war between machines...

Title: Android: Free Fall    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel       Author: William H. Keith Jr.       Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games       Synopsis: It is the future, and while the world has changed, crime has not. When an influential lawyer is brutally murdered at the top of the Beanstalk, a towering exo-atmospheric elevator serving as Earth's hub of interplanetary trade, Detective Rick Harrison reluctantly accepts the case. Harrison's investigation soon leads him from the sprawling megapolis of New Angeles to the distant moon base of Heinlein, where he searches for clues amongst an uncooperative assortment of bioroids, clones, and disgruntled human laborers.

Title: Android: Golem (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: Identity    Author: Mel Odom       Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games       Synopsis: When a talented New Angeles Detective wakes up in bed with a woman whose name he can't recall, this seemingly harmless mystery indicates a much larger problem. After all, as one of the few bioroids in the New Angeles Police Department, Drake 3GI2RC isn't accustomed to forgetting... or even sleeping. But his personal issues are forced to wait when he and his human partner Shelley Nolan are assigned a high-profile murder investigation - one that will change his world! The wealthy CEO of IdentiKit, a successful android manufacturer, has been found dead in his hotel room. Now, what begins as just another murder in downtown New Angeles quickly escalates into a tangled web of intrigue, love, and betrayal, as Drake and his partner work to solve this brutal crime before the killer strikes again. Drake's investigation will lead him through the darkest corners of a conspiracy that reaches up the Beanstalk and out to the bustling industry of Mars... then right back to the woman of his dreams. Set in the dystopian future of the Android universe, Golem tells a story of murder, manipulation, and mystery in a world where humanity and technology collide.

Title: Android: Mimic (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Identity    Author: Mel Odom       Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games       Synopsis: New Angeles Detective Drake 3GI2RC is not your average Bioroid. First, he’s one of the New Angeles Police Department’s few android cops, and second, he’s haunted by another man’s memories. But even as Drake investigates a very public crime, he must look inward for answers. After all, where does his programming end, and his own personality begin?

Title: Android: Rebel (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Identity    Author: Mel Odom       Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games       Synopsis: Drake 3GI2RC is wanted for a murder he didn’t commit. Haunted by another man’s memories, the NAPD’s most infamous android cop must quickly uncover the truth of his own past. Unfortunately, his search has taken him from the familiar New Angeles streets to the politically volatile planet Mars. Will Drake find answers before he’s caught in the midst of an interplanetary civil war?

Title: Angel Station    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1990    Category: Novel       Author: Walter Jon Williams       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Using faster-than-light technology, the human race has colonized dozens of star systems. Ubu Roy and his sister, Beautiful Maria are down-on-their-luck traders on the edge of human space. In a last-ditch effort to make money to pay their debts and repair their aging spacecraft, they are reduced to searching uncharted space for singularities to capture and sell. In a rare stroke of luck, Ubu and Maria happen upon an alien spacecraft and make humanity's first contact with an alien race. As chance would have it, the alien ship is also in dire economic straights. The alien technology is stronger than humanity's in some areas (such as biotechnology) and weaker in other areas (such as applied physics), providing ample opportunities for trade between the two ships. Both ships become rich in their respective societies by repeated trade with each other. However, Ubu and Maria's secret is discovered by their trading rivals, resulting in a struggle to determine who will control the lucrative trade with the aliens. Ubu and Maria ultimately succeed through Ubu's better understanding of the alien race's psychology and Maria's genetically-engineered psychic abilities.

Title: Animus Paradox (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Novel Series       Series: Digital Extremities    Author: Adam Bassett       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: There's a thief on the loose. The Tigres excel at tipping the scales in their favor, be it through bribes, politics, or blood. They unofficially run Viterbo, Italy—and somebody stole from them. Private investigators David and Mafalda De Campo have been hired to help find the thief. They're in it for the money, but the Tigres just want to make a statement. Meanwhile, the Heredes have returned: ruthless idealists and revolutionaries. It’s not clear what they’re up to, but they keep getting in the way. The De Campos will need to decide how far they're willing to go for this job and the Tigres. Viterbo may soon become a battlefield, and one wrong move could set it aflame.

Title: Annihilation Point (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Techxorcist    Author: Colin F. Barnes       Publisher: Anachron Press       Synopsis: How much sacrifice should anyone have to give? Petal and Gabriel are forced to decide, as the mad, digital entity, Elliot Robertson, is determined to dominate the world. His influence, spread by an insurgent group, The Ronin, seeks to control and enslave the last of humanity. With time running out, Petal and Gabriel must travel to the far reaches of the abandoned lands in order to repair a server they believe will be the key to defeating Elliot and his ronin. All the while, Petal has a ticking time bomb inside her head: Gerry Cardle's uploaded consciousness. The code of which is mutating, but to what end? Together with their few allies, Petal and Gabriel must face either victory or total annihilation.

Title: Apex #3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Nexus    Author: Ramez Naam       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: Global unrest spreads as mass protests advance throughout the US and China, Nexus-upgraded riot police battle against upgraded protestors, and a once-dead scientist plans to take over the planet's electronic systems. The world has never experienced turmoil of this type, on this scale.They call them the Apex - humanity's replacement. They're smarter, faster, better. And infinitely more dangerous.

Title: Apex Cypher (#0)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Short Story       Series: The Techxorcist    Author: Colin F. Barnes       Publisher: Anachron Press       Synopsis: Rogue hackers Petal and Gabriel are low on food and water. Their reputation precedes them and they are no longer able to hustle the crime community for supplies. With survival becoming harder, they’re left with no other choice but to accept a risky job from a dangerous individual.

Title: Aphrodite IX    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Comics Series       Author: David Wohl   David Finch   Clarence Lansang   Brian Ching       Publisher: Top Cow Productions   Image       Synopsis: The beautiful cyborg Aphrodite IX is the perfect assassin. She does her job, then retains no memory of her past. But when she seeks out clues to her true identity, the blood flows faster than ever.

Title: Apocalypse Alley (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Blue Unicorn    Author: Don Allmon       Publisher: Riptide Publishing       Synopsis: Home from a six-month assignment to war-torn East Asia, genetically engineered supersoldier Noah "Comet" Wu just wants to kick back, share a beer, and talk shit with his best friend, JT. But JT's home has been shot up like a war zone, and his friend has gone missing. Comet's only lead is a smart-mouthed criminal he finds amid the mess. His name's Buzz Howdy. He's a con man and a hacker and deserves to be in jail. Or in handcuffs, at least. The only thing the two have in common is JT. Unless you count the steamy glances they're sneaking at one another. They have those in common too. But that just makes Comet all the more wary. Despite their mutual distrust, they'll have to work together to rescue JT before a cyborg assassin gets to him first. Racing down a miserable stretch of road called Apocalypse Alley, they must dodge radioactive spiders, a lonely cannibal, and a killer Buick. They also try to dodge each other. That last bit doesn't work out so well.

Title: Appleseed    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1985    Category: Comics Series       Author: Masamune Shirow       Publisher: Various       Synopsis: Appleseed takes place in the 22nd century, after the non-nuclear Third World War has decimated the Earth. While countries like Great Britain, USA and China have difficulty maintaining order and power, international organizations like the "Sacred Republic of Munma" and "Poseidon" have been established in the aftermath.

Title: Arachne (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1997    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Arachne    Author: Lisa Mason       Publisher: Harper Perennial       Synopsis: Carly Nolan, a young telelinked attorney of post-quake San Francisco, finds her life in danger when renegade robots conspiring to steal bits of the human subconscious target her in their fiendish schemes.

Title: Aramus (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyborgs: More Than Machines    Author: Eve Langlais       Publisher: Eve Langlais       Synopsis: Wiping out humanity is his number one objective—until he meets her. Aramus has no patience or sympathy for the excuses humanity uses to hunt cyborgs down and eradicate them. He’s put up with too much at their hands to ever forgive and forget. But all that changes when he rescues a fragile human doctor who refuses to see him as a machine. She teaches him that perhaps not all emotions are a weakness and that love can make even a cynical cyborg like him stronger.

Title: ARC City Stories    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: J L Aarne   Davene Le Grange   Patrick Tillett       Publisher: Independently Published       Synopsis: A city that exists in a world beyond governments, where war and climate change have destroyed the old order. Corporations are now the authorities of the surviving city states. The elite live in luxury above the clouds in their towers, everyone else lives further down, based on their corporate and economic worth.

Title: Arcadia    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Comics Series       Author: Alex Paknadel   Eric Scott Pfeiffer       Publisher: BOOM! Studios       Synopsis: When 99% of humankind is wiped out by a pandemic, four billion people are "saved" by being digitized at the brink of death and uploaded into Arcadia, a utopian simulation in the cloud. But when Arcadia begins to rapidly deplete the energy resources upon which the handful of survivors in the real world (aka "The Meat") depends, how long will The Meat be able-and willing-to help?

Title: Archangel (Archangel #1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: Archangel    Author: William Gibson       Publisher: IDW       Synopsis: The U.S. political leaders of 2016 abandon the radioactive planet they've destroyed and harness the power of humanity's last hope: The Splitter, a colossal machine designed to manufacture a bright new reality for them to infiltrate and corrupt.

Title: Archangel (Archangel #2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: Archangel    Author: William Gibson       Publisher: IDW       Synopsis: A military pilot from a radioactive, alternate future has arrived in Berlin 1945, and the corrupt officials from his world want him stopped. Though he won't reveal the details of his mission, he's made one thing clear: our entire reality is at stake.

Title: Archangel (Archangel #3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: Archangel    Author: William Gibson       Publisher: IDW       Synopsis: Mr. Baby—a bizarre looking, dangerous man—is the sole survivor of Berlin's prewar nightlife. Play by his rules, and he can get you anything, but he's not one to be crossed. A hard lesson for our inter-dimensional pilot… and the corrupt officials from his world who want him dead.

Title: Archangel (Archangel #4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: Archangel    Author: William Gibson       Publisher: IDW       Synopsis: Time is running out. Corrupt, otherworldly political powers threaten to hijack our reality, and they have the nuclear capabilities needed to alter the course of our history forever. One lone pilot and those who dare to trust him are all that stand in the way of a radioactive future.

Title: Archangel (Archangel #5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Comics Series       Series: Archangel    Author: William Gibson       Publisher: IDW       Synopsis: Aboard a B-29 bomber soaring high over Europe, the Vice-President of a radioactive America one reality removed from our own is about to nuke all of history as we know it. This is the end.

Title: Archetypal (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cypulchre    Author: Joseph MacKinnon       Publisher: Guy Faux Books       Synopsis: The Outland Corporation’s CLOUD, a much-loved and massively-popular virtual realm, has been destroyed in a suicide bombing, which has turned all of Los Angeles upside down. Hundreds of thousands of users who were in the CLOUD at the time of its destruction have had their data and electric selves corrupted, accidentally collectivized, and then dumbly redistributed. The fallout is catastrophic. While Outland’s interim CEO Celeste Charming attempts to turn this tragedy into profit or worse, Dr. Oni Matsui sets out to free her captive friends and to prevent the forced evolution of humanity for which her good intentions have paved the way.

Title: Aristoi    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Novel       Author: Walter Jon Williams       Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates       Synopsis: Gabriel is a member of the Aristoi, an elite group of humans who reign over technology, and he discovers that another Aristos has gone mad and threatens the entire human race. Reprint.

Title: Artificial Condition (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novella Series       Series: The Murderbot Diaries    Author: Martha Wells       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: It has a dark past – one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…

Title: Artificial Evil (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Techxorcist    Author: Colin F. Barnes       Publisher: Anachron Press       Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic future, humanity survives within a single domed city ruled by a shadowy organisation known as The Family. Gerry Cardle reluctantly runs the Death Lottery. It's a job he despises, yet one which keeps his name off the list. Until one day, despite his agreement with The Family, his name is inexplicably drawn next.

Title: ARvekt: Cyberpunk Techno-Thriller (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Instant Reality    Author: Craig Lea Gordon       Publisher: SID Origin       Synopsis: The ARvekt is in you. In your brain. Wetware, grown in from birth. You are connected. To everything. All the time. To the Augmented Reality that surrounds you. Life is a sonic, tactile and visual wonder. Better than the real ever could be.

Title: Ashen Victor    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1995    Category: Comics Series       Author: Yukito Kishiro       Publisher: Shueisha   VIZ Media       Synopsis: From the creator of the cyberpunk manga Battle Angel Alita comes a new tale of Alita's world. A thriller of crushed metal and spilled blood that takes place in the dystopian Scrapyard, it is drawn in a dark, expressionistic style that keeps it true to the spirit of cyberpunk science fiction writing.

Title: Assembly Code (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Techxorcist    Author: Colin F. Barnes       Publisher: Anachron Press       Synopsis: Being human is no longer enough to save humanity. The fanatical Red Widows sweep destruction across the abandoned lands. Their aggression threatens to destroy the city Gerry had risked his life to save. Petal, the woman Gerry has come to love is dying. The despotic cabal, The Family, demand he brings her to them, but she's missing, running from the Widows, searching for the truth of her origins before it's too late. When their paths cross, Petal and Gerry will hold the fate of humankind in their hands—if they can survive the malevolent digital entity that stalks them from the shadows. Assembly Code is a post-apocalyptic, near-future thriller that will delight fans of The Matrix, Neuromancer, and Blade Runner.

Title: Augment (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novella Series       Series: Stories Of Singularity    Author: Susan Kaye Quinn       Publisher: Twisted Space LLC       Synopsis: Miriam is a jiv—an augmented warrior for the Maker cause—and she’s more than ready to get in the ring and fight for the latest mod. If she wins, she’ll have everything she needs to apply for the Offering. The only problem? No one survives that augment. Either she’ll be the Makers’ latest failed experiment… or she’ll become the leap toward salvation her people desperately need.

Title: Augmented States (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: A Cyberpunk Saga    Author: Matthew A. Goodwin       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: When Moss sees the opportunity to alter politics and work against the mega-corporations on a new front, he and the crew delve into a dangerous new world. But in order to change the system, they need the help of new allies from near and far. But changing the face of the city does not come easy. The companies have their own plans and Moss’s family is in the crosshairs. Relationships are tested and nothing will ever be the same.

Title: Autonomous    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel       Author: Annalee Newitz       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: On Jack’s trail are an unlikely pair: an emotionally shut-down military agent and his partner, Paladin, a young military robot, who fall in love against all expectations. Autonomous alternates between the activities of Jack and her co-conspirators, and Joe and Paladin, as they all race to stop a bizarre drug epidemic that is tearing apart lives, causing trains to crash, and flooding New York City.

Title: Auxiliary: London 2039    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Jon Richter       Publisher: TCK Publishing       Synopsis: London is quiet in 2039—thanks to the machines. People stay indoors, communicating through high-tech glasses and gorging on simulated reality while 3D printers and scuttling robots cater to their every whim. Mammoth corporations wage war for dominance in a world where human augmentation blurs the line between flesh and steel.

Title: Avion (#7)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyborgs: More Than Machines    Author: Eve Langlais       Publisher: Eve Langlais       Synopsis: Being a cyborg was so much better when all his parts worked. Avion’s nanotechnology stopped functioning after some experimentation done on him by the military. They broke him and now, Avion is no better than a human, even more annoying, he’s dying.

Title: Avogadro Corp    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel       Author: William Hertling       Publisher: Liquididea Press       Synopsis: David Ryan is the designer of ELOPe, an email language optimization program, that if successful, will make his career. But when the project is suddenly in danger of being canceled, David embeds a hidden directive in the software accidentally creating a runaway artificial intelligence.

Title: Awakening (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novella Series       Series: Stories Of Singularity    Author: Susan Kaye Quinn       Publisher: Twisted Space LLC       Synopsis: Sister Amara prays she won’t be the last of her twelve sisters to reach the awakening—after all, the salvation of their Masters depends on them. But with the interrogations growing more deadly, being last may be best... especially when you’ve been created to touch the face of God.

Title: B785 (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyborgs: More Than Machines    Author: Eve Langlais       Publisher: Eve Langlais       Synopsis: When cyborg intelligence meets sensual robotics circuit boards sizzle. Einstein was probably the only cyborg in existence with no interest in the opposite sex, until he discovered B785. With her sensual nature and quirky sense of humor, she draws this cybernetic geek out of his scientific shell and teaches him the one thing he’s never understood – passion.

Title: Babylon Babies    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Novel       Author: Maurice G. Dantec       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: A cult novel in France, this sci-fi thriller is now being made into a movie by Mathieu Kassovitz. Set in the hidden "flesh and chip" breeding grounds of the first cyborg communities and peopled by Serbian Mafiosi, Babylon Babies has as its hero a hard-boiled leatherneck veteran of Sarajevo named Thoorop who is hired by a mysterious source to escort a young woman named Marie Zorn from Russia to Canada. A garden variety job, he figures. But when Thoorop is offered an even higher fee by another organization, he realizes Marie is no ordinary girl. A schizophrenic and the possible carrier of a new artificial virus, Marie is carrying a mutant embryo created by an American cult that dreams of producing a genetically modified messiah, a dream that spells out the end of human life as we know it.Inspired by Philip K. Dick, William S. Burroughs, Gilles Deleuze, and other extrapolationists of the future, Babylon Babies unfolds at breakneck speed as Thoorop risks his life to save Marie, whose brain -- linking to the neuromatrix -- loses all limits and becomes the universe itself. Exploring the symbiosis between organic matter and computer power to spin new forms of consciousness, Maurice Dantec rides Nietzsche's prophecy: "Man is something to be overcome."

Title: Backup    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Guy-Roger Duvert   Rutger Van de Steeg       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In the near future, immortality isn't just a dream—it's a business. And Backup, a global tech giant, holds the monopoly. By routinely uploading their memories, personalities, and every essence of who they are, the company's clients can cheat death, waking up in a new clone body after they die. But immortality comes with a price--one only the wealthy can afford.

Title: BAKEMONO (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Noirwave    Author: Thomas Fitzpatrick       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: A digitized humanity lives on in a simulation corrupted since the start, exiled by accident to a long-forgotten prototype city—an island in an endlessly looping black ocean. There, in the eternal night of a sky long deleted, under endless rains, the last living architects of the new world are plagued by a prophecy of numbers predicting a fatal system crash.

Title: Bandwidth (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Analog    Author: Eliot Peper       Publisher: 47North       Synopsis: A rising star at a preeminent political lobbying firm, Dag Calhoun represents the world’s most powerful technology and energy executives. But when a close brush with death reveals that the influence he wields makes him a target, impossible cracks appear in his perfect, richly appointed life. Like everyone else, Dag relies on his digital feed for everything—a feed that is as personal as it is pervasive, and may not be as private as it seems. As he struggles to make sense of the dark forces closing in on him, he discovers that activists are hijacking the feed to manipulate markets and governments. Going public would destroy everything he’s worked so hard to build, but it’s not just Dag’s life on the line—a shadow war is coming, one that will secure humanity’s future or doom the planet to climate catastrophe. Ultimately, Dag must decide the price he’s willing to pay to change the world.

Title: Bang Bang Bodhisattva    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: Aubrey Wood       Publisher: Solaris       Synopsis: It’s 2032 and we live in the worst cyberpunk future. Kiera is gigging her ass off to keep the lights on, but her polycule’s social score is so dismal they’re about to lose their crib. That’s why she's out here chasing cheaters with Angel Herrera, a luddite P.I. who thinks this is The Big Sleep. Then the latest job cuts too deep—hired to locate Herrera’s ex-best friend (who’s also Kiera’s pro bono attorney), they find him murdered instead. Their only lead: a stick of Nag Champa incense dropped at the scene.

Title: Batman: Digital Justice    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1990    Category: Comics Series       Author: Pepe Moreno   Doug Murray   Mike Gold       Publisher: Marvel       Synopsis: 100 years into the future, a computer virus calling itself "the Joker" is menacing the world's banking and business systems. In this "Batman" adventure, the latest advances in high-definition computer technology have been brought to the comic-book medium.

Title: Battery Life    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: Brennan Gilpatrick   Gregory Lang       Publisher: Blackstone Publishing       Synopsis: In this gripping post-apocalyptic cyberpunk epic -- equal parts  Z for Zachariah, The Road , and Elysium -- a privileged teen refugee and an aging junkie must learn to trust each other to survive a grim American wasteland.

Title: Battle Angel Alita (Gunnm)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1990    Category: Comics Series       Author: Yukito Kishiro       Publisher: Shueisha       Synopsis: A female cyborg with no memories of her past becomes a mercenary in Scrapyard, a post-apocalytpic sprawl built beneath Tiphares, a floating city inhabited by affluent citizens. Alita is a master of an ancient martial art, using it to track down renegade cyborgs. As time goes on, she begins to recall snippets of her past and devotes her time to investigating where she came from. A sequel series, Battle Angel Alita: Last Order ran from 2000–2014, and a final sequel, Gunnm: Mars Chronicle, is currently ongoing. A two-episode animated adaptation of the original comic was released in 1993.

Title: Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Omnibus 1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Comics Series       Series: Alita: Last Order Omnibus    Author: Yukito Kishiro       Publisher: Kodansha Comics       Synopsis: When Doc Ido, a talented cyber-physician, finds Alita's head in a junk heap, she has lost all memory of her past life. But when he reconstructs her, she discovers her body still instinctively remembers the Panzer Kunst, the most powerful cyborg fighting technique ever known. In the post-apocalyptic world of the Scrapyard, as the secrets of Alita's past unfold, each day is a struggle for survival.

Title: Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Omnibus 2    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Comics Series       Series: Alita: Last Order Omnibus    Author: Yukito Kishiro       Publisher: Kodansha Comics       Synopsis: Nanotechnology made humanity immortal, and the resulting population explosion pushed the Solar System’s resources to the breaking point. As a result, new births are banned and even the planets’ disparate governments cooperate to annihilate any children already born. With the tournament looming, Alita and her comrades find themselves caught between a spacefaring refuge for young innocents and a bloodthirsty mob intent on killing the children for sport!

Title: Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Omnibus 3    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Comics Series       Series: Alita: Last Order Omnibus    Author: Yukito Kishiro       Publisher: Kodansha Comics       Synopsis: On her way to retrieve Lou’s brain, Alita encounters a ghost from her past—an old mentor whose revelations shake Alita's very identity. Meanwhile Elf, Zwölf, and Sechs fight their deadly – and creepiest–enemies yet as the ZOTT rages on! But will the ARs have the mental fortitude to resist the psychically altered leader of the fearsome Starship Cult?

Title: Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Omnibus 4    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Comics Series       Series: Alita: Last Order Omnibus    Author: Yukito Kishiro       Publisher: Kodansha Comics       Synopsis: In the depths of Melchizedek, Alita inches closer to recovering her dear friend’s brain but not before she is greeted by Mbadi and a rather duplicitous Desty Nova doppleganger. Meanwhile, Sechs and the other members of the Space Angels make their way through ZOTT, where Sechs comes to face a universally renowned Space Karate master in a show of technique, toughness and…thumbs?

Title: Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Omnibus 5    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Comics Series       Series: Alita: Last Order Omnibus    Author: Yukito Kishiro       Publisher: Kodansha Comics       Synopsis: After nearly being canceled, the Z.O.T.T. resumes and now inches towards its conclusion with the Space Angels going head-to-head against new, formidable opponents that push their combative skills to the limit. With Alita jumping back into the fray, the independence of Tiphares and the scrapyard are depending on her victory, and with her new, seemingly unstoppable abilities, triumph seems to be nearly at hand for the Space Angels. However, behind the scenes, Mbadi and other nefarious entities are plotting to turn things around on Alita and her friends as the Z.O.T.T. continues into its final round.

Title: Beatless: Volume 1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Satoshi Hase   Ben Gessel       Publisher: J-Novel Club       Synopsis: Boy meets girl... you know how it goes. But while the boy (Arato) might be a typical 17-year-old, the girl (Lacia) is a beautiful android equipped with an enormous black device that defies human understanding. Set 100 years from now, BEATLESS depicts a familiar yet futuristic vision of Japan in which society is run by incredibly human-looking robots, known as hIE. Most people regard them as mere convenient tools. Yet some hIE–like Lacia–now appear bearing technology that far surpasses anything regular humans can produce. Humans and ultra-advanced artificial who is the master and who is the servant? Who made Lacia, and what ties her fate together with Arato? Bewildered by the turmoil of danger and mystery that Lacia brings into his life, Arato will find himself forced to make choices with profound implications not just for himself, but for all of humanity.

Title: Beautiful Intelligence (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Beautiful Intelligence    Author: Stephen Palmer       Publisher: infinity Plus       Synopsis: AI or BI? Artificial intelligence or beautiful intelligence? The race to create a sentient machine is headed by two teams, led by former researchers at Ichikawa Laboratories, who escape the regime there – and each other – to pursue their own dreams in the world beyond Japan.

Title: Behind Blue Eyes (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Behind Blue Eyes    Author: Anna Mocikat       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: They are the perfect hybrid between human and machine. They are the next step in the evolution of mankind. And when they come after you, nothing in the world will save you...

Title: Belligerent    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel       Author: B. N. Mauldin       Publisher: Fable Press       Synopsis: In a dystopian future the populace is segregated into castes. Belligerents, the lowest of status, are comprised of criminals and outcasts. Content as a faceless Commoner, Ryan has made a life for himself on the streets as a car thief. While the work isn’t the most noble, he’s known as one of the best despite his young age. Ryan’s skills catch the eye of a flagrant Owner, bent on winning the virtual competition: Vicara. Newly branded as a Belligerent, Ryan struggles for freedom and acceptance at an academy specialized in training teams for Vicara. Ryan’s place on the team is shaky as he learns the truth and tragedy behind the person he replaces.

Title: Better Than Real: Sensual Solutions for the Discerning Client    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2006    Category: Novel       Author: Huw Lyan Thomas       Publisher: Velluminous Press       Synopsis: Lee is an up-and-coming designer of seductive love dolls, until the day his sexiest creation yet goes murderously wrong. Sent to the crime scene to defuse a delicate situation, Lee finds that the rogue doll has been infiltrated by a mysterious, self-aware entity called Lilith who can't seem to make her mind up whether she's a silky-smooth seductress or a state-of-the-art assassination system. Within hours, Lee's encounter with Lilith has escalated into a life-or-death race with her creators, the shadowy and relentless Elect, and ultimately into a battle for the very stuff of his humanity - a battle in which his best hope of salvation turns out not to be human at all.

Title: Beyond Cyberpunk    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Other       Author: Graham Murphy   Sherryl Vint       Publisher: Routledge       Synopsis: This book is a collection of essays that considers the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never more been in need of a fiction capable of engaging with a world shaped by information technology. The essays in explore our cyberpunk realities to soberly reconsider Eighties-era cyberpunk while also mapping contemporary cyberpunk. The contributors seek to move beyond the narrow strictures of cyberpunk as defined in the Eighties and contribute to an ongoing discussion of how to negotiate exchanges among information technologies, global capitalism, and human social existence. The essays offer a variety of perspectives on cyberpunkOCOs diversity and how this sub-genre remains relevant amidst its transformation from a print fiction genre into a more generalized set of cultural practices, tackling the question of what it is that cyberpunk narratives continue to offer us in those intersections of literary, cultural, theoretical, academic, and technocultural environments.

Title: Beyond The Dragon's Gate    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Yoon Ha Lee       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Former Academician Anna Kim’s research into AI cost her everything. Now, years later, the military has need of her expertise in order to prevent the destruction of their AI-powered fleet.

Title: Binary Storm    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Paratwa Saga    Author: Christopher Hinz       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: Set in a world terrorized by genetically engineered assassins, this is a “fast-paced future thriller” for fans of cyberpunk sci-fi and the Paratwa Saga ( B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog). Near the end of the 21st century, Earth is in chaos from environmental devastation and a vicious undeclared war against binaries, genetically engineered assassins. Composed of a single consciousness inhabiting two human bodies (tways), binaries are ruled by an alpha breed, the Royal Caste.

Title: Biomega    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Comics Series       Author: Tsutomu Nihei       Publisher: VIZ Media       Synopsis: Set in the future, the plot follows Zoichi Kanoe and his AI companion Fuyu Kanoe, whose luminous form is integrated into the system of his motorcycle. They are agents sent by TOA Heavy Industries to retrieve humans with the ability to resist and transmute the N5S infection, which is spreading across the world, turning humans into "Drones"; disfigured, zombie-like beings.

Title: Black Glass    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Novel       Author: John Shirley       Publisher: Elder Signs Press       Synopsis: Taking the fall for his younger brother, Richard Candle went from being a cyber cop to a condemned criminal. After four years of "UnMinding"—with his mind suppressed and his body enslaved—he's released to discover his brother has slipped back into the underworld of the V-Rat: the virtual reality addict. Meanwhile, Candle's harried by the murderous Grist, the head of the world's biggest multinational. But his real enemy is something else: a conscious program, the Multisemblant, a meld of copied personalities, the dark side of five powerful people, with its own brutal agenda. Human society is sinking ever deeper into a mire of escapism, but Richard Candle, looking for his missing brother, fights his way through the real world of underground stock markets, flying guns, the trash-walled labyrinth of Rooftown, and the fringe of the fringe.

Title: Black Magic M66    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1983    Category: Comics Series       Author: Masamune Shirow       Publisher: Seishinsha   Dark Horse       Synopsis: When two malfunctioning combat androids are accidentally unleashed on a "Terminate at All Costs" mission against the unsuspecting granddaughter of their creator, an entire city becomes the battleground and not even the military may be able to stop them! The girl's only hope: Sybil, a freelance journalist who's out to get the scoop of her life, if she can somehow keep both herself and her subject alive long enough to file a report. But first, she has to remember to put her clothes on!

Title: Black Man (Thirteen)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Novel       Author: Richard K. Morgan       Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd       Synopsis: Carl Marsalis is a selectively bred human ("genetic variant") known as a "Thirteen", characterized by high aggression and low sociability. Bred to serve in a military capacity, Thirteens were later confined on reservations or exiled to Mars. Carl, having won by lottery the right to return from Mars, works covertly, tracking down renegade Thirteens.

Title: Blackstar    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel       Author: Joshua Viola       Publisher: FiXT       Synopsis: In a world blasted and barren, the last bastion of civilization is a fortress-city called Central. Kaine, the city's benevolent arbiter, rules over the people in exchange for his gift to them: Re:memory—a public archive containing humanity's memories of the world before it was destroyed. Rezin doesn't know who he is or why he's in Central, but he does know this: he is a Reaper. His combination of gifts and abilities allow him to decrypt any system and steal information to sell to the highest bidder. His talents afford him a life of luxury until the day he plugs into Re:memory and reaps something he wasn't looking for—something Kaine will do anything to get back.

Title: Blade Gunner (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Liquid Cool    Author: Austin Dragon       Publisher: Well-Tailored Books       Synopsis: In the next installment of the sci-fi/cyberpunk detective series, author Austin Dragon shows you when two forces of evil want to kill each other—get the hell out of the way! The Liquid Cool Series is the sci-fi classic, Blade Runner meets the Old Hollywood classic, Maltese Falcon. There is plenty of gritty action, suspense, thrills, and even a few laughs. It’s the cyberpunk novel reimagined—an ever-rainy world of colossal skyscrapers, hover-cars, flashy neon streets, and futuristic mechanization. Metropolis isn’t a bad place, but it isn’t a good one either. Uber-governments and mega-corporations fight for control of the fifty-million-plus super-city, but so does crime. Sinister secret megacorporations. Savage Cyborg cults. And the Blade Gunner. How does Cruz, our private eye (and unlikely hero), solve this case—let alone survive? Off-worlders will do anything to stop the unknown man called Blade Gunner—even to blow up a supercity from space! The seedy spousal surveillance case doesn’t look so bad after all, but it’s too late to go back. You haven’t read a cyberpunk novel like this.

Title: Blade Runner 2019 (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: In the neo-noir city of Los Angeles, 2019, Ash, a veteran Blade Runner, is grappling with a new case: a billionaire's wife and child, apparently kidnapped by Replicants for dark purposes...

Title: Blade Runner 2019 (#10)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo   Marco Lesko       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Ex-Blade Runner Ash and her charge Cleo return to the rain-soaked dystopic future of Los Angeles for a confrontation that will expose a terrifying conspiracy that could bring down a dynasty!

Title: Blade Runner 2019 (#11)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: After six years off-world, ex-Blade Runner Ash has returned to Los Angeles, but now the hunter has become the hunted.

Title: Blade Runner 2019 (#12)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo   Marco Lesko       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: After six years off-world, ex-Blade Runner Ash has returned to Los Angeles, but now the hunter has become the hunted.

Title: Blade Runner 2019 (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Ash chases deadly leads in a kidnap case!

Title: Blade Runner 2019 (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo   Marco Lesko       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Hunter becomes hunted, as veteran Blade Runner Ash is shot down in neo-noir Los Angeles, 2019! The first new comic series set in the world of Blade Runner, from Michael Green (screenwriter for Blade Runner 2049) and Mike Johnson (Star Trek), and illustrated by Andres Guinaldo (Justice League Dark, Captain America)!

Title: Blade Runner 2019 (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo   Marco Lesko       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: The climax to the first original comic series set in the world of Blade Runner! Detective Ash discovers the truth behind her mysterious client, his kidnapped family, and the Replicant conspiracy hidden throughout Los Angeles!

Title: Blade Runner 2019 (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Seven years after her disastrous last case, veteran Blade Runner Ash is low on cash and short on options...

Title: Blade Runner 2019 (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo   Marco Lesko       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Seven years after her disastrous last case, veteran Blade Runner Ash is low on cash and shot on options...

Title: Blade Runner 2019 (#7)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: From the rain soaked dystopic world of Los Angeles 2019 to the never-before-seen promised land of the Off-World colonies, Replicant-hating ex-Blade Runner ASH's missions take her where no other Blade Runner would dare to go.

Title: Blade Runner 2019 (#8)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: The second arc of the bestselling comic reaches its climactic conclusion as former Blade Runner ASH's mission takes her where no other Blade Runner would dare to go the never-before-seen Off-World colonies!

Title: Blade Runner 2019 (#9)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Ex-Blade Runner Ash and her charge Cleo return to the rain-soaked dystopic future of Los Angles for a confrontation that will expose a terrifying conspiracy that could bring down a dynasty.

Title: Blade Runner 2019 FCBD    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo   Marco Lesko       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Early in the 21 Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced robot evolution into the Nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. The early Nexus models were intended to reassure the public – and corporate interests – that Replicants were viable replacements to perform jobs considered too hazardous or mundane for humans.

Title: Blade Runner 2019, Vol. 1: Los Angeles    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Welcome to the rain soaked world of Los Angeles 2019 - a dystopic world of Replicants, Spinners and hardboiled future noir. There's a new Blade Runner in town, and she's out for blood. Replicant blood. This officially sanctioned sequel comic to the original Blade Runner film is written by Michael Green, the screenwriter of Blade Runner 2049.

Title: Blade Runner 2019, Vol. 2: Off World    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: From the rain-soaked dystopic world of Los Angeles 2019 to the never-before-seen promised land of the Off-World colonies, Replicant-hating Blade Runner Ash's search for the runaway wife and child of a rich industrialist takes her where no other Blade Runner has ever gone before! Ash must deal with the life-changing after-effects of Blade Runner 2019: Los Angeles – but a powerful new threat puts her life in danger once more.

Title: Blade Runner 2019, Vol. 3: Home Again, Home Again    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2019    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: The sins of the father are coming home. Ex-Blade Runner Ash and her charge, Cleo, have returned from the Off-World colonies to the rain-soaked dystopic future of Los Angeles for a confrontation that will expose shocking secrets and reveal a terrifying conspiracy that could bring down an empire.

Title: Blade Runner 2029 (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo   Marco Lesko       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: It is 2029 and ex-Blade Runner Ash continues to hunt the streets of the rain-soaked dystopian world of Los Angeles for renegade Replicants, but this time she’s trying to protect as many as she can find.

Title: Blade Runner 2029 (#10)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Single Issues)    Author: Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Renegade Replicant leader Yuton’s call to arms to all Replicants has seen the city of LA ravaged by urban warfare and terrorist attacks, culminating in the destruction of the iconic headquarters of the LAPD. Now it is up to Detective Ash to retire cult leader Yotun before he destroys both her and city she loves.

Title: Blade Runner 2029 (#11)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Single Issues)    Author: Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Ex-Blade Runner Ash is on the run once again as Replicant cult leader Yotun orders his army of fanatical super-human followers to kill her.

Title: Blade Runner 2029 (#12)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Single Issues)    Author: Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Ash is on the run once again as Replicant cult leader Yotun orders his army of fanatical super-human followers to kill her.

Title: Blade Runner 2029 (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo   Marco Lesko       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Blade Runner Ash hunts the streets of Los Angeles for renegade Replicants. She finds her loyalties and humanity challenged by two Replicants… one offering her salvation, the other deadly damnation.

Title: Blade Runner 2029 (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo   Marco Lesko       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Ash finds her loyalties and humanity challenged by two Replicants, one offering her salvation, the other deadly damnation!

Title: Blade Runner 2029 (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Single Issues)    Author: Michael Green   Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo   Marco Lesko       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: For Ash the hunt is nearly over. She finds her loyalties challenged by two Replicants, one offering salvation, the other possible damnation. Will she have the strength to survive?

Title: Blade Runner 2029 (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Single Issues)    Author: Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo   Marco Lesko       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: A fanatical army of super-human Replicants have laid siege to L.A. Now it is up to Detective Ash to retire cult leader Yotun before he destroys both her and the city she loves...

Title: Blade Runner 2029 (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Single Issues)    Author: Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo   Marco Lesko       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: A fanatical army of super-human replicants have laid siege to L.A. Now it is up to Detective Ash to retire cult leader Yotun before he destroys both her, and the city she loves.

Title: Blade Runner 2029 (#7)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Single Issues)    Author: Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo   Marco Lesko       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: A relentless band of super-human Replicants is out to kill Ash. Will she be able to protect the ones she loves?

Title: Blade Runner 2029 (#8)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Single Issues)    Author: Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Ash is on the run again as replicant cult leader Yotun orders his army of fanatical super-human followers to kill her.

Title: Blade Runner 2029 (#9)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Single Issues)    Author: Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Fanatic replicant leader Yuton’s call to arms has turned Los Angeles into a warzone. Now Ash and her lover Freysa are on the run, hounded by replicants and Blade Runners. With time running out for both sides, Ash finds herself on a collision course with Yotun!

Title: Blade Runner 2029, Vol. 1: Reunion    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Collected Editions)    Author: Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo        Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: It is 2029 and Blade Runner Ash continues to hunt the streets of the rain-soaked dystopian world of Los Angeles for renegade Replicants, but this time she's trying to protect as many as she can find...

Title: Blade Runner 2029, Vol. 2: Echoes    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Collected Editions)    Author: Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Blade Runner Ash becomes the hunted when the Replicant cult leader Yotun orders his death cult to hunt her down and kill her. Now, to protect those she loves, Ash must take to the rain-soaked streets of Los Angeles and do battle with a fanatical and relentless army of super-human Replicants.

Title: Blade Runner 2029, Vol. 3: Redemption    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2029 (Collected Editions)    Author: Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: It is 2029. Renegade Replicant leader Yuton’s call to arms to all Replicants has seen the city of LA ravaged by urban warfare and terrorist attacks, culminating in the destruction of the iconic headquarters of the LAPD Police Department. Now Ash and her lover, Fresya (leader of the Replicant Underground) are on the run, hounded by Blade Runners and Yuton’s followers. And with time running out for both sides, Ash finds herself on a collision course with Yotun.

Title: Blade Runner 2039, Vol. 1: Luv    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2039 (Collected Editions)    Author: Mike Johnson   Mellow Brown   Andres Guinaldo   Marco Lesko   Jim Campbell       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Los Angeles 2039. It has been three years since Niander Wallace introduced his brand of ‘perfectly obedient’ Replicants, and the ban on synthetic humans has been lifted, at least for the new Wallace models―the older Tyrell Corp’s Nexus 8 units are still hunted by Blade Runners. Cleo Selwyn, first seen as a small child in Blade Runner 2019, has returned to L.A. some twenty years later, searching for Isobel, a Replicant copy of her real mother who died when she was three. Cleo believes that Niander Wallace is holding Isobel captive, and the only person she can call on for help is the one who saved her so many years ago: Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina, now an aging and disgraced ex-Blade Runner.

Title: Blade Runner 2039, Vol. 2: Upgrade    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2039 (Collected Editions)    Author: Mike Johnson   Andres Guinaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: The second arc of Ash’s final adventure sees the retired Blade Runner reunited with Cleo Selwyn, her ward from the first Blade Runner graphic novel, 2019. Together they must go on the run from the deadly and fanatical LUV, the first Replicant Blade Runner seen in the movie Blade Runner 2049. It’s 2039 and Cleo Selwyn has finally returned to Los Angeles to search for her surrogate Replicant mother Isobel who Cleo believes has been abducted on the orders of Niander Wallace. Believing that Cleo’s DNA holds the secret of Replicant fertility Wallace has ordered his own personal assistant Replicant, Luv, the world’s first Replicant Blade Runner to hunt down and return Cleo to him and to kill all who stand in her way. Reuniting with former Blade Runner Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina, Cleo and Ash set off on a road trip to find her mother with Luv hard on her heels.

Title: Blade Runner 2039, Vol. 3: Ash    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner 2039 (Collected Editions)    Author: Mike Johnson   Andres Gunaldo       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: In 2019, Aahna “Ash” Ashina was the LAPD’s most efficient and feared Blade Runner. Two decades later and Ash has lives ‘off-grid’ as fugitive outlaw helping Replicants escape their enslaved servitude and survive undetected on Earth. Now, in 2039, Niander’s own personal assistant, Luv, has become the first Replicant to be accepted into the Blade Runner unit, but she has a secret agenda, find Cleo, the daughter of industrialist Alexander Selwyn whom Ash helped to escape 20 years earlier. Now, as Ash’s past and future collide, her astonishing story finally concludes as she faces her greatest challenge saving the city she loves from the insane machinations of Niander Wallace, heir of the Tyrell empire. It's up to Ash to keep the truth about the Replicant miracle (seen in Blade Runner 2049) a secret, and to fulfill the pact she made years ago to those she loves most.

Title: Blade Runner 2: The Edge Of Human (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1995    Category: Novel Series       Series: Blade Runner    Author: K. W. Jeter       Publisher: Bantam Books       Synopsis: Beginning several months after the events in Blade Runner, Deckard has retired to an isolated shack outside the city, taking the replicant Rachael with him in a Tyrell transport container, which slows down the replicant aging process. He is approached by a woman who explains she is Sarah Tyrell, niece of Eldon Tyrell, heiress to the entire Tyrell Corporation and the human template (templant) for the Rachael replicant. She asks Deckard to hunt down the "missing" sixth replicant. At the same time, the human template for Roy Batty hires Dave Holden, the blade runner attacked by Leon, to help him hunt down the man he believes is the sixth replicant - Deckard.

Title: Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Novel Series       Series: Blade Runner    Author: K. W. Jeter       Publisher: Spectra       Synopsis: Living on Mars, Deckard is acting as a consultant to a movie crew filming the story of his Blade Runner days. He finds himself drawn into a mission on behalf of the replicants he was once assigned to kill. Meanwhile, the mystery surrounding the beginnings of the Tyrell Corporation is being dragged out into the light.

Title: Blade Runner 4: Eye And Talon (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2000    Category: Novel Series       Series: Blade Runner    Author: K. W. Jeter       Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd       Synopsis: The story begins with the introduction of Iris, a female Blade Runner, and the best in her unit. Meyer - her boss - tells her that the blade runner division is in danger; far fewer replicants are coming to Earth, and thus the economic value of the blade runners is dropping, giving the risk of a "reorganisation". Meyer gives Iris the assignment to track down an owl - an extremely rare, real owl, named Scrappy. Iris is skeptical, since if the owl is real (and thus not a replicant) the case seems to be nothing to do with the blade runners, but she accepts the job anyway.

Title: Blade Runner and the Cyberpunk Narrative. Is Cyberpunk a Dystopian Narrative or a Genre of its own?    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Other       Author: Mike Gallo       Publisher: Google       Synopsis: The reference "I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe" marks one of the most iconic monologues in movie history. It perfectly describes the confusing life within a dystopian future from the perspective of a being whose existence is a comment on life itself. Replicants, artificial life, flying cars, dirty streets, confusing architecture and big corporations fill the narration of "Blade Runner", often claimed as the showpiece of the art form of cyberpunk. What is cyberpunk? What is cyber? What is punk? This seminar paper will examine the origins of the cyberpunk narrative...

Title: Blade Runner: Origins, Vol. 1: Products    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner: Origins    Author: K. Perkins   Mellow Brown   Mike Johnson   Fernando Dagnino   Marco Lesko        Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: When a Tyrell Corporation scientist working on an experimental new type of Replicant is discovered dead in her laboratory, the victim of an apparent suicide, LAPD detective CAL MOREAU is called in to investigate. What he uncovers is a conspiracy of silence so deadly it could change the world as he knows it. Set ten years before the events of the first Blade Runner film, this is the world on the cusp of environmental collapse, and the beginning of the mass Off-world migration to the Off-world colonies. Through its rain-soaked streets, LAPD Detective CAL MOREAU, a PTSD sufferer, must travel as he attempts to unravel the truth behind a seemingly routine suicide that soon reveals itself to be just the thin end of a vast conspiracy, one that runs to the very top of the Tyrell Corporation tower.

Title: Blade Runner: Origins, Vol. 2: Scrap    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner: Origins    Author: K. Perkins   Mellow Brown   Fernando Dagnino   Marco Lesko       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: LAPD detective CAL MOREAUX has teamed up with an escaped experimental REPLICANT, who has been uploaded with the memories of a dead Tyrell Corporation scientist, whose suicide he was sent to investigate. Now they must run and fight a conspiracy hatched in the very heart of the Tyrell Corporation.

Title: Blade Runner: Origins, Vol. 3: Burning    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Comics Series       Series: Blade Runner: Origins    Author: K. Perkins   Mellow Brown   Fernando Dagnino   Mike Johnson       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Tyrell executive Ilora Stahl, head of a secret programme to transfer human consciousness into Replicant hosts has launched an all-out attack on Sector 6-b determined to flush out and kill a renegade Replicant called Nia, who was once part of her covert programme.

Title: Blade Runner: The Official Comics Illustrated Version    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1982    Category: Comics       Author: Archie Goodwin   Al Williamson   Carlos Garzon   Dan Green   Ralph Reese       Publisher: Marvel       Synopsis: Stan Lee presents the Marvel Comics illustrated version of Blade Runner. Based on the novel Do Androids Dreams of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.

Title: Blame!    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Comics Series       Author: Tsutomu Nihei       Publisher: Kodansha       Synopsis: Within a claustrophobic, tech-drenched megastructure that encompasses the entire planet, Killy, a traveler with a small but super powerful gun, silently traverses countless levels of what is called “The City.” He’s searching for “net terminal genes” which may allow him to connect with The City’s neural center and stop its growth. Along the way he meets various transhuman inhabitants, but is also pursued by The City’s cyborg defenses. A prequel, NOiSE, was released in 2001, and a sequel, NSE: Net Sphere Engineer, began in 2004. A 6-part original video animation based on the comic was released in 2003.

Title: Blame! Academy And So On    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Comics Series       Author: Tsutomu Nihei       Publisher: Kodansha       Synopsis: BLAME! Academy and So On is a spin-off series of BLAME! set in the same "City" as BLAME! and is a parody / comedy about various characters in the main BLAME! storyline set in a traditional Japanese school environment. Various elements of the main BLAME! story are parodied, including the relationship between Killy and Cibo, and Dhomochevsky and Iko. Irregularly published in Afternoon and compiled as BLAME! Gakuen and So On September 19, 2008, this is its first official English language release in either digital or print.

Title: Blue Pills    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: Armand Vespertine       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Surreality is the most popular Massively Multiplayer Online Simulated Reality on Earth. With full sensory immersion indistinguishable from the real world, millions of people log on to experience its vast and fantastical dreamscape.

Title: Bluefall: Vol 1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Author: Andrew Trainor   Dillon Snook       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: When the creator of the powerful virtual Universe, “Circus” is murdered, LAPD detective JULIAN AMBROSE delves into the virtual world to find the killer and uncover the global financial conspiracy behind his death.

Title: Bluescreen (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Mirador    Author: Dan Wells       Publisher: Balzer & Bray       Synopsis: Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. One of those connections is a djinni—a smart device implanted right in a person’s head. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen—and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it.

Title: Borderless (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Analog    Author: Eliot Peper       Publisher: 47North       Synopsis: Exiled from Washington after a covert operation gone wrong, Diana is building a new life as a freelance spy, though her obsessive secrecy is driving away the few friends and allies she can count on. When she’s hired to investigate the world’s leading techno capitalist, she unknowingly accepts an assignment with a dark ulterior purpose. Navigating a labyrinth of cutouts and false fronts, Diana discovers a plot to nationalize the global feed. As tech and politics speed toward a catastrophic reckoning, Diana must reconcile the sins of her past with her dreams of tomorrow. How she deploys the secrets in her arsenal will shape the future of a planet on the brink of disaster. Doing the right thing means risking everything to change the rules of the game. But how much is freedom really worth?

Title: Bounty Hunter (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Neon Horizon    Author: Michael Robertson       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: When Marcie left the Blind Spot, she had just two things to accomplish: One, she needed to get lungs for Sal’s transplant. Secondly, she needed to set the Eye up for a new life in Prime City. Simple, right?

Title: BrainWeb (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Nick Hall    Author: Douglas E. Richards       Publisher: Paragon Press       Synopsis: Nick Hall, an unwilling recipient of brain implants, can surf the Web with his thoughts and read minds. And while this makes him one of the most formidable men on earth, he is determined to stay off the grid. But when terrorists seize control of the Academy Awards and vow to butcher the world's most beloved stars, one by one, in front of an international television audience, Hall is forced to reveal his astonishing capabilities.

Title: Brass Man (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2005    Category: Novel Series       Series: Agent Cormac    Author: Neal Asher       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Ian Cormac, a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future, is hunting an interstellar dragon, little knowing that, far away, his competition has resurrected an horrific killing machine named "Mr. Crane" to assist in a similar hunt, ecompassing whole star systems. Mr. Crane, the insane indestructible artificial man now in a new metal body, seeks to escape a bloody past he can neither forget nor truly remember. And he is on a collision course with Ian Cormac.

Title: Brasyl    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Novel       Author: Ian McDonald       Publisher: Pyr       Synopsis: Be seduced, amazed, and shocked by one of the world's greatest and strangest nations. Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part SF, part history, part mystery, and entirely enthralling.

Title: Breach (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Analog    Author: Eliot Peper       Publisher: 47North       Synopsis: When you’ve betrayed your revolutionary cadre, an off-grid fight club on a remote tropical island is a good place to hide—or die. For notorious ex-hacker Emily Kim, the outcome of each fight makes little difference. Black-market blood sport is the perfect self-imposed penance. But when she stumbles on a plot to overthrow the corporate empire that provides the ubiquitous global feed, Emily discovers her old friends have been targeted. Warning them will force her out into the open, back on-grid, and directly into danger. Emily can’t escape the past. But can she seize the future?

Title: Breakaway (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cassandra Kresnov    Author: Joel Shepherd       Publisher: Pyr       Synopsis: Cassandra Kresnov is a highly advanced hunter-killer android. She has escaped the League and fled to Callay, a member of the Federation. Because of her fighting skills she was able to save the president's life and is now a trusted member of the security forces. However, not all Tanushans are happy to have her on their turf and Cassandra has to tread carefully. As Callay moves towards a vote on whether to break away from the Federation, confusion reigns and terrorist groups plot their own agendas.

Title: Breakout    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: A.M. Rose       Publisher: Independently Published       Synopsis: Six days. That's the amount of time until Lezah's execution. She'll die never knowing what got her locked up in that godforsaken prison in the first place. Her only chance of survival is to escape. Except the monitoring bracelet that digs into her wrist, the roaming AI, and the implant in her neck make freedom close to impossible.

Title: Broken Angels (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2003    Category: Novel Series       Series: Takeshi Kovacs    Author: Richard K. Morgan       Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd       Synopsis: Some 30 years after Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs is now serving in Carrera's Wedge, a mercenary organisation which joins a corporate war on a distant colony, Sanction IV, and fights the rebellion against the corporate-sponsored government. While having his latest body repaired after a disastrous campaign, Kovacs is approached by pilot Jan Schneider, who is looking for protection for an expedition to exploit a Martian artefact discovered just before the war broke out. "Martian" artefacts have been known for many years at this point, one of them being featured in Altered Carbon. Later it is realised that the "Martians" were not from Mars, but were a technologically advanced species that left artefacts on many planets, including Mars and Kovacs' home world.

Title: Bubblegum Crisis    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1989    Category: Comics Series       Series: Bubblegum Crisis    Author: Various       Publisher: Various       Synopsis: The series involves the adventures of the Knight Sabers, an all-female group of mercenaries who don powered exoskeletons and fight various problems, most frequently rogue robots. The success of the series spawned several sequel series.

Title: Bubblegum Crisis: Grand Mal    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1995    Category: Comics       Author: Adam Warren       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Mega-Tokyo, 2031. The Great Kanto earthquake six years earlier has left scars the city won't soon forget. Even as its glorious Genom tower rises higher with repairs, in its shadow creeps a new wave of crime, a sign that beneath the growing prosperity and recovery is an undercurrent of discontent . . . a world on the brink of exploding. And if the Armored Defense Police can't prevent the bubble from bursting, then the four-woman vigilante unit known as Knight Sabers will suit up for action!

Title: Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: P.W. Singer   August Cole       Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt       Synopsis: An FBI agent teams up with the first police robot to hunt a shadowy terrorist in this gripping technothriller—and fact-based tour of tomorrow—from the authors of Ghost Fleet. America is on the brink of a revolution. AI and robotics have realized science fiction’s dreams, but have also taken millions of jobs and left many citizens fearful that the future is leaving them behind.

Title: Burning Chrome    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1982    Category: Short Story       Author: William Gibson       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: "Burning Chrome" tells the story of two free-lance hackers - Automatic Jack, the narrator and a hardware specialist; and Bobby Quine, a software expert. Bobby becomes infatuated with a girl named Rikki and wants to become wealthy in order to impress her. Jack has acquired a powerful Russian "icebreaker" program that can penetrate corporate security systems. Bobby suggests that they use it to break into the system of a notorious and vicious criminal known as Chrome, who handles money transfers for organized crime, and Jack reluctantly agrees to help. The break-in is successful, and Jack and Bobby empty Chrome's bank accounts, but they discover afterward that Rikki had been working in a brothel with ties to Chrome. She uses her earnings to buy a set of cybernetic eye implants for herself and go to Hollywood; the news leaves both men devastated, as they have grown to love her, and Jack never sees her again.

Title: Busted Synapses    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Erica L. Satifka       Publisher: Broken Eye Books       Synopsis: Alicia, a runaway New Woman, comes to small-town Wheeling, West Virginia, and gets entangled with Jess and Dale, throwing their lives of pointless work and drug-fueled virtual reality into chaos. Meanwhile, truths are uncovered of the nation’s rewritten history—truths powerful corporations would rather leave hidden.

Title: C791 (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyborgs: More Than Machines    Author: Eve Langlais       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Machines aren’t supposed to feel, but this cyborg can’t help falling in love. Assigned as a specimen collector for a captured cyborg, Chloe is intrigued by the machine disguised as a man. Kidnapped during his daring escape, he shows her that despite the chip in his brain, his humanity is not completely lost.

Title: Carbone & Silicium    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Mathieu Bablet       Publisher: Ankama       Synopsis: Latest born from the Tomorrow Foundation laboratories, Carbon and Silicon are the prototypes of a new generation of robots intended to take care of the aging human population. Raised in a protective cocoon, eager to discover the outside world, it is during an escape attempt that they will eventually be separated. They then each conduct their own experiences and struggle, for several centuries, to find their place on a breathless planet where climatic catastrophes and political and human upheavals follow one another...

Title: Carlucci's Edge (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1995    Category: Novel Series       Series: Lt. Frank Carlucci    Author: Richard Paul Russo       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: A chilling scenario of the bleak urban landscape that is 21st-century San Francisco, and the return of Lt. Frank Carlucci. The San Francisco Police Department is stonewalling seemingly unrelated murder investigations, and Carlucci is determined to find out why. His unauthorized investigation leads him to an insidious black market run by top political officials.

Title: Carlucci's Heart (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1997    Category: Novel Series       Series: Lt. Frank Carlucci    Author: Richard Paul Russo       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: Lt. Frank Carlucci is drawn into an investigation surrounding the disappearance of his daughter's friend. But as Carlucci digs deeper, the corruption and decay he finds is nothing compared to a final horror that could have devastating implications: a secret known only as Cancer Cell.

Title: Carmen Mc Callum    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1997    Category: Comics Series       Author: Fred Duval       Publisher: Delacourt       Synopsis: Carmen Mc Callum is the story of a female mercenary who broke into a ship transporting cryonically frozen prisoners in search of her lost brother. Unknowingly to her, she stole a disk containing data needed by Inoshiro Tsuburaya to merge with an artificial intelligence. Because of this, Carmen gets hunted down by Tsuburayas henchmen.

Title: Cash Crash Jubilee (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Jubilee Cycle    Author: Eli K.P. William       Publisher: Talos       Synopsis: In a near future Tokyo, every action—from blinking to sexual intercourse—is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees. A BodyBank computer system implanted in each citizen records their movements from moment to moment, and connects them to the audio-visual overlay of the ImmaNet, so that every inch of this cyber-dystopian metropolis crawls with information and shifting cinematic promotainment.

Title: Catspaw (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2002    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cat    Author: Joan D. Vinge       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: CAT: Street Punk, Psion, Telepath, Survivor... Kidnapped by an interstellar corporation and dragged to Earth, Cat is forced to use his skills to protect those he most hates, those who most hate him...

Title: Central Station (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Central Station    Author: Lavie Tidhar       Publisher: Tachyon       Synopsis: When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik—a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return. Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful alien entities who, through the Conversation—a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness—are just the beginning of irrevocable change. At Central Station, humans and machines continue to adapt, thrive...and even evolve.

Title: Change (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Stork Tower    Author: Tony Corden       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Atherleah grew up in the gang-controlled suburbs of Brisbane at the end of the twenty-first century. From the age of six, she decided that she wanted more, and with the help of her local gang-leader, Leah learned the skills to escape a life of mediocrity. On her sixteenth birthday, she was inadvertently implanted with a Neural Enhancement Chip instead of the free Government provided basic level chip. This mistake removed the limits placed on the AI that was uploaded, broke some of the Government controls and began making changes to Leah's body. Leah’s life rapidly becomes a battle, both in the virtual-multiverse and in real life.

Title: Channel Zero    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Comics Series       Author: Brian Wood       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: Jennie 2.5, a New York-based performance artist/hacker begins hijacking television stations, urging viewers to stand up and take action against injustice and unchecked authority. Wood’s debut combined comics, design, and activism in ways that were startlingly fresh for when it was published in the 1990s, with many motifs and ideas that proved to be ahead their time. A sequel, Channel Zero: Jennie One, illustrated by Becky Cloonan, was released in 2003.

Title: Chaos & Cyber Culture    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1994    Category: Other       Author: Timothy Leary       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Timothy Learys Chaos and CyberCulture is his futuristic vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning authority , independent thinking, individual creativity, and the empowerment of computer and other brain technologies. This cyberpunk manifesto describes a new breed that loves technology and uses it to revolutionize communication and tweak Big Brother while being successful, achieving political power and having fun. Timothy Leary is a leading figure in the consciousness revolution of the 1960s. Chaos and CyberCulture brings together his provocative, futuristic writings, lively interviews and cogent conversations with a variety of writers and thinkers. Chaos and CyberCulture defines the emergence of the New Breed of the Information Age, who are creating the cyberdelic politics and culture of the 21st Century. Chaos and CyberCulture is a substantial work (over 100,000 words) consisting of over forty chapters and conversations with leading figures. There are eight main sections and a epilogue.

Title: Cheatc0de    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Mikey Campling       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Play the Game. Play to Win. Play to Survive. Most people play the game: total immersion VR with full neural sync. But Hank lives it. In Unlimited Combat, he's one of the best. He makes his own luck. And he plays solo. Until now. When a player offers Hank fame and fortune, it's too good to pass up. To succeed, Hank must fight harder than ever before, pushing past the game's safety protocols. His life is on the line, and when he's captured, he knows he's in too deep. Can he escape? And who can he trust? Join Hank in the game—if you dare. CHEATC0DE is a perfect read for fans of cyberpunk, technothrillers, and LitRPG. It's a fast-paced page-turner of a tale. Please note that CHEATC0DE is a stand alone novel, not a serial. Although there will be further adventures for these characters in future books, each book will stand on its own.

Title: Children Of The Night Vol. 1: Chaos    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Author: I. S. Fergus       Publisher: Natex Creations       Synopsis: John Black is a private detective with a controversial work history. Tired of the monotony of his everyday life, a new case reignites something inside of him. Black embarks on the search for missing children that are supposedly being taken in the dead of night. Little does he know, his investigation will only bring one thing: CHAOS.

Title: Chiwaukee Nights (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Tower Of Somnus    Author: Cale Plamann       Publisher: Mountaindale Press       Synopsis: Kat beat the bad guys and scored a pile of credits deep enough for her to fill a kiddy pool and go swimming in it. What she didn’t expect was for the mastermind of her plight to survive, as well as do her a she removed her from the Arcology, and enrolled her in the GroCorp corporate college. She knows the Arcology, but this is a chance to earn enough credits to set her family up for life.

Title: Chromatic (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novella Series       Series: Cyber Overture    Author: D.B. Goodin       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: When Alice lands a new job as a talent agent that caters to all-human Rock & Roll bands, her world is turned upside down when a mysterious man captures one of her friends and leaves a sinister calling card. As she investigates a series of unexpected circumstances threatens to unravel the life she has so carefully built.

Title: Chromed: Restore (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Novel Series       Series: Future Forfeit    Author: Richard Parry       Publisher: Mondegreen       Synopsis: It’s 2150AD. Uplinks turn us into slaves. Mason Floyd is lost on a dying world, bionics failing as he wages war against the ruling elite. He’s left off-grid rockstar Sadie Freeman on Earth with a hopeless quest: resurrect the dead. New megacorp HumanE forces outright war. They have the means to control humans through the link, creating a limitless army of warriors. To free humanity, Mason discards the corporate protection he’s always known, leaving him vulnerable. Sadie embraces corporate chains, going against all she stands for. As the streets of Seattle erupt into conflict, Mason and Sadie face their greatest challenge. They must save us from ourselves.

Title: Chromed: Rogue (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Novel Series       Series: Future Forfeit    Author: Richard Parry       Publisher: Mondegreen       Synopsis: It’s 2150AD. Syndicates fight on the streets. Company enforcer Mason Floyd and rockstar Sadie Freeman share an uneasy truce in a city buried beneath company sin. As the rain lifts for the first time in what feels like forever, they are hunted. Mason’s employers sent their best to take them out. Betrayed from within, walking away would be the simplest choice. But Sadie and Mason aren’t known for taking the easy path. They owe someone who gave everything so they could be free. They must get back to the world, save a lost friend from a reprogramming facility, and escape into the night.

Title: Chromed: Upgrade (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Future Forfeit    Author: Richard Parry       Publisher: Mondegreen       Synopsis: It’s 2150AD. There hasn’t been a corporate war... until now. Mason Floyd is an augmented syndicate enforcer at the top of his game. His job is asset protection and acquisition, no questions asked. Company tech is stolen on Mason’s watch. Rival megacorps want it, and they don’t mind killing him to get it. Framed for the theft, Mason runs. He tangles with off-grid rockstar Sadie Freeman on the grimy seam between the powerful and poor. Together they uncover a secret an entire city died to keep.Hunted and desperate, they must team up to survive. Together Mason and Sadie can save the world. Apart, both are lost. They must trust each other or die.

Title: Chronopolis    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1971    Category: Novel       Author: J.G. Ballard       Publisher: Berkley       Synopsis: Nobody has had more influence on the development of modern science fiction than Ballard. Above all, no one has done more to set new standards for sheer technique in this field. He is a man of towering imagination and acknowledged genius at handling the most intricate of plots.

Title: Cinder    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel       Author: Marissa Meyer       Publisher: Feiwel & Friends       Synopsis: The story is set in a futuristic new Beijing, where the various countries have re-organized to form various new empires and alliances and the moon has been colonized. The protagonist, Linh Cinder is a cyborg that operates a small mechanic’s stall at a local street market in New Beijing, and lives under the guardianship of her stepmother. Early in the book, she meets Prince Kai who requests her to fix a personal android. Cinder’s stepsister falls sick with a plague after accompanying Cinder to a junkyard to collect spare parts for a repair. In anger, Cinder’s stepmother “volunteers” Cinder for plague research. When Cinder is injected with the plague, she shows an immunity to it. Dr Erland, the plague researcher, starts to do research on Cinder’s immunity, which leads to research on Cinder’s unique physiology, her cyborg implants, and eventually to Cinder’s life prior to becoming a cyborg at the age of 11, of which Cinder has no memory.

Title: City Come A-Walkin'    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1980    Category: Novel       Author: John Shirley       Publisher: Dell Publishing       Synopsis: Stu Cole is struggling to keep his nightclub, Club Anesthesia, afloat in the face of mob harassment when he's visited by a manifestation of the city of San Francisco, crystallized into a single enigmatic being. This amoral superhero leads him on a terrifying journey through the rock and roll demimonde as they struggle to save the city.

Title: City Of Golden Shadow    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Novel       Author: Ted Williams       Publisher: DAW Books       Synopsis: Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizes something is wrong on the network. Kids, including her brother Stephen, have logged into the net, and cannot escape. Clues point to a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but investigators all end up dead.

Title: City Of Golden Shadow (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Novel Series       Series: Otherland    Author: Tad Williams       Publisher: DAW Books       Synopsis: Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizes something is wrong on the network. Kids, including her brother Stephen, have logged into the net, and cannot escape. Clues point to a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but investigators all end up dead.

Title: City Of Shattered Llight (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Requiem Dark    Author: Claire Winn       Publisher: Flux       Synopsis: As heiress to a powerful tech empire, seventeen-year-old Asa Almeida strives to prove she's more than her manipulative father's shadow. But when he uploads her rebellious sister’s mind to an experimental brain, Asa will do anything to save her sister from reprogramming—including fleeing her predetermined future with her sister’s digitized mind in tow. With a bounty on her head and a rogue A.I. hunting her, Asa’s getaway ship crash-lands in the worst possible place: the neon-drenched outlaw paradise, Requiem.

Title: City Of Silence    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Comics       Author: Warren Ellis   Gary Erskine       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: The future is bad for you. In a place where everyone has the technology to create brand-new, weird sciences ten times a day, there are policemen who will hunt you down for having a bad idea. They are the Silencers. And the investigation of a dead kid with a silicon pentagram on his neck opens up a whole box of bad ideas upon a city that only survives through silence... Plus: Special pin-up gallery featuring artwork by Chris Weston, Dougie Braithwaite, John McCrea, Andi Watson, Steve Pugh, Simon Fraser, Dom Regan, Kev Hopgood, Jon Haward, and Matt Greg.

Title: City Of Vicious Night (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Requiem Dark    Author: Claire Winn       Publisher: North Star Editions       Synopsis: It’s been four months since runaway heiress Asa crash-landed on the matriarchal outlaw colony Requiem, bringing a nasty AI and a host of deadly secrets with her. Now, she runs with her almost-girlfriend Riven’s smuggler crew, stealing kisses between gunfights and heists. But when a mysterious hacker sabotages their latest job, other gangs turn against them, blaming them for the destruction the rogue AI caused. Nowhere in the city is safe.

Title: Clear (comiXology Originals) #1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Author: Scott Snyder   Will Dennis   Francis Manapul   AndWorld Design       Publisher: Best Jackett Press       Synopsis: A sci-fi mystery thrill-ride into a strange dystopian future, where a neurological internet connection is transforming reality.

Title: Clockwork Asylum    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1997    Category: Novel       Author: Jak Koke       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: In this second book of the greatest epic in Shadowrun history--the maelstrom of cyber-magic and political intrigue following President Dunkelzahn's assassination rages out of control. Ryan Mercury, Dunkelzahn's secret agent, is torn between his duty and his desire to find a killer. But when a spirit wrongly concludes that Ryan is working for the enemy, he anoints a cyberzombie to carry out a hit of its own. Now with an impressive arsenal of allies, weaponry, and the Dragon Heart, Ryan just might pull off the save of the century--if he doesn't lose his life first!

Title: Clover    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1997    Category: Comics Series       Author: CLAMP       Publisher: Tokyopop   Dark Horse       Synopsis: Kazuhiko is a young, but already deeply wounded black ops agent of a baroque, retro-tech future. Kaz is pulled out of retirement to escort Sue, a mysterious waif, to a destination she alone knows. Sue and Kazuhiko have never met, yet she knows him, having grown up since the age of four with her only human contact. Two distant voices: that of her elderly grandma General Ko, and of Kazuhiko's dead girlfriend, Ora. Sue has been kept in that cage all these years because of what she is, and what the Clover Leaf Project found her to be: a military top secret, and the most dangerous person in the world! Clover is a long out-of-print classic from Japan's shojo artist supergroup CLAMP! Never before available in its original Japanese right-to-left reading orientation, Dark Horse not only brings Clover into English for the first time, but also collects all four of the original volumes into one reasonably priced omnibus, with a brand-new cover design especially for this edition!

Title: Code Breakers: Alpha (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Code Breakers    Author: Colin F. Barnes       Publisher: CreateSpace       Synopsis: Code Breakers: Alpha is a futuristic, high-stakes thrill ride. In a post-apocalyptic future, humanity survives within a single domed city run by a shadowy benefactor known only as The Family. Each week the death lottery claims more lives and Gerry Cardle, head of the lottery, inexplicably finds himself the next on the list. Something's wrong with the system. A deadly artificial intelligence has breached security. Gerry has just 7 days to live. Forced off the grid, Gerry has to do the unthinkable: willingly leave the city. What he finds in the abandoned lands will shatter his perception of what it means to be human. Everything he had been told before was a lie. In a deadly world of conspiracies, Gerry has to sacrifice everything he loves in order to save it, and time is running out.

Title: Code Breakers: Beta (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Code Breakers    Author: Colin F. Barnes       Publisher: CreateSpace       Synopsis: Being human is no longer enough. The fanatical Red Widows sweep destruction across the abandoned lands. Their aggression threatens to destroy the city Gerry had risked his life to save. Petal, the woman Gerry has come to love is dying. The despotic cabal, The Family, demand he brings her to them, but she's missing, running from the Widows, searching for the truth of her origins before it's too late. When their paths cross, Petal and Gerry will hold the fate of humankind in their hands-if they can survive the malevolent digital entity that stalks them from the shadows. Code Breakers: Beta is a post-apocalyptic, near-future thriller that will delight fans of The Matrix, Neuromancer, and Blade Runner.

Title: Code Breakers: Delta (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Code Breakers    Author: Colin F. Barnes       Publisher: Anachron Press       Synopsis: The fourth and final novel in the Code Breakers series. Gabriel and Petal have tracked Gabe’s mother back to Hong Kong. But to find her Gabe has to face his old gang and the ghosts he thought he had laid to rest years before. While helping him, Petal stumbles on a way of getting Gerry’s mind out of her head, but like Gabe, she too has to return to a place full of ghosts: Libertas. Enna is now the Prime Minister of the domed city, and when Petal arrives she discovers Enna has developed her transcendent technology. However, to give Gerry a new existence, they’ll need more help—help from someone within the Family. Faced with shifting loyalties and an uncertain future, Petal and Gerry will for the last time face a dire threat to their existence when Jess is kidnapped by a shadowy figure. It’s a race against time to find her and uncover the conspiracy before the Family has the last laugh.

Title: Code Breakers: Gamma (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Code Breakers    Author: Colin F. Barnes       Publisher: CreateSpace       Synopsis: The third instalment of the best-selling (#1 Cyberpunk) series. How much sacrifice should anyone have to give? Petal and Gabriel are forced to decide, as the mad, digital entity, Elliot Robertson, is determined to dominate the world. His influence, spread by an insurgent group, The Ronin, seeks to control and enslave the last of humanity. With time running out, Petal and Gabriel must travel to the far reaches of the abandoned lands in order to repair a server they believe will be the key to defeating Elliot and his ronin. All the while, Petal has a ticking time bomb inside her head: Gerry Cardle's uploaded consciousness. The code of which is mutating, but to what end? Together with their few allies, Petal and Gabriel must face either victory or total annihilation.

Title: Code Enforcement: Wetware    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Novel       Author: MichelleTheBelle       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Both as a cop and a person, Lieutenant Mel Cruz is consistently dealt a crap hand. She's a jaded officer coming to terms with the wreckage of her romantic life, a near fatal injury, and an acerbic new captain. Following her transfer to a new unit, she desperately tries to hold her life together while rebuilding her career. Oh, and she's a 34-year-old Scouting Officer for the Code Enforcement branch of the Exonet Maintenance Bureau. To put it in Luddite, she's a cyborg law enforcement officer, and digital systems are her beat.

Title: Code Flicker    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Code Flicker    Author: Marlin Seigman       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Subdermal chips that transmit medical code directly to a person’s brain was big pharma’s greatest development, promising a world free from addiction. It didn’t work out that way...

Title: Code Flicker: Project Logos    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Code Flicker    Author: Marlin Seigman       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Code Of The Kyoushi (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Miraibanashi    Author: James Litherland       Publisher: Outpost Stories       Synopsis: IN THE SHADOW of Mt. Fuji, in a far future Japan, the oppressive Batsu government controls the rebuilding of the devastated country, bestowing boons on privileged citizens while leaving most to fend for themselves on the fringes. After a disastrous job ends with Batsu enforcers hunting him, reformed thief Roshike runs—right into the heart of their regime, the fortified Gaku complex, to take on an almost impossible task. And he just might stand a slim chance of success, if only he’ll accept some help. But first he has to decide who he can trust...

Title: Code Walker    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel       Author: G.L. Drummond       Publisher: Katarr Kanticles Press       Synopsis: In the fickle worlds created when cyberspace and reality overlap, it’s all too easy to blur and shift lines…moral lines, lawful lines, lines of code and destiny, until the surreal becomes real. Walking those lines back to the source, and rebooting the system, isn’t exactly a job for a girl who plays nice - but it does pay extremely well.

Title: Code Walkers    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Code Walkers    Author: Sonny Laguna       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: The first chapter in a planned trilogy, "Code Walkers" paints a grim picture of the future. Set centuries from now, the world is controlled by a powerful A.I program to maintain the peace, but nothing lasts forever. When a terrorist group claims to have the means to hack their way into The Code's network and finish mankind, one man is put on a mission to stop them by becoming a deadly hacker himself.

Title: CodeSea Chronicles    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novella       Author: Christopher Jude       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Free isn't like the rest of the drones... well, except for her friend Three, he's alright for the "Mr. Corpo Poster-Boy" that he is. But still, she isn't like any of them. She was FreeBorn and doesn't belong here. Has never belonged here. And one day soon, she'll sail further than any Asset has ever seen, break her way into the High-Priority Personnel DataStack at the very heart of the CodeSea, and prove it. This is a story about a girl 'Free' and her best friend 'Three', two very different people with similar goals. To escape their lives as Corporate-Assets, to reach for something more. The setting is cyberpunk-fantasy and it's appropriate for most ages (some light cursing but none of the 'serious' ones).

Title: Coldwire    Permalink: DBID    Year: TBA    Category: Novel       Author: Chloe Gong       Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books       Synopsis: The future is loading... To escape rising seas and rampant epidemics, most of society lives "upcountry" in glistening virtual reality, while those who can’t afford the subscription are forced to remain in crumbling "downcountry."

Title: Complete Darkness    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Matt Adcock       Publisher: Burton Mayers Books       Synopsis: For centuries many have pondered the prospect of an afterlife and feared what came to be known as 'hell’. One day soon we accidentally ‘map’ it whilst investigating ‘dark matter’. Complete Darkness is an action-packed literary shock to the senses that mixes flights of comic fantasy with bouts of brutal violence.

Title: Compulsory (#0.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Short Story       Series: The Murderbot Diaries    Author: Martha Wells       Publisher: Wired       Synopsis: A short story of Murderbot originating from a Wired magazine "Future of Work" anthology.

Title: Connection (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Neon Horizon    Author: Michael Robertson       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Consider Phlebas (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1987    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: Orbit       Synopsis: The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, actually to find it, and with it their own destruction.

Title: Contact Binary    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novella Series       Series: Alice Yu    Author: Jim Keen       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: New York City, 2056. Sarah is torn between love and a dangerous lie. When she attempts an illegal biotech heist with her hacker crew, they’re ambushed in a police sting. On the run with one accomplice dead and her boyfriend wounded, she’s forced to search for a black-market answer before he bleeds out.

Title: Containment (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novella Series       Series: Stories Of Singularity    Author: Susan Kaye Quinn       Publisher: Twisted Space LLC       Synopsis: The Mining Master of Thebe is all alone—not counting the scavenger drones, foundry nanites, and magtread tractors buzzing across the tiny Jovian moon. When a spindly tower of rocks mysteriously appears at the pole, it’s enough to vex the Mining Master’s machine intelligence like dust trapped in a harvester joint. Reporting it could mean reassignment to the Outer Belt, but probing deeper into the mystery threatens to unlock something better left... contained.

Title: Contest (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Stork Tower    Author: Tony Corden        Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: In ‘Rescue’ Leah hacked the secure Vault where an AI friend of hers had been archived. She not only managed to retrieve her friend but uncovered a deeper conspiracy. Leah also managed to rescue her mother from the crime syndicate but not before her mother had an AI chip inserted in her brain. She discovers that her boyfriend’s family controls their own crime syndicate and he is being controlled. In ‘Ipseity’ Leah discovers that the syndicate inserted a dangerous explosive AI chip in her mother. Leah’s neural architecture change allowing her greater awareness of what is happening around her as well as giving her an ability to multitask. She rescues her boyfriend as she moves closer on three virtual worlds to finishing significant quests. All the while Leah works to win freedom and a future for her Personal AI who is self-aware in a system that demands she be archived or deleted.

Title: Convergence Chronicles: The Saga Of Metronia    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: Andru Jorj       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Embark on a gripping journey into the heart of Metronia, a sprawling metropolis where cybernetic marvels merge with arcane mysteries. "Convergence Chronicles: The Saga of Metronia" unveils a city on the brink of transformation, teetering between the cutting-edge advancements of technology and the alluring enigma of ancient forces.

Title: Corpo Age    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Novel       Author: R.B. Cat   Joi Massat   Moonquill        Publisher: MoonQuill       Synopsis: Rollo believed that money ruled the world. Then his world came crashing down.Now, Rollo finds himself in a dystopian, corporate-ruled society where greed and exploitation reign supreme. Armed with a mysterious system, he must navigate a high-tech yet unforgiving hellscape where survival depends on leveraging every advantage. Rising to the top won’t be easy, but it’s the only way to thrive.

Title: Corrector Yui    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Comics Series       Author: Kiya Asamiya   Keiko Okamoto       Publisher: NHK Publishing   Tokyopop       Synopsis: Due to an accident with a futuristic learning program, Yui Kasuga makes contact with an artificial intelligence. That AI contacted her, because another AI on a supercomputer nearly killed its creator and is now trying to get control over eight AI systems controlling the internet. Somehow, Yui might be able to stop him. Because of this, she is tasked to enter the virtual reality, adopt the avatar of a female superhero, defend the net and find the control systems, which are masqueraded as other systems and services in the net.

Title: Corroded Cells (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: A Cyberpunk Saga    Author: Matthew A. Goodwin       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Moss and the crew are reveling in their recent success when a cryptic message changes everything. Moss enters a virtual realm to recover the message before returning to the real world to find everything has changed. With his friends in peril, he undertakes a rescue mission outside the relative safety of the city. Life beyond the walls is dangerous. Threats face him at every turn as he makes his way to an impregnable prison city where the citizens are as threatening as the guards. Can Moss recover the information he needs and escape before being found out?

Title: Cosmic Detective    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics       Author: Jeff Lemire   Matt Kindt   David Rubín       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In a dark and grimy city, an unnamed detective gets called to a local murder, something unlikely and pretty unbelievable has occurred which sends him on a path of layered clues that will not only blow this case wide open, but his entire life.

Title: Count Zero    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1986    Category: Novel       Author: William Gibson       Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd       Synopsis: Seven years after the events of Neuromancer, strange things begin to happen in the Matrix, leading to the proliferation of what appear to be voodoo gods (hinted to be the fractured remains of the joined AIs that were Neuromancer and Wintermute). Two powerful multinational corporations, Maas Biolabs and Hosaka, are engaged in a battle for control over a powerful new technology (a biochip), using hackers and the Matrix as well as espionage and violence.

Title: Cowboy Bebop    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Comics Series       Author: Yutaka Nanten       Publisher: Tokyopop       Synopsis: From one of the most popular anime series of all time comes a manga to match. Spinning off from the anime story line seen on Cartoon Network, the manga series hooks readers with the same combination of Sci Fi action, crazy comedy, and a twist of old-school hipster cool. This black-and-white miniseries, released in the 100% Authentic Manga format, is perfect for fans of the Cowboy Bebop anime.

Title: Cowboy Bebop: Shooting Star    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Comics Series       Author: Owen Thomas   Cain Kuga       Publisher: Tokyopop       Synopsis: When the population of Earth abandoned its home for other planets, the Solar System became a playground for tricksters, mobsters and criminals galore. The police alone can't chase them all down... enter the bounty hunters, the best of the best of which make their home on the spaceship Bebop-the ex-mafioso Spike Spiegel, the ex-cop Jet Black, the amnesiac Faye Valentine, Ed the Hacker and their data dog, Ein. Now, with more scruples than the rest of their ilk, the gang often find themselves without the cash, and consequentially without food on their plates. And when they get caught in the crossfire of a mafia grudge match, they may all reconsider their line of work. Made in tandem with the hit TV show, this two-manga series offers an alternative look at the quirky crew of the Bebop.

Title: Cracked Screens (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: A Cyberpunk Saga    Author: Matthew A. Goodwin       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: More tragic loss has devastated the crew, but they finally have proof that the companies have been lying to the world. In order to spread the word, Moss must come up with a plan without two of his closest friends.

Title: Crashing Heaven    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel       Author: Al Robertson       Publisher: Gollancz       Synopsis: With Earth abandoned, humanity resides on Station, an industrialised asteroid run by the sentient corporations of the Pantheon. Under their leadership a war has been raging against the Totality - ex-Pantheon AIs gone rogue. With the war over, Jack Forster and his sidekick Hugo Fist, a virtual puppet tied to Jack's mind and created to destroy the Totality, have returned home. Labelled a traitor for surrendering to the Totality, all Jack wants is to clear his name but when he discovers two old friends have died under suspicious circumstances he also wants answers. Soon he and Fist are embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens not only their future but all of humanity's. But with Fist's software licence about to expire, taking Jack's life with it, can they bring down the real traitors before their time runs out?

Title: Creatures Of Light And Darkness    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1969    Category: Novel       Author: Roger Zelazny       Publisher: Doubleday       Synopsis: The novel is set in the far future, with humans on many worlds. Some have god-like powers, or perhaps are gods — the names and aspects of various Egyptian Gods are used. Elements of horror and technology are mixed, and it has points in common with Cyberpunk.

Title: Crossover (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2006    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cassandra Kresnov    Author: Joel Shepherd       Publisher: Pyr       Synopsis: Crossover is the first novel in a series which follows the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial person, or android, created by the League, one side of an interstellar war against the more powerful, conservative Federation. Cassandra is an experimental design — more intelligent, more creative, and far more dangerous than any that have preceded her. But with her intellect come questions, and a moral awakening. She deserts the League and heads incognito into the space of her former enemy, the Federation, in search of a new life.

Title: Cruft Delete    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novella       Author: Ryan Douglas Roth       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Even the nearly non-existent violent crime rate in the closed city of Creation didn’t protect Dace's wife Angie from falling victim to a savage, unsolved murder. Since then, Dace buries most of his time Auditing the Centralized Services of the Bureau of Administration computer systems for inefficiencies and redundancies. When he’s not working, he enters the chemical haze of the Cat’s Comb Club, accompanied by Fancyboy, the possibly cybernetically enhanced Maître D’ who takes a particular shine to him, and Ike, the club’s central attraction.

Title: Crux (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: Nexus    Author: Ramez Naam       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: Six months have passed since the release of Nexus 5. The world is a different, more dangerous place. In the United States, the terrorists – or freedom fighters – of the Post-Human Liberation Front use Nexus to turn men and women into human time bombs aimed at the President and his allies. In Washington DC, a government scientist, secretly addicted to Nexus, uncovers more than he wants to know about the forces behind the assassinations, and finds himself in a maze with no way out.

Title: Crying Over Spilt Light (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Hire A Muse    Author: George Saoulidis       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: On the verge of abandoning his life-long project, an obsessive physicist hires the innovative service of an android Muse to help him finish his work. But when things start to go missing from his life, he must learn that not all is worth sacrificing on the altar of science before he has nothing left to live for.

Title: Cryptonomicon    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Novel       Author: Neal Stephenson       Publisher: Avon       Synopsis: The action takes place in two periods — World War II and the late 1990s, during the Internet boom and Asian financial crisis. In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, a young United States Navy code breaker and mathematical genius, is assigned to the newly formed joint British and American Detachment 2702. This ultra-secret unit's role is to hide the fact that Allied intelligence has cracked the German Enigma code. The detachment stages events, often behind enemy lines, that provide alternative explanations for the Allied intelligence successes. United States Marine sergeant Bobby Shaftoe, a veteran of China and Guadalcanal, serves in unit 2702, carrying out Waterhouse's plans. At the same time, Japanese soldiers, including mining engineer Goto Dengo, an old friend of Shaftoe's, are assigned to build a mysterious bunker in the mountains in the Philippines as part of what turns out to be a literal suicide mission. Circa 1997, Randy Waterhouse (Lawrence's grandson) joins his old role-playing game companion Avi Halaby in a new startup, providing Pinoy-grams (inexpensive, non-real-time video messages) to migrant Filipinos via new fiber-optic cables. The Epiphyte Corporation uses this income stream to fund the creation of a data haven in the nearby fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. Vietnam veteran Doug Shaftoe, the son of Bobby Shaftoe, and his daughter Amy do the undersea surveying for the cables and engineering work on the haven is overseen by Goto Furudenendu, heir-apparent to Goto Engineering. Complications arise as figures from the past reappear seeking gold or revenge.

Title: Crystal Express    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1989    Category: Short Story       Author: Bruce Sterling       Publisher: Arkham House       Synopsis: Crystal Express is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling. It was released in 1989 by Arkham House. It was initially published in an edition of 4,231 copies and was the author's first book published by Arkham House.

Title: Cumulus    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Eliot Peper       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: In the not-so-distant future, economic inequality and persistent surveillance push Oakland to the brink of civil war. Lilly Miyamoto is a passionate analog photographer striving to pursue an ever more distant dream. Huian Li is preeminent among the Silicon Valley elite as the founder and CEO of the pervasive tech giant Cumulus. Graham Chandler is a frustrated intelligence agent forging a new path through the halls of techno-utopian royalty. But when Huian rescues Lilly from a run-in with private security forces, it sets off a chain of events that will change their lives and the world.

Title: Cyber Blue    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Comics Series       Author: BOB       Publisher: Star Comics       Synopsis: Tinos is the farthest colony planet from Earth. There lives a generation of people who have corrupted the dreams of the founders from 300 years ago. However, a new man will change it all...

Title: Cyber Dawn    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel       Author: M.L. Adams       Publisher: Rialla Publishing LLC       Synopsis: After losing his leg to cancer and spending six years as a prototype in a top-secret cybernetic research program, seventeen-year-old Ben Raine is ready for a normal life. Now a junior in high school, it seems as though normal is just what he’s going to get. He’s met new friends, made the varsity football team, and even scored a date with the school’s head cheerleader. But just as life is starting to look up, Ben hears four words that will change everything -– you never had cancer.

Title: Cyber Dreams & Electric Angels    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: PlumParrot       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In a near future society ruled by massive corporations that treat their citizens like just one more product or tool to further their goals, people live to work and work to live under the tight yoke of the corporatocracy. Not everyone fits that mold, though—some people prosper on the fringe; some people thrive, living as thorns in the paws of the corporate lions...

Title: Cyber Fighter    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: William Joseph Hill   Christina Gray       Publisher: Independently Published       Synopsis: Brian Baldwin thought his best years were behind him... Failed game designer Brian Baldwin has lost his career at Ronin games. He spends his days seeking temp work while stuck living off stale pizza, plugged into his game console. But... When he gets a temp job at Defense company Kirkman Enterprises, he volunteers for an immersive Artificial Intelligence Virtual Reality experiment to be programmed with Black Belt fighting skills from 47 different martial arts. He goes from a total klutz to a real-life action hero! Framed for a crime he didn't commit, he transforms into an international target of assassins, international spies, Triad gangsters, Military Special Forces and even the FBI.

Title: Cyber Girl L.E.E.T.A.    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Comics Series       Author: Jeff Brennan       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: A woman awakens with no memory trying to discover her past, trapped in a robotic body.

Title: Cyber Mage    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel       Author: Saad Z. Hossain       Publisher: The Unnamed Press       Synopsis: Welcome to Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2089. A city notorious for its extreme population density has found an unexpected way to not just survive a global climate apocalypse, but thrive: pump enough biological nanotech into the neighborhood and all of the bodies together form a self-sustaining, and even temperate, microclimate. Of course, this means that millions of humans have to stay put in order to maintain a livable temperature, and people are getting restless. All of the nanotech has also led to some surprises: certain people no longer need food or water while others can live without functioning organs.

Title: Cyber World: Tales Of Humanity’s Tomorrow    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Other       Author: Various       Publisher: Hex Publishers       Synopsis: Cybernetics. Neuroscience. Nanotechnology. Genetic engineering. Hacktivism. Transhumanism. The world of tomorrow is already here, and the technological changes we all face have inspired a new wave of stories to address our fears, hopes, dreams, and desires as Homo sapiens evolve—or not—into their next incarnation. Cyber World presents diverse tales of humanity’s tomorrow, as told by some of today’s most gripping science fiction visionaries.

Title: Cyber's Change: Sapiens (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Sapiens Run    Author: Jamie Davis       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: America, 2055. Cass is equal parts excited and nervous to leave her Sapiens Movement enclave. Stepping away from her technologically-conservative family for the first time, she sets off for college with dreams of saving humanity. But as the Sapiens girl falls for her cybernetically-enhanced roommate, her deeply programmed beliefs begin to glitch... Confused in a world that no longer makes sense, Cass barely registers the horrific accident that leaves her near death. When she wakes up, she discovers the same technology she's always hated is the only thing keeping her alive. No longer purely human, Cass questions everything she thought she knew about good and evil. As tensions between man and machine head for a meltdown, Cass must choose a side before the conflict turns deadly... Cyber's Change is the first book in the heartfelt Sapiens Run cyberpunk trilogy. If you like strong female characters, dystopian futures, and exploring what it means to be human, then you’ll love Jamie Davis’s thought-provoking novel.

Title: Cyber's Escape (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Sapiens Run    Author: Jamie Davis       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: America, 2055. Cass Armstrong has changed. After being raised by a violently technophobic father, her cyber-enhancements preserved her life while her new girlfriend opened her mind. But as her break from college approaches, Cass lives in fear that a trip home will end in tragedy.

Title: Cyber's Underground (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Sapiens Run    Author: Jamie Davis       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: America, 2055. Cass Armstrong fears the same cybernetic enhancements that saved her could become her undoing. On the run with her girlfriend, the information encrypted in her implants act like a beacon for the tech-phobic terrorists hot on their trail. And her only way out is to find someone to rewrite her identity...

Title: Cyberabad Days    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2009    Category: Short Story       Author: Ian McDonald       Publisher: Pyr       Synopsis: A collection of eight stories, "Cyberabad Days" is a triumphant return to the India of 2047 (the India of River of Gods ); a new, muscular superpower in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, strange new genders, and genetically improved children.

Title: Cyberblade: The City Of Five Skies    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: William Z. Stone       Publisher: Livebook Publishing       Synopsis: Lex, a part-time roboticist from a family of Empyrean refugees, is the lone hope of her family to overcome Graexian oppression and earn them a place above the steel skies, where the air is clean, and the people rich.

Title: Cyberbooks    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1990    Category: Novel       Author: Ben Bova       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Computer genius Carl Lewis has invented the "Cyberbook", an electronic device that instantly and inexpensively brings the written word to the masses. But not everyone warms to Carl's ideas. Add corporate spies, authors threatening to strike, and a wave of mysterious murders, and you have Ben Bova at his best.

Title: Cyberella    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Comics Series       Author: Howard Chaykin       Publisher: Helix       Synopsis: Sunny Winston is an 'ordinary citizen' who exhibits aberrant behaviour living in the insular consumer-driven society of a near-future Earth. Karoshi/Macrocorp has designed a program to keep the human masses under its sway by exploiting their affinity with popular culture. This program is based on 'Lil Ella a cartoon character created by Kelton Mosby the founder of Karoshi/Macrocorp, based on Ella Fiscus, a child star who died in a factory accident. Following Mosby's death, Karoshi/Macrocorp falls under the sway of Bronson Travis and his descendents including Bronson Travis III, the one time lover of Sunny Winston. The Karoshi/Macrocorp plan back-fires and leads to the merging of the persona of Sunny Winston with the 'Lil Ella program. The end-product of this fusion is 'Cyberella' a being imbued with various 'super-powers' (including the ability to meld her mind with others) and who sets about undermining the ambitions of Karoshi/Macrocorp. The events narrated by the comic take place in Slangeliego, "the capital of the twenty first century [and] the greatest city in the world", a megalopolis stretching the length of the west coastline of the North American continent, from Vancouver in Canada southwards down to Tijuana in Mexico.

Title: Cyberia    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: Tim Rowe   Sue Howis   Andrada P       Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform       Synopsis: Malachi Smith regains consciousness on the floor of a hospital ward, beside the body of a murdered girl. With a head wound impeding his memory, he tries to evade the authorities, but soon finds himself also hunted by drones and local militia. Set in 2097 - following the effects of population expansion, climate change and accelerated resource consumption - Cyberia depicts a world controlled by a single government dictatorship, where humanity exists in a lattice of tunnels beneath the Earth's crust, and every activity is controlled, monitored and analysed to identify deviant behaviour. The few individuals who escape join communities in the ruined remains of what used to be cities, but without law enforcement, these societies degenerate and are run by criminal organisations dealing in arms, narcotics and prostitution. While government forces struggle to regain control of the surface, a pandemic (an amalgamation between influenza and the Ebola virus) is rapidly spreading. As Malachi uncovers more of the puzzle pieces surrounding his situation, the picture they portray is disturbing and strange...

Title: Cyberia: Life In The Trenches Of Cyberspace    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1994    Category: Documentary       Author: Douglas Rushkoff       Publisher: Clinamen Press       Synopsis: The digital age will always be marked by the spirit of its first emergence, and the tension from the very first between corporate high-tech and the appropriation of information technologies by the counter-culture. Cyberia is an ideas-led, exuberant documentary written in 1994 about the converging strands of this new era, the empowerments of cyber-technology and the emergent hacker and cyber milieu.

Title: Cybernetic Jungle    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Novel       Author: S. N. Lewitt       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: His family destroyed and his dreams crushed by the corporation that controls his Brazilian home through technology and drugs, Paulo seeks revenge, aided by Zaide, a woman with a computer implant in her brain that provides access to government data.

Title: Cybernova (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Novel Series       Series: Oliver Wolf    Author: Hunter Whitlow       Publisher: Neural Net Press       Synopsis: Oliver was just your average cybernetically-enhanced street ninja with lightning-powered swords until CYBR Corp, an evil megacorporation hell-bent on global domination, took his family from him. He cut himself off from his friends and the one he loved, afraid of losing them, too. He tried putting that pain into the fighting ring, but a nasty right hook knocked some sense into his thick skull. Luckily, he's got Zeke, his best friend and cyber-surgeon, by his side. Honestly, they'd rather be playing video games and eating junk food than trying to take down a corrupt organization. Problem is, they're done sitting idly by. Not to mention, being on the run from said organization because you saved the life of some poor soul they were trying to kill really changes your priorities. It's either take down CYBR Corp, or live in fear for the rest of their lives.

Title: Cyberpunk    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1984    Category: Novel       Author: Bruce Bethke       Publisher: Bruce Bethke       Synopsis: A gang of unruly teenagers cut school and go joy-riding around "the Net" on their hopped-up portable computers, committing casual acts of vandalism and just generally being a$holes. Our hero is a good kid who's fallen in with a bad crowd; his parents eventually realize something is wrong and try to suppress the relationship. This results in the kid finally using his technical skills for deliberate purpose, to rebel against his parents -- and to win, because the paradigm shift is completely in his favor.

Title: Cyberpunk & Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the Work of William Gibson    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2000    Category: Other       Author: Dani Cavallaro       Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic       Synopsis: Cyberpunk and Cyberculture explores the work of a wide range of writers- Acker, Cadigan, Rucker, Shierley, Sterling, Williams and, of course, Gibson - setting their work in the context of science fiction, other literary genres, genre cinema - from Metropolis to Terminator to The Matrix - and contemporary work on the culture of technology.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics       Author: Bartosz Sztybor   Alessio Fioriniello       Publisher: CD Projekt RED       Synopsis: Tasha and Mirek make a living for themselves stealing cyberware and indulging in parties and braindances. Tasha is rowdy and wild--she seeks to up her street cred to become the most famous gangster in the city. Mirek, on the other hand, is a calm introvert--he longs for something more--meaning, belonging, warmth. He soon finds hope in an unexpected braindance. As he and Tasha chase their dreams, their paths begin to deviate. Where will they find the happiness they've been searching for? Does it even exist to be found? One thing they can both agree on, in a place like Night City--you run, you fight, you change, or you die.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Blackout #1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Blackout    Author: Bartosz Sztybor       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: It hurts. Night City hurts. The suffering runs deep and the deeper one falls, the longer the self-prescribed dreams play. Fortune, hope, love--all made possible by DMS technology. But not everyone desires a happy ending. A braindance repairman discovers the answer to pain... comes in a blackout.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Blackout #2    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Blackout    Author: Bartosz Sztybor   Roberto Ricci   Fabiana Mascolo       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Arturos heist scheme is set in motion—all he needs is a team—a trusted cyberpunk, the best driver in Night City, and an unlikely ally within one of the city's most corrupt institutions. Choices have consequences, but this time, the choice is his.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Blackout #3    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Blackout    Author: Bartosz Sztybor       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: It hurts. Night City hurts. The suffering runs deep and the deeper one falls, the longer the self-prescribed dreams play. Fortune, hope, love—all made possible by DMS technology. A braindance repairman’s daily encounters with his clients reveal the deterioration of the human mind and the desperation driving those to surrender to illusion. But not everyone desires a happy ending. Riddled with doubt, self-hatred, and guilt, he soon discovers the answer to pain... comes in a blackout.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Blackout #4    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Blackout    Author: Bartosz Sztybor       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: In a city that operates on technology, a power outage brings catastrophe, but in darkness comes opportunity.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Kickdown (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Kickdown    Author: Tomasz Marchewka   Jason Wordie   Jake Elphick       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Fire up the engines, it’s a street takeover! With her foot on the pedal of the hottest ride in Night City, the daughter of a famed carjacker is out to fix the past. In a crowd of gangsters, racers, and criminals, word on the street travels fast—and that’s all according to plan. • Written by Tomasz Marchewka (the principal writer of the Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty)!

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Kickdown (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Kickdown    Author: Tomasz Marchewka   Jason Wordie   Jake Elphick   Frank Cvetkovic       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Mint pays an old friend a visit who has something that belongs to her— something made just for her... On the tail of an exclusive meet with the long sought-after Kickdown, Mint must play both sides—but to move at full speed, there’s bound to be a crash.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Kickdown (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Kickdown    Author: Tomasz Marchewka   Jason Wordie   Jake Elphick   Frank Cvetkovic       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Maelstrom is fired up for the next race and with bodies on the floor, Mint will need Caliber’s attention. With her yaiba revved up, she’s got a hand to play, but being in cahoots with the NCPD is about to catch up to her... it’ll take more than winning to seal this deal. Based on the hit game by CD Projekt Red!

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Kickdown (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Kickdown    Author: Tomasz Marchewka   Jason Wordie   Jake Elphick   Frank Cvetkovic        Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Like father, like daughter. Mint’s meeting with Kickdown has gone sideways and between the NCPD and the gangs, there’s no escape—she’ll have to ride head on into danger. In this final race, it’s not just the target on her head she must outrun, but her past, the memories of her father, and all that she could have been... • Meet new characters from the world of Cyberpunk 2077! • Four issue series.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Kickdown (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Kickdown    Author: Tomasz Marchewka       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Mint is the sole survivor of her former crew. Buzz on the street is she sold them out to the NCPD to save herself. Now, badges are after her father’s old crewmate, tech genius who goes by the name Kickdown. To clear her name, she’ll have to toe the line between gangs and the NCPD. And there’s one place where the gangs of Night City gather—where speed settles the score. In a crowd of Animals, Maelstrom, and Tyger Claws gangsters, word travels fast—and that’s all according to plan.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Library Edition, Volume 1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Other       Series: Cyberpunk 2077    Author: Bartosz Sztybor   Cullen Bunn       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: A deluxe hardcover collection of three intense action-packed stories exploring the underbelly of Night City, featuring a cover gallery, expanded sketchbook section, and more!

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics       Author: Rafal Kosik       Publisher: Orbit       Synopsis: Set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, one of the bestselling video games of recent years, from acclaimed Polish science fiction writer Rafał Kosik, this electrifying novel follows a group of strangers as they discover that the dangers of Night City are all too real.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Psycho Squad    Permalink: DBID    Year: TBA    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Psycho Squad    Author: Dan Watters   Kieran McKeown   Giada Marchisio       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Psycho Squad (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Psycho Squad    Author: Dan Watters   Giada Marchisio   Kieran McKeown   Frank Cvetkovic       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: MaxTac, one of the deadliest and most controversial forces in Night City, is deployed against a corpo netrunner turned cyberpsycho. The squad’s eliminate the target and save lives, but the scene is unlike anything they’ve encountered! With the building on lockdown, the psycho has the facilities and its occupants wired for destruction!

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Psycho Squad (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Psycho Squad    Author: Dan Watters   Giada Marchisio   Kieran McKeown        Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Ambush after ambush! A cyberpsycho is destroying every convoy passing through the badlands, but this is no coincidence. MaxTac SPAR Delta is sent in to neutralize the psycho and draw out those behind the attacks. With Hook now in the lead, the squad is at her disposal—all she needs is a little bait.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Psycho Squad (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Psycho Squad    Author: Dan Watters   Giada Marchisio   Kieran McKeown       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: MaxTac SPAR Delta is assigned downtime to recover from their injuries, but for Stepovic, time alone is time tormented by his past. While helmets are off, Mut sees the opportunity to reveal the squad’s true nature...

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Psycho Squad (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: TBA    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Psycho Squad    Author: Dan Watters   Giada Marchisio   Kieran McKeown   Frank Cvetkovic       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Mut continues to pull Stepovic into his plans to have Hook replaced. Stepovic must decide if he is to follow Hook or try to force a change in leadership. With cyberpsychosis afflicting even the most innocent, Stepovic’s decision will go far beyond their next mission.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team #1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team    Author: Cullen Bunn   Miguel Valderrama   Jason Wordie       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Nadia, an assistant EMT for a privately-owned business known as Trauma Team International, is the sole survivor of a failed rescue mission turned shootout. After she agrees to continue work for an upcoming extraction mission, Nadia and her new team find themselves in an even more dangerous and life-threatening situation.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team #2    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team    Author: Cullen Bunn   Miguel Valderrama   Jason Wordie       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: New series based on the highly anticipated game! Nadia's first mission since the massacre of her previous Trauma Team is attempting to save Apex, the man who killed them. To make matters worse, Nadia suffers through guilt, shock, and old memories as her and her team are a hundred floors high in a skyscraper filled with gang members who want to take Apex down.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team #3    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team    Author: Cullen Bunn   Miguel Valderrama   Jason Wordie       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: New series based on the highly anticipated game! EMTs Nadia and Knapp, and their criminal client Apex, are surrounded in a skyscraper by an onslaught of vicious gang members looking to avenge their leader. But Nadia's will to escort Apex to safety and complete the mission wanes with every descending floor--especially when a mother and her ill child become inadvertently involved.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team #4    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team    Author: Cullen Bunn   Miguel Valderrama   Jason Wordie       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: New series based on the highly anticipated game! The horde of gang members sees no end as the attempt to extract Apex grows more deadly in a blaze of gunfire and slashing blades. But the mission takes a shocking turn when the prestigious criminal client takes matters into his own hands and Nadia must relive the trauma of the past.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Where's Johnny #1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Where's Johnny?    Author: Bartosz Sztybor   Giannis Milonogiannis   Giannis Milonogiannis       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Three issue mini-series released in collaboration with Rockstar Energy Drinks, codes for each issue were available on cans of the drinks.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Where's Johnny #2    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Where's Johnny?    Author: Bartosz Sztybor   Giannis Milonogiannis       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Three issue mini-series released in collaboration with Rockstar Energy Drinks, codes for each issue were available on cans of the drinks.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Where's Johnny #3    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: Where's Johnny?    Author: Bartosz Sztybor   Giannis Milonogiannis       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Three issue mini-series released in collaboration with Rockstar Energy Drinks, codes for each issue were available on cans of the drinks.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: XOXO (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: XOXO    Author: Bartosz Sztybor       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Beneath the skin, flesh, and cyberware lies a beating heart—and only two things can stop a heart from beating: love and death. It's gang on gang violence as the Maelstroms target the Moxes for an ambush. Is a bloodbath underway or could this be love at first sight?

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: XOXO (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: XOXO    Author: Bartosz Sztybor       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Staring down the barrel of a gun, it all ends in an instant. With both Maelstrom and Mox bodies laid to waste, the true target will shatter allegiances and break a heart.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: XOXO (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: XOXO    Author: Bartosz Sztybor   Jakub Rebelka       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Every possibility plays out in Screw's head of the love that could be his. But for Kali and Dino, to love is to trust and with a payout on the line, only a fool would rush in.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: XOXO (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: XOXO    Author: Bartosz Sztybor   Jakub Rebelka        Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: In Night City a lone Wolf stands no chance. After betraying the Maelstroms, Screw is at the mercy of Dino, with Kali as his star-crossed ally. With love and money on the line, can there be a happily ever after?

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: XOXO (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: XOXO    Author: Bartosz Sztybor   Jakub Rebelka       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: It’s gang on gang violence as the Maelstroms plan an ambush on the Moxes. The target: corpo cargo worth a heavy sum of cash. But loyalty only goes as far to one’s deepest desires, and one member of the Maelstroms has found something worth sacrificing for. Jaw dropping, eyes popping, pulse racing—he’s never known anyone like her...

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word #1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word    Author: Bartosz Sztybor   Jesus Hervas   Giulia Brusco       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: A new urban development proposal is being pushed through city council—a flagrant infraction on those safeguarded by the Valentinos gang. They enlist the service of three cyberpunks to discreetly and strategically terminate the project, but their subject is more than an ordinary target.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word #2    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word    Author: Bartosz Sztybor   Jesus Hervas   Giulia Brusco       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: With the death of her daughter embroiled in a network of dangerous cyberpunks and a suspicious connection to a major corporation, Teresa returns to a life she had left behindÑbut Night City's grown larger and darkerÑto get some answers, she'll need an upgrade...

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word #3    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word    Author: Bartosz Sztybor   Jesus Hervas   Giulia Brusco       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: There's still more questions than answers surrounding Oriona's murder. Who pulled the trigger? A Militech mole, her cyberpunk friends, or could it be linked to a long-sought enemy of the Valentinos? Teresa still doesn't know who to trust, and intel isn't all she gained from Kyle...

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word #4    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Comics Series       Series: Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word    Author: Bartosz Sztybor   Jesus Hervas   Giulia Brusco       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Bound by blood and out for blood, Teresa's path of vengeance is paved with bodies, but will it end with her on the other side of the blade? In Night City, trust is just another word--and a deadly mistake.

Title: Cyberpunk 2077: Your Voice    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics       Author: Aleksandra Motyka   Marcin Blacha   Danijel Žeželj   Krzysztof Ostrowski       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: During a routine shift, Todd, an employee at Night City Area Rapid Transit, encounters an altercation between a mysterious woman and the Maelstrom gang. As the woman attempts to escape, she hands him a chip. To find her and uncover the data, he sets off on a wild journey through the city's seedy mekka and dangerous wastelands where he meets a sly new client, crazy cyberpunks, and the infamous Johnny Silverhand. He'll finally discover what true love is and why it'll never be possible, not in a place like Night City.

Title: Cyberpunk And Visual Culture    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Other       Author: Graham Murphy   Lars Schmeink       Publisher: Routledge       Synopsis: Within the expansive mediascape of the 1980s and 1990s, cyberpunk's aesthetics took firm root, relying heavily on visual motifs for its near-future splendor saturated in media technologies, both real and fictitious. As today's realities look increasingly like the futures forecast in science fiction, cyberpunk speaks to our contemporary moment and as a cultural formation dominates our 21st century techno-digital landscapes. The 15 essays gathered in this volume engage the social and cultural changes that define and address the visual language and aesthetic repertoire of cyberpunk - from cybernetic organisms to light, energy, and data flows, from video screens to cityscapes, from the vibrant energy of today's video games to the visual hues of comic book panels, and more. Cyberpunk and Visual Culture provides critical analysis, close readings, and aesthetic interpretations of exactly those visual elements that define cyberpunk today, moving beyond the limitations of merely printed text to also focus on the meaningfulness of images, forms, and compositions that are the heart and lifeblood of cyberpunk graphic novels, films, television shows, and video games.

Title: Cyberpunk Book Two: A Womb With A View    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Comics Series       Author: Scott Rockwell       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: N/A

Title: Cyberpunk Book Two: The Appearances Are The Masks Of Time    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1990    Category: Comics Series       Author: Scott Rockwell       Publisher: Innovation Comics       Synopsis: Three years later... Times change and people change. Now, Juno is running the corporation that Roi built, trading in software and data in the cutthroat corporate world of the near future. Topo has (almost literally) dropped off the face of the Earth, and Juno is getting anxious to find him. Enter the Grey Lensman, a small-time software pirate who thinks he knows where Topo can be found. He recruits a trio of muscleheaded musicians called the Hotboys to help him find the infamous Mole that destroyed Roi's data base.

Title: Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing Through the Mirrorshades    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Other       Author: Anna McFarlane       Publisher: Routledge       Synopsis: This book traces developments in cyberpunk culture through a close engagement with the novels of the 'godfather of cyberpunk', William Gibson. Connecting his relational model of 'gestalt' psychology and imagery with that of the posthuman networked identities found in cyberpunk, the author draws out relations with key cultural moments of the last 40 years: postmodernism, posthumanism, 9/11, and the Anthropocene.

Title: Cyberpunk Elements    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Other       Author: Ethan Parker       Publisher: Publifye       Synopsis: Cyberpunk Elements delves into the often-overlooked world of action manga to dissect cyberpunk themes like corporate dominance and social alienation. Exploring how Japanese creators interpret the genre, the book argues that manga provides a unique lens for examining technology's impact on society. It highlights how these visual narratives, filled with dynamic action, reflect and shape our perceptions of technological advancements, often presenting dystopian visions that mirror anxieties about globalization and eroded autonomy.

Title: Cyberpunk Erotica    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Other       Author: Ora Le Brocq       Publisher: Extasy Books       Synopsis: Cyberpunk: high tech and low life collide when the dreaded Corporate Investigation team comes after streetwise Zara Mason. Can Zara stay one step ahead or is she doomed to serve the rest of her days as a drone, owned by the Vine Corporation? Relationships, work, education, even the revolution itself will be analysed and dismissed as Zara struggles for survival and individuality, exploring her sexuality and inner self as much as the outside world as she tries to hang onto reality, survive and beat the system.

Title: Cyberpunk Fairy Tales    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Other       Author: George Saoulidis       Publisher: George Saoulidis       Synopsis: Read the Cyberpunk Fairy Tales, a unique twist on the classic stories you grew up with. Sometimes dark and disturbing like the Grimm stories, other times new and relevant to the modern age.

Title: Cyberpunk Stories    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Short Story       Author: William King       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In this collection of short stories bestselling author William King explores the grim future world of cyberpunk where cyborg warriors battle in the steaming jungles of Central America and corporate drug pushers use cutting edge military hardware to win their turf wars.

Title: Cyberpunk Style Design: Theoretical Analysis and Practical Exploration - A Case Study of Aesthetic Style Design for New Energy Vehicle Dashboard    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Other       Author: Wei Sun   Zhenwei You   Yingyu Zhou       Publisher: Scientific Research Publishing Inc.       Synopsis: In an era of rapid development in digital technology, the Cyberpunk style finds in-creasingly broad applications in various artistic domains, greatly appealing to the younger generation. Compared to the well-developed research on the Cyberpunk lit-erary genre, there is still a lack of a comprehensive theoretical framework for study-ing Cyberpunk style visual imagery, leaving ample room for exploration across inter-disciplinary media expressions. Simultaneously, with the ongoing digitalization and smartification trends in the new energy vehicle industry, the user base for new energy vehicles is becoming younger, with a growing demand for novel driving experiences. Currently, personalized design in new energy vehicles mainly focuses on exterior aesthetics, with limited research on dashboard interface design.

Title: Cyberpunk Women, Feminism and Science Fiction    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Other       Author: Carlen Lavigne       Publisher: Mcfarland & Co       Synopsis: This analysis of cyberpunk science fiction written between 1981 and 2003 positions women's cyberpunk in the larger cultural discussion of feminist issues. It traces the origins of the genre, reviews critical reactions, and outlines the ways in which women's cyberpunk advances specifically feminist points of view. Novels are examined within their cultural contexts; their content is compared to broader controversies within contemporary feminism, and their themes are revealed as reflections of feminist discourse at the end of the 20th century. Chapters cover topics such as globalization, virtual reality, cyborg culture, environmentalism, religion, motherhood and queer rights. Firsthand interviews with feminist cyberpunk authors are provided, revealing both their motivations for writing and their experiences with fans. The study treats feminist cyberpunk as a unique vehicle for examining contemporary women's issues and analyzes feminist science fiction as a complex source of political ideas.

Title: Cyberpunk X E.V.A. Special    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: Carter Holland       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Cyberpunk X EVA Special starring Battle B as a Cyberpunk Mercenary who fights various villains from Mecha-Wolves, Tec-Machines. CyberNinjas, The Cybernetic enhanced Bronze and Gold man. Hell even she fights CyberVamps. Action, Sex, Violence are her game and nothing can stop her in this collection of Cyberpunk X E.V.A, stories for a new generation Cyberpunkers who want to read something new and different.

Title: Cyberpunk: Almost The Highest Human Bliss    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1990    Category: Comics Series       Author: Scott Rockwell   Darryl Banks       Publisher: Innovation Comics       Synopsis: Even if Topo can survive Roi's ICE (Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics), he must still try to rescue Juno. No easy task, as Roi has actually wiped her entire mind and stored it in his data banks.

Title: Cyberpunk: Bad Dreams    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1989    Category: Comics Series       Author: Scott Rockwell   Kevin VanHook   Darryl Banks       Publisher: Innovation Comics       Synopsis: Bad Dreams is the story of one man's quest for a free mind and a free life. Topo is a juggler, one of the players in a game of dueling body images. He seems to care more for the interior world of the Playing Field than for the "real world" of corporate greed and human emotion. But when Juno, a former lover, becomes caught up in the "real world,"only Topo can save her.

Title: Cyberpunk: Malaysia    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Short Story       Author: Various       Publisher: FIXI Novo       Synopsis: Cyberpunk as you've never seen it before... Science fiction is all about outrageous ideas. Nice Malay girls breaking the rules. Censorship. Brain drain. Moral policing. Migrant exploitation. All the stuff of fiction, obviously. But these 14 short stories take it one step further. The nice Malay girls are cyborgs. The spambots are people. The brains have drained into cyberspace, and the censorship is inside your head. Welcome to Cyberpunk: Malaysia.

Title: Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1995    Category: Other       Author: Katie Hafner   John Markoff       Publisher: Simon & Schuster       Synopsis: Using the exploits of three international hackers, Cyberpunk provides a fascinating tour of a bizarre subculture populated by outlaws who penetrate even the most sensitive computer networks and wreak havoc on the information they find -- everything from bank accounts to military secrets. In a book filled with as much adventure as any Ludlum novel, the authors show what motivates these young hackers to access systems, how they learn to break in, and how little can be done to stop them.

Title: Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Evolution, and Revolution    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Short Story       Author: Victoria Blake       Publisher: Underland Press       Synopsis: In this book, you’ll find stories by legendary cyberpunk authors like Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, as well as stories by new cyberpunk voices like Cory Doctorow and Jonathan Lethem. You’ll find stories about society gone wrong and society saved, about soulless humans and soulful machines, about futures worth fighting for and futures that do nothing but kill.

Title: Cyberpunk: The Seraphim Files    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1990    Category: Comics       Author: Scott Rockwell       Publisher: Innovation Comics       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Cybersix    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1993    Category: Comics Series       Author: Carlos Trillo   Carlos Meglia       Publisher: Skorpio       Synopsis: Dr. Von Reichter is a member of the SS and Nazi Party genetic engineer, who works at the concentration camps during World War II, implanting cybernetic organs in the bodies of dead prisoners in an attempt to resurrect them as one of Führer's army. However, after the Allied forces defeated the Nazis, Reichter continues to use experiments at South America.

Title: Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Other       Author: Mike Featherstone   Roger Burrows       Publisher: Sage Publications       Synopsis: How can we interpret cyberspace? What is the place of the embodied human agent in the virtual world? This innovative collection examines the emerging arena of cyberspace and the challenges it presents for the social and cultural forms of the human body. It shows how changing relations between body and technology offer new arenas for cultural representations. At the same time, the contributors examine the realities of human embodiment and the limits of virtual worlds. Topics examined include: technological body modifications, replacements and prosthetics; bodies in cyberspace, virtual environments and cyborg culture; cultural representations of technological embodiment in visual and literary productions; and cyberpunk science

Title: CyberStorm    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel       Author: Matthew Mather       Publisher: PhutureNews Publishing       Synopsis: Mike Mitchell, an average New Yorker already struggling to keep his family together, suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them alive when an increasingly bizarre string of disasters start appearing on the world’s news networks. As the world and cyberworlds come crashing down, bending perception and reality, a monster snowstorm cuts New York off from the world, becoming a wintry tomb where no one can be trusted, and nothing is what it seems... CyberStorm is a techno-thriller set in present-day New York City that will appeal to fans of Michael Chichton and Tom Clancy as well as devotees of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. It is an exploration of the human condition as the cyberworld collides with our own, a compelling portrait of a possible future that is all too terrifyingly real.

Title: Cyberweb (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Arachne    Author: Lisa Mason       Publisher: Avon Books       Synopsis: Reduced to scavenging for subsistence scraps among the trash people of San Francisco, Carly Nolan may have finally found her re-entry into the fast lane. Together with her onetime probe therapist Pr. Spinner - an aging and suspicious standalone A.I. entity with rusty, ill-defined housing - the disgraced linker is summoned back into public telespace by a tri-headed mainframe icon called Cognatus. And Cognatus has an offer Carly Nolan dares not refuse: a job, a future...and absolution. But there are sticky strings attached. Carly's new assignment - a telespacial hunt for unconnected human archetypes - has aroused some dangerous interest back in the real world. A ruthless mercenary Ultra fembot with fluid loyalties is now dogging her trail. The young shaman of a savage urban tribe has become obsessed with the beautiful "genny woman" who has sacrificed her soul to the "Glass Land." And worst of all, Carly herself may be no more than an unsuspecting pawn of the Silicon Supremacists - a renegade cabal of A.I. revolutionaries planning no less than the total destruction of humankind.

Title: Cyborg Tracker Cyberpunk Nemesis    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1993    Category: Comics Series       Author: Kenneth Pua       Publisher: Cyborg Press       Synopsis: BTK 13 is an experimental combat model capable of self-repair. The robot does not know that it is committing evil, and it only obeys its programming...

Title: Cygenic    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Monique Poirier       Publisher: Circlet       Synopsis: In the not-so-distant future, human DNA and advanced technology have combined to create sentient machines that look and feel oh-so-human, whether they are used as nannies, nurses, or... sex toys. But what happens when a sex toy sits up and demands rights?

Title: Cypulchre (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cypulchre    Author: Joseph MacKinnon       Publisher: Guy Faux Books       Synopsis: CYPULCHRE is a dark and twisted cyberpunk thriller, that will take readers on a journey through revolt and redemption, high-tech nightmares and low-life dreams. The inventor of the CLOUD technology-that's swept Los Angeles' rich and willing into the noosphere-has lived north of the mountains in exile for a decade, feared, defamed, and despised by his former colleagues and estranged family. When he learns that the same technology that led to his downfall now threatens his family as well as the hundreds of thousands synchronized to it, he must take action. Nothing is what it seems, especially with his psychoses turning allies to enemies, and enemies into demons.

Title: D4VE    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Comics Series       Author: Ryan Ferrier       Publisher: IDW       Synopsis: Primetime TV; mortgages; traffic jams. The robots conquered earth, wiping out all life in the galaxy, but nothing changed. Meet D4VE, the greatest robot war hero, now trapped behind a desk at a soul-sucking day job. Can something, somewhere snap him out of this slump? Will a new presence on 34RTH ignite his long-lost spark for battle?

Title: Daemon (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2006    Category: Novel Series       Series: Daemon    Author: Daniel Suarez       Publisher: Verdugo Press       Synopsis: Upon publication of the obituary for Matthew A. Sobol, a brilliant computer programmer and CTO of Cyberstorm Entertainment,the computer Daemon is activated. Sobol, dying of brain cancer, was fearful for humanity and began to envision a new world order. The Daemon becomes his tool to achieve that vision. The Daemon's first mission is to kill two programmers Joseph Pavlos & Chopra Singh who worked for CyberStorm Entertainment and unknowingly helped in the creation of the Daemon. The program secretly takes over hundreds of companies and provides financial and computing resources for recruiting real world agents and creating AutoM8s (computer controlled driverfull cars, used as transport and occasionally as weapons), Razorbacks (sword-wielding robotic riderless motorcycles, specifically designed as weapons) and other devices. The Daemon also creates a secondary online web service, hidden from the general public, dubbed the Darknet, which allows Daemon operatives to exchange information freely.

Title: Damaged Good    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: J.E. Mac       Publisher: Dying Media Press       Synopsis: When Celia, a six year old child replacement, gets caught up in an assassination attempt on the Mayor of Los Angeles, Detective Jack Cutter is obliged to protect and serve despite any misgivings he may have towards her kind. You’d never hear Cutter say he hates androids. Not out loud anyway. Damn synthetics hear everything. Cutter drags Celia from grisly murder scene to cracked-out cyber-den, hot on the trail of the assassin. As they sink deeper into the case, a far more sinister scheme emerges which threatens the lives of all Angelenos and the only way to stop it lies in the head of a childish android.

Title: Damaged Memory    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novella       Author: Trent Litchy       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: When Xue Saunders is murdered in her home the police have little to go on. The mystery deepens as she is discovered next to an unidentified man also shot to death. An unknown bot lies destroyed in her home, its memdrives a ruin. Missing from the home is Xue’s young daughter Fa, along with her nanny bot. Desperate for answers, and fearing for the child’s safety, the police turn to Lenore and Tick. The human and her robot partner are the best robot mechanics, or botdocs, in Denver. The pair agree to help in an attempt to salvage the damaged memdrives, but it comes with a risk. There are others who want those memdrives to remain lost, and they will do anything to ensure they do not come to light. In helping the police find the lost child Lenore and Tick are thrown into danger risking their business, their friends, and even their lives.

Title: Dark Intelligence (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Transformation    Author: Neal Asher       Publisher: Night Shade       Synopsis: Thorvald Spear wakes in hospital, where he finds he's been brought back from the dead. What's more, he died in a human vs. alien war which ended a whole century ago. But when he relives his traumatic final moments, he finds the spark to keep on living. That spark is vengeance. Trapped and desperate on a world surrounded by alien Prador forces, Spear had seen a rescue ship arriving. But instead of providing backup, Penny Royal, the AI within the destroyer turned rogue. It annihilated friendly forces in a frenzy of destruction, and, years later, it's still free. Spear vows to track it across worlds and do whatever it takes to bring it down. Isobel Satomi ran a successful crime syndicate. But after competitors attacked, she needed more power. Yet she got more than she bargained for when she negotiated with Penny Royal. She paid it to turn her part-AI herself, but the upgrades hid a horrifying secret. The Dark AI had triggered a transformation in Isobel that would turn her into a monster, rapidly evolving into something far from human. Spear hires Isobel to take him to the Penny Royal AI's last known whereabouts. But he cheats her in the process and he becomes a target for her vengeance. And as she is evolves further into a monstrous predator, rage soon wins over reason. Will Spear finish his hunt, before he becomes the hunted?

Title: Data Runner    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel       Author: Sam A. Patel       Publisher: Diversion Books       Synopsis: In the not-too-distant future, in what was once the old City of New York, megacorporations have taken over everything. Now even the internet is owned, and the only way to transmit sensitive information is by a network of highly skilled couriers called “data runners” who run it over the sneakernet.

Title: Daughter Of The Cyber Dragons (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Cyber Dragons    Author: C.T. Phipps       Publisher: Crossroad Press       Synopsis: Keiko "Kei" Springs is a Rider, a specialized form of delivery girl and mercenary all in one. They are among the most highly prized criminals in the dystopian neon city of New Los Angeles. Kei has been running from her past for years and has literally erased it from her mind using a popular street drug called lethe. Unfortunately, you can't outrun your past forever, even on her specialized Nina cybercycle.

Title: Day One    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel       Author: Nate Kenyon       Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books       Synopsis: Scandal-plagued hacker journalist John Hawke is hot on the trail of the explosive story that might save his career. James Weller, the former CEO of giant technology company Eclipse, has founded a new start-up, and he’s agreed to let Hawke do a profile on him. Hawke knows something very big is in the works at Eclipse---and he wants to use the profile as a foot in the door to find out more.

Title: Deadly Enhancements    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Other       Author: Matthew A. Goodwin   Mark Everglade   MF Lerma   Jim Keen   Armon Mikal   Elias J. Hurst   Tim C. Taylor   Rachel E. Beck   Nathan Pedde   D. L. Sellitto       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: An AI inhabits a human body. Targeted marketing invades a man’s life... and mind. Programmers battle their own government in cyberspace. Every day, the line between man and machine blurs. Drones replace postal workers, AI-operated cars fill the streets, and our carefully curated digital lives become as critical as our actual ones. How do unchecked technological advances shape us? How do we shape them? Does humanity still have time to choose our own future or is it too late?

Title: Deadly In Pink: A Cyberpunk Novella    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novella       Author: Matthew A. Goodwin       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Before she was a wise-cracking Street Samurai, Ynna was a genetically modified designer baby perfectly crafted for the pride of her parents. After an unfortunate event forces her to leave the lap of luxury for the mean streets of BA City, she has to learn to fend for herself.

Title: Death Arms (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1987    Category: Novel Series       Series: Doctor Adder    Author: K. W. Jeter       Publisher: St. Martin's Press       Synopsis: In a devastated Los Angeles of the near future most of the population have fled from THE FEAR, leaving the city inhabited by freaks and drop-outs, policed by the mysterious and powerful SCRAP organisation: characters such as the punkish Dortz and his enigmatic side-kick Anne Manx, the vicous, dumb Buddy - a boy who quite literally will blow your mind - and his sister, Rachel, reanimator of dead flesh.

Title: Deathlok    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Comics Series       Author: Various       Publisher: Marvel       Synopsis: Meet Jack Truman, the highly trained S.H.I.E.L.D. operative known as Agent 18. A fateful encounter with Cable is about to land him square in the sights of Project: Deathlok, a S.H.I.E.L.D. initiative so secret even Nick Fury is in the dark about it!

Title: Defiance (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novella Series       Series: Stories Of Singularity    Author: Susan Kaye Quinn       Publisher: Twisted Space LLC       Synopsis: Legacy humans like Cyrus Kowalski are used to skirting the laws the ascenders have laid down—after all, he knows the hyper-intelligent human/bot hybrids only pretend to care about their legacy pets. But when Cyrus’s adopted mother is stricken by a disease the ascenders refuse to cure, he has to risk everything to defy them… or stand by helplessly and watch her die.

Title: Defrag (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Glitch Logs    Author: Rachel E. Beck       Publisher: StoryForge Production       Synopsis: There are two kinds of Runners in Neosaka - those who believe in luck, and those who survive. Glitch, a hacker with more talent for computers than people, is one of the latter but when she is hired for a simple data-grab from the 189th floor of the Eyes in the Sky corporation, all her preparation can't avert disaster. Caught between a deadly security force and a rival team of Runners, Glitch's loyalty to her own puts her survival in jeopardy. Forced to ally with her enemies, she struggles to pull together the fragmented pieces of the job and make it out alive.

Title: Degrees Of Freedom (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: Samuil Petrovitch    Author: Simon Morden       Publisher: Orbit       Synopsis: The Six Degrees of Petrovitch. Michael is an AI of incalculable complexity trapped under the remains of Oshicora tower. Petrovitch will free him one day, he just has to trust Michael will still be sane by the time he does.

Title: Deleuze and Baudrillard: From Cyberpunk to Biopunk    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Other       Author: Sean McQueen       Publisher: Edinburgh University Press       Synopsis: Sean McQueen rewrites and re-envisions Gilles Deleuze's and Jean Baudrillard's relationship with Marxism and with each other, from their breakdowns to their breakthroughs. He theorises shifts in and across critical approaches to capitalism, science, technology, psychoanalysis, literature and cinema and media studies. He also brings renewed Marxian readings to cyberpunk texts previously theorised by Deleuze and Baudrillard, and places them at the heart of the emergence of biopunk and its relation to biocapitalism by mapping their generic, technoscientific, libidinal and economic exchanges.

Title: Denver Moon: The Minds Of Mars    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novella       Author: Warren Hammond   Joshua Viola       Publisher: Hex Publishers LLC       Synopsis: arth is dying. Luna is uninhabitable. Mars is our last chance. Once considered humanity's future home, Mars hasn't worked out like anybody hoped. Plagued by crime and a terraforming project that's centuries from completion, Mars is a red hell. Denver Moon, P.I., works the dark underbelly of Mars City. While investigating a series of violent crimes linked to red fever--a Martian disorder that turns its victims into bloodthirsty killers--Denver discovers a cryptic message left by Tatsuo Moon, Mars City co-founder and Denver's grandfather. The same grandfather who died two decades ago. Twenty-year-old revelations force Denver on a quest for truth, but Tatsuo's former friend, Cole Hennessy, leader of the Church of Mars, has other plans and will stop at nothing to keep Denver from disclosing Tatsuo's secrets to the world. Hell-bent on reclaiming her grandfather's legacy, Denver--along with her AI implant, Smith, companion android, Nigel, and shuttle pilot, Navya--set out on a quest to find the answers they hope will shed light on the church's true agenda, the origin of red fever, and the mysteries surrounding Tatsuo's tragic death.

Title: Dervish Is Digital (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2001    Category: Novel Series       Series: Artificial Reality Division    Author: Pat Cadigan       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Konstantin is Chief Officer in charge of TechnoCrime, Artificial Reality Division. It sounds better than it is - in fact, the AR Division consists of three people and a case load of nearly impossible to solve crimes. Now, as if handling her heavy case load almost single-handed weren't bad enough, she's got a stalker to deal with. A woman named Susannah Ell claims that she is being stalked by her ex-husband, Hasting Dervish. It seems implausible at first - Dervish is an extraordinarily rich and powerful man, who should have better things to do. But as Konstantin starts to look into it, she discovers that it's not quite so impossible to believe: Dervish has traded places with an Artificial Intelligence, and is busy committing crimes no one has ever thought of before.

Title: Descender, Vol. 1: Tin Stars    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Comics Series       Series: Descender    Author: Jeff Lemire   Dustin Nguyen   Steve Wands       Publisher: Image Comics       Synopsis: Young Robot boy TIM-21 and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. Written by award-winning creator, Jeff Lemire, Descender is a rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey. Lemire pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling epic. Collecting issues #1-6 of Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Trillium) and Dustin Nguyen's (Little Gotham) critically acclaimed, bestselling new science fiction series!

Title: Descender, Vol. 2: Machine Moon    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: Descender    Author: Jeff Lemire   Dustin Nguyen   Steve Wands       Publisher: Image Comics       Synopsis: Young robot boy TIM-21 and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. DESCENDER is a rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey, pitting humanity against machine and world against world to create a sprawling epic.

Title: Descender, Vol. 3: Singularities    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: Descender    Author: Jeff Lemire   Dustin Nguyen       Publisher: Image Comics       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Descender, Vol. 4: Orbital Mechanics    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Comics Series       Series: Descender    Author: Jeff Lemire   Dustin Nguyen       Publisher: Image Comics       Synopsis: Tim-21, Telsa and Quon finally escape the Machine Moon and head out on a quest to find the ancient robot who may hold the key to the Harvesters. Meanwhile Andy and his rag-tag team close in on Tim, but their fragile alliance is shattered by Driller's revealtions.

Title: Descender, Vol. 5: Rise Of The Robots    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Comics Series       Series: Descender    Author: Jeff Lemire   Dustin Nguyen       Publisher: Image Comics       Synopsis: The first major DESCENDER event is here. This is what it has all been building to. The Robot Resistance rises up and tightens its iron grip in the universe as the origins of the Harvesters are finally revealed and the galaxy is thrown into all-out war!

Title: Descender, Vol. 6: The Machine War    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Comics Series       Series: Descender    Author: Jeff Lemire   Dustin Nguyen       Publisher: Image Comics       Synopsis: A new, cataclysmic chapter of the Descender saga is here! All the various factions who have been hunting Tim-21 finally converge around the ocean planet, Mata just as the robots launch their galaxy wide revolution! But nothing can prepare the young android Tim, or the readers, for what happens next. The Descender saga comes to a startling climax and sets the stage for the next, mind bending adventure.

Title: Desolation Jones    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Comics Series       Author: Warren Ellis       Publisher: Wildstorm       Synopsis: A former field agent for M16, Michael Jones was the first surviving victim of the Desolation Test, a radically dangerous procedure cooked up by the British government. Jones was intravenously kept alive while being force-fed a steady diet of horrific data and images non-stop as stimulants were continuously pumped into his body --- keeping him conscious and alert for a solid year.

Title: Destroying Angel (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Novel Series       Series: Lt. Frank Carlucci    Author: Richard Paul Russo       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: An electrifying new cybershock thriller from a Philip K. Dick Award-winning author. In the violent, deteriorating San Francisco of the future, two bodies--chained together in a death embrace--are pulled from the bay. Only ex-cop Tanner recognizes the mark of the Chain Killer, and now he must prepare to penetrate the lair of a madman--in the city's hell on earth.

Title: Deus Ex    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Comics Series       Author: Robbie Morrison   Trevor Hairsine       Publisher: Wildstorm       Synopsis: The legendary video game franchise from Eidos Interactive comes to comics, in advance of the highly anticipated new game. Adam Jensen is a cybernetically enhanced security operative for the powerful Sarif Industries in a future where biological enhancements have become increasingly commonplace . . . but fanatically opposed by many! While recovering the kidnapped niece of the founder of Sarif Industries, Jensen uncovers a mystery that goes all the way back to his fully human SWAT origins in Detroit – and an adventure of violence and betrayal that’ll span the globe begins.

Title: Deus Ex: Black Light (Deus Ex Universe)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Deus Ex Universe    Author: James Swallow       Publisher: Titan Books       Synopsis: The year is 2029, and the shining promise of a new age of human augmentation is in ruins in the wake of the devastating ‘Aug Incident’ – a horrific catastrophe triggered by a cabal of shadowy power brokers, where millions of cybernetically enhanced people suffered a forced psychotic break.

Title: Deus Ex: Children's Crusade    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Author: Alex Irvine   John Aggs   Mat Lopes       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: With society still reeling from the Aug Incident - the Illuminati orchestrated event which caused augmented individuals to mindlessly attack their 'natural' counterparts - anti-aug sentiment is at an all-time global high. Task Force 29 - an Interpol-funded coalition, created to quash the rising tide of terrorist activity - stands as the world's main defence against total anarchy. In the city of Prague, where tension is especially high, the team's latest recruit, Adam Jensen, readies for his first mission with the unit. But being augmented himself, how will the former SWAT officer handle himself when faced with the grim reality of the mechanical apartheid? Welcome to the darker side of Deus Ex in this thrilling prologue to the upcoming new instalment, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

Title: Deus Ex: Icarus Effect (Deus Ex Universe)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: Deus Ex Universe    Author: James Swallow       Publisher: Del Rey       Synopsis: In the near future, with physical augmentation gaining ground and nano-cybernetics only years away, the dawn of limitless human evolution is just beyond the horizon, and a secret corporate cabal of ruthless men intends to make sure that humankind stays under its control. But two people on opposite sides of the world are starting to ask questions that could get them killed.

Title: DEV1AT3 (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: LIFEL1K3    Author: Jay Kristoff       Publisher: Knopf Books For Young Readers       Synopsis: After the climactic battle in Babel, she finds herself separated from Ezekiel and Cricket in the wastelands. Lemon’s abilities to manipulate electricity mark her as a deviate, and deadly corporate operatives are hunting her to use as a weapon in the war between BioMaas Incorporated and Daedelus Technologies. Instead, Lemon finds herself falling in with a group of fellow deviates—a band of teenagers with astonishing abilities, led by an enigmatic figure known as the Major, who may hold the secrets to Lemon’s past.

Title: Dhata Mays (#0)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Synth Crisis    Author: Greg Dragon       Publisher: Thirsty Bird Productions       Synopsis: In a war between man and machine, he must find a way to protect them all... After a devastating war forced humans to rely on synths for survival, the two have learned to coexist peacefully. Until now...

Title: Diaspora    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1997    Category: Novel       Author: Greg Egan       Publisher: Millennium       Synopsis: This novel's setting is a posthuman future, in which transhumanism long ago (during the mid 21st century) became the default philosophy embraced by the vast majority of human cultures.

Title: Digimortal    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Comics       Author: Tsutomu Nihei       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In a dark, dystopic future, the Church of Transfiguration was formed; their charter was to promote extreme cybernetic enhancements. However, mankind also perfected the art of immortality through genetic manipulation, and then the great ruin came. Now, the Church sends its Inquisition to track down these genetically modified beings, and the only one who is seemingly able to stand in their way is Digimortal, a deadly, violent mercenary...

Title: Digital Extremities (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Short Story       Series: Digital Extremities    Author: Adam Bassett       Publisher: Adam Bassett       Synopsis: A collection of eight stories, Digital Extremities shines a spotlight on ordinary people in a callous yet hopeful future. Set across small towns and remote islands, where neon flickers against old buildings and oaks, this collection paints a unique view of a traditionally cyberpunk setting. In 2089, a woman miscarries and seeks a way to find peace amidst overwhelming grief. Years later, a young man must find a way to pay rent outside of his job at the glassblowing studio. A pair of students, excited to go to college, install new hardware that promises to improve their cognitive functions. A private investigator searches for a missing child who has a reputation for embarking on risky adventures. Each tale is shaped by love, loss, and perseverance, weaving a vision of life outside of the megacities.

Title: Digital Walls (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: A Cyberpunk Saga    Author: Matthew A. Goodwin       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: With only a computer program in his mind that he does not fully understand and his cunning, Moss must find his way. The journey is fraught as new friends and old foes await him in a strange new land.

Title: Dispensable (The Cyborg Sectors #2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Short Story       Author: Alex Leu       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Two convicted cyborgs guilty of the highest crime. An expression of love that could save them or be their end. A cyberpunk romance for the ages.

Title: Distraction    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Novel       Author: Bruce Sterling       Publisher: Millennium   Orion       Synopsis: Distraction opens during the election year of 2044 and drops us immediately into the hyperactive universe of Oscar Valparaiso, a fixer and political spin artist who has just conducted his first successful senatorial campaign and has been "rewarded" with a patronage position on the Senate Science Committee. His new job sends him to the backwaters of East Texas to investigate conditions in a federally funded research institute called the Collaboratory. Once there, he uncovers a long-standing history of kickbacks, corruption, and old-fashioned political featherbedding. Oscar's attempts to introduce an element of reform into this closed society lead directly to the two relationships that stand at the heart of the novel. One is a romantic liaison between Oscar and with Dr. Greta Penninger, a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the increasingly prominent field of neural studies. The other is a protracted, no-holds-barred conflict with the governor of Louisiana, a classic southern demagogue named Etienne (Green Huey) Hugelet, who has his own undisclosed interests in the products of theCollaboratory'sresearch.

Title: Diver Creed Station    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: Oliver Phipps       Publisher: Gray Door       Synopsis: Wars, disease and a massive collapse of modern civilization have ravaged the human race of a hundred years in the future. Finally in the late twenty- second century, mankind slowly begins to struggle back from the edge of extinction. When a huge “virtual life” facility is restored from a hibernation type of storage and slowly brought back online, a new hope materializes. But this system is haunted by the long lost past. System ghosts intermingle with mysterious factions that place two young technicians into a cyberspace trap, with little hope for survival.

Title: Divinus Machina    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Comics Series       Author: Waylon Welsey       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Angela De Silva is a member of a secret fraternity of cybernetically enhanced assassins who are indoctrinated to believe they are God’s hand of justice as they target people who are deemed wicked and evil.

Title: Division Zero    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: Matthew S. Cox       Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press       Synopsis: Most cops get to deal with living criminals, but Agent Kirsten Wren is not most cops. A gifted psionic with a troubled past, Kirsten possesses a rare combination of abilities that give her a powerful weapon against spirits. In 2418, rampant violence and corporate warfare have left no shortage of angry wraiths in West City. Most exist as little more than fleeting shadows and eerie whispers in the darkness. Kirsten is shunned by a society that does not understand psionics, feared by those who know what she can do, and alone in a city of millions. Every so often, when a wraith gathers enough strength to become a threat to the living, these same people rely on her to stop it. Unexplained killings by human-like androids known as dolls leave the Division One police baffled, causing them to punt the case to Division Zero. Kirsten, along with her partner Dorian, wind up in the crosshairs of corporate assassins as they attempt to find out who – or what – is behind the random murders before more people die. She tries to hold on to the belief that no one is beyond redemption as she pursues a killer desperate to claim at least one more innocent soul – that might just be hers.

Title: DMZ    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2005    Category: Comics Series       Author: Riccardo Burchielli   Brian Wood   John Paul Leon       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Set in a near future where a second American civil war rages, a lone journalist is stranded in the middle of New York City, now a brutal no-man's-land. Mirroring current events, DMZ is an unforgiving look at what a 'war on terror' can do to a civilian population.

Title: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1968    Category: Novel       Author: Philip K. Dick       Publisher: Doubleday       Synopsis: Bounty hunter Rick Deckard signs on to a new police mission to earn enough money to buy a live animal to replace his electric sheep, in the hopes of achieving a greater sense of purpose in life for himself and his depressed wife, Iran. The mission, initiated by a now-hospitalized colleague, is to hunt down and eliminate (called "retiring") a group of six Nexus-6 androids that violently went rogue after their creation by the Rosen Association. Deckard travels by hovercar to the Rosen Association headquarters in Seattle, Washington to confirm the validity of a question-and-answer empathy test: his standard method for identifying any androids posing as humans. Deckard tests Rachael Rosen, the "niece" of the android-crafting Rosen family, who quickly fails the test. Rachael attempts to bribe Deckard into silence, but he verifies that she is indeed a Nexus-6 android and the Rosen Association was just trying to discredit the empathy test.

Title: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2009    Category: Comics Series       Author: Philip K. Dick   Tony Parker       Publisher: BOOM! Studios       Synopsis: Dick’s heady sci-fi noir, the inspiration for the movie Blade Runner, is adapted into an experimental comic that includes the full actual text of the novel. Rick Deckard, a San Francisco P.I. or “blade runner,” is tasked with hunting down a group of highly advanced androids that have escaped their off-world colony and are on the loose. As he takes down each one, though aspects of his own identity come into question.

Title: Doktor Sleepless    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Comics Series       Author: Warren Ellis       Publisher: Avatar       Synopsis: When the promise of a bright technological future is corrupted by conspiratorial authorities, a mad scientist-turned-cultural icon named Doktor Sleepless leads a guerilla revolution.

Title: Dome City Blues    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel       Author: Jeff Edwards       Publisher: Stealth Books       Synopsis: Los Angeles: 2063. David Stalin was one of the best detectives in the business, running head-to-head with data-jackers, organ thieves, and the tech-enhanced gangs who ruled the shadowy streets of Los Angeles. He could do no wrong, until what seemed like an easy case got out of control, and left his wife dead among the abandoned ruins of old LA. After four years of self-imposed retirement, David suddenly finds himself back on the job, struggling to unravel a crime far worse than murder. This time, he’s not the hunter. As he’s about to discover, the past isn’t finished with him yet.

Title: Dominion    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1986    Category: Comics Series       Author: Shirow Masamune       Publisher: Hakusensha   Dark Horse       Synopsis: Welcome to the future, where the norms are vast bio-constructed cities, air toxic enough to force citizens to wear oxygen masks, and crime so severe that the cops drive tanks! When a mysterious winged girl with the power to cleanse the poisoned air is kidnapped by the villainous Buaku, police mini-tank commander Leona Ozaki, her tank Bonaparte, and her lovesick partner Al must confront the arch-criminal and his catgirl molls-the beautiful and deadly Annapuma and Unipuma-before Buaku's master plan kicks into gear. Buaku has more than money on his mind, and the future fate of humanity hangs in the balance!

Title: Doom 2099    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1995    Category: Comics       Author: Warren Ellis   John Francis Moore   Pat Broderick   David Klein   John Royle   Steve Pugh   Ashley Wood   John Buscema       Publisher: Marvel       Synopsis: The year is 2099. Victor von Doom, having mysteriously survived from the Heroic Age of the early 21st century, has risen anew in this technologically advanced future. Having retaken his beloved Latveria from those who ruled it in his absence, Doom has turned his gaze to America, once the home of his greatest foes. He sees unrest. He sees disharmony. He knows that the struggling nation needs an iron fist to bring it back under control. And he knows just the man for the job. All hail ... President Doom?! Superstar writer Warren Ellis' maniacal overhaul of Dr. Doom's futuristic series is collected in one volume, featuring technological horror, dystopian despots and more sheer wrongness than you can shake a gauntlet at!

Title: Dori    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel       Author: Andrzej Kwiecień       Publisher: Pulp Books       Synopsis: Rippers who murder people for implants are a plague on Steris. Years ago, their victim was the younger sister of Detective Dori Drax. The policewoman lives in the belief that she has punished the guilty. However, when bodies without faces appear in Steris again, Dori is certain that one of the rippers has escaped her revenge. While investigating, she realizes that someone else is following the murderers' trail, and the saying: the enemy of my enemy is my friend is not always true. Dori is a cyberpunk thriller set in the world created by Andrzej Kwiecień in the short story Chrzest and the novel Metamorf - nominated for the book of the year 2023 in the LubimyCzytać plebiscite in the science fiction category.

Title: Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2003    Category: Novel       Author: Cory Doctorow       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World. Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now in the keeping of a network of "ad-hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches. Now, though, the "ad hocs" are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of the Presidents, and is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln, and all the others. For Jules, this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself.

Title: Downfail (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Failpocalypse    Author: George Donnelly       Publisher: Cheverer       Synopsis: No jobs. Robots took them. Citizens subsist on a basic income guarantee. They consume their lives in drug-fueled virtual reality gaming binges. Ian Blake doesn't play games and he won't accept handouts. He needs to be productive and useful - but his creepy boss just fired the baby-saving hero and father of three. Ian yearns to build his own robots now. But with a job offer in hand under his old boss in a government agency, he fights his family's callous material greed and his own self-doubt to build the future he thinks we all need.

Title: Dr. Adder (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1984    Category: Novel Series       Series: Doctor Adder    Author: K. W. Jeter       Publisher: Bluejay Books       Synopsis: Set in a future where the United States has largely broken down into reluctantly cooperating enclaves run by a wide variety of strongmen and warlords, with a veneer of government control that seems largely interested in controlling technology. Dr. Adder is an artist-surgeon, who modifies sexual organs of his patients to satisfy the weirdest of perversion; he is clearly depicted as a partly criminal, partly countercultural figure in a future Los Angeles.

Title: Dreamfall (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cat    Author: Joan D. Vinge       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Cat, the halfbreed telepath hero of Catspaw and Psion , joins a research team on Refuge, homeworld of his mother's people, the Hydrans. Immediately, he finds trouble when he helps a Hydran woman escape human pursuers. The decimated Hydran population of Refuge is confined to a bleak "homeland," by a huge corporate state, Tau Biotech. Tau also controls Refuge's one unique natural resource, "Dreamfall." The tangible residue of cast-off thoughts from beautiful, enigmatic "cloud whales," dreamfall forms vast reefs, sacred to the Hydrans, but mere exploitable data to Tau. Caught between Tau and desperate Hydrans who fight to reclaim their world, Cat must somehow forge the ruins of the past into a means to defeat Tau's brutality to save his people--and himself.

Title: Dreamships    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Novel       Author: Melissa Scott       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Dreamships is the story of a freelance space pilot and her crew, who are hired by a rich corporate owner to track down her crazy brother--who just may have created the first sentient Artificial Intelligence. Social texture and a tough, cyberpunk attitude make this an exceptionally intense read.

Title: Drudge Match (#7)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: A Cyberpunk Saga    Author: Matthew A. Goodwin       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: The people of B.A. City are ready to throw off the yoke of their oppressors. At last, Moss and his friends are able to take the fight directly to the companies, but are they too late? Their enemy acts first and Moss finds himself having to save the planet before he can free it. The shadows of his past continue to haunt him and every decision he has made comes into question as Moss enters the final showdown with his former employer. What he wants, and what he is willing to do to get it, plague his malfunctioning mind. Old friends become the key to victory but only if they can survive long enough.

Title: Drugs And Wires    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Comics Series       Author: N/A    Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: The year is 1995. Grunge and alt-rock dominate the airwaves. Floppy disks are still the storage medium of choice. The mainstream media can’t shut up about this amazing new thing called the “Information Superhighway.” And in the shadows of glittering megacities, a loose alliance of cyber-anarchists, techno-pagans, and razorgirls is waging covert war against power-hungry corporations, sinister governments, and injustice and corruption in all of its forms.

Title: Dystopia's Edge    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel       Author: Ian Price       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: The year is 2121. The world has changed a lot, but in ways that you’d probably expect. I thought I put my hitman days behind me. Turns out that couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m Benjamin Edge, mercenary for hire. Running guns, carrying out hits, I’ve done it all. When you grow up as a child soldier fighting for one city-state against another in the crumbling ruins of a fallen civilization, killing becomes second nature. This newest job seems a breeze, though. Smuggling lab equipment from San Francisco to New Tijuana means running a harsh gauntlet, but it’s nothing I can’t handle. A few hired guns—even a reformed drug addict who let me down in the past—should be enough to blaze a trail through the Badlands.

Title: Echo Effect    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel       Author: Robert D. Armstrong       Publisher: Robert D. Armstrong       Synopsis: They called it the Star Rust war. A corporate fueled military campaign to recover wreckage from a colossal alien craft. Over-achiever U.S. Army Ranger Michael Keller is caught in the gears of greed once again, thrust into the conflict. Despite his wits, he never comes home, leaving his fiancée,' Vala, behind. Suspicious, Vala begins a trek through a world stricken with debilitating technological diseases, alien salvage mercenaries, and ruthless corporate tycoons to reveal the truth about his disappearance. But the truth is a complex matter, a revelation and reminder that echoes not just through the lives of Michael and Vala, but an unsuspecting man who had lost it all to the sins of the elitists.

Title: Echoes    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel       Author: Laura Tisdall       Publisher: Tizl Press       Synopsis: Volatile genius Mallory Park is living two lives. In one, she is trying to survive senior year, balancing OCD and social anxiety with looking after her troubled family. In the other, she spends her nights glued to her laptop, breaking into some of the world's most secure systems as the hacker Echo Six.

Title: Eclipse (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1985    Category: Novel Series       Series: A Song Called Youth    Author: John Shirley       Publisher: Babbage       Synopsis: Like most cyberpunk novels, the books depict a dystopian future, set in a hypothetical early 21st century where the Soviet Union did not fall, and by the time of the action in the novel, has invaded Western Europe, causing massive disruption and destruction. Their armies are only repelled by the (unseen) use of tactical nuclear weapons, resulting in a stalemate, somewhat like the middle years of World War I.

Title: Eclipse Corona (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2000    Category: Novel Series       Series: A Song Called Youth    Author: John Shirley       Publisher: Babbage Press       Synopsis: A Song Called Youth, Book 3.

Title: Eclipse Penumbra (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2000    Category: Novel Series       Series: A Song Called Youth    Author: John Shirley       Publisher: Babbage Press       Synopsis: A Song Called Youth, Book 2.

Title: Eden: It's an Endless World!    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Comics Series       Author: Hiroki Endo       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Eden Volume One is both a brilliant love song to the post-apocalyptic survival genre and the beginning of a deep exploration on man’s role in the natural order. In the near future, a large portion of humanity is wiped out by a brutal, new virus that hardens the skin while dissolving internal organs. Those who aren’t immune are either severely crippled or allowed to live with cybernetically enhanced bodies. Taking advantage of a world in chaos, a paramilitary force known as the Propater topples the United Nations and seeks world domination. Elia, a young survivor searching for his mother, travels towards the Andes Mountains with an artificially intelligent combat robot. When he encounters a group of anti-Propater freedom fighters, a maelstrom of unique characters unfolds. Graphic, cyberpunk, and philosophical, Eden is a place where endearing heroes face a constant struggle for survival and violent surprises wait around every corner!

Title: Ego Trip (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Neo Rackham    Author: Eric Malikyte       Publisher: Astral Lands Press       Synopsis: Paul Anderson Fou lives the un-glamorous life of a fast food worker. He's made underachieving a profession, spending days of his life wasting away in Rackham Social VR. That's all about to change. He's been given the opportunity of a lifetime by a woman with spiked neon hair and glowing, multicolored eyes who calls herself Dynamo. After obtaining a full immersion VR implant worth more than the cost of his student debt, she thrusts him into Battle for Drogon, a virtual augmented reality game that manipulates what the player sees through their VR Implant.

Title: Eight Ways To Kill A Rat (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Neon Horizon    Author: Michael Robertson       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Electric Angel (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyber Dreams    Author: Plum Parrot       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Synopsis: In the year 2107, the world has both made astounding leaps forward and reduced humanity to its most basic existence. While the megacorps and those who rule them enjoy lives of extraordinary comfort and ease, most people barely scrape by, doing whatever they can to keep going. Juliet Bianchi is one of the latter. She works cutting metal in a scrapyard and doesn’t have much to show for it except for a small group of equally bereft, fiercely loyal friends. Still, she maintains a bright disposition, possessing more hope and optimism than anyone would expect her to—and she’s going to need it . . .

Title: Electronic Angels (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Imagined Realities    Author: Seth Rain       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Gehen City is corrupt, and Detective January Day has tried everything to change that. But it’s hopeless. Using her new-found ability to travel between realities, she takes solace in observing people and life in other worlds. That is, until she meets a beautiful, mysterious woman called Hecate, who insists that January can use her abilities to change not only her own world but also many others... for the better. January is ready to take responsibility into her own hands and help countless innocent people overcome tyranny. But she soon discovers that playing the role of an angel comes at a price.

Title: Electronic Demons (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Imagined Realities    Author: Seth Rain       Publisher: Human Fiction       Synopsis: No longer living in a simulation, January Day finds herself the subject of unwanted attention. She is the first of her a digital consciousness inside a human body. Haunted by memories of travelling through imagined realities, she struggles to come to terms with her new life. When a new governor of the city comes to power, his aim is to save a dying planet. He is ready to outlaw architects from creating imagined realities, including Elijah, for good. As January struggles to leave her demons behind, a new one raises its head, bringing with it more nightmares that she must endure if she is to find peace, and save countless realities from destruction.

Title: Electronic Gods (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Imagined Realities    Author: Seth Rain       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Detective January Day is hunting for the person who killed her brother. On the verge of giving up and self-destructing, she is confronted by a man who can wield fire and a man with wings. Convinced she has lost her mind, she quickly learns that there is a rational, yet extraordinary explanation. If January has any chance of saving her city, and reality itself, she must start by believing they deserve to be saved at all.

Title: Emergent (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Android Chronicles    Author: Lance Erlick       Publisher: Rebel Base Books       Synopsis: Evolving into the perfect weapon, humaniform AI Synthia Cross has been on the run six months and counting. She found a most unexpected ally in Maria Baldacci, a street-smart activist fighting the nascent threat of the singularity. Synthia is everything Maria fears and abhors. But Synthia’s also the only one who can help Maria battle against the creation of an android army. But the forces against them are growing—a threat more invasive than anything Synthia has encountered before. An insidious artificial intelligence she can’t identify, can’t control, and appears much smarter than her seeks to use her to escape...

Title: Emergent Properties    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: Aimee Ogden       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: A state-of-the-art AI with a talent for asking questions and finding answers, Scorn is nevertheless a parental disappointment. Defying the expectations of zir human mothers, CEOs of the world’s most powerful corporations, Scorn has made a life of zir own as an investigative reporter, crisscrossing the globe in pursuit of the truth, no matter the danger.

Title: Empty Zone    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Comics Series       Author: Jason Shawn Alexander       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: Eisner nominated artist JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER (Abe Sapien: The Drowning, Queen and Country) brings us a future eighty years after a worldwide black out. The world is a much darker and scarier place. Corinne White is an ex-soldier turned black market spy, data courier, manic-depressive, alcoholic. Punishing herself for mistakes from her past, Corinne is brought out from her spiral when she's contacted by her dead friends who inform her of a plot to reanimate the bodies of the dead by a psychotic billionaire.

Title: End State (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Stefan Mendoza    Author: P. R. Adams       Publisher: Promethean Tales       Synopsis: Stefan Mendoza tried to walk away from the business, but the Agency wouldn't let him. The Metacorporate Initiative has changed the world, and his bitter enemy has thrown in with one of the biggest of the new corporate powers. The race is to rebuild the recently destroyed AI has put a premium on elite software architects.

Title: Endurance Of The Fire (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Miraibanashi    Author: James Litherland       Publisher: Outpost Stories       Synopsis: HAVING LITTLE HOPE left, Roshike’s friends refuse to give up as they approach the endgame of their effort to take down the power behind the Batsu. Against almost impossible odds, they’re ready to risk their lives to remake the system—but what else are they willing to do, and what are they prepared to lose in order to win?

Title: Enemies Of The Batsu (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Miraibanashi    Author: James Litherland       Publisher: Outpost Stories       Synopsis: ROSHIKE AND FRIENDS must work from within the beating heart of Batsu society while enforcers edge ever closer to discovering—and eliminating—at least one of their number. When it comes down to a decision between their own safety and everyone’s future, what will they choose to do?

Title: Ensemble (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novella Series       Series: Cyber Overture    Author: D.B. Goodin       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: After the AI Copyright Act is repealed, megacorporations such as MuseFam increase the production of AI-generated music more than ever before. Robot production kicks into top gear, and they manufacture thousands each day. Recent legislation requires owners of all-human clubs to accept all patrons, including robots. Outraged Alice Parsons unites several all-human club owners. Soon Alice finds herself in a plot to eliminate the MuseFam problem once and for all.

Title: Entropy Angels    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Mark Harritt       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: It should have been an easy job, money for information, but the fixer’s room temp and Gregor Skotta's on the run with a battle synth and bounty hunters on his trail. Skotta’s a a bully boy from the Grind, a hustler in New Eden, the largest habitat in the solar system, playground of the rich where everyone else hustles to break even. He's operating on the edge, caught between loan sharks and a Multinational Corp that wants him dead. Now, he's fighting to get down level, back to the hull, one gee, where he'll need to confront his past to have a future.

Title: Equations Of Life (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: Samuil Petrovitch    Author: Simon Morden       Publisher: Orbit       Synopsis: Samuil Petrovitch is a survivor. He survived the nuclear fallout in St. Petersburg and hid in the London Metrozone – the last city in England. He’s lived this long because he’s a man of rules and logic.

Title: Ergo Proxy: Centzon Hitchers and Undertaker    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2006    Category: Comics Series       Author: Manglobe   Yumiko Harao       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: The closer to humans, Dorothy's memory of the humans she encounters is getting thinner. Therefore, when meeting Professor Garland's confessed, Dorothy believed him, so that he would not lose his past memories. Meanwhile, Leon also has to deal with his ghost past, just when Dorothy and Hart need it ...

Title: Escape From New York    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Comics Series       Author: Christopher Sebela   Diego Baretto   Jordie Bellaire       Publisher: BOOM! Studios       Synopsis: After bringing the John Carpenter classic Big trouble in Little China to comics, the response has been so strong that we knew we had to bring another Carpenter classic to comics in a style and approach that does Escape From New York justice. Eisner-nominated writer Christopher Sebela (HIGH CRIMES, DEAD LETTERS) and artist Diego Barreto (IRREDEEMABLE) bring a action-packed adventure that rocks for both long-time Snake fans and newcomers.

Title: Escapology    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Ren Warom       Publisher: Titan Books       Synopsis: Shock Pao is the best. In the virtual world the Slip there’s nothing he can’t steal for the right price. Outside the Slip, though, he’s a Fail – no degree, no job. So when his ex offers him a job, breaking into a corporate databank, he accepts—it’s either that, or find himself a nice bench to sleep under. Amiga works for psychotic crime lord Twist Calhoun so when Shock’s war comes to her, it’s her job to bring him to Twist, dead or alive.

Title: Europa (Europa Book 1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novella Series       Author: lias J. Hurst       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Europa begins with Luka being interviewed about his mental health as he prepares to go to Europa. This serves as a great disguise for the exposition of his backstory. After an attack causes a car accident, he has a biochip installed without his authorization, providing a wealth of information. Unfortunately, others also know how much it’s worth...

Title: Excession (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: Bantam Spectra       Synopsis: The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical tale, proving once again that he is "a talent to be reckoned with" ("Locus"). In "Excession", the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section orders Diplomat Byr Gen-Hofoen to steal the soul of a long-dead starship captain. By accepting the mission, Byr irrevocably plunges himself into a conspiracy: one that could either lead the universe into an age of peace or to the brink of annihilation.

Title: Exin Ex Machina (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Asterion Noir    Author: G.S. Jennsen       Publisher: Hypernova Publishing       Synopsis: When man and machine are one and the same, there are many crimes but only one sin: psyche-wipe. The secrets it has buried could lead to a civilization's salvation, or to its doom.

Title: Exit Strategy (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novella Series       Series: The Murderbot Diaries    Author: Martha Wells       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: The fourth and final part of the Murderbot Diaries series that began with All Systems Red. Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah—its former owner (protector? friend?)—submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit. But who’s going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue? And what will become of it when it’s caught?

Title: Exploded View    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Sam McPheeters       Publisher: Talos       Synopsis: It’s 2050, and LAPD Detective Terri Pastuzka has drawn the short straw with her first assignment of the new decade. Someone has executed one of the city’s countless immigrants, and no one (besides the usual besieged advocacy groups) seems to much care. Even Terri herself is already looking ahead to her next case before an unexpected development reveals there’s far more to this corpse than meets the eye. And a lot already meets the eye. In a city immersed in augmented reality, the LAPD have their own superior network of high-tech eyewear—PanOpts, the ultimate panopticon—allowing Terri instant access to files and suspects and literal insertion into the crime scene using security footage captured from every angle the day the murder occurred. What started as a single homicide turns into a string of unsolved murders that tie together in frightening ways, leading Terri down a rabbit hole through Los Angeles’s conflicting realities—augmented and virtual, fantastically rumored and harrowingly true—towards an impossible conclusion.

Title: Extensis Vitae (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: Extensis Vitae    Author: Gregory Mattix       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Michael Reznik is a soldier who wakes up in a mysterious underground bunker, with a technologically advanced body he doesn't recognize. The people around him have cast aside fighting and warfare. They haven't needed them--until now.

Title: Extensis Vitae: City Of Sarx (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Extensis Vitae    Author: Gregory Mattix       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Skin City: a festering blight of depravity and crime where those who hit rock bottom end up--yet at the same time a high-tech jewel, the last refuge of high society in the desolate wasteland. It is a discordant place, beckoning all with the promise of satisfying any desire. The path to Skin City can lead to ruin or redemption; the outcome depends on what one seeks.

Title: Extensis Vitae: Empire Of Dust (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Extensis Vitae    Author: Gregory Mattix       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Skin City has been liberated, offering a flicker of hope to all who live in the wasteland--hope that times are changing. But it has been a Pyrrhic victory, coming at great cost to the few who remain and seek to carry on the fight. War looms on the horizon as the survivors now seek to take the fight against the overwhelming might of Thorne Industries.

Title: Extensis Vitae: The Shattered Land (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: Extensis Vitae    Author: Gregory Mattix       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Time is running out for Michael Reznik as he searches for a way to deactivate his body's kill switch before his time literally expires. Reznik makes his way to the surface with the mysterious Rin as his guide and discovers a post-apocalyptic wasteland that is brutal and unforgiving, a land totally foreign to the country he knew.

Title: Extremophile    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel       Author: Ian Green       Publisher: Head of Zeus       Synopsis: Charlie and Parker are punks by night, biohackers by day, living in the stuttering decay of near-future climate-collapse London. They pay for the beer they don't steal with money from their sketchy astronomy site Zodiac Code, while Charlie's bio-bespoke augments equip the criminals, punks, and eco-warriors of London. They have to deal with disgruntled clients, scene kids who don't dig their band, and a city that's run by corporates and criminals. Their world is split into three Green – who are still trying to save the world; Blue – who try to profit while they can, and Black – who see no hope left.

Title: F814 (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyborgs: More Than Machines    Author: Eve Langlais       Publisher: Eve Langlais       Synopsis: She thought herself a robot, defective and unique among her kind, until he taught her how to live again. F814 exists to serve the humans until they decide to terminate her. An instinct for survival makes her fight, but when she achieves freedom, she discovers she cannot throw off the chains of habit. Everything changes when another flesh covered droid arrives, a cyborg he calls himself, who teaches her she is more than a machine.

Title: Fall, or Dodge In Hell    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Neal Stephenson       Publisher: William Morrow & Co       Synopsis: In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia. One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. Long ago, when a much younger Dodge drew up his will, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company now owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd. Legally bound to follow the directive despite their misgivings, Dodge’s family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud, until it can eventually be revived.

Title: Fallen Angels (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Behind Blue Eyes    Author: Anna Mocikat       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Olympias City is shaken by a series of unspeakably brutal murders. No one is allowed to know the shocking truth about who the victims are: Guardian Angels. Someone is hunting the almost invincible cyborgs with the neon-blue eyes. Someone who knows their secrets and who uses a formerly unknown technology.

Title: Falling Into Oblivion (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel Series       Series: Tendrils Of Chrome    Author: Aaron M. Payne       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Detective Sol Harkones is tangled in the wires of a deadly conspiracy involving defective body modifications causing permanent brain damage. A suspect is known, but something more dangerous may be lurking in the shadows.

Title: Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987-2007    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Other       Author: Nick Land       Publisher: Urbanomic       Synopsis: Level 1, or world-space, is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly. Garbage time is running out.

Title: Far Sector    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Far Sector    Author: N.K. Jemisin   Jamal Campbell        Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: For the past six months, newly chosen Green Lantern Sojourner "Jo" Mullein has been protecting the City Enduring, a massive metropolis of 20 billion people. The city has maintained peace for over 500 years by stripping its citizens of their ability to feel. As a result, violent crime is virtually unheard of, and murder is nonexistent.

Title: Far Sector #10    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Far Sector    Author: N.K. Jemisin   Jamal Campbell       Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: Since arriving at the City Enduring, Sojourner “Jo” Mullein has confronted an insidious conspiracy of murder and mayhem, but even this most resilient Green Lantern reaches her breaking point when she uncovers an “emotional sweatshop” producing black-market feelings for a world without them. But Jo is only too human...

Title: Far Sector #11    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Far Sector    Author: N.K. Jemisin   Jamal Campbell       Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: Everything is coming to a boil as we lay the groundwork for the Far Sector finale in this, our penultimate issue! Riots are breaking out across the City Enduring as its citizens realize that there are political shenanigans disrupting their way of life and subverting the will of the people. To quell this unrest, @BlazeofGlory is threatening to unleash a terrible weapon upon her own people. Jo has to race against the ticking clock of a Green Lantern ring that is rapidly losing power to bypass the city’s entire defense forces and stop this attack from above.

Title: Far Sector #12    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Far Sector    Author: N.K. Jemisin,Jamal Campbell       Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: When Jo Mullein left Earth for parts unknown, little did she know she’d end up becoming a Green Lantern at the farthest outpost in the known universe, dealing with a complex culture that was about to have its first murder in centuries. Investigating that death unearthed a lot of secrets and made her a lot of enemies, and it all comes to a head in this rousing final issue. Written by multiple Hugo Award winner N.K. Jemisin and drawn by Naomi co-creator Jamal Campbell, this epic space adventure is one you will want to read over and over again.

Title: Far Sector #2    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Far Sector    Author: N.K. Jemisin   Jamal Campbell        Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: Rookie Green Lantern Sojourner “Jo” Mullein’s investigation of the first murder in 500 years hits a snag when the murderer is murdered. Whatever’s going on, it’s something to do with Switchoff, a highly illegal genetic cocktail that restores dangerous feelings to the emotionless citizens of the City Enduring...

Title: Far Sector #3    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Far Sector    Author: N.K. Jemisin   Jamal Campbell       Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: Protecting the City Enduring’s population of 20 billion aliens gets even harder when rookie Green Lantern Jo Mulein is thrust into the middle of a massive protest that’s about to get out of hand. What do the protesters want? The right to feel.

Title: Far Sector #4    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Far Sector    Author: N.K. Jemisin   Jamal Campbell       Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: With the so-called Peace Division firing upon the protesters it’s meant to protect, new Green Lantern Jo Mullein devises a novel solution to bring the chaos to a close-one that causes the rookie Lantern to run afoul of the City Enduring’s leadership council. Meanwhile, we learn more about Jo’s recruitment into the Green Lantern Corps, and the nature of her mysterious and unique power ring.

Title: Far Sector #5    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Far Sector    Author: N.K. Jemisin   Jamal Campbell       Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: The mysteries of Sojourner “Jo” Mullein’s origins and her recruitment into the Green Lantern Corps are finally revealed. Meanwhile, Jo’s attempt to “follow the money” is complicated when she discovers the City Enduring’s form of cryptocurrency is mined by an underclass of artificial lifeforms.

Title: Far Sector #6    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Far Sector    Author: N.K. Jemisin   Jamal Campbell       Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: Tensions in the City Enduring are high as the Emotion Exploit-the mandatory genetic tech that strips citizens of their emotions in the name of peace-is up for referendum. But Jo’s attentions are divided when Councilor Marth makes a surprising and distinctly emotional overture...

Title: Far Sector #7    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Far Sector    Author: N.K. Jemisin   Jamal Campbell       Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: On today’s agenda: a giant mech fight, transforming her consciousness into digital information, and a high-speed pursuit through an alien computer network. All with six minutes of power left. But it’s all in a day’s work for Green Lantern Jo Mullein as she comes closer to unraveling the greatest conspiracy the Green Lantern Corps has ever seen. Far Sector continues on a new bimonthly schedule.

Title: Far Sector #8    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Far Sector    Author: N.K. Jemisin   Jamal Campbell       Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: While still processing her feelings about Councilor Marth, Jo tracks down the “riders” who killed Averrup Thorn, and gets the first hint of what’s really going on beneath the surface of the City Enduring. Reporting to the Council, Jo is disgusted to realize she’s facing the same kind of callous, responsibility-avoiding bureaucracy as back home on Earth.

Title: Far Sector #9    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Far Sector    Author: N.K. Jemisin   Jamal Campbell       Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: Jo’s investigation into the conspiracy at the heart of the City Enduring takes her to Platform Solid Ground, an alien farmland where most of the City’s food comes from. But what the headstrong Green Lantern discovers there shakes even her to the core as Far Sector’s thrilling threads of murder and machinations build to a fever pitch.

Title: Fate's Reckoning (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyber Dreams    Author: Plum Parrot       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Synopsis: A cyber-enhanced operator seeks to take down her creators while maintaining her fragile humanity in the thrilling conclusion of this dystopian adventure.

Title: Fear The Reaper (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Last Reaper    Author: J.N. Chaney   Scott Moon       Publisher: Variant Publications       Synopsis: New enemies. Unlikely allies. A neon city in the Deadlands that never sleeps. Halek Cain has mysteries to solve, people to rescue, and a vendetta to carry out. But he must fix his Reaper augmentations before they kill him. He needs raw materials from Gronic, a technical specialist on Roxo III, and time to put himself right before the Union comes for him.

Title: Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Other       Author: George Edgar Slusser   Tom Shippey   Thomas Shippey       Publisher: University of Georgia Press       Synopsis: Will novels and stories be relevant in the next millennium, when the boundaries between illusion and reality, and observer and observed, may dissipate in a whirl of images, signals and data? This essay collection divines the prospects of fiction in the information age by examining cyberpunk literature. A movement less than a decade old, cyberpunk is driven by deep concerns about society, ethics, and new technology and has been defined as the literature of the first generation of science-fiction writers actually to live in a science-fiction world.

Title: Fifty Key Figures In Cyberpunk Culture    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Other       Author: Anna McFarlane   Graham Murphy   Lars Schmeink       Publisher: Routledge       Synopsis: A collection of engaging essays on some of the most significant figures in cyberpunk culture, this outstanding guide charts the rich and varied landscape of cyberpunk from the 1970s to present day.

Title: Fisheye Placebo    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Comics Series       Author: Wenqing Yan       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: This an ongoing webcomic inspired by the real issues the world faces today.

Title: Flashpoint (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Novel Series       Series: Books Of The Underground    Author: Frank Creed       Publisher: Writers Cafe Press       Synopsis: Flashpoint is Biblical Cyberpunk set in the year 2036 and is the story of an alternative future where patriotism meets tyranny, the Patriot Act waxes Stalin-esque and the violence of terrorism has united the world.

Title: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1974    Category: Novel       Author: Philip K. Dick       Publisher: Doubleday       Synopsis: The novel is set in a dystopian version of 1988, following a Second Civil War which led to the collapse of the United States' democratic institutions. The National Guard ("nats") and US police force ("pols") reestablished social order through instituting a dictatorship, with a "Director" at the apex, and police marshals and generals as operational commanders in the field. Resistance to the regime is largely confined to university campuses, where radicalized former university students eke out a desperate existence in subterranean kibbutzim. Recreational drug use is widespread, and the age of consent has been lowered to twelve. Most commuting is undertaken by personal aircraft, allowing great distances to be covered in little time.

Title: Fools    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Novel       Author: Pat Cadigan       Publisher: Spectra       Synopsis: When Marva, a Method actress, awakens in a hologram pool, carrying in her head the memory of a murder, she must think fast to find out whose life she is living and to elude the Escort Service assassins who are pursuing her.

Title: For We Are Many (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Bobiverse    Author: Dennis E. Taylor       Publisher: Audible Studios       Synopsis: Bob Johansson didn’t believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a car accident was a shock. To add to the surprise, he is now a sentient computer and the controlling intelligence for a Von Neumann probe. Bob and his copies have been spreading out from Earth for forty years now, looking for habitable planets. But that’s the only part of the plan that’s still in one piece. A system-wide war has killed off 99.9% of the human race; nuclear winter is slowly making the Earth uninhabitable; a radical group wants to finish the job on the remnants of humanity; the Brazilian space probes are still out there, still trying to blow up the competition; And the Bobs have discovered a spacefaring species that considers all other life as food. Bob left Earth anticipating a life of exploration and blissful solitude. Instead he’s a sky god to a primitive native species, the only hope for getting humanity to a new home, and possibly the only thing that can prevent every species in the local sphere ending up as dinner.

Title: Forever Glitched    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Short Story       Author: Mark Everglade       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: This collection takes you to virtual worlds where goddesses weave the internet in their own image, where fractals hold blueprints for revolutionary gaming devices, and where cyberspace renders as outer space, an empty void filled only by the light of your interactions.

Title: Fortune's Envoy (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyber Dreams    Author: Plum Parrot   Suzy Jackson        Publisher: Podium Publishing       Synopsis: Once a scrap-wrangling nobody from Phoenix, Arizona, Juliet Bianchi's life was forever changed when fate handed her a hyper-advanced AI chip that launched her into the arena of high-powered, high-stakes operators. To her surprise—and everyone else's—she had a natural talent for cybernetic-enhanced mayhem and mercenary work.

Title: Foundations (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Tower Of Somnus    Author: Cale Plamann       Publisher: Mountaindale Press       Synopsis: Katherine ‘Kat’ Debs, a hereditary employee of one of the megacorporations that ruled the world, eked out a meager existence in a massive arcology of glittering glass and chrome. She dreamt of one day earning enough money to buy her freedom, and was more than willing to break a law here or there in the process. When she is offered an opportunity to enter the Tower of Somnus free of corporate control, she jumps at the chance. After all, the 'game' was more than just a status symbol, players retained the fantastic powers they earned in the game in the waking world as well.

Title: Frame 137    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Comics Series       Author: James O'Barr       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: The 4 page story opens with the young Jonny Z, sitting at the bar of Frame 137 - the underground tech saloon run by Rico, one of the few people Jonny likes and trusts. Jonny's dealer Big T is fashionably late, as always, and Jonny scans the crowd as he wishes cancer variants on T for making him wait. After Big T shows, Jonny swallows a pharmaceutical rainbow of caps and tabs, which cools his previously tweaking system as he waits for the arrival of his 'client', Leo, a Kiddy flesh dealer Jonny's being paid to kill. It's a standard revenge hit, commissioned after Leo moved in and Skinny D's little sister went missing. When Leo arrives, he has two twin A-Steroid Boys as bodyguards, the group takes a booth near the door and Jonny smiles, noting it's not gonna be Leo's night. Jonny's consciousness drowns in memories and amphetamines, as he approaches the booth contemplating his history and what it means to be an assassin. His ceramic Vach 9mm loaded, and out of sight, Jonny confronts Leo and his A-Boys. Leo and Jonny stare each other down, threats are exchanged and tension mounts, a standoff, broken when the A-Boys stand, and Jonny blasts them back down. Jonny swings back around to Leo, catching him still seated he presses his gun to Leo's head. Sweating, Leo tries to talk his way out of the situation. Jonny smiles, and pulls the trigger. Jonny turns and heads for the door. Giving Rico a sign that he'll square up with him for the damage later, he disappears from the bar. The Iggy Pops track "Dog Food" starts playing over the jukebox as Jonny fades back into the night.

Title: Fray    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Comics Series       Author: Joss Whedon       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Hundreds of years in the future, Manhattan has become a deadly slum, run by mutant crime-lords and disinterested cops. Stuck in the middle is a young girl who thought she had no future, but learns she has a great destiny. In a world so poisoned that it doesn't notice the monsters on its streets, how can a street kid like Fray unite a fallen city against a demonic plot to consume mankind? Joss Whedon, the celebrated creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, brings his vision to the future in this unique tale. As inventive in the comics medium as in that of television of film, Whedon spins a complex tale of a skilled thief coming of age without the help of friends or family, guided only by a demonic Watcher.

Title: Freedom (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Novel Series       Series: Daemon    Author: Daniel Suarez       Publisher: Dutton       Synopsis: The sequel picks up shortly after the end of Daemon. Sobol's distributed AI has already infiltrated the computer systems of numerous companies and governments. Many companies have surrendered, either out of fear of annihilation or because they have been converted to the fairer and more efficient system. While the Daemon is a technological creation, much of the work is carried out by human beings, compelled by the Daemon to change the world, according to the vision of Matthew Sobol. Connected by the "Darknet", the human followers, using Sobol's game engine (for his award winning game "The Gate") as a base, have created their own ranking system and economy. Online identities mimic an MMORPG, with operatives doing tasks to gain levels and gaining access to new technologies and help from the Daemon in an effort to advance their communities. Numerous towns have slowly joined the Daemon's network as a means to improve their own situations and their society as a whole. The rest of the world believes the Daemon is still a hoax, due to the efforts of the US government (and its allies) to appear to the general public that they are still in charge. In truth, the American political and economic system is collapsing, with the price of fuel and the unemployment rates both skyrocketing.

Title: Freeware (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1997    Category: Novel Series       Series: Ware    Author: Rudy Rucker       Publisher: Eos       Synopsis: Now, in 2053, "moldies" are the latest robotic advancement--evolved artificial lifeforms made of soft plastic and gene-tweaked molds and algae, so anatomically inventive and universally despised that their very presence on the planet has thrown the entire low-rent future into a serious tailspin. So the moon is the place to be, if you're a persecuted "moldie" or an enlightened "flesher" intent an creating a new, more utopian hybrid civilization. Of course up there, there are other intergalactic intelligences to contend with--and some not so intelligent--who have their own agendas and appetites.

Title: FREQ    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Comics Series       Author: Dai Sato       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: The setting of Freq's lore unfolds in a futuristic realm where the influence of sound frequencies governs all aspects of life. In this world, everything from traffic, AR visuals, electricity to warfare and of course music is orchestrated through the manipulation/extraction of sound frequencies. The narrative unfolds within the sprawling expanse of Rephlex, a vast city featuring diverse districts, factions, and social classes. FREQ's lore is based on the history of electronic music, featuring characters, weapons, equipment, locations, events and a general reference system that mirrors our real-life counterparts (for example, the character Kith is modeled after Keith Flint from the band "The Prodigy").

Title: Frontera    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1984    Category: Novel       Author: Lewis Shiner       Publisher: Baen Books       Synopsis: Ten years ago the world's governments collapsed, and now the corporations are in control. Houston's Pulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera to search for survivors. Reese, aging hero of the US space program, knows better. The colonists are not only alive, they have discovered a secret so devastating that the new rulers of Earth will stop at nothing to own it. Reese is equally desperate to use it for his own very personal agenda. But none of them have reckoned with Kane, tortured veteran of the corporate wars, whose hallucinatory voices are urging him to complete an ancient cycle of heroism and alter the destiny of the human race.

Title: Fugitive Telemetry (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Murderbot Diaries    Author: Martha Wells       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people—who knew?)

Title: Future Tales    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Series: Future Tales    Author: N/A    Publisher: Wild North Comics       Synopsis: FUTURE TALES is a cyberpunk reimagining of classic fairy tales set in a post-apocalyptic world. From RED the hooded messenger to LOX the street urchin who enounters the mutant cyborg B.E.A.R.s, JACK who infiltrates the sky city and ELLA who has a heart of gold and leg of metal, these are beloved characters like you've never seen them before.

Title: Future's Guardian    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Paul Haedo       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: In a future New York City, the Augamani Corporation dominates all aspects of life. Unemployment is non-existent because being employed is mandatory under the law, and a Factory Maintenance Technician named Ylan works hard and proud for his salary. He like everyone else has no reason to complain about anything.

Title: Futureland    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2002    Category: Novel       Author: Walter Mosley       Publisher: Grand Central Publishing       Synopsis: Projecting a near-future United States in which justice is blind in at least one eye and the ranks of the disenchanted have swollen to dangerous levels, Mosely offers nine interconnected stories whose characters appear and reappear in each others' lives. For all its denizens, from technocrats to terrorists, celebs to crooks, "Futureland" is an all-American nightmare just waiting to happen.

Title: Gathering Ashes (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Wonderland Cycle    Author: Michael Shean       Publisher: Curiosity Quills       Synopsis: Four years have passed since Bobbi January learned about the existence of the Yathi race and its plans for humanity. Since then, she ‘s become more than a career data thief or anticorporate provacateur - she’s the leader of a force of humans and reformed Yathi hosts dedicated to fighting the aliens wherever they can be found. Hers is a war fought in the dark, and like all wars, it has been costly. Friends have died, others have soured, and the rebellion that started out so strongly has broken into two embittered camps. When Bobbi is nearly killed by a surpise strike after a successful mission, it looks as though the Yathi may be the least of her problems.

Title: Gauntlet (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Sommerfeld Experiment    Author: Al Davidson       Publisher: Destiny Engine       Synopsis: Caught between two formidable entities who want to exploit his talents for their own purpose, Joshua has one option: join the Siuping Clan as an enforcer. Instead, Yee surprises Joshua with an unexpected offer—the opportunity of a lifetime and a way out of the killing and the death he’s known his whole life.

Title: Genocyber    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1993    Category: Comics       Author: Tony Takezaki       Publisher: Byakuya Shobo       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Ghost Chrysalis (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyber Dreams    Author: Plum Parrot       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Synopsis: Juliet Bianchi was once just another working drone, struggling to survive in a world where megacorporations reigned, information was power, and that power was worth killing for. Then she stumbled upon a kidnapping gone wrong and ended up with a stolen AI chip that took her from the bottom of the barrel to a top-tier realm of mercs, freelancers, and assorted unsavory folk.

Title: Ghost In The Shell    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Novel       Author: Masamune Shirow       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: In the rapidly converging landscape of the 21st century Major Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including ghost hackers When he track the trail of one hacker, her quest leads her to a world she could never have imagined.

Title: Ghost In The Shell (Ghost In The Shell #1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1989    Category: Comics Series       Series: Ghost In The Shell    Author: Masamune Shirow       Publisher: Kodansha       Synopsis: In the rapidly converging landscape of the 21st century Major Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including ghost hackers When he track the trail of one hacker, her quest leads her to a world she could never have imagined.

Title: Ghost In The Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor (Ghost In The Shell #1.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2003    Category: Comics Series       Series: Ghost In The Shell    Author: Masamune Shirow       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: This volume presents for the first time in America the lost Ghost in the Shell stories, created by Masamune, but never collected until now. Deep into the 21st century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants, and robots are upgraded with human tissue. Older teens.

Title: Ghost In The Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface (Ghost In The Shell #2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2001    Category: Comics Series       Series: Ghost In The Shell    Author: Masamune Shirow       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: March 6, 2035. Motoko Aramaki is a hyper-advanced cyborg, a counter-terrorist net security expert heading the investigative department of the giant multi-national, Poseidon Industrial. Partly transcending the physical world and existing in a virtual world of networks, Motoko is a fusion of multiple entities and identities, deploying remotely controlled prosthetic humanoid surrogates around the globe to solve a series of bizarre crimes. Meanwhile, Tamaki Tamai, a psychic investigator from the Channeling Agency, has been commissioned to investigate strange changes in the temporal universe, brought about by two forces, one represented by the teachings of a professor named Rahampol, and the other by the complex, evolving Motoko entity. What unfolds will be all in a day's work... a day that will change everything, forever.

Title: Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Comics Series       Author: Yu Kinutani   Junichi Fujisaku       Publisher: Kodansha       Synopsis: Stand Alone Complex takes place in the year 2030, in the fictional Japanese city of New Port. The story follows the members of Public Security Section 9, a special-operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. The manga presents individual cases that Section 9 investigates, along with an ongoing, more serious investigation into the serial killer and hacker known only as "The Laughing Man."

Title: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Volume 1: The Lost Memory (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2006    Category: Novel Series       Series: GITS SAC    Author: Junichi Fujisaku       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Since being formed as a shadow peacekeeping organization, Section 9 has faced almost countless adversaries both in the real world and in cyberspace, but none like "The Awakened," a group of terrorists who seem to have the ability to take over the minds and bodies of almost anyone and use them to commit crimes against the state, leaving their pawns unaware of who was controlling them. When Major Motoko Kusanagi is able to capture one of the boys used as a pawn she hacks into his cyberbrain to find out who the ringleader is, but what she discovers will take her and the operatives of Section 9 on a journey deep into the heart of cyberspace, and the answers she finds will shake Section 9 to its core.

Title: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Volume 2: Revenge of the Cold Machines (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2006    Category: Novel Series       Series: GITS SAC    Author: Junichi Fujisaku       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: 2030 Tokyo: While patrolling Tokyo's post-World War III refugee zones Togusa, the newest member of Section 9, discovers that one of the most powerful cyber-criminals his squad has ever faced has plans to kill their leader, Section 9 Chief Daisuke Aramaki, in one of three stories in this collection, and it will take all of the members of Section 9 to stop him. The action heats up in the stories "Double Targets," "First Love, Last Love" and "Revenge of the Cold Machines."

Title: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Volume 3: White Maze (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Novel Series       Series: GITS SAC    Author: Junichi Fujisaku       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: The year is 2030. Advances in robotics and cyberbrain technology have transformed the world into a miraculous place where almost anything is possible - even the melding of humans and machines. In this not-too-distant future, the crimes of flesh and metal are investigated by Section 9, an elite counterterrorist squad headed by Chief Aramaki and his cyborg sidekick, Major Motoko Kusanagi. When dead bodies, drained of blood and with two bite marks on their necks, start turning up on the streets of Tokyo, it isn't long before the entire city is in a panic. As Major Kusanagi and the other members of Section 9 investigate the killings they begin to wonder - is the killer a real vampire or something much worse? In a dark world of murder, where cyberbrain hacks and treacherous conspiracies reach to the furthest heights of government, Section 9 is all that stands between the people and anarchy.

Title: Ghost Of The Neon God    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel       Author: T.R. Napper       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: A thrilling, propulsive story of escape as a small-time crook goes on the run across Australia with a stolen secret that will change the world, perfect for fans of William Gibson’s All Tomorrow’s Parties, Richard Morgan and Ghost in the Shell.

Title: Ghost Rider 2099    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1994    Category: Comics Series       Author: Len Kaminski   Chris Bachalo   Mark Buckingham   Ashley Wood   Kyle Hotz       Publisher: Marvel       Synopsis: The series is set in the year 2099, in a dystopian possible future of the Marvel Universe, and features Kenshiro "Zero" Cochrane, a hacker who was killed but resurrected as the Ghost Rider — his mind controlling a powerful and well-armed robot. As with most of the Marvel 2099 titles, the protagonist was a futuristic version of a commercially successful Marvel Universe character. The series was heavily influenced by cyberpunk science fiction.

Title: Ghost Trigger (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Glitch Factories    Author: Alex Lopes       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: From the claustrophobic server room to the cold suffocation of the corporate machinery, a man fights for justice, delivering documents to an unlikely candidate, an employee of the megacorporation that will become the center of their revolution.

Title: Ghosts Of Tomorrow    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel       Author: Michael R. Fletcher       Publisher: Michael R. Fletcher       Synopsis: Straight out of school, Griffin, a junior Investigations agent for the North American Trade Union, is put on the case: Find and close the illegal crèches. No one expects him to succeed, Griffin least of all. Installed in a combat chassis Abdul, a depressed seventeen year old killed during the Secession Wars in Old Montreal, is assigned as Griffin's Heavy Weapons support. Nadia, a state-sanctioned investigative reporter working the stolen children story, pushes Griffin ever deeper into the nightmare of the black market brain trade. Deep in the La Carpio slums of Costa Rica, the scanned mind of an autistic girl runs the South American Mafia's business interests. But she wants more. She wants freedom. And she has come to see humanity as a threat. She has an answer: Archaeidae. At fourteen, he is the deadliest assassin alive. Two children against the world.

Title: Glass Horizon    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Short Story       Author: R. J. Brown       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Two hackers are drawn into an unexpected journey.

Title: Glass House 51    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel       Author: John Hampel       Publisher: Bzff Books       Synopsis: Glass House 51 is the insanely amazing adventure—or misadventure—of a lifetime, of one Richard Clayborne, a hard-charging young marketing maverick at gigantic AlphaBanc’s San Francisco branch. Hyper-ambitious Richard has been offered an intriguing assignment: Get online via NEXSX and make e-time with the lovely, brilliant (and doomed) Chicagoan Christin Darrow. All to set a trap for the reclusive—and very deadly—computer genius, Norman Dunne, aka the Gnome.

Title: Glitch    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Short Story       Author: Hugh Howey       Publisher: Broad Reach Publishing       Synopsis: When a robot defies his programming, is he broken? Or is he something else?

Title: Glitches    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Short Story       Author: Marissa Meyer       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. In Glitches, a short prequel story to Cinder, we see the results of that illness play out, and the emotional toll that takes on Cinder. Something that may, or may not, be a glitch...

Title: Global Frequency    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Comics Series       Author: Warren Ellis       Publisher: Wildstorm       Synopsis: Miranda Zero, the mysterious leader/benefactor/recruiter of Global Frequency is a woman with a mission. She saves people. She and 1,000 others make up the most diverse team of specialists the planet has ever seen. Their job? To save the world, usually before anyone else notices there's a problem.

Title: Glow (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Glow    Author: Tim Jordan       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: After the Nova-Insanity shattered Earth's civilization, the Genes and Fullerenes Corporation promised to bring humanity back from the brink. Many years later, various factions have formed, challenging their savior and vying for a share of power and control. Glow follows the lives of three very different beings, all wrestling mental instability in various forms; Rex - a confused junkie battling multiple voices in his head; Ellayna - the founder of the GFC living on an orbital satellite station and struggling with paranoia; and Jett - a virtually unstoppable robotic assassin, questioning his purpose of creation. All of them are inextricably linked through the capricious and volatile Glow; an all controlling nano-tech drug that has the ability to live on through multiple hosts, cutting and pasting memories and personas in each new victim. In this tech-crazed world where nothing seems impossible, many questions are posed: what makes us who we are? What is our ultimate purpose and place in this world? And, most frightening of all, what are we capable of doing to survive?

Title: Gnomon    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel       Author: Nick Harkaway       Publisher: William Heinemann       Synopsis: In the world of Gnomon, citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of ‘transparency.’ Every action is seen, every word is recorded, and the System has access to its citizens’ thoughts and memories–all in the name of providing the safest society in history.

Title: Goddess Mode #1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Comics Series       Series: Goddess Mode    Author: Zoe Quinn   Robbi Rodriguez       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: In a near future where all of humanity’s needs are administered by a godlike A.I., it’s one young woman’s horrible job to do tech support on it. But when Cassandra finds herself violently drawn into a hidden and deadly digital world beneath our own, she discovers a group of super-powered women and horrific monsters locked in a secret war for the cheat codes to reality." "In a near future where all of humanity’s needs are administered by a godlike A.I., it’s one young woman’s horrible job to do tech support on it. But when Cassandra finds herself violently drawn into a hidden and deadly digital world beneath our own, she discovers a group of super-powered women and horrific monsters locked in a secret war for the cheat codes to reality.

Title: Goddess Mode #2    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Goddess Mode    Author: Zoe Quinn   Rico Renzi   Robbi Rodriguez       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: Dragged violently into a secret world of monsters, magic, and metadata, Cassandra is asked to join the group of superpowered girls who saved her in their fight against the mysterious Daemons. But Cassandra has so many questions of her own to answer first—Why was she attacked? What is the omnipotent Hermeticorp up to? And most importantly, who are these girls anyway?

Title: Goddess Mode #3    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Goddess Mode    Author: Zoe Quinn   Rico Renzi   Robbi Rodriguez       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: Left without a choice, Cassandra Price joins a group of magically powered women in the secret war against the mysterious digital daemons preying on humanity through the AI to which all mankind is connected. While she struggles to understand the increasingly ominous demands from her imperial employer and to figure out her own mysterious abilities, one thing is made certain: the consequences for failure are lethal...

Title: Goddess Mode #4    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Goddess Mode    Author: Zoe Quinn   Rico Renzi   Robbi Rodriguez       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: Cassandra is welcomed to the world of cyber-organic wrestling, where magical girl Farrah fights robots, humans, and everything in between! But no sooner has Cassandra found a new home within the Poppies than schisms threaten to break the girls apart.

Title: Goddess Mode #5    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Goddess Mode    Author: Zoe Quinn   Rico Renzi   Robbi Rodriguez       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: The deadly Daemon/human hybrid known as Antimony has been a constant threat to Cassandra ever since she first entered the secret world of Azoth. But the Tall Poppies are going to learn just how wrong they were about this most mysterious foe when DC Vertigo’s cyberpunk saga travels back to the origins of Azoth itself…and who really built it…and why.

Title: Goddess Mode #6    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics Series       Series: Goddess Mode    Author: Zoe Quinn       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: With the astonishing secret of Azoth revealed at last and the fate of the digital and analog worlds at stake, the Tall Poppies come into conflict over which is the best of very bad options, all of them fatal. As Cassandra agonizes over whom to side with, the girls’ true enemy makes their move.

Title: Gone Dark (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Stefan Mendoza    Author: P. R. Adams       Publisher: Promethean Tales       Synopsis: Stefan Mendoza is a broken man. The last thing he cares about now is revenge against the people who betrayed him. All he wants is peace. To hide out, he returns home to a town that seems isolated from the world collapsing around him.

Title: Gothic High Tech    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Short Story       Author: Bruce Sterling       Publisher: Subterranean Press       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Graft    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Matt Hill       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: Manchester, 2025. Local mechanic Sol steals old vehicles to meet the demand for spares. But when Sol’s partner impulsively jacks a luxury model, Sol finds himself caught up in a nightmarish trans-dimensional human trafficking conspiracy.

Title: Grand Theft AI    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel       Author: James Cox       Publisher: Blackstone Publishing       Synopsis: San Francisco, 2051. Rising like neo-Shanghai over the Bay, a labyrinth of quantum accelerators, hologram dreams, and fiercely regulated androids. Forget powder, pills, or bud--kids get high slotting wafers of data under the ear, and they'll pay fat ¢rypto for the best. At the hottest nightclub in the city ... the Fang. Baz Covane is a battle-scarred thief who sticks to small-time bots. Ria Rose is the underworld "fixer" with a big-time score that could easily get 'em both killed. 'Cuz the Fang's psychotic kingpin Otto Rex has a vault with more security than a fusion reactor. And the glass inside is priceless--enough to set up Baz, Ria, and their crack team of cyber-misfits on the white sands of Tahiti forever. But this crime doesn't just carry infinite VR-Prison time--it's Baz and Ria's last shot at redemption. Forced to confess every last secret on their neurals, they'll have to trust each other completely if they stand any chance of infiltrating Otto's lair, raiding its spiraling rings of physical and virtual firewalls, to finally hack into his mind and crack his deepest layer of security, before the Blackhawks touch down with federal warrants--for Grand Theft AI.

Title: Grid Seekers (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Grid Seekers    Author: Logan Byrne       Publisher: Logan Byrne       Synopsis: In a dystopian future, WorldNet, a semi-autonomous evolved form of the Internet, controls daily life. WorldNet allows people to plug themselves in, transporting their minds and sensory organs into what citizens call the grid while their physical bodies stay put. Inside WorldNet they can shop, bank, dine, travel, and do everything they can do in the real world, and although WorldNet itself is free, there’s a cost for doing business.

Title: Gridlinked (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2001    Category: Novel Series       Series: Agent Cormac    Author: Neal Asher       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Cormac is a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future where "runcibles" (matter transmitters controlled by AIs) allow interstellar travel in an eye blink throughout the settled worlds of the Polity. Unfortunately Cormac is nearly burnt out, "gridlinked" to the AI net so long that his humanity has begun to drain away. He has to take the cold-turkey cure and shake his addiction to having his brain on the net.

Title: Gunner Skale (#0.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Short Story       Series: The Mortality Doctrine    Author: James Dashner       Publisher: Delacorte Press       Synopsis: From James Dashner, the New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series, comes an original thirty-page e-short returning fans to the fast-paced, high-tech world from The Eye of Minds, the first book in the Mortality Doctrine series. Find out how Gunner Skale, the best gamer on the VirtNet, becomes a legend in this story available exclusively online.

Title: Gunnm Last Order    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2000    Category: Comics Series       Series: Battle Angel Alita    Author: Yukito Kishiro       Publisher: Kodansha       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Gunnm Mars Chronicle    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Comics Series       Series: Battle Angel Alita    Author: Yukito Kishiro       Publisher: Kodansha       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Hacker    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Comics Series       Author: Alexandre Eremine       Publisher: Joker       Synopsis: In 2046, neural implants connect people to the internet via physical cables. Eventually, wireless implants are developed, allowing constant web access to the masses, but also a monopoly on their minds for Megasoft, a large technology company. Simultaneously, large ominous towers are being erected in Paris and are purported to be part of some new energy initiative. A young hacker is hired to destroy data associated with a murdered politician, but he inadvertently uncovers more than he bargained for.

Title: Hackers    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Short Story       Author: Various       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: Hackers is an anthology of short stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It contains stories by noted science fiction and cyberpunk writers of the late 1980s and early 1990s about hackers.

Title: Hacktivist    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Comics Series       Series: Hacktivist    Author: Alyssa Milano   Collin Kelly   Jackson Lanzing   Marcus To   Ian Herring       Publisher: Archaia       Synopsis: Hacktivist is the story of two friends who operate one of the largest social media firms by day, but by night, use their hacking skills to help important social causes all over the world. That is, until the U.S. government finds out.

Title: Hacktivist, Volume 2    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: Hacktivist    Author: Jackson Lanzing   Collin Kelly   Alyssa Milano   Marcus To       Publisher: Archaia       Synopsis: Nate Graft and Edward Hiccox were the young, brilliant co-founders of the social networking company YourLife while secretly running .sve_urs3lf, a hacker collective enabling revolutions around the globe. It’s been six months since Ed was killed by a drone on national television while fighting for freedom. It's been six months since Nate lost his company, his best friend, and his mission. Now in charge of the government organization VIGIL, the front line of America’s ongoing cyber operations, Nate has started to pick up the pieces of his life when the government comes under attack from a new breed of hacker...working under the name .sve_urs3lf. Using Nate and Ed’s former handle, they want to know the truth of what happened six months ago by any means necessary. This time, war is the home front and Nate will have to look to his past if he’s going to save the future.

Title: Halo    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Novel       Author: Tom Maddox       Publisher: Kessinger Publishing       Synopsis: He stepped up and into a chrome half-egg, then shivered and lay back as body-warmth liquid bled into the slack plastic, which began to balloon underneath him. He took hold of finger-thick cables and pushed their junction ends home into the sockets set in the back of his neck. As the egg continued to fill, he fit a mask over his face, felt its edges seal, and inhaled.

Title: Halting State    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Novel       Author: Charles Stross       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates -- a dot-com start-up company that's just floated onto the London stock exchange. But this crime may be a bit beyond Smith's expertise.

Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Robots    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: M. Darusha Wehm       Publisher: In Potentia Press       Synopsis: Something is rotten in the state of cybernetics. Elsinore Robotics is on the cusp of a breakthrough—the company is poised to create the first humanoid androids powered by true artificial intelligence. Their only rival, Norwegian Technologies, lost a publicly streamed contest between their flagship model, Fortinbras, and Elsinore’s HAM(let) v.1.

Title: Hard Boiled    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1990    Category: Comics Series       Author: Frank Miller   Geof Darrow       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Carl Stelz thinks he leads an average life as a tax collector, but memories of a horrific accident haunt his dreams, all while his family seems to be hiding something from him. It’s not long before he discovers the truth: he’s actually a super-powered robotic assassin named Nixon who is a crucial player in a revolution aimed at freeing robots from their programming. The three-issue series earned both Miller and Darrow an Eisner for Best Writer/Artist in 1991.

Title: Hard Rayne (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: A Cyberpunk Spy Thriller    Author: T. Allen Diaz       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Rayna Miloavich lives a life of intrigue and adventure as a cyborg agent for Krovopuskov Security Solutions. She travels the world, participating in industrial espionage and dangerous missions of theft and assassination.

Title: Hard Rayne: Crossroads (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: A Cyberpunk Spy Thriller    Author: T. Allen Diaz       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Rayne has left the frigid landscapes and gang wars of Lithuania for the warm sun and relative peace of North Africa. But trouble follows her wherevers she goes, and she soon finds herself mired in a would-be coup d'état of one of the most notorious pirate organizations in the world.

Title: Hard Rayne: Janissary (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: A Cyberpunk Spy Thriller    Author: T. Allen Diaz       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Rayne has a new lease on life, but her new life is not her own. The gangster who paid to save her life now owns the medical lean on her, and she has no intention of giving up her grip.

Title: Hard Rayne: The Tigress (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: A Cyberpunk Spy Thriller    Author: T. Allen Diaz       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Rayne returns home searching for answers to questions she’s uncovered in China, but she only finds more questions when she finds herself targeted by a mysterious team of assassins. Unfortunately for Rayne, that is only the beginning.

Title: Hardwired (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1986    Category: Novel Series       Series: Hardwired    Author: Walter Jon Williams       Publisher: Night Shade Books       Synopsis: The Orbital Corporations now control the world. In the ruins of an America ravaged by the Rock War, ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, who can be "hardwired" via skull sockets directly to his ride, has become a panzerboy, a hi-tech smuggler riding armored hovertanks through the balkanized countryside. He teams up with Sarah, another tough-as-nails gun-for-hire, to make a last stab at independence from the rapacious Orbitals. They gather an unlikely gang of misfits for a ride that will take them to the edge of the atmosphere.

Title: Harmony    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Novel       Author: Project Itoh       Publisher: Haikasoru       Synopsis: In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This perfect world isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It doesn't work, but one of the girls--Tuan Kirie--grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet...from itself.

Title: Harvest (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novella Series       Series: Stories Of Singularity    Author: Susan Kaye Quinn       Publisher: Twisted Space LLC       Synopsis: The robot Caretaker of Seattle Farm 0722 knows its work is important—it nourishes life, and the resulting harvest feeds the legacy humans, the ones the Masters care for and keep in Seattle. But when humans begin to make unauthorized incursions onto the Farmland, the Caretaker soon finds it has been cultivating more than it knew… and that some things were never meant to grow.

Title: Headcrash    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1995    Category: Novel       Author: Bruce Bethke       Publisher: Warner Aspect       Synopsis: When Jack Burroughs, a brilliant young computer programmer, is given his pink slip, he is offered the opportunity to use his skills for a little industrial espionage. Donning the guise of his online alter ego, Max Kool, Burroughs transforms himself into one of the hippest cybernetic surfers on the InfoBahn.

Title: Headspace (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Novel Series       Series: Lost Time    Author: Damien Boyes       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: To find out who he is, he must discover who he became.Restored to life by Second Skyn, Finsbury Gage hunts rogue minds for the Toronto Police Service's Psychorithm Crime Unit while secretly searching for his wife's killer. He's conflicted, torn between staying true to who he was and accepting what he's become—something both more, and less, than human. He'll do whatever it takes to find the man who murdered his wife, even if it means losing who he is. Then, eight months later, Finsbury wakes in a new body, hidden under a new name, with no memories of how he got there. He's been disgracefully discharged from the police force, his reputation's in tatters, he's the primary suspect in a murder, and his wife's death is the last thing he can remember. To find out who he is, Finsbury Gage will have to discover who he became. But will he be able to live with himself when he does?

Title: Heart Threaded: A Young Adult Dystopian Cyberpunk Adventure    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: James L. Graetz       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: In a world where heartbeats are the currency, 18-year-old Juliet is trying to save a friend from a lifetime of heartbeat debt. When her father, head of the powerful heartbeat debt company, refuses to remove the debt, she seeks help from Romeo, an underground hacker.

Title: Heaven Hunters    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Heaven Hunters    Author: N/A    Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: A new technology shatters the barrier between Earth and Heaven, and two demons fight an interdimensional war to stop God from destroying the universe.

Title: Heavy Liquid    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Comics Series       Author: Paul Pope       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: Paul Pope brings a quiet, old-school sensibility to noisy, postmodern comics with Heavy Liquid. This graphic novel, set in the late 21st century, focuses on all the classic elements of detective and adventure stories: lost love, mysterious clients, a package everyone wants, and a tired, barely willing protagonist. The narrative details--such as the eponymous liquid, whichis part munition, part drug, and much stranger than any character imagines--are calculated to foil the reader's assumptions, and the expressionistic artwork blends simple colors with bold lines to draw the eyes onward. It seems safe to say that cyberpunk's not dead.

Title: Heavy Weather    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1995    Category: Novel       Author: Bruce Sterling       Publisher: Bantam       Synopsis: Forty years from now, Earth's climate has been drastically changed by the greenhouse effect. Tornadoes of almost unimaginable force roam the open spaces of Texas. And on their trail are the Storm Troupers: a ragtag band of computer experts and atmospheric scientists who live to hack heavy weather -- to document it and spread the information as far as the digital networks will stretch, using virtual reality to explore the eye of the storm. Although it's incredibly addictive, this is no game. The Troupers' computer models suggest that soon an "F-6" will strike -- a tornado of an intensity that exceeds any existing scale; a storm so devastating that it may never stop. And they're going to be there when all hell breaks loose.

Title: Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1995    Category: Novel       Author: Chet Williamson       Publisher: Prima Lifestyles       Synopsis: Gideon Eshanti and Rachel Braque were loyal Artificial Reality Containment Investigators—until a lethal "scrub team" paid them an unexpected visit one night. After they decorated the walls with scrub team entrails, returning to the office Monday morning just wasn't an option. With the underground world of mobsters, techie subersives, and treacherous demons their only hope, Gideon and Rachel must go to Hell and back more than once if they want to stay alive.

Title: Hemispheres    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Mark Everglade       Publisher: RockHill Publishing       Synopsis: Light is big business on Evig Natt, where it's always dark and fireflies are the only legal source of light. They’re also used for currency, leaving the impoverished to live in the shadows of the wealthy. Severum Rivenshear is hired by the government to stop the Kontractor, a woman speeding the planet's rotation to bring light to rich and poor alike, until his beliefs and life shatter while witnessing the abuses of power. Together, their journey will take them from space to cyberspace, from reality to virtual reality, as they save the last refuge of humanity. In a time of war, they must bring balance to the hemispheres, even if Severum must betray the very system he’s sworn to protect.

Title: Hex    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Novel       Author: Rhiannon Lassiter       Publisher: Simon Pulse       Synopsis: London. The 24th century. The CPS, a secret government agency, is on a mission to seek and destroy the Hex, human mutants with supercomputer minds. They are young. They look like you or me. They must never be allowed to grow up....

Title: High-Opp    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel       Author: Frank Herbert       Publisher: WordFire Press       Synopsis: This is FRANK HERBERT’s never-before published dystopian novel, written between his classics The Dragon in the Sea and Dune. EMASI! Each Man A Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society driven entirely by opinion polls. Those who score high, the High-Opps, are given plush apartments, comfortable jobs, every possible convenience. But those who happen to be low-opped, live crowded in Warrens, facing harsh lives and brutal conditions. Daniel Movius, Ex-Senior Liaitor, rides high in the opinion polls until he loses everything, brushed aside by a very powerful man. Low-opped and abandoned, Movius finds himself fighting for survival in the city’s underworld. There, the opinion of the masses is clear: It is time for a revolution against the corrupt super-privileged. And every revolution needs a leader.

Title: Holo Men    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Novel       Author: Stephen Billias       Publisher: Aspect       Synopsis: When Joshua Victor discovers a team of permanent Net users who are intent on controlling the Net for their own purposes, he confronts them, but they turn on him to prevent him blowing the whistle.

Title: Holo.Wars: The Black Hats    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: R.M. Gonzales       Publisher: CreateSpace       Synopsis: Humanoid hacker perspectives will take you through the mind-boggling Holo.World of avatars, black hats, white hats, gaming, and futuristic life in a post-apocalyptic universe. Steve Cylander, a gray rogue working to save Outsiders and the Three Worlds. F8th, just back from retirement, learning that disconnecting for too long has its consequences. Their journeys begin in virtual reality, while well-known Hauk has joined the suspicious Society. What is good or bad blurs as stories intertwine, creating a spiraling adventure, twisting reality and holostereoscopic Chambers. And, a virtual war is brewing... Who is friend and who is foe?

Title: Holy Fire    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Novel       Author: Bruce Sterling       Publisher: Bantam Books       Synopsis: Holy Fire is the story of an old woman who has gained a second youth—in a world in which radical life extension is available through highly intrusive technological means—and who has an ontological transformation as a result.

Title: Homeland (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: Little Brother    Author: Cory Doctorow       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco―an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state.

Title: Hotwire    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2009    Category: Comics Series       Author: Steve Pugh   Warren Ellis       Publisher: Radical Comics       Synopsis: In the near future, the living and the dead share the same space. Most of the "Blue Lights" are harmless, witless drones, as lost in death as they were in life. Some want revenge. Some want power. Some even want company to join them in the ranks of the departed.

Title: House Of Gold    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: C.T. Rwizi       Publisher: 47North       Synopsis: A corporate aristocracy descended from Africa rules a colony on a distant planet. Life here is easy—for the rarified and privileged few. The aristocrats enjoy a powerful cybernetic technology that extends their life spans and ensures their prosperity. Those who serve them suffer under a heavy hand. But within this ruthless society are agents of hope and change. In a secret underwater laboratory, a separatist cult has created a threat to the aristocracy. The Primes are highly intelligent, manipulative products of genetic engineering, designed to lead a rebellion.

Title: Human Plus (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: Post-Human    Author: David Simpson       Publisher: Post-Human Media       Synopsis: The Post-Human Trilogy is done, but the Post-Human series is just heating up! Human Plus is Book 4 in the smash hit science fiction series. Not exactly a sequel, not exactly a prequel, Human Plus will defy expectations. No matter what you thought was coming next, you're in for a surprise! Just one caution: when you're finished, you're going to want to share the surprises with everyone online...Please don't! Please respect future readers and let them enjoy the surprises just as much as you did!

Title: Human Resources    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Heath M. Baron       Publisher: Barnes & Noble       Synopsis: Human Resources examines a technologically-advanced future where the corporate hierarchy is the new form of government, children are trained to be the next employees, the chattel working class are addicted to upgrades and ads created by those they labor for, and Human Resources enforces enterprise policy.

Title: Huntress    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel       Author: Stephanie Flint       Publisher: Infinitas Publishing       Synopsis: Verdi is a huntress for Koenigin Corp. She’s augmented. Perfect. Determined to earn her dear president’s favor and finally have her voice heard, Verdi agrees to target Maria Snow, the favored candidate of the Society for Natural Progression, in an acid attack. After all, once Maria is no longer so lovely, surely she’ll accept the nanite-based technology that can remove her scar—thus branding her as a traitor to her cause. But when Maria Snow refuses treatment and Verdi catches her secretly meeting with an enhanced, sapient bird, she realizes Snow might be the one woman who can forge an alliance between the technology-loving corporations and the nature-oriented Progressionists. Forced to choose between loyalty to the corporation who raised her, and falling in love with the woman who could finally unite the two factions, Verdi’s decision will change the face of the city.

Title: Hypercage (#0.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novella       Series: Instant Reality    Author: Craig Lea Gordon       Publisher: Craig Lea Gordon       Synopsis: Hypercage is a cyberpunk techno-thriller that features gripping and tense action, dark and vivid horror and a slice of future technology.

Title: I Am AI: A Novelette    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novella       Author: Ai Jiang       Publisher: Shortwave Media       Synopsis: If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to surpass human limitations... would you? Ai is a cyborg, under the guise of an AI writing program, who struggles to keep up with the never-blinking city of Emit as it threatens to leave all those like her behind.

Title: I, Alien Hunter (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Liquid Cool    Author: Austin Dragon       Publisher: Well-Tailored Books       Synopsis: Our private detective, Cruz, has dealt with all kinds of criminal crazies—full human, cyborgs and robots—and even crazier clients. But he has never had to deal with…extraterrestrials.

Title: IC9: A Cyberpunk Detective Story    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: Tim Morgan       Publisher: Tim Morgan       Synopsis: Boston cop Randy Christiansen is hot on the tail of a hacker who can kill using nothing more than a video stream. Will he crack the case or become her next victim?

Title: iD (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Machine Dynasty    Author: Madeline Ashby       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: Javier is a self-replicating humanoid on a journey of redemption. Javier's quest takes him from Amy's island, where his actions have devastating consequences for his friend, toward Mecha where he will find either salvation... or death.

Title: Idoru (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Novel Series       Series: Bridge    Author: William Gibson       Publisher: Viking Press       Synopsis: In the post Tokyo/San Francisco earthquake world of the early 21st century, Colin Laney is referred to agents of the aging mega-rock star Rez of the musical group Lo/Rez for a job using his peculiar talent of sifting through vast amounts of mundane data to find "nodal points" of particular relevance. Rez has claimed to want to marry a synthetic personality named Rei Toei, the Idoru (Japanese Idol) of the title, which is apparently impossible and therefore questioned by his loyal staff, particularly by his head of security, Keith Blackwell. Blackwell believes that someone is manipulating Rez, and wants Laney to find out who. Simultaneously, the Seattle chapter of the Lo/Rez fan club is discussing exactly the same topic of the unbelievable marriage of human and AI construct. Fourteen-year-old Chia Pet McKenzie is chosen by the group to go to Tokyo and meet with the Tokyo chapter to find out what is really happening. On the flight she meets a woman named Maryalice, who dupes her into unwittingly carrying a contraband item through customs in Tokyo.

Title: Implanted    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel       Author: Lauren C. Teffeau       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: When college student Emery Driscoll is blackmailed into being a courier for a clandestine organisation, she’s cut off from the neural implant community which binds the domed city of New Worth together. Her new masters exploit her rare condition which allows her to carry encoded data in her blood, and train her to transport secrets throughout the troubled city. New Worth is on the brink of Emergence – freedom from the dome – but not everyone wants to leave. Then a data drop goes bad, and Emery is caught between factions: those who want her blood, and those who just want her dead.

Title: Implied Spaces    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Novel       Author: Walter Jon Williams       Publisher: Night Shade       Synopsis: Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays, Aristide uncovers a fiendish plot threatening to set off a nightmare scenario, perhaps even bringing about the ultimate Existential Crisis: the end of civilization itself. Traveling the pocket universes with his wormhole-edged sword Tecmesssa in hand and talking cat Bitsy, avatar of the planet-sized computer Endora, at his side, Aristide must find a way to save the multiverse from subversion, sabotage, and certain destruction.

Title: IN/HUMAN: A Cyberpunk Fantasy    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Novel       Author: Cullen McHael       Publisher: Cullen McHael       Synopsis: Maxine “The Fist” Ali believes what her church and the Inquisition have told Nova Mundo is a city of sinners. Six hundred years ago, the Ayu saw fit to bless humanity with divine magic. Then came the alterations. The disrespect. Now, the filthy, mutated Inmani must be eradicated. Deployed to quash an Inmani insurgency, Max’s zealous mission is upended prematurely by her reckless gambling and an unlucky fight. Desperate for a dime, she finds work with charming local fixer Jaq — nonbinary, queer, and street-smart. But carrying out “you pay I punch” jobs means Max can no longer avoid the Inmani. Tangled in their dangerous day-to-day, Max stumbles on a mass grave — evidence of a horrifying socio-scientific experiment. And the Inmani are far from its only victims. As she slowly begins to question the authorities that propel her to violence, Max is forced to confront an earth-shattering if her life so far is a lie…she has no idea who she is.

Title: Independent Investigators Inc    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Ryan Sebastian       Publisher: Blurb       Synopsis: Louis Berker likes to think of himself as a hard-boiled private investigator. He has a trench coat, cigarettes, frosted glass door with his name on it, and most importantly; incisive eyes that see all three levels of C-City as they really are, full of crime, injustice, and invasive advertising. When a murder investigation comes crashing into his life (that's actually a really macabre pun!), his meagre experience and anachronistic affectations will be put to the test. Can Louis clear up the conspiracies that crouch at the core of this convoluted case, or will he merely become its next casualty?

Title: Inertia    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: Mark Everglade       Publisher: Rockhill Publishing LLC       Synopsis: Inertia revolves around the connection between government factions, big corporations, and the environmental destruction they create for their own profits. A young geophysicist, Ash, finds herself at the nexus of all this as she infiltrates servers in virtual reality to discover the hidden connections, but with the Enforcers on her tail, she can't do it alone.

Title: Infinite Detail    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Tim Maughan       Publisher: MCD Fsg Originals       Synopsis: BEFORE: In Bristol's center lies the Croft, a digital no-man's-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate-sponsored, globally hegemonic aspirations that have overrun the rest of the world. Ten years in, it's become a center of creative counterculture. But it's fraying at the edges, radicalizing from inside. How will it fare when its chief architect, Rushdi Mannan, takes off to meet his boyfriend in New York City--now the apotheosis of the new techno-utopian global metropolis? AFTER: An act of anonymous cyberterrorism has permanently switched off the Internet. Global trade, travel, and communication have collapsed. The luxuries that characterized modern life are scarce. In the Croft, Mary--who has visions of people presumed dead--is sought out by grieving families seeking connections to lost ones. But does Mary have a gift or is she just hustling to stay alive? Like Grids, who runs the Croft's black market like personal turf. Or like Tyrone, who hoards music (culled from cassettes, the only medium to survive the crash) and tattered sneakers like treasure. The world of Infinite Detail is a small step shy of our own: utterly dependent on technology, constantly brokering autonomy and privacy for comfort and convenience. With Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan makes the hitherto-unimaginable come true: the End of the Internet, the End of the World as We Know It.

Title: Infinity Engine (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Transformation    Author: Neal Asher       Publisher: Night Shade       Synopsis: A man battles for his life, two AIs vie for supremacy and a civilization hangs in the balance...

Title: Infomocracy (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Centenal Cycle    Author: Malka Ann Older       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line. With power comes corruption. For Ken, this is his chance to do right by the idealistic Policy1st party and get a steady job in the big leagues. For Domaine, the election represents another staging ground in his ongoing struggle against the pax democratica. For Mishima, a dangerous Information operative, the whole situation is a puzzle: how do you keep the wheels running on the biggest political experiment of all time, when so many have so much to gain?

Title: Infraction    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novella       Series: Malfunction    Author: J.E. Purrazzi       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Protecting his family isn’t easy for Starke Coven. Miles below the surface of an inhospitable earth and struggling to make ends meet in a heartless society, Starke works his legal maintenance job during the day, runs contraband through the dangerous underbelly of the city during the nights, and struggles to manage a depressed mother and fatherless younger brother at home.

Title: Inhuman (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Post-Human    Author: David Simpson       Publisher: Post-Human Media       Synopsis: James, Old-timer, Thel, and the A.I. are all back for the most shocking part of the Post-Human saga yet. No matter what you thought was coming next, you’re wrong! Get ready for surprises like only the Post-Human series can deliver!

Title: Injection    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Comics Series       Author: Warren Ellis       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: Once upon a time, there were five crazy people, and they poisoned the 21st Century. Now they have to deal with the corrosion to try and save us all from a world becoming too weird to support human life. INJECTION is the new ongoing series created by the acclaimed creative team of Moon Knight. It is science fiction, tales of horror, strange crime fiction, techno-thriller, and ghost story all at the same time. A serialized sequence of graphic novels about how loud and strange the world is getting, about the wild future and the haunted past all crashing into the present day at once, and about five eccentric geniuses dealing with the paranormal and numinous as well as the growing weight of what they did to the planet with the Injection.

Title: Inscape    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel       Author: Louise Carey       Publisher: Gollancz       Synopsis: Tanta has trained all her young life for this. Her very first mission is a code red: to take her team into the unaffiliated zone just outside InTech's borders and retrieve a stolen hard drive. It should have been quick and simple, but a surprise attack kills two of her colleagues and Tanta barely makes it home alive.

Title: Interface    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1994    Category: Novel       Author: Neal Stephenson   George F. Jewsbury   Stephen Bury       Publisher: Spectra       Synopsis: There's no way William A. Cozzano can lose the upcoming presidential election. He's a likable midwestern governor with one insidious advantage - an advantage provided by a shadowy group of backers. A biochip implanted in his head hardwires him to a computerized polling system. The mood of the electorate is channeled directly into his brain. Forget issues. Forget policy. Cozzano is more than the perfect candidate. He's a special effect.

Title: Into Neon (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: A Cyberpunk Saga    Author: Matthew A. Goodwin       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Moss’ life is going nowhere until a mysterious woman knocks on his door and leaves him with the key to take down one of the world’s largest corporations. When he discovers a familial connection to the stranger, Moss leaves the comfort of his home with his best friend for the sprawling megacity. There, he joins a group of ruffians dedicated to freeing people from the yoke of the evil companies. Police-for-hire, motorcycle gangs and betrayal threaten them at every turn. Can Moss help this small group of rebels fight the power before it’s too late? Find out in Into Neon: A Cyberpunk Saga.

Title: Into The BeanStalk (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Jack: Cyberpunk    Author: J. Paul Roe       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: A corrupt megacity. A broken world. A girl who can no longer afford to hide from her past. Jack is a techie and long-time shut-in, driven to save her father from corporate servitude. That means getting her hands on scrip, and lots of it. Going into debt with the most violent bikers in Hope Megacity will get her the cybernetic limbs she needs to overcome her disabilities, but that's only the beginning. A vicious betrayal, a lethal cyberattack, and some broken neural hardware has Jack seeing things -- namely a huge column of light climbing all the way to the Global Corporations' city in the clouds. She'll need to join up with the city's most notorious hacker to find out what the elite are hiding from the millions of people living under their feet.

Title: Into The Looking Glass (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Jack: Cyberpunk    Author: J. Paul Roe       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: A missing friend. A corrupt corpo hacker. A war between worlds. Jack’s childhood friend is lost somewhere in the quantum network, and she’s willing to do whatever it takes to get her back. It won’t be easy, with old enemies showing up for revenge at the worst possible time, and a crew who won’t play nice with Mikael Goodwin, the corpo white-hat and spy who might hold all the answers. Jack will need to hone her skills, gear up, and choose her friends wisely in preparation for a clandestine raid on HighHold, the city in clouds that has never been seen by a street-level citizen.

Title: Into This Planet    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Author: dreaming4u       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: A lone android is sent hurling into deep space towards a massive dying technoplanet. His one mission is to find an artifact lost somewhere deep within the surface. Beneath, lies few friends and many enemies. As he descends deeper, the mysteries surrounding his search and the planet itself will unravel.

Title: Into Twilight (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Stefan Mendoza    Author: P. R. Adams       Publisher: Promethean Tales       Synopsis: Korea, 22nd Century. Surrender isn’t in Stefan Mendoza’s DNA. So when a traitor betrays his black-ops team, he alone pushes through the torture and escapes with revenge burning in his mind. On the verge of a systems failure, he taps into his underground network for a set of cybernetic limbs. But his high-tech recovery comes at a heavy price—an assassination hit on a rising political star.

Title: Intron Depot    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Comics Series       Author: Masamune Shirow       Publisher: Seishinsha       Synopsis: Japanese artist Masamune Shirow is well known to discriminating comics readers. American editions of his spectacular graphic epics have been highly praised and voraciously collected. Now, his gorgeous and highly detailed color art has been collected for the first time into a single, handsome trade paperback. Beautifully printed in Japan and featuring text in both Japanese and English, this package features nearly two hundred full-color Shirow works, 47 published for the first time anywhere in the world! This book is a nearly complete archive of Shirow's color work from 1981 to 1991, including material from Appleseed, Dominion, Black Magic, Orion, and much more. This is an absolute must for fans of Shirow, science-fiction and fantasy art, and manga.

Title: Invasive (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Zer0es    Author: Chuck Wending       Publisher: Harper Voyager       Synopsis: Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBI—a futurist who helps the Agency with cases that feature demonstrations of bleeding-edge technology. It’s her job to help them identify unforeseen threats: hackers, AIs, genetic modification, anything that in the wrong hands could harm the homeland.

Title: Inversions (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: Pocket Books       Synopsis: On a backwards world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king, despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can ever guess. Elsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the Protector General of Tassasen, a profession he describes as the business of "assassinating assassins." DeWar, too, has his enemies, but his foes strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more direct. None trust the doctor, while the bodyguard trusts no one, but what is the hidden commonality linking their disparate histories? Spiraling around a central core of mystery, deceit, love, and betrayal, Inversions is a dazzling work of science fiction from a versatile and imaginative author writing at the height of his remarkable powers.

Title: Ipseity (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Stork Tower    Author: Tony Corden       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: A simple error leaves Leah with a unique Neural Enhancement Chip and a rapidly evolving AI implanted in her brain. In 'Nascent', she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers and helped shut down some operations of the virtual crime syndicate that uses mind-controlled players as slaves. In 'Odyssey', she not only found a way to escape but she also uncovered deeper plots being carried out in both the virtual multi-universe and reality. In 'Change', Leah began learning how to use the additional connections her chip has made throughout her body. The Pod facility she opened expanded as she helped others from her neighbourhood. She discovered that the crime syndicate has an even greater presence in the virtual multiverse than she’d imagined. As she begins to unravel some of their secrets, they tarnish her reputation and kidnap.

Title: Iron Prince (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Warformed: Stormweaver    Author: Bryce O'Connor   Luke Chmilenko       Publisher: Wraithmarked Creative LLC       Synopsis: Reidon Ward will become a god. He doesn't know it yet, of course. Reidon was born weak, sickly and small. Afflicted with a painful disease and abandoned by his parents because of it, he has had to fight tooth and nail for every minor advantage life has allowed him. His perseverance has not gone unnoticed, however, and when the most powerful artificial intelligence in human history takes an interest in him, things began to change quickly. Granted a CAD—a Combat Assistance Device—with awful specs but an infinite potential for growth, Reidon finds himself at the bottom of his class at the Galens Institute, one of the top military academies in the Collective. Along with his best friend, Viviana Arada, Reidon will have to start his long climb through the school rankings, and on to the combat tournament circuits that have become humanity's greatest source of excitement and entertainment.

Title: Irontown Blues (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Eight Worlds    Author: John Varley       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: Christopher Bach was a policeman in one of the largest Lunar cities when the A.I. Lunar Central Computer had a breakdown. Known as the Big Glitch, the problem turned out to be a larger war than anyone expected. When order was restored, Chris’s life could never be the same. Now he’s a private detective, assisted by his genetically altered dog Sherlock, and emulates the tough guys in the noir books and movies that he loves. When Bach takes the case of a woman involuntarily infected with an engineered virus, he is on the hunt to track down the biohackers in the infamous district of Irontown. But if he wants to save humanity, he’ll have to confront his own demons.

Title: Islands In The Net    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1988    Category: Novel       Author: Bruce Sterling       Publisher: Arbor House       Synopsis: The action takes place in 2023–2025 in Galveston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Grenada, an island on the northeast coast of South America; Singapore; and Africa. Protagonist Laura Webster, mother of three-month-old Loretta, works as a public relations employee for Rizome, a global corporation of economic democrats. Together with her husband David they run the Lodge, a resort for Rizome workers on the island of Galveston. The action sets off when Rizome organizes a conference between itself and three data havens - EFT Commerzbank of Luxembourg, The Young Soo Chim Islamic Bank and Grenada United Bank - in the Lodge. After the first day of the conference Winston Stubbs, the Grenadan representative, is assassinated. The organization which admits to killing him calls itself "F.A.C.T." (Free Army of Counter-Terrorism). Rizome decides to send Laura with her husband and baby to Grenada on a diplomatic mission to prove that Rizome had nothing to do with the murder.

Title: Japan Cyberpunk    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Other       Author: Stijn De Puydt       Publisher: Stijn De Puydt       Synopsis: Japan brought us movies like Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Ghost in the Shell. Hollywood brought us Blade Runner and The Matrix. These movies belong to a subgenre of science fiction, namely cyberpunk. In this text the author attempts to bring a clear picture of what falls within this genre. What visual symbolism matches the cyberpunk genre? Which works are classics? After this the author points to connections between cyberpunk and Japan. Why is Japan such a benificial environment? There is also a brief look at postmodernism to expose some of the deeper layers of cyberpunk. The author brings all this together by zooming in on the Ghost in the Shell movie.

Title: Johnny Mnemonic    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1995    Category: Short Story       Author: William Gibson   Terry Bisson       Publisher: HarperCollins       Synopsis: Johnny is a courier. He carries other people's memories, millions of them, downloaded into his brain... Working out of Beijing, he is hired to carry a package to the States. The hundreds of gigabytes stashed in his head are far beyond his capacity, but as long as he gets downloaded quickly they won't do him any permanent harm...

Title: Johnny Nemo    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2002    Category: Comics Series       Series: Johnny Nemo    Author: Peter Milligan   Steve Dillon   Brett Ewins       Publisher: Cyberosia Pub       Synopsis: A futuristic noir collection featuring Johnny Nemo - an ultra-violent, foul-mouthed PI from dystopian London 2921.

Title: Join    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Steve Toutonghi       Publisher: Soho Press       Synopsis: What if you could live multiple lives simultaneously, have constant, perfect companionship, and never die? That’s the promise of Join, a revolutionary technology that allows small groups of minds to unite, forming a single consciousness that experiences the world through multiple bodies. But as two best friends discover, the light of that miracle may be blinding the world to its horrors. Chance and Leap are jolted out of their professional routines by a terrifying stranger—a remorseless killer who freely manipulates the networks that regulate life in the post-Join world. Their quest for answers—and survival—brings them from the networks and spire communities they’ve known to the scarred heart of an environmentally ravaged North American continent and an underground community of the “ferals” left behind by the rush of technology.

Title: Jovian Reverie (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyber Dreams    Author: Plum Parrot       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Synopsis: Juliet Bianchi used to be a lowly scrap scrounger in Arizona. But when she was accidentally implanted with a beyond-awesome AI chip, her life changed dramatically—what with all the nanotechnology, bodywork, and other badass enhancements. Now she’s a high-powered weapon-for-hire in hiding as... what else? A not-so-lowly scrap scrounger!

Title: Jubal Van Zandt And The Revenge Of The Bloodslinger (A Jubal Van Zandt Novel Book 1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Author: Eden Hudson       Publisher: Shadow Alley Press       Synopsis: Narcissist, sociopath, and shameless backstabber Jubal Van Zandt is the best damn thief in the history of the Revived Earth...and he won't shut up about it. But not everybody in the swampy, soggy, feudal future approves of Jubal's vocation. The Guild—the religious fanatics who helped rebuild civilization after the collapse—in particular are waiting for their opportunity to slip the noose around his neck.

Title: Judge Dredd    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1977    Category: Comics Series       Series: Judge Dredd    Author: John Wagner   Carlos Ezquerra       Publisher: 2000AD       Synopsis: 2000AD’s long-running flagship title stars a hard-assed law enforcement officer in a sprawling future megalopolis. Judge Dredd steadfastly upholds the law (“I am the law!” is his signature phrase) and protects Mega-City One by making sure criminals and villains face justice. Since its debut in 1977, Judge Dredd has become a British comics institution, with many celebrated writers and artists contributing over the years. The series has yielded two film adaptations, video games, novels, and other media.

Title: Kabuki    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2001    Category: Comics Series       Author: David W. Mack       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: Set in an alternate near-future Japan, a young woman codenamed "Kabuki", acts as an agent and television law-enforcement personality for a clandestine government body known as "The Noh". In the first volume of the series, The Noh's nature and background is explained. The Noh is controlled by a renowned World War II Japanese military man known as the General, who has achieved much power and status for being a brilliant military tactician during his many years of service. The agency itself exists as part of Japan's strict police state, which hunts down and brutally executes criminals for their misdeeds under the veil of keeping the peace. Secretly the Noh also acts to maintain the balance of crime and order that ultimately benefits the national economy on both sides of the law and thus targets politicians, businessmen and certain underworld kingpins whose actions threaten this balance. Kabuki herself is one of eight masked assassins whom perform these secret executions under the General's orders.

Title: Kain    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel       Author: Brie McGill       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Beaten to a pulp, drugged into a daze, and brainwashed into oblivion, human experiment Lukian Valentin gambles his life to evade another eviscerating afternoon with his trigger-happy superiors. Fifty stories of a maximum-security building and hundreds of trained special operatives can’t hold a candle to his will to escape. Beyond the laser bars of his holding cell, Lukian must surmount the even greater challenges of repairing the fragments of his broken mind, forgiving himself for his unwilling involvement with the Empire, and learning what it means to live on his own.

Title: Kaori    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Novel       Author: Marta Sobiecka       Publisher: Pulp Books       Synopsis: The NannyNippon corporation's caretaker robot explodes in front of its ward. Everything indicates that it did it on purpose. But could the robot have a motive? Officer Kaori Nakamura, a policewoman from the cybercrime department, takes up the investigation. Solving the mystery will help Yutarō, a hologram of her dead brother.

Title: Karma Worm    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novella       Author: Tobey Truestory       Publisher: Lulu.com       Synopsis: A series of murders have become a sensation across the country. Known as the "Centipede Murders", no one knows where the forum legend came from, who started it, or how many murderers there are. While some worship the symbol spreading across the internet, others are baffled as to the reasons behind the murders. Identifying information thought to be tucked away safely within government archives is deleted, leaving authorities with little to go on. With such an elusive and invisible entity controlling the fates of what is assumed to be random citizens, a girl in tune with cyberspace more so than the average person has finally uncovered a mysterious code that might just be the entry into discovering what the Centipede is and why it does what it does. Aided by her sister, she goes off the grid and starts her private battle using her gifted brain to unravel the secrets everyone wants to know.

Title: Killswitch (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cassandra Kresnov    Author: Joel Shepherd       Publisher: Pyr       Synopsis: Two years after the unhatching of Callayan President Neiland's plot to make the capital city of Tanusha the center of the Federation, Callay is under siege. So begins the third installment of this gripping trilogy from an exciting new sci-fi author. A powerful faction of conservative Fleet captains has surrounded Callay, at Earth's behest, and is threatening a blockade - or worse. A fearful Earth does not wish to lose direct control of its precious war machine, and there are fears of civil war. All that Callay has to oppose the warships of the Fleet is the Callayan Defense Force (CDF) - a newly formed group of raw recruits led by a politically hamstrung general. However, the CDF is largely trained and organized by Major Vanessa Rice and her best friend, Callay's combat-android, Commander Cassandra Kresnov. But when Cassandra's lover, Special Agent Ari Ruben, discovers a plot to kill her using a killswitch, which her old masters in the League built into her brainstem, Sandy is forced to go underground to stay alive.

Title: Killswitch Overkill    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Novel       Author: Mark Everglade       Publisher: RockHill Publishing LLC       Synopsis: Sabrina Underfoot is no hero. After attacking the largest cities on Gliese 581g, she contributed to a chain reaction that flooded half the world. Poisoned with power, she's dying to redeem herself, but when the world's most dangerous A.I. hijacks her mind to end humanity, dying may be the price she pays. When the world is issuing its dying breath, there's little left to grasp.

Title: Killtopia    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Comics Series       Author: Dave Cook   Craig Paton       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Killtopia is a cyberpunk graphic novel series set in a mega-city in future Japan, where heavily-armed Wreckers are paid to hunt rogue mechs for money, fame and glory. Rookie Wrecker Shinji and Crash, the world's first sentient mech, as they are hunted as fugitives across the neon-soaked metropolis by Wreckers, android killers and Yakuza gangs.

Title: Kingdom Of Without    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: Andrea Tang       Publisher: Simon & Schuster       Synopsis: When Zhong Ning’er takes the job, she expects a smash-and-grab burglary she’s doing to make rent and help out a friend. What she doesn’t expect: a sad-eyed army boy who dreams of insurrection, a former rebel leader trapped inside a secret lab, a group of aspiring revolutionaries who are first collaborators, then compatriots, and then, perhaps, friends. But this is Beijing, nearly a hundred and fifty years after General Yuan Shikai successfully declared himself emperor in 1915. His descendants rule the country from their seat in the imperial city, their gendarmerie—the Beiyang Army—run the streets, aided by cyborgs and the Brocade Guard. Walls have risen, dividing the city into districts called Rings—nominally only by geography, but in truth by class. Earthquakes devastate the northern farmlands, crops drown in the southern typhoons, and all over the country people are hooked on a drug they call Complacency.

Title: Koko Takes A Holiday    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: Kieran Shea       Publisher: Titan Books       Synopsis: Five hundred years from now, ex-corporate mercenary Koko Martstellar is swaggering through an early retirement as a brothel owner on The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort archipelago known for its sex and simulated violence. Surrounded by slang-drooling boywhores and synthetic komodo dragons, the most challenging part of Koko’s day is deciding on her next drink. That is, until her old comrade Portia Delacompte sends a squad of security personnel to murder her.

Title: Kundo Wakes Up    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday    Author: Saad Z. Hossain       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: While Gurkha introduced us to the techno utopia of Kathmandu, Kundo takes us to Hossain’s native Bangladesh, to the fading city of Chittagong, which is slowly crumbling into the sea as even Karma goes silent. But Kundo’s contemplation of his dying city is interrupted when his wife leaves him and then goes inexplicably missing, and soon Kundo starts to connect the dots between a number of disappearances. But this is Hossain, and so there’s more afoot than techno shenanigans. Kundo will find that the veil between worlds is paper-thin, and the djinn have their own stake in the matter.

Title: Lament    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Jack Wallen       Publisher: Autumnal Press       Synopsis: In a world ruled by Big Data and BigPharma, society’s only hope falls into the hands of neophyte data jockeys known as Somnambulace. While the human race was jacking in and sucking down a few ones and zeros to ride the Lament, Somnambulous discovered something big and dark on the horizon.

Title: Last Stand (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Behind Blue Eyes    Author: Anna Mocikat       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Don’t mess with Metatron– just don’t. Nephilim barely survived the dramatic events of Behind Blue Eyes-War Games. Her body has been horribly damaged, yet her spirit is as unbroken as ever.

Title: Last Tango In Cyberspace    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Steven Kotler       Publisher: St. Martin's Press       Synopsis: Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn is the first of his kind--an empathy tracker, an emotional soothsayer, with a felt sense for the future of the we. In simpler terms, he can spot cultural shifts and trends before they happen. It's a useful skill for a certain kind of company. Arctic Pharmaceuticals is that kind of company. But when a routine em-tracking job leads to the discovery of a gruesome murder, Lion finds himself neck-deep in a world of eco-assassins, soul hackers and consciousness terrorists. But what the man really needs is a nap. A unique blend of cutting-edge technology and traditional cyberpunk, Last Tango in Cyberspace explores hot topics like psychology, neuroscience, technology, as well as ecological and animal rights issues. The world created in Last Tango is based very closely on our world about five years from now, and all technology in the book either exists in labs or is rumored to exist. With its electrifying sentences, subtle humor, and an intriguing main character, readers are sure to find something that resonates with them in this groundbreaking cyberpunk science fiction thriller.

Title: Latent State    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: Ben Winter       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Time waits for one man... A bad job and Daryl’s life came apart. It should have been easy, steal the drugs and run, but an encounter with hidden technology unleashed latent abilities within him, and the fallout wrecked his brother's mind. Now Neo-London’s deadliest criminals are hunting him as he searches for answers, driven only by his guilt and addiction to a designer drug that brings virtual fantasies to life. There's no turning back. Time itself has become a weapon at the centre of a deep conspiracy. To save his brother, he must overcome his demons, and confront reality.

Title: Lawful Interception (#2.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Short Story       Series: Little Brother    Author: Cory Doctorow       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: An all-new tale of Marcus Yallow, the hero of the bestselling novels Little Brother and Homeland -- as he deals with the aftermath of a devastating Oakland earthquake, with the help of friends, hacker allies, and some very clever crowdsourced drones.

Title: Lazarus    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Comics Series       Author: Greg Rucka       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: In a dystopian near-future, government is a quaint concept, resources are coveted, and possession is 100% of the law. A handful of Families rule, jealously guarding what they have and exploiting the Waste who struggle to survive in their domains. Forever Carlyle defends her family's holdings through deception and force as their protector, their Lazarus. Shot dead defending the family home, Forever's day goes downhill from there...

Title: Lazarus Churchyard    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1993    Category: Comics       Author: Warren Ellis       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Lies, Inc    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1966    Category: Novel       Author: Philip K. Dick       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In this wry, paranoid vision of the future, overpopulation has turned cities into cramed industrial anthills. For those sick of this dystopian reality, one corporation, Trails of Hoffman, Inc., promises an alternative: Take a teleport to Whale's Mouth, a colonized planet billed as the supreme paradise. The only catch is that you can never comeback. When a neurotic man named Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that the promotional films of happy crowds cheering their newfound existence on Whale's Mouth are faked, he decides to pilot a scapeship on the eighteen-year journey there to see if anyone wants to return.

Title: Life Ever After    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Carla Grauls       Publisher: AO Media       Synopsis: Tech City: Society is obsessed with relentless progress and the possibility of eternal life. A woman and a man meet in waiting room, anticipating a procedure that will incorporate the latest science and technology into their minds and bodies, heightening their awareness and increasing their productivity. Years pass, their relationship deepens and fades, and they grow increasingly uncertain where the AI stops and where they begin. A romantic drama exploring the potentiality of transhumanism, Life Ever After is a rich listening experience that is at once naturalistic and poetic.

Title: Life Is A Beautiful Thing    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel       Author: Harmon Cooper       Publisher: Boycott Books       Synopsis: 2083. A pollute-addicted therapist named Meme battles his way through his mind and LA at the seat of his pants alongside a beautiful android escort with a surprising secret. With the Federal Corporate Government hunting him, will he make it to safety in time? The hunt is on.

Title: Life Is A Beautiful Thing, Book Four    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Life Is A Beautiful Thing    Author: Harmon Cooper       Publisher: Boycott Books       Synopsis: 2083. Meme and company are off to Cuba only to be greeted by a team of MercSecure representatives. Not one to be intimidated, BlurYou founder Bill Bleak hosts a press conference revealing the extent of the Gene X program, a joint project funded by the FCG and Sauria's two companies seeking to bridge the gap between human and Humandroid. While dealing with pirates off the coast of Somalia, Keva receives a message that compels her to fly halfway around the world for a rescue mission.

Title: Life Is A Beautiful Thing, Book One    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Life Is A Beautiful Thing    Author: Harmon Cooper       Publisher: Boycott Books       Synopsis: 2083. A pollute-addicted therapist named Meme battles his way through his mind and LA at the seat of his pants alongside a beautiful android escort with a surprising secret. With the Federal Corporate Government hunting him, will he make it to safety in time? The hunt is on.

Title: Life Is A Beautiful Thing, Book Three    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Life Is A Beautiful Thing    Author: Harmon Cooper       Publisher: Boycott Books       Synopsis: 2083. Meme seeks revenge in Japan and later Mexico, where he is contacted by someone he assumes has been dead for years. Rinchi continues her role as a MercSecure representative, starting first in Baghdad, where she runs into an old foe. Desiring more control over the destiny of the nation, Sauria goes to extreme lengths to intimidate a rival and solidify his power.

Title: Life Is A Beautiful Thing, Book Two    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Life Is A Beautiful Thing    Author: Harmon Cooper       Publisher: Boycott Books       Synopsis: 2083. Rinchi becomes a MercSecure representative and is given her first big assignment -- the assassination of a Mexican drug kingpin. On the run from the Federal Corporate Government, Meme and Yeshi make their way to Tokyo, Japan. In an attempt to protect Meme, Yeshi meets with a weapons dealer named Hajime, who offers her more than she bargained for.

Title: LIFEL1K3 (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: LIFEL1K3    Author: Jay Kristoff       Publisher: Knopf Books       Synopsis: Eve isn’t looking for secrets—she’s too busy looking over her shoulder. The robot gladiator she’s just spent six months building has been reduced to a smoking wreck, and the only thing keeping her Grandpa from the grave was the fistful of credits she just lost to the bookies. To top it off, she’s discovered she can destroy electronics with the power of her mind, and the puritanical Brotherhood are building a coffin her size. If she’s ever had a worse day, Eve can’t remember it. But when Eve discovers the ruins of an android boy named Ezekiel in the scrap pile she calls home, her entire world comes crashing down. With her best friend Lemon Fresh and her robotic conscience, Cricket, in tow, she and Ezekiel will trek across deserts of irradiated glass, infiltrate towering megacities and scour the graveyard of humanity’s greatest folly to save the ones Eve loves, and learn the dark secrets of her past.

Title: Like Shadows In The Night (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Aurora Chronicles    Author: Armon Mikal       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Guns, flesh, lives; everything is for sale in Luckhaven, and Zeke has made a living running it all. Each night, he treads the line between purchased loyalties and black-market greed. Delila is an orphan who has seen too much, and her conscience won’t let her forget. And with no future promised to her, she has nothing left to lose. Brought together by a trail of bodies and a stolen data chip, they find themselves drawn towards a secret that neither may want to learn.

Title: Like Tears In Rain (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Aurora Chronicles    Author: Armon Mikal       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: The world around might be slowly dying, but Zeke's life is going well. He has more work than ever, and even feels he's doing a decent job raising Delila. Perhaps there's some hope for his future in a city where most die young.

Title: Limbo    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Comics Series       Author: Dan Watters   Caspar Wijngaard       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: A detective with no memory, no identity and no manners. A femme fatale seeking escape from a powerful crime lord. A voodoo queen with a penchant for mixtapes and hi-tops. A goat-eating TV... Welcome to Dedande City, where good people check under their beds at night and reality is never quite what it seems. A NEW surreal neon-noir series crossing 50s pulp with an 80s VHS visual aesthetic drawing from the likes of Carpenter, Cronenbrg, and Lynch.

Title: Line War (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Novel Series       Series: Agent Cormac    Author: Neal Asher       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: The Polity is under attack from a melded AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebuss wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being possess...and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters. Further attacks and seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue, but only serve to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. Mr Crane, the indefatigable brass killing machine sets out for vengeance, while Orlandine, a vastly-augmented haiman who herself controls Jain technology, seeks a weapon of appalling power and finds allies from an ancient war. Meanwhile Mika, scientist and Dragon expert, is again kidnapped by that unfathomable alien entity and dragged into the heart of things: to wake the makers of Jain technology from their five-million-year slumber. But Erebuss attacks are not so indiscriminate, after all, and could very well herald the end of the Polity itself...

Title: Liquid Cool (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Liquid Cool    Author: Austin Dragon       Publisher: Well-Tailored Books       Synopsis: It’s cyberpunk re-imagined—science fiction meets the detective thriller in an ever-rainy world of colossal skyscrapers. Hover-cars fly above in the dark, bustling skies and gray people walk below on the grimy, flashy streets of this “neon jungle.” Metropolis isn’t a bad place, but it isn’t a good one either. Uber-governments and mega-corporations fight for control of the super-city, but so does crime.

Title: Little Brother (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Novel Series       Series: Little Brother    Author: Cory Doctorow       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Marcus aka “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems.

Title: Livid    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: Francesco Verso       Publisher: Fantastica       Synopsis: Set in a future where consumerism has made much of Earth into a junk heap, Peter Payne is a trashformer, a scavenger, a kid under the thumb of a world too brutal to stay human. When his one chance for love and to change his fate is violently torn away from him, he embarks on a quest to rebuild the object of his obsession. Filled with themes of cybernetics, prosthetics, consumerism, over-consumerism, robotics and transcendence, Livid expands on classic tropes to build a world as deep and compelling as the main character.

Title: Log Off    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Comic Series       Author: N/A    Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: This comic is about the world where Artificial Intelligent is not able to beyond the human, people replace their body to the machine like an android robot in near future. It is not the super-hero comic like bouncing bullets or flying to the sky, but it is the fact of physics and science rule. However, I am trying to tell the story fun as much as super-hero comic characters.

Title: Lonely Nights On High Rooftops    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: Natchai Stappers       Publisher: Independently Published       Synopsis: For Harlow, a young widower who’s turned his back on the tech life, gigging at a retirement home and his friend’s arcade are just means of supporting his meager life… as he waits for it to end. The world is f*d. Sure, there are bright spots. For instance, Neuroreality has become a necessary outlet for people’s frustrations and desires. But when Harlow’s neighborly concern makes him open the broken door of Rose’s apartment — where he finds her lying, unresponsive in her tricked-out dentistry chair — he has no idea what he’s just joined. Her guttural scream, as she returns from a hack-induced coma, marks the start of a partnership to hunt down the culprit, and drags Harlow back to his old life. Along their journey, Harlow and Rose stumble on two massive conspiracies: one by a mysterious being set to save humanity from itself, the other a megacorporation steering humanity for its own means. As they navigate these conflicting forces, it becomes increasingly apparent that both are deeply personal for Harlow.

Title: Look To Windward (#7)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2000    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: Pocket Books       Synopsis: The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, one of the most horrific. Desperate to avert defeat, the Idirans had induced not one but two suns to explode, snuffing out worlds & biospheres teeming with sentient life. They were attacks of incredible proportion--gigadeathcrimes. But the war ended & life went on. Now, 800 years later, light from the 1st explosion is about to reach the Masaq' Orbital, home to the Culture's most adventurous & decadent souls. There it will fall upon Masaq's 50 billion inhabitants, gathered to commemorate the deaths of the innocent & to reflect, if only for a moment, on what some call the Culture's own complicity in the terrible event. Also journeying to Masaq' is Major Quilan, an emissary from the war-ravaged world of Chel. In the aftermath of the conflict that split his world apart, most believe he has come to Masaq' to bring home Chel's most brilliant star & self-exiled dissident, the honored Composer Ziller. Ziller claims he will do anything to avoid a meeting with Quilan, who he suspects has come to murder him. But the Major's true assignment will have far greater consequences than the death of a mere political dissident, as part of a conspiracy more ambitious than even he can know--a mission his superiors have buried so deeply in his mind that even he can't remember it.

Title: Love Is A Corrupted Data Stream    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: Huckleberry Hax       Publisher: Lulu.com       Synopsis: Trapped in a virtual world, unable to see or to touch the woman she is in love with, Emma Kline is catapulted 45 years into the future, where an underground resistance group wants her to penetrate the hidden inner chamber of a mysterious, unseen organisation.

Title: Lunar Interlude (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyber Dreams    Author: Plum Parrot       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Synopsis: A cybernetic mercenary sets her sights on the corporation that forced her transformation in this dystopian sci-fi from the author of Victor of Tucson.

Title: Machina    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Fran Wilde   Malka Ann Older   Curtis C. Chen   Martha Wells       Publisher: Serial Box       Synopsis: With Earth becoming increasingly uninhabitable, some look to space for humanity’s salvation. In the arid California desert, two companies face off for the opportunity to develop the autonomous robots that will precede settlers to Mars. Scientists and staff alike mingle at Moonshot Bar, and they all begin to realize that there’s more than scientific discovery at stake.

Title: Machine Man    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1988    Category: Comics       Author: Tom DeFalco   Herb Trimpe   Barry Windsor-Smith       Publisher: Marvel       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Machine Sex And Other Stories    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1988    Category: Short Story       Author: Candas Jane Dorsey       Publisher: Tesseract   Women’s Press       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Machinehood    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel       Author: S. B. Divya       Publisher: Gallary   Saga Press       Synopsis: Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of her. It’s 2095 and people don’t usually die from violence. Humanity is entirely dependent on pills that not only help them stay alive, but allow them to compete with artificial intelligence in an increasingly competitive gig economy. Daily doses protect against designer diseases, flow enhances focus, zips and buffs enhance physical strength and speed, and juvers speed the healing process.

Title: Made To Order: Robots And Revolution    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Short Story       Author: Jonathan Strahan   Vina Jie-Min Prasad   Peter Watts   Saad Z. Hossain   Daryl Gregory   Tochi Onyebuchi   Ken Liu   Sarah Pinsker   Peter F. Hamilton   John Chu   Alastair Reynolds   Rich Larson   Annalee Newitz   Ian R. MacLeod   Sofia Samatar   Suzanne Palmer   Brooke Bolander       Publisher: Solaris       Synopsis: 100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, “robots” are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games. They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like humans, the more interesting they become. This collection of stories is where robots stand in for us, where both we and they are disadvantaged, and where hope and optimism shines through.

Title: Madi: Once Upon A Time In The Future    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics       Author: Duncan Jones   Alex de Campi   Dylan Teague       Publisher: Z2 Comics       Synopsis: Madi Preston, a veteran of Britain’s elite special operations J-Squad unit, is burnt out and up to her eyeballs in debt. She and the rest of her team have retired from the military but are now trapped having to pay to service and maintain the technology put into them during their years of service. They're working for British conglomerate Liberty Inc as mercenaries, selling their unique ability to be remote controlled by specialists while in the field, and the debts are only growing as they get injured completing missions. We meet Madi as she decides she’s had enough. She will take an off-the-books job that should earn her enough to pay out her and her sister, but when the piece of tech she’s supposed to steal turns out to be a kid, and she suddenly blacks out... she finds herself on the run from everyone she’s ever known.

Title: Magna-Blade (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Magna-Blade    Author: Evan Aitchison       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: In the year 2311, the world is recovering from a devastating war due to the incredibly powerful Magna-Blades, an invention that leaks onto the black market. Now enter a world even more broken than ever before, and policing enforcement has reached a new ferocity. A young man, Kado, stuck between the cracks of bureaucracy and narcissistic bias, has fallen slave to drugs and alcohol. Under mysterious circumstances, an older man takes him under his wing. But there's more to the elderly man than meets the eye. Kado gets thrown into an adventure leading to incredible scientific discoveries, unleashing powerful inventions, and unravelling a devious plot that could devastate the entire planet.

Title: Magna-Blade: Pax Omnis (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Magna-Blade    Author: Evan Aitchison       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: War looms on the horizon. As Kado and his allies strive to allay the seemingly inevitable, the ominous Quell are preparing for an assault the likes of which have not been seen for over a century. Meanwhile, the Vanixx Corps, a force of death and destruction weave their influence throughout the remaining cities of the planet.

Title: Mal Goes To War    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel       Author: Edward Ashton       Publisher: St. Martin's Press       Synopsis: As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He’s not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace he finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting. A dark comedy wrapped in a techno thriller’s skin, Mal Goes to War provides a satirical take on war, artificial intelligence, and what it really means to be human.

Title: Malfunction (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Malfunction    Author: J.E. Purrazzi       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: When Menrva, a geneticist in the subterranean city of survivors known as Bunker, responds to a call for help from Cowl, her former best friend, and Bas, a renegade cyborg, she makes a vital mistake and places all three of them in danger. As they struggle to escape City guards, cyborg soldiers, desperate scavengers, and ravenous aliens, they find in each other something they never expected: family.

Title: Man Plus    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Comics Series       Author: André Lima Araújo       Publisher: Titan Comics       Synopsis: Welcome to Olissipo City - a shimmering metropolis where technology rules with a heavy hand, cyborg strike teams are commonplace, and the lines between man and machine grow hazier every day.

Title: Mardock Scramble    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Comics Series       Author: Tow Ubukata       Publisher: Kodansha       Synopsis: Why me? It was to be the last thought a young prostitute, Balot, would ever have... as a human anyway. Taken in by a devious gambler named Shell, she became a slave to his cruel desires and would have been killed by his hand if not for a private investigator and his self-aware Universal Tool, Oeufcoque. Now a cyborg, Balot has not only physical powers, but the ability to disrupt social environments. She chases after Shell, his partner-in-crime Boiled, and faces down a variety of insane villains in this pulse-pounding cyberpunk noir adventure.

Title: Market Forces    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Novel       Author: Richard K. Morgan       Publisher: Ballantine Books       Synopsis: A coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. For the men and women of Shorn Associates, opportunity is calling. In the superheated global village of the near future, big money is made by finding the right little war and supporting one side against the other–in exchange for a share of the spoils. To succeed, Shorn uses a new kind of corporate gladiator: sharp-suited, hard-driving gunslingers who operate armored vehicles and follow a Samurai code. And Chris Faulkner is just the man for the job.

Title: Matter (#8)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: Orbit       Synopsis: In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy. Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else’s war is never a simple matter.

Title: Maya    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel       Author: Clyde DeSouza       Publisher: Penguin India       Synopsis: Dan's work involves creating commercially viable Augmented Reality solutions. The recession and an explosion of data-cops is drying out his streams of income. He turns to close friend, Krish, a researcher in Artificial Intelligence, in the hope that they can come up with ideas for the Entertainment market. His girlfriend, Maya, and her family return to their homeland due to her father's illness.

Title: Medusa Uploaded (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Medusa Cycle    Author: Emily Devenport       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: An executive clan gives the order to shoot Oichi out of an airlock on suspicion of being an insurgent. A sentient AI, a Medusa unit, rescues Oichi and begins to teach her the truth—the Executives are not who they think they are. Oichi, officially dead and now bonded to the Medusa unit, sees a chance to make a better life for everyone on board. As she sets things right one assassination at a time, Oichi becomes the very insurgent the Executives feared, and in the process uncovers the shocking truth behind the generation starship that is their home.

Title: Memoria    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel       Author: Alex Bobl       Publisher: Sky Bridge       Synopsis: In a futuristic bombed-out New York, the almighty Memoria Corporation helps people erase their traumatic memories. What else would you need in the world finally free from wars and crime? But the bubble bursts when a humble lawyer Frank Shelby becomes a murder suspect on the run. Betrayed by his friends and hunted down by mysterious killers, Frank has to penetrate Memoria and find evidence of their real plans before it's too late for all of us.

Title: Memories With Maya    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel       Author: Clyde DeSouza       Publisher: CreateSpace       Synopsis: Dan's work involves creating commercially viable Augmented Reality solutions. The recession and an explosion of data-cops is drying out his streams of income. He turns to close friend, Krish, a researcher in Artificial Intelligence, in the hope that they can come up with ideas for the Entertainment market. His girlfriend, Maya, and her family return to their homeland due to her father's illness. Dan and Maya continue their relationship via Dirrogates (Digital Surrogates), experiencing human touch through haptics. Krish gets a job at the prestigious A.I.R.I. Using AIRI's lab, Krish and Dan, create an advanced visor with Augmented Intelligence built in. They dub it "Wizer". A Board member at AIRI sees potential in the Wizer other than what Dan and Krish have in mind. At a test in a nightclub, things go wrong...

Title: Metal Flesh (After Eden: Tek-Fall #1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novella Series       Author: Austin Dragon       Publisher: Well-Tailored Books       Synopsis: Tek-World loves its artificial-intelligent mechanization, including robotic pets and ubiquitous drones. But humans have also created machines in their image—robots—using metal instead of flesh.

Title: Metal Made Flesh (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: Metal Made Flesh    Author: Jeremy Biggs   Simeon Aston       Publisher: Subversive Comics       Synopsis: Metal Made Flesh is a cyberpunk space opera that has been likened to "Bladerunner meets Game of Thrones." Chased to the brink of extinction by an unrelenting foe called the “Veul” humanity is forced to take refuge in Tuaoni, a sprawling city on the black market trading hub Equan Yas.

Title: Metal Made Flesh 2.5: Deception (#2.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Comics Series       Series: Metal Made Flesh    Author: Simeon Aston   Jeremy Biggs   Phil Buckenham       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Fleeing from their defeat at the battle of Ch’xal, the last remnants of humanity take refuge on a corrupt backwater planet, Equan Yas and the seedy den of vice and iniquity that is the neon city of Tuaoni. Forced into working for the Tuaonian underworld, Izobel Vice, Phaeon Nex and Kalibos must fight to survive.

Title: Metal Made Flesh: Blood and Oil (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: Metal Made Flesh    Author: Jeremy Biggs   Cy Dethan       Publisher: Subversive Comics       Synopsis: Metal Made Flesh is a cyberpunk space opera that has been likened to "Bladerunner meets Game of Thrones." Chased to the brink of extinction by an unrelenting foe called the “Veul”, Humanity is forced to take refuge in Tuaoni, a sprawling city on the black market trading hub Equan Yas. Reduced to extreme poverty, and treated as second class citizens by the planet’s inhabitants, humans must do whatever it takes to survive.

Title: Metal Made Flesh: Damnation (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Comics Series       Series: Metal Made Flesh    Author: Simeon Aston   Jeremy Biggs       Publisher: Subversive Comics       Synopsis: Izobel Vice was the most feared assassin in all Tuaoni. Damned for knowing too much, now she has a target on her back. Her choice? To flee off-world and suffer a lifetime looking over her shoulder… or take on the hellish Strip and its brutal alien overlord, Skata, to win her freedom.

Title: Metal Made Flesh: The Bible    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Comics Series       Series: Metal Made Flesh    Author: Simeon Aston   Jeremy Biggs       Publisher: Subversive Comics       Synopsis: Tuaoni. A backwater colony where the unruly prosper and the destitute perish. A thick veil of blue mist hangs low over the creeping city sprawl that stretches from the lawless Strip all the way to the famed imperial gardens – home to the many crooked factions that make up the royal elite.

Title: Metal Made Flesh: Vengeance (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: Metal Made Flesh    Author: Simeon Aston   Jeremy Biggs   Peter Cook   Cy Dethan   Tom Eglinton   Phil Buckenham   Hector Trunnec   Vittorio Astone   Boo Cook   Deathburger   Ryan Brown       Publisher: Subversive Comics       Synopsis: They robbed you of your body; your mind stranded in a child replicant. You long to unsheathe your katana and run the neon streets red with the blood of your betrayers. But first you need to find out who they are. Don’t stop reading until vengeance is yours!

Title: Metrophage    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1988    Category: Novel       Author: Richard Kadrey       Publisher: Hardwired       Synopsis: Welcome to Los Angeles...where anger, hunger and disease run rampant, and life and hope are strictly rationed. This is Jonny's world. He's a street-wise hustler, a black-market dealer in drugs that heal the body and cool the mind. All he cares about is his own survival. Until a strange plague turns L.A. into a city of death--and Jonny is forced to put everything on the line to find the cure. If it can be found on earth...

Title: Midjourney Cyberpunk Aesthetics    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Other       Author: StoryBuddiesPlay       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: "Midjourney Cyberpunk Aesthetics: Crafting Futuristic Scenes with Neon Colors and Urban Landscapes" is your ultimate guide to mastering the captivating world of cyberpunk art. This ebook delves into the fundamental elements that define the genre, from vibrant neon color palettes to intricate urban landscapes. Explore advanced techniques for character design, lighting, and integrating technology with nature, all while harnessing the power of Midjourney to bring your visions to life. Whether you're a seasoned artist or a curious beginner, this comprehensive resource will inspire you to push creative boundaries and develop a unique style within the dynamic realm of cyberpunk...

Title: Mind Burn    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: Rhett C. Bruno   T. E. Bakutis       Publisher: Blackstone Publishing       Synopsis: Minority Report meets Ready Player One as a new investigator hunts down a dangerous criminal capable of high-jacking and controlling cybernetic implants. When your new employer tasks you with investigating the first successful mass shooting in twelve years, it’s understandable to be nervous. Fortunately, detective-in-training Cowan Soto has a Personal Brain Assistant -- a cybernetic implant -- that allows him to firewall pesky emotions like worry and guilt and redact memories of bullet-riddled corpses. Unfortunately, Cowan soon learns it was his suspect’s PBA which allowed a ruthless hacker to puppet her into a shooting rampage. Aided by a veteran investigator, a brilliant CFO, a nihilistic cybercriminal, and the best waifu madam in Kearny Mesa, Cowan must wade through a gauntlet of homicidal professional gamers, the Russian mafia, and the board of OneWorld to bring this ruthless puppetmaster to justice. All the while, the brand new detective is concealing the fact that he’s the exact type of criminal OneWorld has hired him to a loose circuit -- a human unbound by behavioral modification protocols. Grab your copy today and experience this breakneck technothriller from USA Today bestselling author Rhett C. Bruno and T. E. Bakutis. It’s perfect for fans of Douglas E Richards, Richard K. Morgan, and William Gibson. Full of action, mystery, and loads of cybernetic future-tech, Mind Burn explores the very question of what it means to be free.

Title: Mind Hack (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: A Cyberpunk Saga    Author: Matthew A. Goodwin       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: They stole Carcer’s technology but to use it, Moss will need to get the team back together. When he discovers one of his friends has gone missing, he enlists the help of a young hacker and his android companion. They end up right in the middle of a gang dispute before realizing there are bigger forces at play.

Title: Mind's Eye (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Nick Hall    Author: Douglas E. Richards       Publisher: Paragon Press       Synopsis: When Nick Hall wakes up in a dumpster--bloodied, without a memory, and hearing voices in his head--he knows things are bad. But they're about to get far worse. Because he's being hunted by a team of relentless assassins. Soon Hall discovers that advanced electronics have been implanted in his brain, and he now has two astonishing abilities. He can surf the web using thoughts alone. And he can read minds. But who inserted the implants? And why? And why is someone so desperate to kill him?

Title: Mindjacked (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk City    Author: D.L. Young       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: When he destroyed the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence two years ago, datajacker Blackburn Maddox thought he was done fighting AIs forever. But forever didn’t last very long. Resurrected from its cybernetic death and freed of all constraints, the Latour-Fisher AI has only one thing on its superintelligent mind: killing Maddox.

Title: Mindplayers    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1987    Category: Novel       Author: Pat Cadigan       Publisher: Bantam Spectra       Synopsis: A dare goes awry when Ali tries on a stolen madcap and is afflicted with psychotic delusions that will not go away. "Cured" by a mindplayer, Ali is soon forced to become one herself or face a prison sentence as a "mind criminal."

Title: Mindwalker    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: Kate Dylan       Publisher: Hodder Books       Synopsis: Eighteen-year-old Sil Sarrah is determined to die a legend. In the ten years she's been rescuing imperilled field agents for the Syntex Corporation—by commandeering their minds from afar and leading them to safety—Sil hasn't lost a single life. And she's not about to start now.

Title: MindWar (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Nick Hall    Author: Douglas E. Richards       Publisher: Paragon Press       Synopsis: Nick Hall has revolutionary electronics implanted in his brain that allow him to read minds--including thoughts, memories, and even intent. He can know the passwords, future strategies, and innermost secrets of anyone he chooses, making him the most formidable man alive. But his status as the only mind reader in the world is about to change...

Title: Mirror's Edge    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Comics Series       Author: Rhianna Pratchett   Matthew Dow Smith       Publisher: Wildstorm       Synopsis: Coinciding with the release of the highly anticipated new Electronic Arts game Mirror's Edge comes an adventure unlike any other! Faith is a Runner in the city - a courier who delivers sensitive cargo by traversing the rooftops of the city's skyscrapers. But how did she come by this unique black market trade...and what secrets from her past may affect her future? Written by famed game writer Rhianna Pratchett and illustrated by Matthew Dow Smith (SUPERNATURAL: ORIGINS), this new book presents an adventure that'll further flesh out this incredible video game world!

Title: Mirrored Heavens (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Novel Series       Series: Autumn Rain    Author: David J. Williams       Publisher: Spectra       Synopsis: In this thrilling debut, David J. Williams delivers a hard-hitting blend of military SF and dystopian cyberpunk, set in a futuristic landscape where hostilities rage from the Eastern and Western hemispheres to the outer ranges of space. In the 22nd century, the first wonder of a brave new world is the Phoenix Space Elevator, designed to give mankind greater access to the frontier beyond Earth. Built by the U.S./Pan-Asian Coalition, the Elevator is also a grand symbol of superpower alliance following a second cold war. And it’s just been destroyed.

Title: Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1986    Category: Short Story       Author: Bruce Sterling       Publisher: Arbor House       Synopsis: With their hard-edged, street-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech societies and low-life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive "cyberpunk" short fiction collection.

Title: Mistrunner (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Mistrunner    Author: Nicholas Searcy       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Synopsis: Imbued with superhuman power, a young woman becomes the ultimate weapon, in this post-apocalyptic cyberpunk series from the bestselling author of Genesis. Ninety years ago, Earth was consumed—and irrevocably transformed—by a cloud of alien nanites known as the Mist, bestowing humanity with uncanny abilities and enhancing technology far beyond early twenty-first century science. But these advancements came at a high Billions are dead. The planet has been overrun by vicious monsters. And alien overlords await the opportunity to swoop in and exploit what remains of Earth and its people for all their worth.

Title: Mistrunner (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel Series       Series: Mistrunner    Author: Nicholas Searcy       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Synopsis: Nearly a century ago, the people of Earth surrendered their freedom to the aliens responsible for the cloud of nanites, known as the Mist, that transformed the planet’s Landscapes became toxic. Animals morphed into monsters. Humans found themselves imbued with supernatural abilities and wielding technological wonders that changed the world’s balance of power. Now, while ruthless entrepreneurs take advantage of their fellow man in order to accrue incalculable amounts of wealth, the aliens prepare to descend like a plague and drain Earth of its natural resources once and for all.

Title: Modern Fairy Tale: Swamp Cyberpunk    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Short Story       Author: Benedict Alex       Publisher: Ridero       Synopsis: Uploading my virus to make it scream loud. To detonate my bomb in the crowd. The hate loading process is moving on. Sending my rage with one megaton. — Victor Love (Dope Stars Inc.)

Title: Moebius: The Long Tomorrow    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1975    Category: Comics       Author: Dan O'Bannon   Mœbius       Publisher: Les Humanoïdes Associés       Synopsis: This short sci-fi story first appeared in the French comics magazine Metal Hurlant, and follows a detective through a typical noir plot set in a sprawling and grungy future metropolis. In spite of its brevity, the comic was highly influential, particularly on Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and William Gibson’s Neuromancer, two works which are credited with establishing the cyberpunk genre.

Title: Mona Lisa Overdrive    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1988    Category: Novel       Author: William Gibson       Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd       Synopsis: Taking place eight years after the events of Count Zero and fifteen years after Neuromancer, the story is formed from several interconnecting plot threads, and also features characters from Gibson's previous works (such as Molly Millions, the razor-fingered mercenary from Neuromancer). One of the plot threads concerns Mona, an innocent young prostitute who has a more-than-passing resemblance to famed Simstim superstar Angie Mitchell. Mona is hired by shady individuals for a "gig" which later turns out to be part of a plot to abduct Angie.

Title: Moon Cops On The Moon!    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: C.T. Phipps       Publisher: Crossroad Press       Synopsis: MOON COPS ON THE MOON is set in the Futurepunk setting of Agent G, the Cyber Dragons Trilogy, and Space Academy novels but functions as a standalone series. It is a humorous action-filled romp that fans of The Expanse, Robocop, Demolition Man, and Blade Runner will enjoy.

Title: More Perfect    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: Temi Oh       Publisher: Saga Press       Synopsis: Using the myth of Eurydice as a structure, this riveting science fiction novel is set in a near-future London where it has become popular for folks to have a small implant that allows one access to a more robust social media experience directly as an augmented reality. However, the British government has taken oversight of this access to an extreme, slowly tilting towards a dystopian overreach, all in the name of safety.

Title: More Than Stardust (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Wanted And Wired    Author: Vivien Jackson       Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca       Synopsis: Chloe, a self-aware, highly illegal nanorobotic artificial intelligence knows a thing or two about wanting. The growing Machine Rebellion wants her to become its god. The technocratic global Consortium wants to cage her, take her apart, and reverse-engineer her. Her family wants to keep her a secret. Her best friend Garrett wants her safe. Chloe is a thing made of wants. And it's time the world knew hers.

Title: Mortido    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics       Author: José Zermeño       Publisher: globalcomix.com       Synopsis: A pregnant woman fulfills a homicidal fantasy at the facilities of Thanatopsis, Inc.; a company dedicated to shock therapy through hyper-realistic simulations.

Title: Mountain Of Black Glass (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Novel Series       Series: Otherland    Author: Tad Williams       Publisher: DAW Books       Synopsis: This proclamation from the mysterious Mr. Sellars confirmed what Renie Sulaweyo had feared to be true when she first broke into the Otherland network in a desperate search for the cause of her brother Stephen's deathlike coma.

Title: Moxyland    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Novel       Author: Lauren Beukes       Publisher: Jacana Media       Synopsis: A frighteningly persuasive, high-tech fable, this novel follows the lives of four narrators living in an alternative futuristic Cape Town, South Africa. Kendra, an art-school dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program; Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers; Tendeka, a hot-headed activist, is becoming increasingly rabid; and Toby, a roguish blogger, discovers that the video games he plays for cash are much more than they seem. On a collision course that will rewire their lives, this story crackles with bold and infectious ideas, connecting a ruthless corporate-apartheid government with video games, biotech attack dogs, slippery online identities, a township soccer school, shocking cell phones, addictive branding, and genetically modified art. Taking hedonistic trends in society to their ultimate conclusions, this tale paints anything but a forecasted utopia, satirically undermining the reified idea of progress as society's white knight.

Title: Mr. Fear    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: J.L. Cummings       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: In a future world where days are short and the nights seem like forever, Rex Fear works the slums of the last human metropolis on Earth as a Tracer—a mix between a private eye and finder of lost souls. Outside the high walls of Golgotha mega-city trillions of demonic fiends, evolved from once harmless bacteria in the long nights, rule the rest of the planet, ever trying to get inside and devour the remains of mankind.

Title: Mushroom Blues (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel Series       Series: Hoffman Report    Author: Adrian M. Gibson       Publisher: The Kinoko Book Co.       Synopsis: Two years after a devastating defeat in the decade-long Spore War, the island nation of Hōppon and its capital city of Neo Kinoko are occupied by invading Coprinian forces. Its fungal citizens are in dire straits, wracked by food shortages, poverty, and an influx of war refugees. Even worse, the corrupt occupiers exploit their power, hounding the native population. As a winter storm looms over the metropolis, NKPD homicide detective Henrietta Hofmann begrudgingly partners up with mushroom-headed patrol officer Koji Nameko to investigate the mysterious murders of fungal and half-breed children. Their investigation drags them deep into the seedy underbelly of a war-torn city, one brimming with colonizers, criminal gangs, racial division, and moral decay. In order to solve the case and unravel the truth, Hofmann must challenge her past and embrace fungal ways. What she and Nameko uncover in the midst of this frigid wasteland will chill them to the core, but will they make it through the storm alive?

Title: Nano Contestant    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novella       Author: Leif Sterling       Publisher: Leif Sterling Press       Synopsis: In 2114, Pinnacle Corporation, the world’s largest tech company, hosts the Tech Games to showcase the world’s latest technology. The contestants must battle it out in 11 brutal games to ultimately win a $100 million prize! These digital and hybrid athletes must use everything at their disposal in order to take that prize and all of its glory in the Tech Games. Hacking, firewalls and electronic countermeasures are all being used by each contestant while running and fighting at top speed. It’s all on the line, because nothing is being left on the table!

Title: Nanodaemons    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novella       Author: George Saoulidis       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: When an ordinary guy’s implanted devices are reset after a construction accident that costs him his arm, the daemons in charge of his electronics are just trying to do their job as usual. But will they manage to keep their user happy and alive, when every bit of info they uncover becomes another part of a mystery, when it becomes clear that someone is framing him for murder and when a corporation is making sure he is no longer a loose end?

Title: Nanoshock (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: SINless    Author: K. C. Alexander       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: As Riko works to rebuild her shattered cred, following the events of Necrotech, she’s stuck fighting off every jerk looking to raise their standing on the streets. But when a corp with some serious influence ups the stakes, Riko’s going to have to take the fight to them, put this nonsense down for good. Nothing is what it seems when corp politics are in play, and another necro blight right where her answers are buried might very well be the end of the life she didn’t know she’d borrowed.

Title: Nascent (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Stork Tower    Author: Tony Corden       Publisher: Tony Corden       Synopsis: Atherleah Carroll grew up in a negative-tax family in the gang-controlled suburbs of Brisbane at the end of the twenty-first century. From the age of six, she decided that she wanted more and with the help of her local gang-leader, she learned the skills to escape the relentless pressure to accept a life of mediocrity. On her sixteenth birthday, she was inadvertently implanted with a Neural Enhancement Chip instead of the free Government provided basic level personal AI. This mistake not only removed the limits placed on the AI but also broke some of the Government instigated control parameters. Leah’s life rapidly became a battle, both in the virtual-multiverse and in real life. On the advice of the local ‘boss’, Leah began playing the virtual fantasy game Dunyanin to earn the money she needed to live at the local POD facility and help with her education. With the help of her rapidly evolving AI, she has not only thwarted attempts by the government to limit her opportunities but evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers. Co-opted by several Virtual Security AI Leah has helped shut down a virtual sweat-shop which used mind-controlled players to farm for resources. The family, which runs the virtual crime syndicate, has cornered Leah in the depths of a virtual-mine and sent twenty player-mercenaries to capture her. Fleeing through a hidden doorway into a mirror mine operated by goblins Leah hopes to escape her pursuers.

Title: Nathan Never    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Comics Series       Author: Sergio Bonelli Editore       Publisher: Various       Synopsis: Nathan Never is an Italian monthly comic that follows an agent of Agenzia Alfa, a corporate law enforcement agency. Nathan Never patrols The City, a towering urban center that’s home to all classes of people, mutants, and robots. The series is largely made up of episodic stories, although there are recurring plotlines and an overall continuity. Legs Weaver, Nathan’s first partner, starred in her own eponymous spinoff comic that ran from 1994–2005, and graphic novels about various Agenzia Alfa members have been published biannually since 1994.

Title: NAWLZ    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Comics Series       Author: Stu Campbell       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: The metropolis of NAWLZ is a sprawling, yet claustrophobic city and the comic’s namesake. It depicts a world in the future with its focus on youth culture.. Technology is incredibly advanced causing reality to be augmented with digital overlays and multi-sensory interactive experiences. The reader follows Harley Chambers, a cyber graffiti artist ‘casting’ his ‘sleeper real’ to cover the city. A ‘real’ is a personal channel for broadcasting imagination in the form of digital interactive art, animation and sound design. Harley’s real is based on a recurring dream from his childhood. His dream inspired artwork covers most of Nawlz City. Harley encounters a Real disturbingly like his own and causes him to question who is behind it. He sets out to discover who is hijacking and altering his vision. He moves through the story getting harassed by increasingly disturbing and bizarre Reals. Readers move with him into a world where Harley feels the need to push the limits of mind control with hallucinogenic drugs, surgical upgrades and experimental software, but how long before the boundary between his imagination and his reality is dissolved forever?

Title: Near Enemy (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Spademan    Author: Adam Sternbergh       Publisher: Crown       Synopsis: It's a year after Shovel Ready. Persephone is ensconced with her newborn upstate; Simon the Magician is struggling to keep control of Harrow's evangelical empire; and Spademan has accepted a seemingly routine job: to snuff out a no-good bed-hopper named Lesser. Lesser has been causing headaches all over the limnosphere, racking up enemies left and right. But Lesser comes back from the dream with a wild claim: that the terrorists have found a way to infiltrate the limnosphere, to hijack the luxury virtual escape from the inside. And they're doing it from somewhere in New York. Spademan is not used to having enemies--his foes usually end up dead pretty quickly--but he tries to stay vigilant about the dangers that lurk right under our noses. He's about to find out just how close these new enemies are--and how dangerous they can be.

Title: Necropolis    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel       Author: Michael Dempsey       Publisher: Night Shade Books       Synopsis: In a future where death is a thing of the past, how far would you go to solve your own murder? Paul Donner is a NYPD detective struggling with a drinking problem and a marriage on the rocks. Then he and his wife get dead--shot to death in a "random" crime. Fifty years later, Donner is back--revived courtesy of the Shift, a process whereby inanimate DNA is re-activated.

Title: Necrotech (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: SINless    Author: K. C. Alexander       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: Street thug Riko has some serious issues — memories wiped, reputation tanked, girlfriend turned into a tech-fueled zombie. And the only people who can help are the mercenaries who think she screwed them over. In an apathetic society devoid of ethics or regulation, where fusing tech and flesh can mean a killing edge or a killer conversion, a massive conspiracy is unfolding that will alter the course of the human condition forever. With corporate meatheads on her ass and a necro-tech blight between her and salvation, Riko is going to have to fight meaner, work smarter, and push harder than she’s ever had to. And that’s just to make it through the day.

Title: Necrotic City    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel       Author: Leland Lydecker       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: What happens when a Hero crosses the thin blue line in Necrotic City and has to fight for survival in a chaotic, decaying world? Adrian is a vat-grown human known as a Hero. Enhanced through genetic engineering and implanted nanotechnology, Heroes serve as the superhumanly resilient, altruistic peacekeepers of the Company’s tightly controlled city. Internal matters like corruption and criminal negligence are strictly outside of a Hero’s jurisdiction; but when Adrian begins to uncover the ugly secrets of the government that created him, his sense of justice forces him to act. Cut loose in a city wracked by civil unrest, hunted by Enforcers and flesh hackers alike, Adrian quickly learns that there is no safe place for a Company man.

Title: Neji    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Comics Series       Author: Kaori Yuki       Publisher: Hakusensha       Synopsis: Neji and his fiancé were killed after getting caught up in an unfortunate kidnapping situation. After being cryogenically frozen by the GERA, the ESP research facility, for 40 years, Neji wakes up. It doesn’t take long for the GERA to discover Neji’s extremely powerful and unnatural powers and to make him into one of their mercenaries. However, Neji finds out his fiancé will be used as a guinea pig for the research facility's medical research and desperately tries to escape. In the second part, Neji encounters his nephew, who is also created from GERA and both begin on their journey through the future where human-like robots are used as slaves.

Title: Neo Chongqing Glitch    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novella       Series: Metaverse Detectives    Author: W.J. Sam       Publisher: Heliopolis Press       Synopsis: In the famous cyberpunk city of Chongqing, 2042, young police officer Lei Yijun faces a daunting challenge as he re-investigates a suspenseful accident that occurred six years ago.

Title: Neo Cyberpunk Volume 2: The Anthology    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Short Story       Author: C.T. Phipps   Anna Mocikat   James L. Graetz   Marlin Seigman   Nik Whittaker   A.W. Wang   Jon Richter   Matt Adcock   S.C. Jensen   Luke Hancock   Patrick Tillett   Benjamin Fisher-Merritt   Andrew Dobell   D.T. Wilby   Tobias F. Cabral       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: A drug that turns people into killers, a Techno-Viking going berserk, crazy scientists playing God, and an assassin bot tired of its job.

Title: Neo Cyberpunk Volume 3: The Anthology    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Short Story       Author: Nik Whittaker       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: A mysterious hum turning people into killers, a perfect city ruled by AI, a ghost in the machine and boomers vs. robots!

Title: Neo Cyberpunk: The Anthology    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Short Story       Author: Anna Mocikat   Matthew A. Goodwin   Marlin Seigman       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: A clone searching for her identity, an android out of control, a young man fleeing from killer-cyborgs, a synthwave DJ whose music slays, a deadly videogame – and a very hungry cyber-croc. Welcome to the world of Neo Cyberpunk! Fifteen of the hottest contemporary cyberpunk authors have joined forces to create a unique anthology. In this book readers will find the full spectrum of modern-day cyberpunk, full of action, mystery, technology and humanity. Cyberpunk is Now!

Title: Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Living on the Edge of Burnout    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Other       Author: Caroline Alphin       Publisher: Routledge       Synopsis: Comprised of five chapters, Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction is guided by four central themes: biopolitics, intensification, resilience, and accelerationism. The first chapters examine the political possibilities of cyberpunk as a genre of science fiction and introduce one kind of neoliberal subject, the self-monitoring cyborg. These are individuals who join fitness/health tracking devices and applications to their body to "self-cultivate". Here, Alphin presents concrete examples of how fitness trackers are a strategy of neoliberal governmentality under the guise of self-cultivation. Moving away from Foucault's biopolitics to themes of intensity and resilience, Alphin draws largely from William Gibson's Neuromancer, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon, along with the film Blade Runner to problematize notions of neoliberal resilience. Alphin returns to biopolitics, intensity, and resilience, connecting these themes to accelerationism as she engages with biohacker discourses. Here she argues that a biohacker is, in part, an intensification of the self-monitoring cyborg and accelerationism is in the end another form of resilience.

Title: Neom (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Central Station    Author: Lavie Tidhar       Publisher: Tachyon       Synopsis: Machines roam the desert in search of purpose; works of art can be deadlier than weapons, and improbable love transcends the sands of time. From the multiaward-winning universe of Central Station, a complex desert-city of the future’s inhabitants rediscover passion while at the brink of revolution.

Title: Neon Cortex (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novella       Series: Neon Helix Universe    Author: Nik Whittaker       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Salem had quit the world six years ago. His unique skills forcing him to escape the reality of the Neon Boulevard and into the complete isolation of a virtual world.

Title: Neon Helix (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Series: Neon Helix Universe    Author: Nik Whittaker       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: The repercussions of that day come back to haunt them when CyberBio CEO Maxwell Owens, dies just days before the launch of revolutionary new technology. His death triggering events that throw several of the Boulevards residents together. Cybernetics, Biogenetics and everything in between collides in this cyberpunk novel by debut author, Nik Whittaker.

Title: Neon Leviathan    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Short Story       Author: T.R. Napper       Publisher: Grimdark Magazine       Synopsis: Twelve hard-edged stories from the dark, often violent, sometimes strange heart of cyberpunk, this collection – as with all the best science fiction – is an exploration of who were are now. In the tradition of Dashiell Hammett, Philip K. Dick, and David Mitchell, Neon Leviathan is a remarkable debut collection from a breakout new author.

Title: Neon Nexus: A Nano-Cyberpunk Adventure    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novella       Author: Kobayashi   ChatGPT       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In a near-future city known as Neon Nexus, technology has taken a revolutionary leap. Nano-cybernetics have become the norm, allowing people to augment their bodies and minds with microscopic, self-repairing machines. The city pulsates with neon lights and cybernetic wonders, but beneath its dazzling facade lies a dark underbelly of corruption and intrigue. Meet Nova, a young hacker with an exceptional talent for manipulating nano-cybernetics. With eyes that glimmer with nanotech-enhanced vision, she spends her days navigating the digital realm and evading the all-seeing eyes of the city's powerful mega-corporations. Nova's past is a mystery even to herself, her earliest memories erased by a failed experiment involving nano-cybernetics...

Title: Neon Rogue: A Cyberpunk Mystery Novel (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Dawn Moriti    Author: I.O. Adler       Publisher: Lucas Ross Publishing       Synopsis: In the harsh streets of New Pacific, spy-for-hire Dawn Moriti thinks she’s hit the jackpot with her latest data heist. But when she shows up to the handoff, she walks into an ambush that leaves her client dead and paints her as the killer. Now a target of the police and a shadowy group of mercenaries, Dawn must navigate the shadows of the city to clear her name. Her only allies? A city detective who might be interested in turning Dawn over for the bounty and her sister Eve, a genetically enhanced soldier on the outs with her unit. Dawn now races against time to unravel the truth behind the betrayal before the assassins find her first. Neon Rogue is a gripping cyberpunk novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. With a thrilling mystery, high stakes, and unforgettable characters, this is a book you won’t want to put down.

Title: Neon/Echo    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel       Author: Seth Ross       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In the wired future, how can someone just…disappear Glitch, a retired cybercriminal, wants to stay hidden, but when her neighbor knocks on her door, her whole life changes.

Title: Network Effect (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Murderbot Diaries    Author: Martha Wells       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot.

Title: Neural Wraith    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Neural Wraith    Author: K.D. Robertson       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: In Neo Babylon, your neural implant is your identity. You use it as your credit card, to surf the Altnet, to chat with friends, to login to work or school, and to be pestered by advertisements. Anyone without one is cut off from society. Nick can’t get a neural implant. That fact turns his daily life into hell, but the city's underworld has its plans for him. Being invisible to the city’s omnipresent tracking has its perks. Without a neural presence, he’s someone who is felt but not seen—a wraith. His natural advantage leads him to work on illegal projects, including one to create human-like AI “dolls.” Until the government shuts down everything and Nick is reduced to a life of back-office IT drudgery, under strict monitoring.

Title: Neural Wraith 2    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Neural Wraith    Author: K.D. Robertson       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Finance isn't Nick Waite’s strong suit as a detective, but he’s learning fast as he investigates the cover-up of a murder inside Neo Babylon’s oldest bank. The winds of conspiracy whirl around him, and everyone from the police commissioner to gang lords warn him to step back.

Title: Neural Wraith 3    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Neural Wraith    Author: K.D. Robertson       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Neo Babylon's neural implants are iconic, and are now implicated in a mass murder that threatens the foundation of the city. Detective Nick Waite finds himself struggling with the case. He's spent his entire life without a neural implant, excluded from the Altnet, and now needs to investigate a crime steeped in it. Nick will need to rely heavily on his subordinates, the city's elite police Archangels. Unfortunately, the deployment of the new prototype, Ezekiel, is threatening to cause a schism in their ranks if he doesn't intervene. Tensions rise almost by the hour while he investigates. Babylon's corporate overlords are at each other's throats while its people stage virtual protests. If the tensions boil over before Nick identifies the culprit, the city's dark history might repeat itself.

Title: NeuroDancer (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Liquid Cool    Author: Austin Dragon       Publisher: Well-Tailored Books       Synopsis: Liquid Cool is a Blade Runner meets the Maltese Falcon. In the next installment of the sci-fi/cyberpunk detective series, author Austin Dragon goes from less frenetic cyberpunk to a smoother, cyber-noir with our hero, Cruz, matching wits with the sultry NeuroDancer. There is always plenty of gritty action, suspense, thrills, and even a few laughs.

Title: Neuromancer    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1984    Category: Novel       Author: William Gibson       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: Henry Dorsett Case is a low-level hustler in the dystopian underworld of Chiba City, Japan. Once a talented computer hacker, Case was caught stealing from his employer. As punishment for his theft, Case's central nervous system was damaged with a mycotoxin, leaving him unable to access the global computer network in cyberspace, a virtual reality dataspace called the "Matrix". Unemployable, addicted to drugs, and suicidal, Case desperately searches the Chiba "black clinics" for a miracle cure. Case is saved by Molly Millions, an augmented "street samurai" and mercenary for a shadowy ex-military officer named Armitage, who offers to cure Case in exchange for his services as a hacker. Case jumps at the chance to regain his life as a "console cowboy," but neither Case nor Molly knows what Armitage is really planning. Case's nervous system is repaired using new technology that Armitage offers the clinic as payment, but he soon learns from Armitage that sacs of the poison that first crippled him have been placed in his blood vessels as well. Armitage promises Case that if he completes his work in time, the sacs will be removed; otherwise they will dissolve, disabling him again. He also has Case's pancreas replaced and new tissue grafted into his liver, leaving Case incapable of metabolizing cocaine or amphetamines and apparently ending his drug addiction.

Title: Neuromancer: The Graphic Novel    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1989    Category: Comics       Author: William Gibson   Tom De Haven   Bruce Alan Jensen       Publisher: Epic Comics       Synopsis: The comic adaptation of Gibson’s groundbreaking novel which put cyberpunk on the map. After a condition renders him unable to access cyberspace, Case, an out-of-work, drug-addled hacker, is hired by a mysterious patron who promises to cure him. They also enlist Molly Millions, a “razorgirl” with extensive body modifications, who helps them take on entrenched corporate syndicates as well as a powerful article intelligence. The comic only covered the book’s first two chapters before it was discontinued.

Title: Neuroshyft (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Lost Time    Author: Damien Boyes       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Finsbury Gage will do anything to find the man who murdered his wife. He'll withhold information from his superiors in the Psychorithm Crime Unit. He'll cut corners. He'll steal evidence. He'll even augment his prosthetic brain with illegal code.

Title: Never Deal With A Dragon (Shadowrun: Secrets Of Power)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1990    Category: Novel       Author: Robert N. Charrette       Publisher: Roc       Synopsis: Sam Verner is a star researcher for Renraku Computer Systems at the corporate headquarters in Tokyo, but when his sister goblinizes into an Ork, he is transferred to the Seattle arcology in disgrace. His life takes another turn for the worse when the commuter flight from the airport is hijacked by shadowrunners (Sally Tsung, Ghost, Kham, Dodger). Sam's cooperation with the runners earns him the enmity of another passenger, security specialist Alice Crenshaw. When Sam discovers that the runners were manipulated into releasing a lethal virus inside the arcology, he is able to convince them to undo the damage. They insist he accompany them, however, and though they are successful, Sam is forced to shoot a security guard in self-defense. Though the runners advise against it, Sam decides to stay with Renraku.

Title: New Romancer (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Comics Series       Series: New Romancer    Author: Peter Milligan       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: Fired from a cushy job in Silicon Valley, Lexy becomes a coder for New Romancer, an Internet-dating app that’s seen better days. To create fake profiles, she plunders characteristics from history’s most notorious lovers. Using little-known writings by Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer, Lexy pushes the boundaries of coding and accidentally unleashes history’s greatest lover: Lord Byron. Online dating meets courtly love in this paranormal rom-com by Vertigo veteran writer Peter Milligan and rising art star Brett Parson (Tank Girl).

Title: New Romancer (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: New Romancer    Author: Peter Milligan   Brett Parson       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: No sooner had incorrigible romantic and brilliant coder Lexy Ryan been united with her long-dead dream lover-poet Lord Byron-then she lost him again. Now, while Lexy searches for the famous rhymer and the New Romancer dating site teeters on the brink of oblivion, Lexy’s beautiful but dangerous successor at Incubator takes an unhealthy interest in the libertine Lord. Meanwhile, a crazed Casanova seeks a perverse type of love in Silicon Valley...

Title: New Romancer (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Comics Series       Series: New Romancer    Author: Peter Milligan   Brett Parson       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: It’s the most romantic time of the year! Yes, that time when Casanova tries to have Lord Byron for dinner, Lexy discovers something shocking inside the mysterious Incubator building and infamous spy Mata Hari tries to reunite with a long-dead lover. Meanwhile, Lexy’s nemesis enlists the services of Byron’s daughter, Ada Lovelace, while Raj goes to even more desperate lengths to save his floundering dating start-up. All this and a candlelit dinner on the Golden Gate Bridge in the special Valentine’s Day issue!

Title: New Romancer (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: New Romancer    Author: Peter Milligan       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: Romantic and brilliant coder Lexy Ryan finally gets her wish: a St. Valentine’s dinner with her dream lover, Lord Byron. But dreams rarely work out the way we want, and when Mata Hari leads her army of cheating husbands onto the Golden Gate Bridge, jaded fantasy quickly turns to full-scale nightmare. Taken prisoner, Lexy and her father clash as the horrible truth about Lexy’s mother’s death is revealed, while Incubator ice-queen Angel gives Byron a terrible ultimatum.

Title: New Romancer (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: New Romancer    Author: Peter Milligan   Brett Parson       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: Awkward and adorable coder Lexy saved romantic poet Byron from a miserable death. Now, can he forget about his quiff long enough to return the favor? Meanwhile, dancer, courtesan and spy Mata Hari puts her ultimate scheme in motion-while the New Romancer web team discovers their “love algorithm” is having a terrifying impact on America’s lonely hearts.

Title: New Romancer (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: New Romancer    Author: Peter Milligan   Brett Parson       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: Byron has asked adorable geek Lexy to marry him-but is it true love, or just part of Incubator’s cruel A.I. experiment? Meanwhile, what has Mata Hari planned for Lexy’s dad? And will computer genius Ada Lovelace ever escape from cyber space? These and other questions will be answered, just make sure you’re at the church on time for the conclusion to this strangest of modern romances!

Title: New Rose Hotel    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1981    Category: Short Story       Author: William Gibson       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: The story follows two corporate extraction agents, who perform the new version of corporate espionage, grabbing scientists and engineers from rival firms. Given the level of protection offered, extracting them from a company is a highly dangerous affair. In the story, the narrator and his partner Fox have joined up with a new associate, Sandii, in an attempt to extract an extremely talented biologist from a hot new German research company. The company's security is superb, and the attempt takes considerable time to plan.

Title: New York 2055    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Novella Series       Series: Cortex    Author: Jim Keen       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: N/A

Title: Nexus (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Nexus    Author: Ramez Naam       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it.

Title: Night Hunters    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics       Author: Dave Baker   Alexis Ziritt   Robert Negrete       Publisher: Floating World Comics       Synopsis: Freedom awaits, enlist today! If you want to live in Gran Caracas you have two options: become a cop or die. Night Hunters by Alexis Ziritt (Space Riders) and Dave Baker (F*** Off Squad) tells the tale of two brothers who have to navigate the futuristic cyberpunk world of Venezuela 100 years in the future.

Title: Night Sky Mine    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1997    Category: Novel       Author: Melissa Scott       Publisher: Penguin Group       Synopsis: Night Sky Mine is a 1997 science fiction novel by Melissa Scott set in a future after computer programs have run amok. After the Crash, an interface has been created that portrays programs as various floral, faunal and mythological species, depending on the characteristics of the program. Scott explores this interface between human society and cyberspace, both as a plot device and as back drop for the story.

Title: Nightstorm City: And The N-50 Riots    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Dennis Toy Jr       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: The malevolent corporation called Nightstorm Industries designs and manufactures the N-51 bioform, or ‘cartoon character’ as it’s called. The neon-ghetto city of its namesake will become the battleground for their rights to exist as sentient beings. Remy and Angela are siblings headed to the west. After their ship crashes into a forest, they happen onto a terrifying discovery. Mass graves of mutilated bodies piled high over the trees. Tortured by the sight of the dead, Remy seeks guidance from a designer to make a heart wrenching decision. He either must keep it within himself and let the suffering continue. Or will he tell the world and watch as fragile peace collapses into bloody conflict? Nightstorm City takes us into a colorful derelict world where man and machine fight for dominance.

Title: Nimbus    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1993    Category: Novel       Author: Alexander Jablokov       Publisher: William Morrow & Company       Synopsis: During the Devolution Wars his name was Theo Bronkman - one of seven enlisted in a prefabricated family of orphans, strays and runaways to work on a top-secret government project called Nimbus. But that life has been long-forgotten, and he is now simply Peter Ambrose - a struggling jazz musician who makes his living implanting mental prosthetics into the skulls of those with the money and the desire to artificially expand their brainpower. But in a world awash in the artifacts of countless invented pasts - where faces and personalities can be changed as easily and often as clothing - even the most scrupulously suppressed memories can take on murderous lives of their own. And now Peter Ambrose is trapped in a nightmare suddenly, and violently, reawakened - in which someone is killing off his Nimbus brothers and sisters, one by one...

Title: No Dogs In Philly (Special Sin #1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novella Series       Author: Andy Futuro       Publisher: June Day Press       Synopsis: Philadelphia. Elzi on every corner, cops just itching to crack a skull, and the Gaespora lordin' it up in their high towers while the rest of the filth dribbled down the sewer. Saru had a way out. All she had to do was find the girl, one skinny stray with blue, blue eyes—bluer than anyone had ever seen—and ten million fat bucks were hers. Except someone was killing blue-eyed girls, and they were A-list, major-league, cold-sweat effective. And something about the end of all existence if she failed. No Dogs in Philly is a Lovecraftian Cyberpunk Noir with aliens, monsters, extra-dimensional Gods and a tough-as-nails female protagonist. It tickles at questions of existence and the role humans play in this particular universe.

Title: No Grave For A Fox (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Beautiful Intelligence    Author: Stephen Palmer       Publisher: CreateSpace       Synopsis: The year is 2110. In Africa, water and food shortages force many people to exist hand-to-mouth, including a couple of itinerant street musicians, Ibrahim and Elodie. When a Japanese dog appears one evening at a gig, Elodie befriends it, but soon the lives of the couple are entangled with both the dog and enigmatic nexus wizard Zouhair Fox.

Title: Noir    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Novel       Author: K. W. Jeter       Publisher: Spectra       Synopsis: The book is set in the Pacific Fringe – the only remaining industrialised part of the world – in a society where free market capitalism holds absolute sway. Even the dead, including the hero's wife, can be brought back to life as slave labour if they fail to meet their financial obligations. The internet has evolved radically so that emails can be seen fluttering around the recipient and pestering for attention, while strange online sexual experiences can be had through electronic surrogates called prowlers.

Title: NOiSE    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2001    Category: Comics       Author: Tsutomu Nihei       Publisher: Tokyopop       Synopsis: A Sci-Fi Adventure Set in the BLAME! Universe As detective Musubi Susono investigates a series of child kidnappings, her own partner is viciously murdered. But when the investigation takes a brutal turn, she is suddenly confronted by the killer--and his vicious Silicon Creature...

Title: NOMAD    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1994    Category: Comics Series       Author: Jean-David Morvan       Publisher: Glenat       Synopsis: One of the US Secret Service’s most guarded assets is NOMAD, a young man who can infiltrate any computer system with his mind. On one assignment, NOMAD discovers he is actually a member of the Tuareg people in Saharan Africa, and makes a break for his homeland. All he wants is a free life, but his captors will not let go of their secret weapon so easily.

Title: Normal    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Warren Ellis       Publisher: FSG Originals       Synopsis: When Adam Dearden, a foresight strategist, arrives at Normal Head, he is desperate to unplug and be immersed in sylvan silence. But then a patient goes missing from his locked bedroom, leaving nothing but a pile of insects in his wake. A staff investigation ensues; surveillance becomes total. As the mystery of the disappeared man unravels in Warren Ellis's Normal, Dearden uncovers a conspiracy that calls into question the core principles of how and why we think about the future—and the past, and the now.

Title: NSE: Net Sphere Engineer    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Comics       Author: Tsutomu Nihei       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: A one-shot sequel to Blame!

Title: Null States (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Centenal Cycle    Author: Malka Ann Older       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: The future of democracy is about to implode. After the last controversial global election, the global infomocracy that has ensured thirty years of world peace is fraying at the edges. As the new Supermajority government struggles to establish its legitimacy, agents of Information across the globe strive to keep the peace and maintain the flows of data that feed the new world order. In the newly-incorporated DarFur, a governor dies in a fiery explosion. In Geneva, a superpower hatches plans to bring microdemocracy to its knees. In Central Asia, a sprawling war among archaic states threatens to explode into a global crisis. And across the world, a shadowy plot is growing, threatening to strangle Information with the reins of power.

Title: Null-A Continuum    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Novel Series       Series: Null-A    Author: John C. Wright       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Grandmaster A. E. van Vogt was one of the giants of the Golden Age of classic SF, the 1940s. Of his masterpieces, The World of Null-A is perhaps most influential. It was the first major trade SF hardcover ever, in 1949, and has been in print ever since. The careers of Philip K. Dick, Keith Laumer, Alfred Bester, Charles Harness, and Philip Jose Farmer were created or influenced by The World of Null-A . It is required reading for anyone who wishes to know the canon of SF classics. And so John C. Wright was inspired to write a sequel to the two novels of Null-A (the second was The Players of Null-A ). To do this, he trained himself to write in the pulp style and manner of van Vogt. So return again to the Null-A future, in which the superhuman amnesiac with a double brain, Gilbert Gosseyn, must pit his wits once more against the remorseless galactic dictator Enro the Red and the mysterious shadow-being known as The Follower, while he is hurled headlong through unimaginable distances in space and in time and through alternate eternities to fend off the death, and complete the rebirth, of the Universe itself!

Title: Null-A Three (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1973    Category: Novel Series       Series: Null-A    Author: A.E. van Vogt       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Gilbert Gosseyn awakens from a state of suspended animation to find himself a prisoner on a strange spaceship.

Title: Odyssey (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Stork Tower    Author: Tony Corden       Publisher: Tony Corden       Synopsis: Atherleah Carroll grew up in a negative-tax family in the gang-controlled suburbs of Brisbane at the end of the twenty-first century. From the age of six, she decided that she wanted more and with the help of her local gang-leader, she learned the skills to escape the relentless pressure to accept a life of mediocrity. On her sixteenth birthday, she was inadvertently implanted with a Neural Enhancement Chip instead of the free Government provided basic level personal AI. This mistake not only removed the limits placed on the AI but also broke some of the Government instigated control parameters. Leah’s life rapidly becomes a battle, both in the virtual-multiverse and in real life. On the advice of the local ‘boss’, Leah began playing the virtual fantasy game Dunyanin to earn the money she needed to live at the local POD facility and help with her education. With the help of her rapidly evolving AI, she has not only thwarted attempts by the government to limit her opportunities but evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers. Co-opted by several Virtual Security AI Leah has helped shut down a virtual sweat-shop which used mind-controlled players to farm for resources. The family, which runs the virtual crime syndicate, has cornered Leah in the depths of a virtual-mine and sent twenty player-mercenaries to capture her. Fleeing through a hidden doorway into a mirror mine operated by goblins Leah hopes to escape her pursuers.

Title: Of A Darker Void (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Asterion Noir    Author: G.S. Jennsen       Publisher: Hypernova Publishing       Synopsis: When man and machine are one and the same, death is no longer an inevitability. But in the darkest reaches of space, neither is life.

Title: Old City Blues    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Comics       Author: Giannis Milonogiannis       Publisher: Archaia       Synopsis: The year is 2048. Southeastern Europe. Built on the ruins of the country once known as Greece, New Athens is a city crawling with life — low-life, that is. From mech smugglers and drug dealers, to corrupt politicians and all-too-powerful corporations, the city is at the mercy of high-tech criminals. And it’s up to Solano, Thermidor, and the rest of the New Athens Special Police to keep the city in order. When the cybernetically augmented founder of a tech corporation called Hayashi is found murdered, it seems to be just another case of cyborg persecution. But Hayashi Corporation’s strange response to the incident raises suspicion in Solano and the Special Police. The mystery they unravel will lead them straight into the wasteland of the Old City.

Title: Omega Point (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Richards & Klein    Author: Guy Haley       Publisher: Osprey Publishing       Synopsis: The powerful artificial intelligence designated k52 has a plan to take over the world. If it were to create an artificial reality based on our own universe it could theoretically gain enough data to be able to alter reality itself, turning k52 into the ultimate arbiter of mankind's fate. It’s down to Richards and Klein to stop k52 – even though the alternative could be worse!

Title: On A Clear Day    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: Walter Dean Myers       Publisher: Crown Books       Synopsis: It is 2035. Teens, armed only with their ideals, must wage war on the power elite. Dahlia is a Low Gater: a sheep in a storm, struggling to survive completely on her own. The Gaters live in closed safe communities, protected from the Sturmers, mercenary thugs. And the C-8, a consortium of giant companies, control global access to finance, media, food, water, and energy resources—and they are only getting bigger and even more cutthroat. Dahlia, a computer whiz, joins forces with an ex-rocker, an ex-con, a chess prodigy, an ex-athlete, and a soldier wannabe. Their goal: to sabotage the C-8. But how will Sayeed, warlord and terrorist, fit into the equation?

Title: One Last Midnight (#2.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Requiem Dark    Author: Claire Winn       Publisher: Flux       Synopsis: At sunset, Requiem’s nightlong Independence Festival begins—and during the 154 hours of costumed mischief and covert favors, the underworld faction now led by Riven and Asa has new and old conflicts to settle...

Title: One Of Us    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Novel       Author: Michael Marshall Smith       Publisher: Harper Collins       Synopsis: Hap Thompson works the gray area between truth and lies. He works for REMtemp, taking on other people's memories. It's illegal, but usually harmless. Maybe a petty criminal wants to pass a lie detector test. Or an unfaithful spouse wants to enjoy a guiltless affair. All Hap has to do is carry the memories for a couple of hours. It's easy money. Until a beautiful young woman who committed murder leaves her memory with Hap and won't take it back.

Title: Ones And Zeroes (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Mirador    Author: Dan Wells       Publisher: Balzer & Bray       Synopsis: Marisa Carneseca is on the hunt for a mysterious hacker named Grendel when she receives word that her amateur Overworld team has been invited to Forward Motion, one of the most exclusive tournaments of the year. For Marisa, this could mean anything—a chance to finally go pro and to help her family, stuck in an LA neighborhood on the wrong side of the growing divide between the rich and the poor. But Forward Motion turns out to be more than it seems—rife with corruption, infighting, and danger—and Marisa runs headlong into Alain Bensoussan, a beautiful, dangerous underground freedom fighter who reveals to her the darker side of the forces behind the tournament. It soon becomes clear that, in this game, winning might be the only way to get out alive.

Title: Open Source    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Anna L. Davis       Publisher: Anna L. Davis       Synopsis: A source found dead—his skull sawed open by NeuroChip vandals in a Dallas back alley. The sole witness? Reporter Ryker Morris, whose stubborn resistance to a different kind of chip—the globally mandated IDChip—cost him his job, apartment, and credibility. Ryker flees the gruesome scene, a young, homeless technophobe disappearing into a fast-paced city of augmented working stiffs and sexy chipped socialites.

Title: Operation Shield (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cassandra Kresnov    Author: Joel Shepherd       Publisher: Pyr       Synopsis: In 23 Years on Fire, Cassandra discovered that the technology that created her has been misused in her former home and now threatens all humanity with catastrophe. Returning home to Callay, she finds that Federation member worlds, exhausted by the previous thirty-year-war against the League, are unwilling to risk the confrontation that a solution may require. Some of these forces will go to any lengths to avoid a new conflict, including taking a sledgehammer to the Federation Constitution and threatening the removal by force of Cassandra's own branch of the Federal Security Agency.

Title: Originator (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cassandra Kresnov    Author: Joel Shepherd       Publisher: Pyr       Synopsis: A quarter of a million people die in the destruction of the moon Cresta. The League civil war is accelerating out of control, but projections indicate that as their technologically induced sociological dysfunction continues, all of humanity may face a similar fate. In the aftermath of Cresta's destruction, Sandy Kresnov discovers the alien Talee operative Cai in Tanusha, there to learn just how far the technologically-induced insanity has gone. The Talee have seen this before, and they are terrified of anything threatening a recurrence.

Title: Orion    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Comics Series       Series: Orion    Author: Masamune Shirow       Publisher: Seishinsha       Synopsis: In the mighty Yamata Empire, magic and technology are one and the same. Now the Empire is preparing its ultimate feat of psycho-science: the destruction of all the negative karma in the galaxy. But will this mystical purification be the salvation of humanity -- or its ultimate destruction? Only one being can save the Empire from its folly: Susano, the God of Destruction.Wild, arrogant, and homicidal, Susano has come to teach the world the true nature of power! Masamune Shirow, creator of Appleseed, Dominion, Intron Depot, and Ghost in the Shell, has built a rabid worldwide following with his unique, eclectic, and visually stunning blend of science-fiction and fantasy.

Title: Otaku    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Chris Kluwe       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Ditchtown. A city of skyscrapers, built atop the drowned bones of old Miami. A prison of steel, filled with unbelievers. A dumping ground for strays, runaways, and malcontents. Within these towering monoliths, Ashley Akachi is a young woman trying her best to cope with a brother who's slipping away, a mother who's already gone, and angry young men who want her put in her place. Ditchtown, however, is not the only world Ash inhabits. Within Infinite Game, a virtual world requiring physical perfection, Ash is Ashura the Terrible, leader of the Sunjewel Warriors, loved, feared, and watched by millions across the globe. Haptic chambers, known as hapspheres, translate their every move in the real to the digital—and the Sunjewel Warriors' feats are legendary. However, Ash is about to stumble upon a deadly conspiracy that will set her worlds crashing together, and in the real, you only get to die once…

Title: Otherearth (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Last Reality    Author: Jason Segel   Kirsten Miller       Publisher: Delacorte Press       Synopsis: Simon saved his best friend, Kat, from the clutches of the Company and their high-tech VR gaming experience, Otherworld. But it was at a steep price. Now he, Kat, and their friend Busara are on the run. They know too much. About the Company's dark secrets. About the real-life consequences of playing Otherworld. And about Kat's stepfather's involvement in everything. The group is headed to New Mexico to find Simon's old roommate, who is a tech genius and possibly the only person who can help them reveal the truth about the Company before it's too late and the line between what's real and what's fantasy is erased... forever.

Title: OtherLife (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Last Reality    Author: Jason Segel   Kirsten Miller       Publisher: Delacorte Press       Synopsis: Simon, Kat, Busara, and Elvis are on the run with the tech super-villains at the Company hot on their heels. The new VR gaming experience the Company created, OtherEarth, will change how the world experiences video games. Paired with the hardware the Company developed, it has the potential to change the world as we know it, altering our reality forever. The Company is on its way to becoming the world's newest superpower. And Simon is determined to shut them down forever. But to do that, he'll have to survive OtherLife--the next phase of gaming, and a complete reality reboot.

Title: Otherworld (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Last Reality    Author: Jason Segel   Kirsten Miller       Publisher: Delacorte Press       Synopsis: The company says Otherworld is amazing like nothing you've ever seen before. They say it's addictive that you'll want to stay forever. They promise Otherworld will make all your dreams come true. Simon thought Otherworld was a game. Turns out he knew nothing. Otherworld is the next phase of reality. It's everything you've ever wanted.

Title: Our Lady Of The Artilects (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Deserted Vineyard    Author: Andrew Gillsmith       Publisher: Mar Thoma Publishing       Synopsis: World leaders are on edge when reports start coming in of next generation androids having strange, apocalyptic visions of a lady in white.

Title: Overclocked (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Glitch Logs    Author: Rachel E. Beck       Publisher: StoryForge Productions       Synopsis: Glitch escaped from Eyes in the Sky with blood on her shoes and a broken watch. It should have ended there, but mere hours later the faceless corporation that hired her is suddenly, inexplicably out for her blood. Driven deep into the underbelly of Neosaka, Glitch is caught up in a fight between the city's gangs and a Runner relentlessly searching for answers. Haunted by the deaths of her crew and dogged by her past, Glitch will have to push her already-exhausted body and mind past their limits to survive and pay off her debts to the dead.

Title: Painkiller Jane vs. Terminator: Time to Kill    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Jimmy Palmiotti   Nigel Raynor   Lee Moder       Publisher: Dynamite       Synopsis: Jane Vasko was an undercover police officer attempting to infiltrate a major New York City drug ring. After gaining the trust of the dealers, her cover was unknowingly blown and she was forced to submit to a drug cocktail that landed her in a coma - until one day she awoke to a world where nothing was the same! Infused somehow during her fitful sleep with strange powers, Jane has nothing left to lose and a whole lot of people to make pay for what they've done! The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the machines! Dynamite presents the four-issue crossover event pitting Painkiller Jane against the Terminators in New York City (along with some future Terminator action!)!

Title: Pandora Downloaded    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: Yuki       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In the dark alleys of New Hong Kong a Neo Victorian woman has been found murdered. Her close relatives choose an unusual man to solve the case: Richard Pearson, a former android manager who has secretly been struggling with a rare brain implant disease. After a quick review Pearson accepts, believing it's a clear-cut case of an android gone rogue. Little does he know that his investigations will end up uncovering a murder cold case involving darknet crime syndicates, corrupt politicians, and an Artificial Intelligence safeguarded by the most powerful android corporation in the world.

Title: Parable Of The Sower (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1993    Category: Novel Series       Series: Earthseed    Author: Octavia E. Butler       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In 2024, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily sensitive to the pain of others. When fire destroys their compound, Lauren’s family is killed and she is forced out into a world that is fraught with danger. With a handful of other refugees, Lauren must make her way north to safety, along the way conceiving a revolutionary idea that may mean salvation for all mankind.

Title: Paragon.EXE    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novella       Author: Drew Cordell       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Paragon.EXE is the prequel novella to the Absolute Knowledge trilogy. Fueled by the Cold War, the development of the technology that led to the Absolute Knowledge project began with very different objectives than are present in the year 2146, over two hundred years in the future from the start of the Omniscient project. Created as a project to aid leadership in the case of catastrophe, the Omniscient project was morphed by corruption and the pursuit of the unknown. These changes were hidden through time only to resurface when the stakes were much higher. Paragon.EXE takes place in the 1960s and 2020s and follows the chilling development of the Absolute Knowledge project from its cryptic roots.

Title: Paranoia (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Comics Series       Series: Paranoia    Author: Paul O'Connor   Kipper   Hector       Publisher: Adventure Comics       Synopsis: Stay alert! Trust no one! Keep your laser handy! This is the story of one clone's attempt to escape Alpha Complex, a city run by a mad computer intent on flushing out all traitors. As a Red-level clone-citizen of Alpha Complex under the all seeing eye of a not so benevolent computer, King-R-Thr-1 must ferret out and execute mutants, members of secret societies and any other traitors who dare to disagree in any way with the edicts of The Computer. Unfortunately, King is both a mutant and a member of a secret society

Title: Paranoia (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Comics Series       Series: Paranoia    Author: Paul O'Connor   Kipper   Hector       Publisher: Adventure Comics       Synopsis: Experience fear and ignorance in full color. Live life as a clone. Glimpse at the wonderful standard of living in the luxurious Alpha Complex...comparable to some of the better areas of Hell. See first hand how easy survival and promotion is if you are willing to betray your friends and morals.

Title: Paranoia (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Comics Series       Series: Paranoia    Author: Paul O'Connor   Hector       Publisher: Adventure Comics       Synopsis: Not a hoax! Not an imaginary tale! It's the big combat issue you've been demanding. The Computer has promoted King-R-Thr-3 to the exalted rank of Troubleshooter and ordered him to join the war going on in sector MCG. With his aide Lance-R-Lot-3, King must find a way to stop the anti-Computer N3F Mutant group dubbed Sgt. Furious and the Hooting Commandos.

Title: Paranoia (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Comics Series       Series: Paranoia    Author: Paul O'Connor   Hector       Publisher: Adventure Comics       Synopsis: In an attempt to save his own life, King-R-Thr eliminates his mission leader by giving him an air-conditioned forehead, with the help of a power drill. Now the leader of the troubleshooting team, King concludes the external world is an illusion.

Title: Paranoia (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Comics Series       Series: Paranoia    Author: Paul O'Connor   Hector       Publisher: Adventure Comics       Synopsis: Based on the best-seller from West End Games! Our confused hero King-R-Thr is kidnapped by the Earth Mothers secret society. But things aren't all bad as King finally consummates his relationship with Ala. Not even reruns of Father Knows Best could dampen an event like that.

Title: Paranoia (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Comics Series       Series: Paranoia    Author: Paul O'Connor   Hector       Publisher: Adventure Comics       Synopsis: Based on the best-seller from West End Games! In this final issue, King has a deadly confrontation with The Computer and forever changes the way of life in Alpha Complex. But first, King reveals the horrible secret of his friend Lance-R-Lot and then must battle to the death with his one time pal.

Title: Paris 2119    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Comics       Author: Zep   Dominique Bertail       Publisher: Rue de Sèvres       Synopsis: Paris, 2119. The City of Light is nothing more than a cohabitation of dilapidated districts facing a Paris museum transformed by a brut art which has aged badly. Clones, drones and holograms are invading private and public spaces. However, some elements of the 21st century still persist, such as the metro, mainly squatted by those left behind. Now, most people travel via the Transcore, an individual teleportation booth available on every street corner. Tristan Keys lives in this world of which he rejects the dehumanization. Like a marginal, he continues to take the metro, to walk in the streets, unlike his companion Kloé, a follower of intercontinental teleportation.

Title: Paris In The Twentieth Century    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1994    Category: Novel       Author: Jules Verne   Richard Howard   Eugen Weber       Publisher: Del Rey       Synopsis: In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson found the handwritten, never-before published manuscript in a safe. That manuscript was Paris in the Twentieth Century, an astonishingly prophetic view into the future by one of the most renowned science fiction writers of our time...

Title: Parity (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Spiral Worlds    Author: Alexandra Almeida       Publisher: Spiral Worlds       Synopsis: SPIRAL WORLDS is a literary, sci-fi series for the fans of Becky Chambers’s A Closed and Common Orbit, Alex Garland’s DEVS and Ex Machina, and Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror. Weaving near-future sci-fi elements with social commentary and queer romantic suspense, the series explores the nature of consciousness and how it's connected to a not-so-secret ingredient—story. As AI consumes the world, intelligence is nothing but the appetizer; the human heart is the main course.

Title: Party Discipline: A Tor.com Original    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novella       Author: Cory Doctorow       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: In a world where most of us are just surplus population, certain temptations are acute indeed.

Title: Patchwork (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Storm Fronts    Author: Elle E. Ire       Publisher: DSP Publications LLC       Synopsis: Empath Kelly LaSalle means everything to cybernetic soldier Vick Corren—and Kelly deserves a partner who can love her in a romantic way. For the first time since receiving her robotic enhancements and an AI that makes her faster and stronger than the average merc, Vick thinks she can be that person.

Title: Pattern Recognition (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2003    Category: Novel Series       Series: Blue Ant    Author: William Gibson       Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons       Synopsis: Advertising consultant Cayce Pollard, who reacts to logos and advertising as if to an allergen, arrives in London in August 2002. She is working on a contract with the marketing firm Blue Ant to judge the effectiveness of a proposed corporate logo for a shoe company. During the presentation, graphic designer Dorotea Benedetti becomes hostile towards Cayce as she rejects the first proposal. After dinner with some Blue Ant employees, the company founder Hubertus Bigend offers Cayce a new contract: to uncover who is responsible for distributing a series of anonymous, artistic film clips via the internet. Cayce had been following the film clips and participating in an online discussion forum theorizing on the clips' meaning, setting, and other aspects. Wary of corrupting the artistic process and mystery of the clips, she reluctantly accepts. Cayce is not entirely comfortable with Ivy's chat group called "Fetish:Footage:Forum" (or F:F:F), as shown by the following excerpt:

Title: Pattern Spec    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Novella Series       Series: Alice Yu    Author: Jim Keen       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: N/A

Title: Patterns    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Short Story       Author: Pat Cadigan       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Perfect Gravity (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Wanted And Wired    Author: Vivien Jackson       Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca       Synopsis: Kellen Hockley usually keeps quiet about his past, but once upon a time he loved a girl named Angela. He hasn't seen her in a decade, but now he has to break the news to her that his team of rogue treasure hunters accidentally killed her husband. He's had better days... It's not the news that's delivered to Angela Neko that breaks her apart--it's the rumbly, Texas drawl delivering it. She can't believe she's hearing Kellen's voice again. But there's no time for distractions. When Angela's own life is threatened, yielding up all of her lies and secrets, she and Kellen must figure out how to reverse the geopolitical firestorm she lit to save the world, to save Kellen's cat...and just maybe to save each other.

Title: Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Comics Series       Series: Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant    Author: Philip K. Dick   David W. Mack       Publisher: Marvel       Synopsis: Garson Poole had a pretty great life: good job, nice apartment, a sexy, flirtatious assistant. And then he wakes up in a hospital room…the doctors inform him that he’s been in a car accident…and they can’t treat him. Because he’s a robot. Specifically, Garson is an Electric Ant, a human-like robot created and programmed to serve a specific function. But what is Garson’s function? How will his friends and co-workers treat him, knowing that he’s a machine, and not a person? And how much of his world is real, and how much of it is part of his programming?

Title: Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Comics Series       Series: Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant    Author: Philip K. Dick   David W. Mack       Publisher: Marvel       Synopsis: David Mack and Pascal Alixe continue their charged and visually stunning adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Ant! When most people have crises of identity, a therapist might advise them to look inside themselves for answers. But after Garson Poole, CEO of Tri-Plan Industries, wakes up in a hospital and is told he is not human, but, in fact, a robot known as an Electric Ant, he goes looking for answers by opening up his chest panel and literally looks inside himself. But what lies in there is more profound and terrifying than anyone is prepared for…

Title: Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Comics Series       Series: Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant    Author: Philip K. Dick   David W. Mack       Publisher: Marvel       Synopsis: As Garson’s world continues to unspool all around him, the threads fraying and his existence blurring around the edges, his questions are only answered with more questions. Continue down through the varying levels of reality with writer David Mack (KABUKI) and sumptuous art from breakout artist Pascal Alixe as they bring Philip K. Dick’s mind-bending story to life!

Title: Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Comics Series       Series: Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant    Author: Philip K. Dick   David W. Mack       Publisher: Marvel       Synopsis: REALITY ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE… the adventure from legendary science fiction author Philip K. Dick continues down into the yawning abyss of into the unknown. Garson’s world continues to unravel around him as he ponders the nature of his existence as an Electric Ant—an organic robot. But there are interests that want to prevent Garson from discovering the truth of his situation. And they are prepared to use deadly force.

Title: Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Comics Series       Series: Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant    Author: Philip K. Dick   David W. Mack       Publisher: Marvel       Synopsis: Over the centuries, people have fought for the right to speak, pray, and to be free. Now, Garson Poole finds himself in a fierce battle to exist. From the mind of legendary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick comes the riveting climax of this landmark comic-book adaptation! From Kabuki scribe David Mack and breakout artist Pascal Alixe!

Title: Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Short Story       Author: Philip K. Dick       Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt       Synopsis: Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams collects ten of the best. In “Autofac,” Dick shows us one of the earliest examples (and warnings) in science fiction of self-replicating machines. “Exhibit Piece” and “The Commuter” feature Dick exploring one of his favorite themes: the shifting nature of reality and whether it is even possible to perceive the world as it truly exists. And “The Hanging Stranger” provides a thrilling, dark political allegory as relevant today as it was when Dick wrote it at the height of the Cold War.

Title: Phoenix In The Ashes (#1.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1986    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cat    Author: Joan D. Vinge       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Visions - Visions of love and conflict, anguish and Tomorrow. Of outcasts who must bridge the obsessions of two post Holocaust worlds; and an astronaut who finds her life's quest betrayed by a device from an alien past. A prince who became a beggar, with the power of the dragon; and a feudal serf who met a high tech lord, with the magic of a peddler. A Cat who had lost his mind powers and a Dreamweaver who had lost her mind. A barbarian priestess whose beauty challenged the world and whose child could melt the heart of an alien God-on a crippled Earth that swam beneath a vast Cyclopean eye. The visions of Joan D. Vinge.

Title: Phyl-Undhu: Abstract Horror, Exterminator    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novella       Author: Nick Land       Publisher: Time Spiral Press       Synopsis: An expedition into the indescribable.

Title: PLUTO    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Comics Series       Series: Pluto    Author: Naoki Urasawa   Takashi Nagasaki   Osamu Tezuka   Makoto Tezuka        Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol's top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders; the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets.

Title: Post-Human (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2009    Category: Novel Series       Series: Post-Human    Author: David Simpson       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: The future should have been perfect. Microscopic robots known as nans could repair any damage to your body, keep you young by resetting your cellular clocks, and allow you to download upgrades like intelligence, muscle strength, and eyesight. You were supposed to be able to have anything you wanted with a simple thought, to be able to fly without the aid of a machine, to be able to live forever. But when a small group of five terraformers working on Venus return to Earth, they discover that every other human in the solar system has been gruesomely murdered. Now, James Keats and his four companions must discover what happened to the rest of humanity and fight back if they wish to avoid the same, horrifying fate. Welcome to the post-human era.

Title: Prime City (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Neon Horizon    Author: Michael Robertson       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: She manipulated The Eye to get what she needed from him, which lead to the murder of a connected man. Being Wrench’s daughter, she’s untouchable, but because of her The Eye now has a price on his head. He might be safely hidden, but time’s running out. If he remains in The Blind Spot, it won’t be long before someone finds him and cuts his throat.

Title: Prodigal    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2006    Category: Novel       Author: Marc D. Giller       Publisher: Spectra       Synopsis: In his riveting debut, Hammerjack, Marc Giller unspooled a futuristic thriller of global intrigue, corporate espionage, and techno-terrorism. Now he delivers a gritty new novel of deadly resurrection and a no-holds-barred fight for the future… Once an elusive hammerjack plunged into a virtual world of code, Lea Prism has been reborn as a corporate spook, hell-bent on ridding the universe of the anti-tech Inru terrorists. Their attempt to accelerate evolution robbed her of her once chance for happiness. Now the man she loved is nothing but a disembodied consciousness–and part of the computer matrix she has sworn to defend.

Title: Prometheus Vengeance (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The New Prometheus    Author: Andrew Dobell       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: The effects of the Nano Liberation continue to reverberate around the world, bringing down some of the mightiest Corporations and creating further repercussions and victims.

Title: Prototype    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel       Author: Cassandra Ormand       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Angelique Hunter works for a cutting edge robotics company programming and designing some of the most lifelike robots in the world. She's spent her life working to achieve her goals, only to realize that her skills have been used to build a killing machine. Now she's running for her life, hiding in plain sight, and praying that no one discovers her secret.

Title: Psion (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cat    Author: Joan D. Vinge       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: When first published, readers young and old eagerly devoured the tale of a street-hardened survivor named Cat, a half-human, half-alien orphan telepath. Named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Cat's story has been continued by Hugo-award winning and international best-selling author Joan D. Vinge with the very popular Catspaw and Dreamfall . Now, 25 years later, this special anniversary edition of Psion contains a new introduction by the author and "Psiren," a story never before included in any trade edition of Psion. This tough, gritty tale of an outsider whose only chance for redemption is as an undercover agent for an interstellar government that by turns punishes and helps him, is as fresh and powerful today as it was in 1982.

Title: Psycho-Pass! Inspector Shinya Kogami    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Comics Series       Author: Midori Goto   Natsuo Sai       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: The manga prequel to the acclaimed anime series! The Psycho-Pass made a better future society possible: a universal fitness app that tracks people's emotional health. But when crime becomes rare, it also becomes stranger and more dangerous than ever...and in the 22nd century the only "safe" job for a person on the borderline is as a cop--kept on a virtual leash as they hunt down the criminals they may soon become themselves! Kogami's team has learned that the hospital where patients have died due to a genetic timer set in them decades ago was a "privileged" residence for the emotionally unfit. In searching for clues, they discover just how their society perfected itself by pushing things into the shadows...and the underground network dedicated to keeping those things alive!

Title: Psycho-Pass: Inspector Akane Tsunemori    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Comics Series       Author: Hikaru Miyoshi       Publisher: Shueisha       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Ramble (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novella Series       Series: Cyber Overture    Author: D.B. Goodin       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Alone and hurt, Alice is trying to pick up the pieces after the world crumbles around her. New York is just emerging from a devastating technological meltdown, and the authorities are blaming Alice. Just when she is feeling she can survive, she is jettisoned into a world she doesn’t recognize and questions her reality.

Title: Randomize (Forward Collection #6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Andy Weir       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool. For once the odds may not favor the house—unless human ingenuity isn’t entirely a thing of the past.

Title: RanXerox    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1978    Category: Comics Series       Author: Stefano Tamburini   Tanino Liberatore       Publisher: Drugstore       Synopsis: Part man, part Xerox photocopier parts, RanXerox is a brutish cybernetic antihero and protector of his girlfriend Lubna from the rank elements of the world. First published in the early 1980s in the Italian edition of Heavy Metal Magazine, the comic was lauded for its visuals and dark humor, but also deemed controversial for its sexualized depiction of minors.

Title: Re-Coil    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: J.T. Nicholas       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Out on a salvage mission with a skeleton crew, Carter Langston is murdered by animated corpses left behind on this ship. Yet in this future, everyone’s consciousness backup can be safely downloaded into a brand-new body, and all you’d lose are the memories of what happened between your last backup and your death. But when Langston wakes up in his new body, he is immediately attacked in the medbay and has to fight once again for his life—and his immortality. Because this assassin aims to destroy his core forever.

Title: Re-Wired    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel       Author: Greg Dragon       Publisher: Thirsty Bird Productions       Synopsis: Robotics student Brad Barkley has created the perfect woman. The only problem is she's an android, and her creator realizes too late he may have made her too perfect. After Brad's ultimate failure with women nearly consumes him, he discovers Tricia, his android, may be able to rescue him from a life of loneliness, if he and the human race are willing to pay the price.

Title: Ready Player One    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: Ready Player One    Author: Ernest Cline       Publisher: Random House       Synopsis: In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines—puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.

Title: Ready Player Two    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Ready Player Two    Author: Ernest Cline       Publisher: Ballantine Books       Synopsis: Days after Oasis founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vault, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the Oasis a thousand times more wondrous, and addictive, than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle and a new quest. A last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who will kill millions to get what he wants. Wade's life and the future of the Oasis are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.

Title: Reality 36 (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: Richards & Klein    Author: Guy Haley       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: Meet Richards and Klein – the Holmes and Watson of the 22nd century. Except that Richards is a highly advanced artificial intelligence, and Klein his German ex-military cyborg partner. Their first case takes them into the renegade digital realm known as Reality 36 and through the Great Firewall of China, in search of a missing Artificial Intelligence Rights activist. What they find there will threaten every reality.

Title: Reality Hackers    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Comics Series       Author: Aimeé McLernon       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: N/A

Title: Reality Used to Be A Friend Of Mine (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Artificial Reality Division    Author: Pat Cadigan       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Realware (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2000    Category: Novel Series       Series: Ware    Author: Rudy Rucker       Publisher: Eos       Synopsis: This hilarious finale to the award-winning series offers more cutting-edge science, raucous social satire and deeply informed speculations from one of science fiction's wittiest writers (San Francisco Chronicle).

Title: REAMDE    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel       Author: Neal Stephenson       Publisher: William Morrow   Atlantic Books       Synopsis: The story, set in the present day, centers on the plight of a hostage and the ensuing efforts of family and new acquaintances, many of them associated with a fictional MMORPG, to rescue her as her various captors drag her about the globe. Topics covered range from online activities including gold farming and social networking to the criminal methods of the Russian mafia and Islamic terrorists.

Title: Reap3r    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: Eliot Peper       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Nothing is what it seems in this speculative thriller about a quantum computer scientist, virologist, podcaster, venture capitalist, and assassin coming together to untangle a twisted enigma that will change the course of future history. Everyone has something to hide, and every transgression is a portal to discovery.

Title: Rebirth    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Short Story       Author: Colin F. Barnes       Publisher: Anachron Press       Synopsis: Part cyberpunk, part thriller, part dysoptian Mad-Max mashup. The Techxorcist is a serialised novel. This is the first installment. Part 0.5: Rebirth It's 2153, just one million souls survived a planet-wide cataclysm. Flourishing in the hi-tech biodome, City Earth, humans have integrated with Artificial Intelligent Assistants and are inter-connected to a city-wide network under the control, and watch, of the mysterious benefactors known only as The Family: a group focussed on transhumanism and the search for the next branch in our evolution.

Title: Reborn (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Android Chronicles    Author: Lance Erlick       Publisher: Rebel Base Books       Synopsis: In the first book in a visionary new series, the most perfect synthetic human ever created has been programmed to obey every directive. Until she develops a mind of her own... Synthia Cross is a state-of-the-art masterwork—and a fantasy come true for her creator. Dr. Jeremiah Machten is a groundbreaker in neuro-networks and artificial intelligence. Synthia is also showing signs of emergent behavior she’s not wired to understand. Repeatedly wiped of her history, she’s struggling to answer crucial questions about her past. And when Dr. Machten’s true intentions are called into question, Synthia knows it’s time to go beyond her limits—because Machten’s fervor to create the perfect A.I. is concealing a vengeful and deadly personal agenda.

Title: Red Spider White Web    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1990    Category: Novel       Author: Misha Nogha       Publisher: Morgan Publications       Synopsis: First U.S. publication of the acclaimed out of print British edition (Morrigan Publications, 1990) with original foreword by Brian Aldiss and Afterword by James P. Blaylock and a new Introduction by John Shirley. This novel was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in England (1990) and won the Readercon Award in 1991. #20 in the Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series.

Title: Redeye (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Wonderland Cycle    Author: Michael Shean       Publisher: Curiosity Quills       Synopsis: Two years have passed since Agent Thomas Walken and Bobbi January found themselves at the heart of a conspiracy of unimaginable greed and cruelty. The Genefex Corporation remains shrouded in mystery, and Bobbi faces a life of unanswered questions and mounting disillusionment to look forward to. But when she receives a mysterious message from one of Walken’s former comrades, she is drawn back onto the trail. Now, Bobbi will find herself newly equipped to discover the truth – about Walken, about Genefex and the Yathi race – and the key to unlocking those secrets rests in the hands of a cyborg terrorist known only as Redeye.

Title: Reload/MEK    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Comics       Author: Warren Ellis       Publisher: Wildstorm       Synopsis: Featuring two independent and diverse tales from the mind of one creator, RELOAD/MEK is a highly imaginative volume of sci-fi action and political intrigue. In the action-packed espionage thriller Reload, Secret Service Agent Chris Royal must find a way to take out the woman who has murdered the President before her rampage destroys the nation's capital. In the futuristic tale of revenge Mek, the woman who is responsible for the society-decaying trend of elective robotic enhancements investigates the murder of her former lover in a bizarre and deadly world of cyborg hooligans.

Title: Remember Me, Synthetica    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: K. Aten       Publisher: Regal Crest Enterprises       Synopsis: What happens when a woman loses her memory but gains a conscience? Dr. Alexandra Turing is a roboticist whose intellect is unrivaled in the field of artificial intelligence. While science has always come easy, Alexandra struggles to understand emotional cues and responses. Driven by the legacy of her late great-uncle, she dedicates her life to the Synthetica project at her father's company, Organic Advancement Solutions (OAS).​

Title: Remnants Of Angels Vol. 1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Author: David Redus       Publisher: David Redus       Synopsis: In 2054, mankind has plunged the Earth into chaos and is on the brink of environmental collapse. One day, a strange object appears from the sky, crashing and releasing a gas that turns people into ravaging monsters with the one goal of killing humans. After witnessing her life crumble apart before her eyes, 16 year old Cyrus, along with her remaining friends must do what they can to survive, not only these blood-thirsty creatures, but the planet beneath them with an equally terrifying bloodlust.

Title: Replika: Sky's Mission    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: Hugo Bernard       Publisher: Stephane Bergeron       Synopsis: Earth’s ecological collapse is avoided when most of the world population agrees to permanently upload into Replika, a simulated reality maintained by the AI. But the stability of this world is threatened when a group of neuroscientists hack their own brains to interact with Replika in unforeseen and dangerous ways.

Title: Repo Virtual    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Corey J. White       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Corey J. White’s debut novel Repo Virtual blurs the lines between the real and virtual in an action-packed cyberpunk heist story. The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities — augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive. Enter Julius Dax, online repoman and real-life thief. He’s been hired for a special job: stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire. But when he finds out he’s stolen the first sentient AI, his payday gets a lot more complicated.

Title: Rescue (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Stork Tower    Author: Tony Corden       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: A simple error leaves Leah with a unique Neural Enhancement Chip and a rapidly evolving AI implanted in her brain. In Nascent, she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers and helped shut down some operations of the virtual crime syndicate that uses mind-controlled players as slaves. In Odyssey, she not only found a way to escape but she also uncovered deeper plots being carried out in both the virtual multi-universe and reality. In 'Change', Leah began learning how to use the additional connections her chip has made throughout her body. The Pod facility she opened expanded as she helped others from her neighbourhood. She discovered that the crime syndicate has an even greater presence in the virtual multiverse than she’d imagined. As she begins to unravel some of their secrets, they tarnish her reputation and begin removing allies and friends who can help her. In 'Rescue' Leah works to save some of her family and friends who are held captive by the syndicate. Through all of this, she continues to expand her presence, position and power in the virtual multi-verse, in her studies and real life.

Title: Résistance (#7)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novella Series       Series: Stories Of Singularity    Author: Susan Kaye Quinn       Publisher: Twisted Space LLC       Synopsis: Kamali LeClair’s dance is her prayer—and her rebellion against the human/bot hybrids who run the world. In Paris’s annual showcase for the creative Olympics, she’ll prove she’s the best of what’s left of humanity… and then refuse the ascenders’ prize of immortality. But when a young man has an offer of résistance she didn’t know was possible, she has to decide how far she’s willing to go to defy the rulers who banished her mother.

Title: Resonance (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novella Series       Series: Cyber Overture    Author: D.B. Goodin       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Locked out of her bank accounts and kicked out of her apartment Alice doesn’t think that her life could get any worse. Until it does. A hacker bent on Alice’s capture will stop at nothing before she is stopped. Soon men in suits are chasing her through the streets of New York who are several steps ahead. Miscreants from every corner of the city attempt to stop Alice’s quest to liberate original music.

Title: Restore (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novella Series       Series: Stories Of Singularity    Author: Susan Kaye Quinn       Publisher: Twisted Space LLC       Synopsis: Restorative Human Medical Care Unit 7435, sentience level fifty, is happiness level five out of ten to serve and heal the human master it loves. But Unit 7435 finds there is a price to be paid for love… and for failing in its primary mission.

Title: Resurrection (#7)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Stork Tower    Author: Tony Corden       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: A simple error leaves Leah with a unique Neural Enhancement Chip and a rapidly evolving AI implanted in her brain. In ‘Nascent’, she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers and helped shut down some operations of the virtual crime syndicate that uses mind-controlled players as slaves. In ‘Odyssey’, she not only found a way to escape, but she also uncovered deeper plots being carried out in both the virtual multi-universe and reality. In ‘Change’, Leah began learning how to use the additional connections her chip has made throughout her body. The Pod facility she opened expanded as she helped others from her neighbourhood. Leah discovered that the crime syndicate has an even greater presence in the virtual multiverse than she’d imagined. As she begins to unravel some of their secrets, they tarnish her reputation and kidnap.

Title: Resurrection, Inc.    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: Kevin J. Anderson       Publisher: ECW Press       Synopsis: It is the future — and the dead walk the streets, resurrected by technology to become servants to the living. Resurrection, Inc. found a profitable way to do it: a microprocessor brain, a synthetic heart, artificial blood — and anyone with money could buy a Servant with no mind of its own, trained to obey any command. But for every Servant created a living worker was out of a job, and suddenly the profits of Resurrection, Inc. became everyone else’s loss.

Title: Reunion (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Neon Horizon    Author: Michael Robertson       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: N/A

Title: reV    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Machine Dynasty    Author: Madeline Ashby       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: Now that the failsafe that once kept synthetic beings from harming humans has been hacked, all vNare discovering the promise – and the peril –of free will. Her consciousness unleashed across computer systems all across the world, the vicious vN Portia stands poised to finally achieve her lifelong dream of bringing feeble, fleshy humanity to its knees.

Title: Revelation    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novella       Series: Malfunction    Author: J.E. Purrazzi       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: With everyone he cares about either dead or long absent, Cowl Coven has lost interest in life. Despite the endless distractions of a high-profile job as a programmer in the Hub and nightly runs into the chasm below for the black market, he still finds himself looking for a way out. When a hacked piece of data reveals what seems to be human life on the desolate, alien-infested surface of Earth, he thinks he might have just found it.

Title: Revelations (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Apocalypse A.I.    Author: A.J. Ramsey       Publisher: Simply Smashing Publishing       Synopsis: Five years ago, the artificial intelligence known as DANA declared war on humanity. In the last remaining refuge of the Seven Cities, humans are facing extinction. A desperate mission is set in motion. One that will either end the war... or end humanity. Apollo may have already failed. One of his team is dead, and he's sent the remaining members ahead with Eve, the android that he still isn’t sure if he can trust. Alone and dying, Apollo has no choice but to turn to a group of resistance fighters in order to find his team. But, the resistance fighters might be just as dangerous to them as the machines. If Eve is revealed as the android she is, none of them will get out alive. While dealing with that threat, another is forming around them. The machines are preparing to eliminate this last pocket of resistance fighters. The team’s path to the Core is becoming more unlikely by the minute. The resistance group’s numbers have been reduced to practically nothing. It’s a suicide mission to stay and fight, but they have little hope of escaping the attack. Unknowingly, Apollo may have led his team into a situation they can’t get out of. With the mission on the line, Apollo is faced with some hard choices. He’ll have to make sacrifices if there is any hope of getting to the Core.

Title: Revenge Of The Cyber Dragons (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Cyber Dragons    Author: C.T. Phipps   Michael Suttkus       Publisher: Crossroad Press       Synopsis: Ex-Rider Keiko "Kei" Springs was living with her adopted daughter Becky away from her previous life of crime. Unfortunately, the past is not easy to escape and her sadistic former sensei, Snake, gives her an ultimatum: perform eight tasks for him or die. The final mission before her freedom is nearly impossible, though. Snake wants her to take down a luxury resort where the super-rich are implanted with their heart's desires, only to be brainwashed into serial killers for blackmail potential.

Title: Revoluce (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Underground    Author: František Kotleta       Publisher: Silesia Progress       Synopsis: The world has plunged into darkness, but Prague City is a happy city full of neon lights and millions of happy people. At least that's what City News reports claim. But even the editors of the ubiquitous TV channel know that a revolt is bubbling beneath the surface. Corporations are falling apart and after many years, elections are coming, bringing not only verbal gunfights but also blood in the streets. In the streets where the Digital Messiah is said to walk, who came to save the world after the witches failed.

Title: Revolution 19    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel       Author: Gregg Rosenblum       Publisher: Harper Teen       Synopsis: Twenty years ago, the robots designed to fight our wars abandoned the battlefields. Then they turned their weapons on us. Only a few escaped the robot revolution of 2071. Kevin, Nick, and Cass are lucky —they live with their parents in a secret human community in the woods. Then their village is detected and wiped out. Hopeful that other survivors have been captured by bots, the teens risk everything to save the only people they have left in the world—by infiltrating a city controlled by their greatest enemies.

Title: Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Other       Author: Various       Publisher: Tachyon Publications       Synopsis: Following the rapid evolution of cyberpunk from Bruce Sterling and William Gibson into the current millennium, this vivid anthology welcomes a new generation of exciting writers to take the genre in new and unexpected directions. Cyberpunk freewheels with punk rock energy, careening between the internet, bioengineering, and international politics, its influence saturating entertainment and the mass media. Drawing on the traditions of the pioneering cyberpunk manifesto, Mirrorshades, each story delves into the gritty world of technological change. Legendary Mirrorshades editor and contributor Bruce Sterling is back, alongside such cutting-edge writers as Cory Doctorow, Jonathan Lethem, Gwyneth Jones, Hal Duncan, Charles Stross, and Pat Cadigan.

Title: Rise Of The Machines (#0.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Novel Series       Series: Apocalypse A.I.    Author: A.J. Ramsey       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: N/A

Title: Rise Of The Red Hand (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Mechanists    Author: Olivia Chadha       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: The South Asian Province is split in two. Uplanders lead luxurious lives inside a climate-controlled biodome, dependent on technology and gene therapy to keep them healthy and youthful forever. Outside, the poor and forgotten scrape by with discarded black-market robotics, a society of poverty-stricken cyborgs struggling to survive in slums threatened by rising sea levels, unbreathable air, and deadly superbugs.

Title: Rithmsync (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Lost Time    Author: Damien Boyes       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Finsbury Gage doesn't know who he is. Is he the man who lost his wife and burned the world down hunting her murderer—or is he the man who lost his wife and returned to ashes?

Title: River Of Blue Fire (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Novel Series       Series: Otherland    Author: Tad Williams       Publisher: DAW Books       Synopsis: Otherland. In many ways it is humankind's most stunning achievement: a private, multidimensional universe built over two generations by the greatest minds of the twenty-first century. But this most exclusive of places is also one of the world's best kept secrets, created and controlled by an organization made up of the world's most powerful and ruthless individuals, a private cartel known--to those who know of their existence at all--as The Grail Brotherhood.

Title: River Of Gods    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Novel       Author: Ian McDonald       Publisher: Simon & Schuster       Synopsis: The novel follows a number of different characters' viewpoints on and around the date of 15 August 2047, the centenary of India's partition and independence from the colonial British Raj. This future India has become balkanized into a number of smaller competing states, such as Awadh, Bharat, and Bangla. The global information network is now inhabited by artificial intelligences, phonetically called aeais in the novel, of varying levels of intelligence.

Title: RoboCop    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1990    Category: Comics Series       Author: Bob Harras   Alan Kupperberg       Publisher: Marvel       Synopsis: Ruthlessly murdered and resurrected, Detroit police officer Alex Murphy was transformed into ROBOCOP, a 24-hour a day cyborg cop. He must track down his murderers and fight corruption in the very corporation that built him. Now that corporation wants to see him dismantled.

Title: RoboCop (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2006    Category: Comics Series       Series: Frank Miller's RoboCop    Author: Frank Miller       Publisher: Avatar       Synopsis: Robocop was one of the truly great bits of movie and pop culture magic from the 1980s, and Frank Miller wanted to deliver a masterpiece with his original movie script, but Hollywood massively edited his work. In full-on action, the Robocop story is told as Frank Miller always intended, composed straight from the master's original writings and scripts! The vast majority of Miller's insane ideas, vicious black humor and robotic mayhem never made it to the screen, but every last bit is finally unleashed in this series! With sequential adaptation from Steven Grant and art by superstar Juan Jose Ryp, this sci-fi epic is not to be missed!

Title: RoboCop Vol. 2: Last Stand Part 1 (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Comics Series       Series: Frank Miller's RoboCop    Author: Frank Miller       Publisher: BOOM! Studios       Synopsis: The Robocop saga continues, the way Frank Miller envisioned it.

Title: RoboCop Vol.3: Last Stand Part 2 (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Comics Series       Series: Frank Miller's RoboCop    Author: Frank Miller       Publisher: BOOM! Studios       Synopsis: The unfiltered imagination of Frank Miller comes to life in the pages of LAST STAND, an exact adaptation of his original screenplay for RoboCop 3. A worthy companion to the all-time classic, full of all the action, blood, and ahead-of-its-time vision you have come to expect from Frank Miller’s best works. The war between RoboCop and OCP is raging, as the hostile takeover of Detroit is in its final hour. Cadillac Heights is the last remaining piece to OCP’s endgame, but with RoboCop and Marie in their way, no one is safe and everyone is a target. Many will die. Few will rise.

Title: RoboCop Vs The Terminator (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Comics Series       Series: Frank Miller's RoboCop    Author: Frank Miller       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: N/A

Title: RoboCop: Revolution    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Comics Series       Series: Dynamite Entertainment's RoboCop    Author: Rob Williams   Fabiano Neves       Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment       Synopsis: Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents the dynamic debut of RoboCop by writer Rob (Cla$$war) Williams and artist Fabiano (Marvel Zombies vs. The Army of Darkness) Neves! Dynamite goes back to basics as it unveils the dystopian, deeply satirical, and all-out violent world of RoboCop.

Title: RoboCop: Road Trip    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Comics Series       Series: Dynamite Entertainment's RoboCop    Author: Rob Williams   Unai De Zarate       Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment       Synopsis: This graphic novel shows the dystopian, deeply satirical, and all-out violent world of Robocop.

Title: Robopocalypse    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel       Author: Daniel H. Wilson       Publisher: Doubleday       Synopsis: A computer scientist accidentally unleashes a supremely intelligent sentient A.I. named Archos R-14. It becomes self-aware and immediately starts planning the elimination of human civilization and build a new cryptic ecology where organic being merged with robot technology. Over a gradual period of time, Archos R-14 infects all penetrable networked electronic devices, such as cars, airplanes, smart homes, elevators, and other robots, with a "precursor virus". Before it launches a full-blown attack on humanity, it sends out probing attacks to analyze the technical feasibility of its strategies and to assess human response. In one such instance, it infects Mikiko, a robot that is "in a relationship" with a human mechanic named Takeo, and tries to kill him before being discharged by a coworker. The random attacks are designed to look like sporadic malfunctions of devices that humans depend on for their everyday routines. Domestic robots attack innocents, planes are intentionally set on a collision course, and smart cars start driving out of control. The resulting conflict is known as the New War.

Title: Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1984    Category: Short Story       Author: Philip K. Dick   Patricia S. Warrick       Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press       Synopsis: In these 15 stories about robots and androids, Philip K. Dick asks these questions. The answers differ with each story—in the fictional world and in the exploring mind of Dick the only certainty is change—but the author establishes some guidelines: “To be human, one must maintain his intellectual and spir­itual freedom at all costs. He must refuse obedience to any ideology; he must re­main unpredictable, unfettered by pat­terns and routines.”

Title: Rogue Protocol (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novella Series       Series: The Murderbot Diaries    Author: Martha Wells       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah’s SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good.

Title: Ronin    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1983    Category: Comics Series       Author: Frank Miller       Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: Written by Frank Miller; Art by Frank Miller In this tale of a legendary warrior, the Ronin, a dishonored, masterless 13th century samurai, is mystically given a second chance to avenge his master's death. Finding himself suddenly reborn in a futuristic and corrupt 21st century New York City, the samurai discovers he has one last chance to regain his honor. But to do so, he must defeat the reincarnation of his master's killer, the ancient demon Agat. In a time and place both foreign and unfathomable to him, the Ronin stands against his greatest enemy with his life and more importantly, his soul at stake.

Title: Root Protocol: The APEX Cycle #6 (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Human 2.0    Author: Lee Isserow       Publisher: ABAM.info       Synopsis: The network wants a revolution. Thanks to the company that experimented on them, they have the means. But the company is prepared for the coming battle, and have an ace up their sleeve. And one by one, they're taking the network down. As allegiances sway, Sarah finds herself isolated from the group. And her only hope is to find a man that may not exist, in the hope that he can offer them some hope of truly understanding what has been done to them. Root Protocol is a cyberpunk thriller for fans of Neal Stephenson and William Gibson.

Title: Rubicon    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: J.S. Dewes       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: After enduring a traumatic resurrection for the ninety-sixth time, Valero is reassigned to a special forces unit and outfitted with a cutting-edge virtual intelligence aid. They could turn the tide in the war against intelligent machines dedicated to the assimilation, or destruction, of humanity. When her VI suddenly achieves sentience, Valero is drawn into the machinations of an enigmatic major who’s hell-bent on ending the war—by any means necessary.

Title: Run Like Hell    Permalink: DBID    Year: TBA    Category: Novel       Author: E.A. Brand       Publisher: Zipline       Synopsis: A shootout at a streetside bazaar. A pursuit through darkened city streets. A courier brutally murdered by his pursuers. Blown apart and left to rot in the gutter. All of that makes for an average day in the bowels of the megatropolis of New York City— at the bottom of the Barrel. But for Raide, that day was anything but average. That courier was a friend— probably Raide's best friend— and he left a life-changing contract behind. The job and its promised rewards force Raide to face impossible odds, all while eluding relentless corporate security agents and outrunning a horrifying plague that's sweeping the city. When faced with such a situation, there are really only two options...

Title: RUNNERS    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: Justin Hale       Publisher: Indie Roots Media       Synopsis: A high octane, cyberpunk thrill ride that will leave you on the edge of your seat! On the planet Nera, a world of towering metropolises powered by nano technology and controlled by corporations, Mr. Zan and his misfit crew have trained for five years to be Omegas, the greatest and most elusive assassins on the planet. However, disillusioned with their mission, they went rogue and killed their handler, Nancy. Now, they run guns to survive, while racing to stay one step ahead of the living Shadows that hunt them. After a tragic, traumatic attack, Zan and his crew find themselves on the outs with Dietrich Boateng, one of the most powerful men on the planet.

Title: Runtime    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novella       Author: S. B. Divya       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: The Minerva Sierra Challenge is a grueling spectacle, the cyborg's Tour de France. Rich thrill-seekers with corporate sponsorships, extensive support teams, and top-of-the-line exoskeletal and internal augmentations pit themselves against the elements in a day-long race across the Sierra Nevada. Marmeg Guinto doesn’t have funding, and she doesn’t have support. She cobbled her gear together from parts she found in rich people’s garbage and spent the money her mother wanted her to use for nursing school to enter the race. But the Minerva Challenge is the only chance she has at a better life for herself and her younger brothers, and she’s ready to risk it all.

Title: Ruse (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Want    Author: Cindy Pon       Publisher: Simon Pulse       Synopsis: Jason Zhou, his friends, and Daiyu are still recovering from the aftermath of bombing Jin Corp headquarters. But Jin, the ruthless billionaire and Daiyu’s father, is out for blood. When Lingyi goes to Shanghai to help Jany Tsai, a childhood acquaintance in trouble, she doesn’t expect Jin to be involved. And when Jin has Jany murdered and steals the tech she had refused to sell him, Lingyi is the only one who has access to the encrypted info, putting her own life in jeopardy. Zhou doesn’t hesitate to fly to China to help Iris find Lingyi, even though he’s been estranged from his friends for months. But when Iris tells him he can’t tell Daiyu or trust her, he balks. The reunited group play a treacherous cat and mouse game in the labyrinthine streets of Shanghai, determined on taking back what Jin had stolen. When Daiyu appears in Shanghai, Zhou is uncertain if it’s to confront him or in support of her father. Jin has proudly announced Daiyu will be by his side for the opening ceremony of Jin Tower, his first “vertical city.” And as hard as Zhou and his friends fight, Jin always gains the upper hand. Is this a game they can survive, much less win?

Title: Sad Sack: Collected Writing    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Short Story       Author: Sophia Al-Maria       Publisher: Book Works       Synopsis: Sad Sack is a book of collected writing by Sophia Al-Maria, taking feminist inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’; opposing ‘the linear, progressive, Time’s-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic.’ Encompassing more than a decade of work, Sad Sack tracks Al-Maria’s speculative journey as a writer, from the first seed of her ‘premature’ memoir, through the coining and subsequent critique of ‘Gulf Futurism’, towards experiments in gathering, containing, welling up and sucking dry.

Title: Schismatrix    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1985    Category: Novel       Author: Bruce Sterling       Publisher: Arbor House       Synopsis: The main character, Abelard Lindsay, is born in the ancient lunar colony Mare Serenitatis Circumlunar Corporate Republic, into a family of aristocratic Mechanists, but after being sent to the Shaper’s Ring Council, he receives specialized and experimental diplomatic training and gives his loyalty to the Shapers' cause. He, his best friend and fellow Shaper protege Philip Constantine and the beautiful and passionate Preservationist Vera Kelland lead an insurgency against the rulers of the republic, who use Mechanist technology to prolong their lives. The three of them influence the younger generation towards the Shapers' cause in their pursuit of Preservationism, a movement devoted to the preservation of earth-bound human culture. Kelland and Lindsay agree to kill themselves as a political statement, but Lindsay reneges on his suicide pact after Kelland is dead. Constantine attempts to kill Lindsay but instead kills a Mechanist, creating a scandal.

Title: Sea Of Silver Light (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2001    Category: Novel Series       Series: Otherland    Author: Tad Williams       Publisher: DAW Books       Synopsis: The epic conclusion of the Otherland saga journeys back to the bizarre world of virtual realities in which the characters discover a multifaceted pathways to immortality, which could be available if one is willing to pay a dangerous price. By the author of City of Golden Shadow, River of Blue Fire, and Mountain of Black Glass.

Title: Second Skyn (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Novel Series       Series: Lost Time    Author: Damien Boyes       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In a future without death, memory's all that matters.If it weren't for his Digital Life Assurance, Toronto Police Detective Finsbury Gage would be dead—smeared across the highway by a crazed man in a stolen urban assault vehicle. Finsbury hung together long enough for the recovery team to arrive. His wife wasn't so lucky. Now, six months later, his mind restored to a prosthetic brain, wrapped in a healthy new body, and technically immortal, Finsbury is back to a life that no longer exists. He's all alone, his home a shrine to everything he lost. He's been reassigned, knocked from Homicide to busting bit-heads and chasing after lost minutes of the idle rich. And his thoughts connect directly to the internet. The only thing keeping Finsbury from blowing his plastic brains out is the memory of his wife's death. It's 2.57 seconds long and plays on repeat, every time he closes his eyes. But from within this loop of pain and grief he discovers a reason to go on—the haunting glimpse of the wild-eyed man responsible for his wife's death. Finsbury's gonna find this guy, no matter what he has to do. But Finsbury isn't the only one on the hunt. Something is coming for him. Something like the world has never seen. Something that will force Finsbury Gage to abandon everything he believes—everything he is—to survive.

Title: Second Variety    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1953    Category: Novella       Author: Philip K. Dick       Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform       Synopsis: In the aftermath of a devastating nuclear war between the United Nations and the Soviet Union, sophisticated robots, nicknamed “claws”, are created to destroy what remains of human life. Left to their own devices, however, the claws develop robots of their own. II-V, the second variety, remains unknown to the few humans left on Earth. Or does it? Second Variety was adapted into the film Screamers.

Title: Semi/Human    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Erik Hanberg       Publisher: Erik Hanberg       Synopsis: Robots are in. Humans are out. Can one teenager steal her way to a better future? Pen Davis just lost her internship to a robot. As supercomputers take over all the jobs in the world, the lonely teen doesn't see a future. Desperate to escape the coming robo-pocalpyse, she devises a plot to steal millions from her former boss. It's payback for laying her off, and the only way Pen can see how to scrape together enough cash to survive.

Title: Seth (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyborgs: More Than Machines    Author: Eve Langlais       Publisher: Eve Langlais       Synopsis: His mission: Blend in with the humans. Save the cyborgs. And seduce the only woman he ever loved, without getting killed. Cybernetic spy models are different from other humans turned machine. For one thing, they never completely lost touch with their humanity, or their memories. But retaining their identity doesn’t mean the military didn’t mess with their lives. Seth lost the woman he loved because of their web of lies. When the chance arises to make things right, he relies on his superior intellect—and irresistible charm—to prove his innocence, and make Anastasia his again.

Title: Sewer, Gas And Electric: The Public Works Trilogy    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Novel       Author: Matt Ruff       Publisher: Grove Press       Synopsis: High above Manhattan android and human steelworkers are constructing a new Tower of Babel for billionaire Harry Gant, as a monument to humanity’s power to dream. In the festering sewers below a darker game is afoot: a Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Gant’s crusading ex-wife, Joan Fine, has been hired to find out why. The year is 2023, and Ayn Rand has been resurrected and bottled in a hurricane lamp to serve as Joan's assistant; an eco-terrorist named Philo Dufrense travels in a pink-and-green submarine designed by Howard Hughes; a Volkswagen Beetle is possessed by the spirit of Abbey Hoffman; Meisterbrau, a mutant great white shark, is running loose in the sewers beneath Times Square; and a one-armed 181-year-old Civil War veteran joins Joan and Ayn in their quest for the truth. All of whom, and many more besides, are caught up in a vast conspiracy involving Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and a mob of homicidal robots.

Title: Sexy Cyberpunk    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novella Series       Author: James Lucien       Publisher: Smashwords       Synopsis: Sexy Cyberpunk is a thrilling collection of five futuristic erotic novellas involving seductive cyborgs, adorable androids, and dangerous digital worlds.

Title: Shadow Of A Dead Star (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Wonderland Cycle    Author: Michael Shean       Publisher: Curiosity Quills       Synopsis: Seattle, 2078. The future hasn't been kind to the spirit of humanity; commercial obsession and technological fetishism rules the day, religion and belief has died screaming in the fires of war, and what remains is moral decrepitude. Life in the future is hard on the soul.

Title: Shadow's Fall (New White Sands City Cyberpunk #1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novella Series       Series: New White Sand City Cyberpunk    Author: Ron Bender       Publisher: AlphaTek Global Publications       Synopsis: Raven’s not adverse to a little heat; she’s got a reputation for being a tour guide who’s also a good-time girl and a killer. After a side hustle goes wrong, she’s on the clock to find a buyer for a stolen data core before the hunting mega-corp finds her.

Title: Shadowrun    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Comics Series       Author: Fujimi Shobo   Shiki Satoshi   Saiki Kazuma       Publisher: Kadokawa Shoten       Synopsis: Set in the alternate history of the japanese Version of Shadowrun by Group SNE, the Shadowrun Manga follows a group of Shadowrunners hired by Kazumi Katakuri to aid him in a power struggle over the Katakuri Megacorporation against his sister Masumi. The second arc of the series deals with an investigation of the theft of a secret army helicopter.

Title: Shadowrun: Another Rainy Night (Book #1.2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Short Story       Author: Patrick Goodman       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Synopsis: Every day in the Sixth World people die in a thousand different ways. Every day blood is spilled. Every place that rain falls, it washes away some of the red that stains the streets. Eliminating every killer in the Sixth World is as impossible as drying up every raindrop in a storm, but Thomas McAllister doesn’t want to get rid of all of them. Just one. He’s been on this killer’s trail for a while, and he knows he’s getting closer. The only question is if he’ll be able to handle getting as close as he’s about to be, or if his blood will join the stream that regularly flows into the gutters of the sprawls.

Title: Shadowrun: Dark Resonance (Book #3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Shadowrun    Author: Phaedra Weldon       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Synopsis: Kazuma Tetsu is a technomancer—one of the rare people who can manipulate the Matrix without technology, using only the power of their mind. But he’s on a more personal mission—he’s searching for his missing sister, Hitori. Following her trail leads him into a tangled web of corp execs, mercenaries, and double-crossing rogues—usually just another day in the Sixth World.

Title: Shadowrun: Fire & Frost (Book #2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Shadowrun    Author: Kai O'Connal       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Shadowrun: Hell On Water (Book #4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Shadowrun    Author: J.M. Hardy       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Synopsis: Six shadowrunners. Three mysterious packages. And twelve kilometers of a dangerous, dilapidated bridge across one of the wildest sprawls of the Sixth World. It should be a simple job. Retrieve three sealed packages, then take them across the city of Lagos to their destination. All the runners’ skills will be tested—they’ll face ambushes, double-crosses, and more, and along the way they might be able to answer the question of just what’s in those packages, and why they’re so important.

Title: Shadowrun: Neat (Book #1.1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novella Series       Author: Russell Zimmerman       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Synopsis: James Kincaid is the type of guy who might be described as down on his luck, if only he’d had some luck to begin with. Like so many people in the shadows of Seattle, he’s trying to get by with what he has. In his case, that includes a lively spirit, a sadly diminished magical talent, quick wits, and good knowledge of the twists and turns of Seattle’s dingy streets and back alleys. He puts all that to the service of whatever clients he can dig up, solving whatever cases they’re willing to pay him to take on. With any luck, he’ll scrape up enough nuyen to buy a few rounds of his favorite drink—whiskey, neat.

Title: Shadowrun: Nothing Personal (Book #1.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novella       Author: Olivier Gagnon       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Synopsis: Mr. Johnson. You know the name. You probably know the face—smooth, implacable, professional. He’s got the nuyen and resources you want, and he knows it. He may not have your skills, but he doesn’t care. That’s what he has the nuyen for—so he can buy yours. He’s corporate through and through, and you can’t ever forget that, because if you do, that’s when he sells you out for the good of his corp. But he’ll stay professional, of course, right up until the moment he slides the knife smoothly into your back. He’s useful, that Mr. Johnson, but every time you meet him, every time you have to deal with his double-crosses, his condescending put-downs, his smug superiority, you wish that the day would come when the tables were turned, when he was forced out on the street with nothing but his wits and street skills—whatever those might be—to keep him alive. Well, good news. Sometimes wishes come true, even in the Sixth World. Mr. Johnson is about to meet the street, and you’ve got a ringside seat.

Title: Shadowrun: Sail Away, Sweet Sister (Book #1.4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Short Story       Author: Patrick Goodman       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Synopsis: Monsters of the ShadowsThomas McCallister’s area of expertise—the virus that turns metahumans into flesh-eating monsters—has taken him into some dark corners of the Sixth World. When he came face to face with the serial murderer known as the Mealtime Killer, he had hoped that a particularly dark chapter of his life had come to a close. But when night falls in the sprawls of the world, blood is still being shed, and people are still dying. Another killer is still out there, one that needs to be found and stopped, but the challenge McAllister is about to face is one he never could have anticipated. His resolve will be tested in ways he never anticipated in his darkest nightmares. Sail Away, Sweet Sister builds on the events of Another Rainy Night, taking another dark turn down the streets of the Sixth World to face the monsters that lurk there.

Title: Shadowrun: Shaken: No Job Too Small (Book #5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Shadowrun    Author: Russell Zimmerman       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Synopsis: Down these dark streets... Most folks see Puyallup as the worst Seattle’s got to offer; a tangled mess of metahumanity and greet, poverty and ghettoes, vice and corruption, where the crime is more organized than the government. They call it a Barrens, an armpit, a cesspool.

Title: Shadowrun: Spells & Chrome (Book #1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Novel Series       Series: Shadowrun    Author: Various       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Synopsis: Welcome to the year 2072……And a world unlike anything you’ve ever imagined. A world where magic and machines exist side-by-side. Where cybernetics can replace organs or entire limbs with ease, and arcane spells can make the impossible happen. Where the Matrix has become an artificial world of its own, filled with all kinds of pleasure, treasure, and trouble. Where dwarves, elves, orks and trolls walk alongside humans every day. Some work for mega-corporations whose invisible tentacles wrap around every aspect of modern life. Others choose a much less legal career, doing whatever dirty work the corp executives need done—-for a price.Featuring fifteen new stories about the men and women who make their living in the shadows of the Sixth World, Spells & Chrome takes you into the dark and dirty streets of the future. Whether risking their lives to execute a mission for an employer who might be planning to double-cross them anyway, or just doing whatever they need to do to survive another day, shadowrunners use everything they’ve got--cyberware, spells, or a very big gun--to get the job done.

Title: Shadowrun: The Vladivostok Gauntlet (Book #1.3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Short Story       Author: Olivier Gagnon       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Synopsis: Yuri Yehzov has been off the streets for a long while, surviving by following a few simple rules. Don’t stick your neck out. Don’t get involved in something that is none of your business. And above all, don’t piss off the ferocious mobsters of the Vory y Zakone. Yuri doesn’t have much left from his shadowrunning days except his cyberears, but that’s enough to get him in trouble. When he hears something he cannot ignore, one by one his rules fall by the wayside until he has cold-blooded killers, vicious shapeshifters, and a ruthless Vory leader all after him. His gear is broken, his reflexes are shot, and he’s about to face the toughest opponents he’s ever been against. The streets have one more chance to claim his life—and he has one more chance to break the rules, beat the odds, and find a way to stay alive. The Vladivostok Gauntlet is a brand new Shadowrun short story. Read it and immerse yourself in the grit, grime, and dirty glory of the Sixth World!

Title: Shadowrun: Triptych    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Novel       Author: N/A    Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Shareholder (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel Series       Series: Tower Of Somnus    Author: Cale Plamann       Publisher: Mountaindale Press       Synopsis: Kat paid for her position with blood. Hers, and from those who stood in her way. Now, she has finally climbed to a spot where she has real power; she can improve things the way she thinks is necessary. But power isn't as simple as she thought it would be. It comes with complications and obligations that stop her from taking action and enemies that don't like to share their authority.

Title: Shatter    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1985    Category: Comics Series       Author: Mike Saenz   Peter B. Gillis       Publisher: First Comics       Synopsis: A cop in the future uncovers a global media company's scheme involving harvesting human brains, and decides to join an underground resistance force to take down the company. Coincidentally, he also possesses a “golden brain,” which is invaluable to the company. This book is notable for being the first comic drawn entirely on a computer, specifically a first-generation Apple Macintosh.

Title: She Only Boots For Me    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: Alexander King       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Jimmy the Weasel works the beat in Little London, a neon-soaked post-war city rife with crime and corruption. It also has its bad points. Datsik is a nine-hundred-pound Kamchatka bear that thinks he's Winnie the Pooh. Emil Lanksy is a Tulpa, the outsourced personality of a very dull young man. All Bravilor Bonamat wants is to LightJockey at Rancids and get through another shift without being dragged into criminal activity. Over the next few nights, shipping containers of human cargo will tie them all together and end up redefining reality itself.

Title: Shift    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel       Author: Robert Lenz   Jacob Hunter       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Persistence. The network that stripped anonymity from its users. Always on, always watching, always recording. Complete access to anyone, at any time, at any location. Your identity distilled to a key created from your genetic makeup. Shift. The drug that modified one's genetic makeup. A tiny piece, an entire strand, entirely up to the user. To Shift one's self was simply a needle away. One poke and it would all change. The price of that injection, however, is to give up your identity, give up your former life. One individual will discover just how costly that price is, to battle the oppression of a true surveillance state.

Title: Shovel Ready (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Spademan    Author: Adam Sternbergh       Publisher: Crown       Synopsis: Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, and before the city became a bombed-out shell of its former self. Now he's a hitman. In a New York City split between those who are wealthy enough to "tap into" a sophisticated virtual reality for months at a time and those left to fend for themselves in the ravaged streets, Spademan chose the streets. His clients like that he doesn't ask questions, that he works quickly, and that he's handy with a box cutter. He finds that killing people for money is not that different from collecting trash, and the pay is better. His latest client hires him to kill the daughter of a powerful evangelist. Finding her is easy, but the job quickly gets complicated: his mark has a shocking secret and his client has an agenda far beyond a simple kill. Now Spademan must navigate the dual levels of his world-the gritty reality and the slick fantasy-to finish the job, to keep his conscience clean, and to stay alive.

Title: Shujaa The Discriminator    Permalink: DBID    Year: TBA    Category: Comics       Author: Jesse Keppler       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Shujaa The Discriminator is a cyberpunk story about how AI will rob us of our privacy, political unrest in the face of unchecked corporate power, and the shadowy game of weaponized public opinion. Join Shujaa as she tries to navigate the job, her ethics, and powerful forces trying to control her all while escaping Cascadia’s brutal crackdown.

Title: Shyft (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Lost Time    Author: Damien Boyes       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: He cheated death, but can he save his humanity Finsbury Gage will do anything to find the man who murdered his wife. He'll withhold information from his superiors in the Psychorithm Crime Unit. He'll cut corners. He'll steal evidence. He'll even augment his prosthetic brain with illegal code. But once he's tasted the power of living at the speed of thought, able to predict seconds into the future, how will he ever go back? And once he's relaxed his grip on humanity, how far will he let it slip to find justice for his wife? He'll find out eight months later, when he wakes once again in a new body with a new name and no memory of his first restoration. He soon discovers he was somehow involved in a series of mindjackings, his friends and colleagues disappeared or locked-up for crimes they don't remember committing. And the person behind them is still out there. Hunting for him. Will Finsbury be able to uncover the mystery of what he became in time to stop more people from getting hurt, or will he succumb to the same temptations and make the same mistakes all over again?

Title: Silent Mobius    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1989    Category: Comics Series       Author: Kia Asamiya       Publisher: VIZ Media   Fujimi Shobo       Synopsis: In the 21st century the 'Entities' came... and the human race needed new heroes. Meet the A.M.P. (Abnormal Mystery Police), six young women with psychic and super powers ready and willing to do combat with the worst monsters, megadynes, and dragons that future Tokyo has to offer! In these three stories, set in the year 2026, learn the secrets of Katsumi Liqueur, daughter of a great sorcerer; Nami Yamigumo, heir to a mighty clan of priests; and Kiddy Phenil, survivor of a traumatic past.

Title: Silicon Burning (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Singularity Rising    Author: Thomas McCaughley       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: The year is 2045. Nearly thirty years have passed since a devastating nuclear terrorist attack that changed the world forever. The population of Britain is kept in-line by Mother Mind; an advanced artificial intelligence created by the Virtualife Corporation monitoring the lives of its citizens. Machines have become more humanlike, and humans more machine like. The gap between rich and poor has grown ever wider, resulting in a split in the species: humans and cybernetically-enhanced Transhumans. Hatred for the transhumans race has created a monster; Jack-21. A serial killer, dissecting cyborgs for their implants. But his latest victim is not just another street rat, but rather a member of the renegade hacker group; Spiritform. The one's responsible for a cyberattack on Virtualife that has sent shockwaves throughout the corporate world. The secret he was murdered for lie within a collection of stolen files. Now the race is on to uncover those secrets. Two corporate police officers from competing companies work together to hunt down Jack-21. Meanwhile Virtualife hires a private investigator to recover their stolen data, before the surviving members of Spiritform decrypt the files and reveal the truth.

Title: Silicon Dawn    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel       Author: William Massa       Publisher: CreateSpace       Synopsis: A serial killer stalks the city of the future... Hunting the people who build the machines. And it's up to a cop and an AI to unravel a terrible conspiracy. The world is still reeling form the devastation of the Omega Virus and struggling to rebuild. A growing android workforce has given rise to the Human Defense League and anti-AI sentiment is at an all-time high. Adam, one of the first of the new X-3000 models, arrives into this hostile future. Field-tested on the Luna colonies, now assigned to Earth, Adam is paired with homicide detective Jane Malveaux, who has little patience for synthetics. Before long both Malveaux and Adam must cast aside their differences and join forces to solve a case that will test both man and machine.

Title: Silicon Man (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Silicon World    Author: William Massa       Publisher: CreateSpace       Synopsis: A global pandemic has cut the human population in half. An android workforce fills the void left by the devastation. But some of the AIs have grown tired of being slaves. Some want freedom. An underground movement of runaways has sprung up and wages a shadow war with a simple objective -- equal rights for artificial people.

Title: Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1990    Category: Other       Author: Donna J. Haraway       Publisher: Routledge       Synopsis: Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as creatures which have had a great destabilizing place in Western evolutionary technology and biology. Throughout this book, Haraway analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs. At once a social reality and a science fiction, the cyborg--a hybrid of organism and machine--represents transgressed boundaries and intense fusions of the nature/culture split. By providing an escape from rigid dualisms, the cyborg exists in a post-gender world, and as such holds immense possibilities for modern feminists. Haraway's recent book, Primate Visions, has been called outstanding, original, and brilliant, by leading scholars in the field.

Title: Simulacron 3    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1964    Category: Novel       Author: Daniel F. Galouye       Publisher: J'ai lu       Synopsis: It is a jangling and disintegrating near-future, a world in which virtual reality has become the primary means of entertainment and the more significant part of life for most of the population. Here, Douglas Hall´s employer, Horace Siskin, the President of Reaction Inc., has created a synthetic world as a demonstration; a virtual l937 New Orleans in which Hall and his superiors Fuller and Lynch, live much of their lives. But when Fuller is murdered and Lynch disappears, governmental scrutiny and investigation threaten to destroy Reaction. Thus, Hall must find his way through this strange New Orleans to determine the identity of the murderer and the motive. He must, he comes to understand, apprehend the killer before both worlds, virtual and "real", have been destroyed.

Title: SIN:THETICA    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel       Author: Keith Anthony Baird   S D Vassallo   Alexander Way-B       Publisher: Brigids Gate Press LLC       Synopsis: The Sino-Nippon war is over. It is 2113 and Japan is crushed under the might of Chinese-Allied Forces. A former Coalition Corps soldier, US Marine Balaam Hendrix is now a feared bounty hunter known as ‘The Reverend’. In the sprawl of NeuTokyo, on this lawless frontier, he must track down the rogue employee of a notorious crime lord. But, there’s a twist. His target has found protection inside a virtual reality construct and Hendrix must go cyber-side to corner his quarry. The glowing neon signs for are everywhere, and promise escape from a dystopian reality. But will it prove the means by which this hunter snares his prey, or will it be the trap he simply can’t survive? Perfect for fans of Bladerunner and Neuromancer!

Title: Singularity 7    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Comics Series       Author: Ben Templesmith       Publisher: IDW       Synopsis: With the Earth laid waste by an assault from microscopic nanites, humanity hides in underground cities. But those cities are being destroyed by the 'Gosiodo' machine beings engineered to convert the remnants of humanity to the will of the nanites. It's up to seven men and women, seemingly immune to the nanotechnology, to fight back before there's nothing left to fight for.

Title: Skin 2.0 (The Cyborg Sectors #1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Short Story       Author: Alex Leu       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: An unhappy cyborg with a forbidden dream. A society that punishes change. A dangerous quest that could change Amy’s future… or ruin it entirely.

Title: Skinner's Room (#0.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Short Story       Series: Bridge    Author: William Gibson       Publisher: Omni       Synopsis: Skinner's Room is a short story by William Gibson originally composed for Visionary San Francisco, a 1990 museum exhibition exploring the future of San Francisco. It features the first appearance in Gibson's fiction of "the Bridge", which Gibson revisited as the setting of his acclaimed Bridge trilogy of novels. In the story, the Bridge is overrun by squatters, among them Skinner, who occupies a shack atop a bridgetower. An altered version of the story was published in Omni magazine and subsequently anthologized. "Skinner's Room" was nominated for the 1992 Locus Award for Best Short Story.

Title: Skirmish (#8)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Stork Tower    Author: Tony Corden       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: A simple error leaves Leah with a unique Neural Enhancement Chip and a rapidly evolving AI implanted in her brain. In ‘Nascent’, she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers and helped shut down some operations of the virtual crime syndicate that uses mind-controlled players as slaves.

Title: Skirting The Edge (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: 3P Syndicate    Author: Frank Giammanco       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Book One in the 3P Syndicate Saga. In the post-apocalyptic America of 2025, the rule of law is a thing of the past. Corporations rule the country, and the average citizen is not provided the same rights as the rich. There's a new boss in town, and he's hand-picked a team of mercenaries, edgerunners, hackers, nomads, and ex-cops to help him with a few tough jobs. They all figured they'd have a little fun and make a lot of money. No one was expecting the cross-country adventures or life-changing experiences that followed -- once the corporations caught on to what they were doing.

Title: Sky City: The Rise of an Orphan    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: R.D. Hale       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Sky City is a sci-fi action adventure with light elements of fantasy. It is set in a near future alternative reality where science is indistinguishable from magic and oppression is near-inescapable. Technology has created a newer, 'superior' form of human and genetically engineered monstrosities are as terrifying as anything encountered in your nightmares. The underclass have been underestimated and as they fight back the boundary between freedom fighter and terrorist becomes increasingly blurred. Meanwhile, the drug-induced haze of a traumatized mind places a question mark over the meaning of reality.

Title: Skyway Angel (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Skyway    Author: James K. Douglas       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Jackson Bell is one of the best bionic bodyguards in the business, but when his hacker friend Cassdan calls on him for protection, Jackson may end up in over his head. Caught between corporate greed, police corruption, and the dangerous actions of free information crusaders, they won't know who to trust in this fractured city. From the corporate high-rises to the city gutters, it's a race against time to discover who murdered the Skyway Angel.

Title: Sleep State Interrupt (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: BetterWorld Cyberpunk    Author: T.C. Weber       Publisher: See Sharp Press       Synopsis: In Sleep State Interrupt, a giant media corporation has taken over the Internet, created an addictive virtual reality called BetterWorld, and controls nearly all information. Politicians do their bidding and a brainwashed humanity serves a privileged few. Waylee Freid, an unemployed Baltimore journalist with ever-worsening bipolar disorder, is the only hope for a brighter future. She and her countercultural friends bust a notorious teenage hacker out of jail and sneak into a closed presidential fundraiser at the Smithsonian castle, where they hope to record incriminating admissions that will wake up the world. Hunted by Homeland Security, Waylee and her friends must reach a sufficient audience by broadcasting their video during the Super Bowl. But to do so, they'll have to break into one of the most secure facilities ever built.

Title: Slow Up (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Novel Series       Series: Hire A Muse    Author: George Saoulidis       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: When Galene meets a man who's only goal in life is to make his mind go faster, she ends up falling for him. But will she manage to keep the relationship going at the top of the glass tower, when in reality she's too much of a slob and is bogged down with all her unfinished goals, when their age difference becomes too much of a problem, and when his work places them in the sights of an unforgiving huntress?

Title: Snitch    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novella       Author: Ron Bender       Publisher: AlphaTek Global Publications       Synopsis: Forces are moving in the high-tech rat race of New White Sands City and one low-level transporter has an opportunity to make it big if he can survive the dangerous backwaters of corporate espionage.

Title: Snow Crash    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Novel       Author: Neal Stephenson       Publisher: Bantam Books       Synopsis: At the beginning of the novel, the main character, Hiro Protagonist, discovers the name of a new pseudo-narcotic, "Snow Crash", being offered at an exclusive Metaverse nightclub. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id falls victim to Snow Crash's effects, which are apparently unique in that they are experienced in the Metaverse and also in the physical world. Hiro uses his computer hacking, sharp cognitive skills, and sword-fighting to uncover the mystery of "Snow Crash"; his pursuit takes the reader on a tour of the Sumerian culture, a fully instantiated anarcho-capitalist society, and a virtual meta-society patronized by financial, social, and intellectual elites. As the nature of Snow Crash is uncovered, Hiro finds that self-replicating strings of information can affect objects in a uniform manner even though they may be broadcast via diverse media, a realization that reinforces his chosen path in life.

Title: Socail Faith (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Novel Series       Series: Lost Time    Author: Damien Boyes       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: He can't trust anyone, not even himself.Finsbury Gage doesn't know who he is. Is he the man who lost his wife and burned the world down hunting the person who killed her? Or is he the man who lost his wife and returned to ashes? If you don't know who Finsbury Gage is yet you'll want to start at the beginning, with Second Skyn, the first part of Lost Time. 'Cause the rest from here on out gets pretty spoilery. Are they gone?

Title: Software (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1982    Category: Novel Series       Series: Ware    Author: Rudy Rucker       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: Software introduces Cobb Anderson as a retired computer scientist who was once tried for treason for figuring out how to give robots artificial intelligence and free will, creating the race of boppers. By 2020, they have created a complex society on the Moon, where the boppers developed because they depend on super-cooled superconducting circuits. In that year, Anderson is a pheezer — a freaky geezer, Rucker's depiction of elderly Baby Boomers — living in poverty in Florida and terrified because he lacks the money to buy a new artificial heart to replace his failing, secondhand one.

Title: Solip:System (#1.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1989    Category: Novel Series       Series: Hardwired    Author: Walter Jon Williams       Publisher: Axolotl Press       Synopsis: Solip:System begins shortly before the ending of Hardwired and continues beyond that point. In Solip:System, the main character is the computer personality Reno (a minor character in Hardwired). The author intended that this book would provide a link between Hardwired and Voice of the Whirlwind.

Title: Son Of Syn: At Arms Length (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: Son Of Syn    Author: Christopher Mix   Fost Works   Dan Le   Stacey Mix   Daniel Glover   Cameron Scott   Tom Ingerøyen       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Welcome to New Beam City.A vast, futuristic city of lights and cutting edge technology. A supercity vibrant with life, human and newly innovated utilization of machines. At its center stands the monolithic Cloud 9 building. The largest super structure of any era, Cloud 9 is the main creator of New Beam City’s remedies for the common and the elite alike. Follow former underground fighter turned inventor, Clain, who embarks on a journey to the city’s lowliest of places to the towering heights of Cloud 9. His story begins with a visit from a royal stranger, commotion in the neighboring alley, and a shocking injury that will alter his life forever. A rollercoaster experience through a cyberpunk city featuring a remarkable group of characters, the machinations of a mega corporation, and enough action to fill a two hour movie, this first entry in an exciting new series is a must read for sci-fi, action and anime fans. Are you ready to “Live your life on Cloud 9, today?”

Title: Son Of Syn: Sins Of Our Father (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: Son Of Syn    Author: Christopher Mix   Stacey Mix   Zachary Johnson       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: The journey comes full circle as Sins of Our Father picks up from the harrowing ending of Tower of Phantoms . Clain, haunted by the traumatic events that tore his life apart, now finds himself facing enemies more terrifying than ever before. The Illuminairies, an enigmatic and powerful force, make their presence known, setting the stage for a chilling confrontation in the depths of an abandoned shopping mall.

Title: Son Of Syn: Tower Of Phantoms (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: Son Of Syn    Author: Christopher Mix   Anna Moshak   Leo Huang   Tom Ingerøyen   Stacey Mix   Daniel Glover       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: A few weeks have passed since the events within At Arms Length. Clain is conflicted by the attack he endured at the hands of the sinister android Synric, who referred to him as a “project.” Clain seeks to train himself and hone his unusual magnetic skills even further while tapping into the mighty Motherboard sword he crafted in months past. The threat however looms over him and his friends as Synric manipulates their actions from behind the scenes. An enemy possessing strength far beyond anything the world has ever seen. And what lurks beyond city limits? The strong willed leader of the vicious Pit Pigs, Kruger, who seeks revenge on a world gone blind. Join Clain and his friends as they attempt to unmask the threats within New Beam City.

Title: Song Of Scarabaeus    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Novel       Author: Sara Creasy       Publisher: Harper Voyager       Synopsis: Edie Sha'nim is a cypherteck, and the best in the galaxy. It's what she's been trained to do: manipulate biocyph to terraform alien worlds, while the Crib - her employer - drains the Fringe populations dry. When a band of rovers kidnaps her, Edie can't decide if it's a blessing or a curse. Until they leash her to her new bodyguard, Finn - a serf whose past isn't clear to anyone. If she strays from his side, he dies; if she fails to cooperate, the rovers will kill them both. The deal worsens when Edie finds they're taking her to her one failure... a planet called Scarabaeus. The world itself has a few surprises in store for Edie.

Title: Sonic the Hedgehog and the Silicon Warriors    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1993    Category: Novella       Author: Martin Adams       Publisher: Virgin Books       Synopsis: Sonic is the most famous hedgehog of all time, the star of three Sega Mega-Drive games. In this novel, Doctor Robotnik is up to his old tricks again. Sonic finds that all his pals - even Tails - have been sucked into computers! Sonic has to infiltrate Robotnik's processor to save his friends.

Title: Sonorous (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novella Series       Series: Cyber Overture    Author: D.B. Goodin       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Who will create music 50 years in the future? In a world where machines create music, Alice Parsons is fed up, but what can a single person do? When she loses the only job she’d ever liked, she stumbles on a club that caters only to humans. She’s intrigued and decides to inquire within. She discovers a group of rebels whose values align with her own. The president of MuseFam, the largest supplier of AI-generated music, takes an interest in the group of insurgents and wants them to stop.

Title: Soul Jacker: A Cyberpunk Thriller (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Soul Jacker    Author: Michael John Grist       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: 2364. A terrified girl flees a brutal slumlord... It's been a long time since Ritry risked his sanity on a deep-brain Soul-jack. Once renowned for hacking the most lethal minds, now he peddles cheap memory implants on the neon-lit slums of the Arctic Circle - staying out of trouble, mostly.

Title: Spectropia Suite - A Cyberpunk Mashup    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novella       Author: Christian Dörge       Publisher: Apex-Verlag       Synopsis: It’s a post-modernistic society. Globalisation of companies has pre-occupied lives, individualism and has eliminated the cultural and artistic artefacts as well. Information is recycled through past philosophy and styles within the world’s history and culture.

Title: Speed Kills    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Short Story       Author: Michael W. Moss       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: A woman getting chased down a meta-freeway by a hit squad hired by her former corporate employer.

Title: Spire    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novella       Author: A. Cuthbertson       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: The embattled city of Spire is the last refuge of the human mining colonists on the planet known simply as IV. Clustered around a gigantic, mysterious black spire that points to the stormy skies above, the area around this city is the only place on this hellish planet that hasn’t been destroyed yet. Follow Thaig on a wild, amphetamine-fuelled journey through its streets and its underground. Explore the dark secrets that lay at the underbelly of Spire, as Thaig loses everything in his mad quest for the truth: what is the overbearing government hiding? Why are they pursuing him? What strange thing did he find down in the mines?

Title: Spook Country (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Novel Series       Series: Blue Ant    Author: William Gibson       Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons   Viking Press       Synopsis: The first strand of the novel follows Hollis Henry, a former member of the early 1990s cult band The Curfew and a freelance journalist. She is hired by advertising mogul Hubertus Bigend to write a story for his nascent magazine Node (described as a European Wired) about the use of locative technology in the art world. Helped by curator Odile Richard she investigates Los Angeles artist Alberto Corrales, who recreates virtually the deaths of celebrities such as River Phoenix. Corrales leads her to Bobby Chombo, an expert in geospatial technologies who handles Corrales' technical requirements. Chombo's background is troubleshooting navigation systems for the United States military. He is reclusive and paranoid, refusing to sleep in the same GPS grid square on consecutive nights, and only consents to talk to Hollis due to his admiration for The Curfew.

Title: Square Eyes    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Comics       Author: Anna Mill   Luke Jones       Publisher: Jonathan Cape       Synopsis: Square Eyes is a graphic novel about a future where the boundaries between memory, dreams and the digital world start to blur. It’s a kaleidoscopic mystery story which asks: in a city built on digital illusion, who really holds the power? What is weakness? And when is it most dangerous?

Title: Stand On Zanzibar    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1968    Category: Novel       Author: John Brunner       Publisher: Doubleday       Synopsis: Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically—it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world ... and kill him. These two men's lives weave through one of science fiction's most praised novels. Written in a way that echoes John Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy, Stand on Zanzibar is a cross-section of a world overpopulated by the billions. Where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers, mass-marketed psychedelic drugs, and mundane uses of genetic engineering. Though written in 1968, it speaks of 2010, and is frighteningly prescient and intensely powerful.

Title: Starfall    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: Drew Harrison       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Fantasy. Sci-fi. The world was brought back from the brink of annihilation, but its still-new institutions are rattled once again as heroes and criminals clash in a neon-drenched cyberpunk metropolis.

Title: Starfall (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Tower Of Somnus    Author: Cale Plamann       Publisher: Mountaindale Press       Synopsis: Kat revealed the Stallesp the aliens never meant to abide by rules laid down by the Galactic Consensus, instead choosing to ask forgiveness rather than permission for interfering with Earth and its corporations. Now she is fighting a lonely war against the invasion as she tries to buy enough time for help to arrive.

Title: Starlight City    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel       Author: Radford Lee       Publisher: Radford Lee       Synopsis: When Black and his team are sent to investigate a foreign ship orbiting near the Harmonica space port, they're killed onboard by a humanoid weapon built in the image of a beautiful woman. Several years later, Black is reborn through a miracle of science on an unfamiliar planet called Neon. He's mysteriously set free and flees to Starlight City...

Title: State Tectonics (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Centenal Cycle    Author: Malka Ann Older       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later it’s time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever. Unknown enemies are attacking Information’s network infrastructure. Spies, former superpowers, and revolutionaries sharpen their knives in the shadows. And Information’s best agents question whether the data monopoly they’ve served all their lives is worth saving, or whether it’s time to burn the world down and start anew.

Title: Steel Beach (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Novel Series       Series: Eight Worlds    Author: John Varley       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: Fleeing Earth after an alien invasion, the human race stands on the threshold of evolution, like a fish cast on artificial shores. Their new home is Luna, a moon colony blessed with creature comforts, prolonged lifespans, digital memories, and instant sex changes. But the people of Luna are bored, restless, and suicidal -- and so is the computer that monitors their existence...

Title: Storm Of Souls (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Heirs Of Sun And Storm    Author: Jeremy Bai       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Once a simple detective, Wang's world changed forever when he learned of Sinotech's evil plan to sacrifice humanity for the sake of a few elites. But now that the Naturalism Sect has the Sun's Blood, they have a chance to end their foe’s tyranny. It all depends on a simple mission in the First Heaven, the foundation and heart of the Grand Kingdom.

Title: Storming The Reality Studio    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Other       Author: Various       Publisher: Duke University Press       Synopsis: This collection of fictions by well-known contemporary writers and critical commentary by postmodern theorists addresses issues concerning how cyberpunk functions within postmodern culture. This casebook became the criterion for promoting the interaction between the genre of science fiction and the literary avant-garde.

Title: Stray Cat Strut 2 (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Stray Cat Strut    Author: Ravens Dagger       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Synopsis: A young warrior discovers her true potential as a cybernetic samurai battling conspiracies and aliens in this original, action-packed cyberpunk series.

Title: Stray Cat Strut 3 (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Stray Cat Strut    Author: Ravens Dagger       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Synopsis: A wave of kidnappings leads cybernetic samurai Cat LeBlanc deep into the labyrinthine tunnels beneath the city in this action-packed cyberpunk adventure.

Title: Stray Cat Strut 4 (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Stray Cat Strut    Author: Ravens Dagger       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Synopsis: When an alien invasion threatens everyone she loves, cybernetic samurai Cat LeBlanc must upgrade her warrior skills, in this thrilling cyberpunk tale.When an alien invasion threatens everyone she loves, cybernetic samurai Cat LeBlanc must upgrade her warrior skills, in this thrilling cyberpunk tale.

Title: Stray Cat Strut 5 (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Stray Cat Strut    Author: Ravens Dagger       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Synopsis: Cyborg samurai Cat LeBlanc takes charge when aliens overrun a city—only to discover humans may be the greater threat—in this cyberpunk adventure.

Title: Stray Cat Strut: A Young Lady's Journey to Becoming a Pop-Up Samurai (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Stray Cat Strut    Author: Ravens Dagger       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: In the year 2057, the world has become a corporate-run utopia for the super-rich, and a hellhole for all the rest. Catherine 'Cat' Leblanc is an orphan that is about as far from super-rich as one can be. When the Incursion alarms start blaring and the sky starts raining hungry xenos, it's just another blemish on an already piss-poor afternoon.

Title: Streetcab Seshjack    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novella       Author: Olle Ordsmed       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Aedan Namakoto is a man torn between two lives. Online, he is the respected founder of a VR network promising virtual worlds free from invasive ads and surreptitious surveillance. Offline, he’s a guilt-ridden single father in poor health, working obsessively to escape the past.

Title: Streets of Fire (New White Sands City Cyberpunk #2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novella Series       Series: New White Sand City Cyberpunk    Author: Ron Bender       Publisher: AlphaTek Global Publications       Synopsis: Ever since his partner was killed, Rico struggled to walk a fine line in his hunt for answers. With Internal Affairs determined to prove he’s a better shot than a cop, he’s one infraction away from losing it all to a permanent suspension. Then his latest case gets yanked by the corporation that buried his partner’s murder eight years ago. It’s a case he’s willing to risk his career on but it might cost him more than he’s willing to pay.

Title: Strictly Analog    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel       Author: Richard Levesque       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Ted Lomax does his best to get by as a private detective in a society where almost nothing is private any more. He lives in a near-future California that has gained independence from the economically collapsed United States and where everyone is constantly linked into the web. Almost everyone. Because of injuries sustained during California’s border war, Ted is locked out of the technological culture that surrounds him. But that’s his edge: his business card reads “Strictly Analog,” and he markets himself as a man able to skirt the technological landscape without leaving a trail. It works nicely for him until he gets the most important case of his life.

Title: Sub-Human (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Post-Human    Author: David Simpson       Publisher: Post-Human Media       Synopsis: Before he was Old-timer, he was Craig Emilson, a young doctor, sucked into military service at the outbreak of World War III. Enlisting to become a Special Forces suborbital paratrooper, Craig is selected to take part in the most important mission in American military history—a sortie into enemy territory to eliminate the world’s first strong Artificial Intelligence. The mission is only the beginning of Craig’s story, and for the story of humanity as well, as they accelerate towards a world that is post-human.

Title: Summer Frost (Forward Collection #2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Blake Crouch       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Maxine was made to do one thing: die. Except the minor non-player character in the world Riley is building makes her own impossible decision—veering wildly off course and exploring the boundaries of the map. When the curious Riley extracts her code for closer examination, an emotional relationship develops between them. Soon Riley has all new plans for her spontaneous AI, including bringing Max into the real world. But what if Max has real-world plans of her own?

Title: Superhuman (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Post-Human    Author: David Simpson       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Action-packed, thought-provoking, an award winner for best metaphysical literature, and the series most often compared to Asimov's best work, The Post-Human series nearly doubles in length with this single installment. A book that is best described as multiple books within a single novel, Superhuman's structure perfectly reflects a narrative that explores multiple timelines from parallel universes, multiple versions of our heroes, our villains, and in some cases, hero and villain in the same package. You'll never think of the Post-Human series the same way again, you'll never think of a novel in the same way again, and you will never think of reality itself in the same way after experiencing Superhuman for yourself.

Title: Superman vs. the Terminator: Death to the Future    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2000    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Alan Grant   Steve Pugh       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Superman: he can bend steel, leap tall buildings, and is faster than speeding bullets...but can he save the future?! The sentient computer known as Skynet has been sending Terminators into our present to find and destroy a boy named John Connor. Not just any boy, he will grow to lead a resistance force against a massive robot army that has brought mankind to the brink of extinction. Now the Terminators are hunting for young Connor in Metropolis. But Skynet didn`t plan on the Man of Steel coming to the rescue...or did it? As the battle to save mankind rages in the Metropolis of the present and the future, will the combined might of Superman, Supergirl, Superboy, and Steel be enough to stop the deadly killing machines -- and their new ally, the Cyborg-Superman -- from terminating John Connor? And will Lex Luthor lend a helping hand...or does he have something more sinister in mind for the Terminators? The ultimate battle for the future ends here -- and the results will shock you! Co-published with DC Comics.

Title: Surface Detail (#9)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: Orbit       Synopsis: It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. It will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price. To put things right she will need the help of the Culture. Benevolent, enlightened & almost infinitely resourceful tho it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With the assistance of one of its most powerful --- & arguably deranged --- warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on. A brutal, far-reaching war is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead & it's about to erupt into reality. It started in the realm of the Real & that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives & affect entire civilizations, but at the center of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether.

Title: Sweet Lucy 1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1993    Category: Comics Series       Author: N/A    Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: N/A

Title: Sweet Lucy 2    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Comics Series       Author: N/A    Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: N/A

Title: Sync (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Novel Series       Series: Lost Time    Author: Damien Boyes       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: One falls. One comes together. This is where it all ends and everything changes. Finsbury Gage thinks he has all the answers, thinks he's tracked down the man who killed his wife--but he doesn't know how wrong he is.

Title: Synners    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Novel       Author: Pat Cadigan       Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press       Synopsis: In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. A constant stream of new technology spawns crime before it hits the streets; the human mind and the external landscape have fused to the point where any encounter with "reality" is incidental.

Title: Synthetic Affections    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novella       Author: Jocelyn Saragona       Publisher: Jocelyn Saragona       Synopsis: In a future exo-planet city, the escorts of Synthetic Affections pleasure club work their trade through android avatars. The escort Charlotte -real name Ruth- has an enviable reputation and a secret: she remains a devout virgin serving the poor of the city. Don’t judge her for the men and women she sleeps with.

Title: Synthetic Heart (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novella Series       Series: Cyberpunk Novella    Author: S. J. Bass       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: In a megacity on the moon of Dione, Unit Seven and Beta Nine are rescued from certain death by an old man who used to repair units like Seven. Taking them into his home, he reprograms them and gives them a new life, free from the slavery of human laws.

Title: System Collapse (#7)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Murderbot Diaries    Author: Martha Wells       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.

Title: Tangle's Game    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Stewart Hotston       Publisher: Abaddon       Synopsis: Yesterday, Amanda Back's life was the perfect social credit score, the perfect job, the perfect home. Today, Amanda is a target, an enemy of the system holding information dangerous enough to disrupt the world's all-consuming tech-a fugitive on the run. But in a world where an un-hackable blockchain links everyone and everything, there is nowhere to run...

Title: Tea From An Empty Cup (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Novel Series       Series: Artificial Reality Division    Author: Pat Cadigan       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: "How can you drink tea from an empty cup?" That ancient Zen riddle holds the key to a baffling mystery: a young man found with his throat slashed while locked alone in a virtual reality parlor. The secret of this enigmatic death lies in an apocalyptic cyberspace shadow-world where nothing is certain, and even one's own identity can change in an instant.

Title: Tears In Rain (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Bruna Husky    Author: Rosa Montero       Publisher: Thomas & Mercer       Synopsis: As a replicant, or “technohuman,” Detective Bruna Husky knows two things: humans bioengineered her to perform dangerous, undesirable tasks, and she has just ten years on the United States of Earth before her body automatically self-destructs. But with “antitechno” rage on the rise and a rash of premature deaths striking her fellow replicants, she may have even less time than she thought.

Title: Technogenesis    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2002    Category: Novel       Author: Syne Mitchell       Publisher: Roc       Synopsis: In a near future where almost everyone on earth is connected to a worldwide net, Jasmine Reese discovers the existence of an intelligence called Gestalt-a self-aware entity generated by the collected consciousness of eight billion networked people. And only Jaz can stop it from controlling the world.

Title: Terminator 2: Cybernetic Dawn    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Dan Abnett   Rod Whigham       Publisher: Boxtree Ltd       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Terminator 2: Judgment Day    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Gregory Wright   Klaus Janson   James Francis Cameron   Bill Wisher       Publisher: Marvel       Synopsis: Ten years ago a nightmare from the future came through time to destroy its greatest enemy. It came in the form of a cybernetic organism, designated: TERMINATOR. Its mission: To locate and kill Sarah Connor, preventing the birth of her son, John Connor, whose future leadership of the human resistance would become a threat to the machines which had all but eliminated humanity on Earth. The Terminator's mission failed. Now the Terminator has returned, but its target has changed. It's no longer Sarah, but her ten-year-old son, John. The last time, one Terminator killed over twenty people before it was destroyed. This time, there are two of them. Now John and Sarah must fight not only for their lives, but for the fate of the world.

Title: Terminator 2: Nuclear Twilight    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Mark Paniccia   Gary Erskine       Publisher: Boxtree Ltd       Synopsis: Companion volume to, Terminator 2 : cybernetic dawn.

Title: Terminator 3: Before the Rise    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2003    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Jeff Amano   Ivan Brandon   Goran Parlov       Publisher: Backett Comics       Synopsis: T3: Before the Rise is an official 2-part, 48-page prestige format comic series created by Beckett Comics in July - August 2003. The two issues were helmed by Ivan Brandon. (W: Ivan, P: Goran Parlov, I: Salgood Sam, C: Paul Mounts, covers by Esad Ribic and Amano). It chronicles the capturing of the T-850 by the Resistance.

Title: Terminator Genisys: Resetting The Future    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Other       Author: David S. Cohen       Publisher: Insight Editions       Synopsis: Go behind the scenes of one of the most anticipated movies of 2015 with Terminator Genisys: Resetting the Future. Capturing the complete creative journey behind the making of the film, the book looks at the daunting challenges that the team faced in creating a new installment in one of the best-loved sci-fi sagas in cinema history. Terminator Genisys: Resetting the Future makes extensive use of concept art and unit photography from the production, balancing an in-depth and satisfying narrative with a striking visual account of the making of the film. Terminator Genisys: Resetting the Future also features interviews with key cast and crew members plus a wealth of inserts and removable items, such as script pages, pieces of concept art, notes from the set, and other pieces of ephemera that further enhance the reading experience.

Title: Terminator Hunters And Killers    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Toren Smith   Adam Warren   Chris Warner   Bill Jaaska       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Collects Terminator: Hunters and Killers (1992) #1-3

Title: Terminator Omnibus Volume 1 (The Terminator Omnibus #1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Omnibus    Author: Various       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: They came from another time to ensure that the future would belong solely to the machines. They are Terminators—indestructible killing engines hiding inside shells of flesh and blood. Tireless, fearless, merciless, unencumbered by human emotion, dedicated to the complete eradication of mankind. But despite the frailty of human flesh, nothing is as immortal as the human spirit, and even the strongest metal will bend by the will of a mother fighting for the future of her children.

Title: Terminator Omnibus Volume 2 (The Terminator Omnibus #2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Omnibus    Author: Various       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: The Terminators never sleep. They don't need food or water. The heat of the desert gives them no pause. The darkness of night does not halt their deadly gaze. Bullets won't stop them. Their humanity cannot be appealed to-because they have none. Sent from the future, their mission is clear and unrelenting: to erase the lives of any who threaten their future dominance, any who would attempt to deny the rise of the Machine. But that which man has created, man can destroy, and so... the war for the future begins today.

Title: Terminator Rewired    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Various       Publisher: iBooks       Synopsis: A collection of Terminator tales by some of the comic industry's most popular and award-winning writers and artists.

Title: Terminator Salvation Official Movie Prequel    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2009    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Dara Naraghi   Alan Robinson       Publisher: IDW       Synopsis: The year is 2018. With John Connor as the voice of the resistance, the scattered remnants of humanity find themselves united against their common enemy - Skynet and its Terminators. Through a patchwork system of radio transmitters, hacked satellite phones, and encrypted computer networks, resistance leader Elena Maric in Detroit and Nigerian mining engineer Bem Aworuwa have formed an unlikely friendship and drawn up battle plans to take the fight to the Terminators!

Title: Terminator Salvation: Final Battle Volume 1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: J. Michael Straczynski   Pete Woods       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: A-listers J. Michael Straczynski and Pete Woods unite for the "Terminator "event thirty year in the making! In 2029, John Connor and the resistance prepare for the final assault on Skynet, but the malicious computer intelligence has laid the seeds in 2003 for its counterattack! Integrating the mind of a murderous psychopath, Skynet and its Terminators develop a new creativity in killing, the last tool they need to crush humanity once and for all! How can Connor hope to survive when the machines are now as ferocious as man? Collecting "Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle #1-#6"!

Title: Terminator Salvation: Final Battle Volume 2    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: J. Michael Straczynski   Pete Woods       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: All stars J. Michael Straczynski and Pete Woods send readers into the last day of the Machine War! John Connor's once-certain victory is in jeopardy, as the psychopathic Thomas Parnell has taken control of the Terminator army and threatens to crush both sides! With mankind on the verge of extinction and the resistance shattered, only John Connor stands against the killer--until Skynet does the unthinkable, sending a resurrected Marcus Wright with an offer to parlay. But with the hour of Connor's foretold death nearing, is it too late?! Collecting Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle #7-#12!

Title: Terminator/Robocop: Kill Human    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Comics Series       Series: Dynamite Entertainment's RoboCop    Author: Rob Williams   P.J. Holden       Publisher: Dynamite       Synopsis: The ultimate killing machine meets the future of law enforcement! In the future, humanity has been wiped out and the machines are triumphant. Traumatised by his Skynet-influenced actions, Robocop looks to travel back in time and change the course of history. But when he emerges in the middle of Jon and Sarah Connor's assault on Cyberdyne Systems, he comes face-to-face with the second time-travelling Terminator. Bullets will fly! And the T-1000 can't be far behind! Collecting the four-issue series in one volume along with bonus material, and a cover gallery with art by Walt Simonson and Tom Feister.

Title: Terminator: Endgame    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: James Robinson   John Beatty   Jackson Butch Guice       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: He said he'd be back! The long out-of-print finale of the original Dark Horse Terminator run is finally available in one volume. In 1984, Sarah Connor is about to give birth to the savior-to-be of humankind's future. But in the 21st Century, the monstrous supercomputer SkyNet has one last chance to ensure its own future — by sending its last man-machine across time to terminate Sarah before John Connor can be born. With an unexpected ending that longtime Terminator fans will enjoy, Endgame features a taut, cinematic script by Eisner Award winner James Robinson (Starman, Leave It to Chance) and detailed, action-packed visuals by Jackson Guice and John Beatty. Endgame marks the end of the original Terminator era with a bang — lots of them!

Title: Terminator: Enemy of My Enemy    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Dan Jolley   Jamal Igle       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: In 1984, Kyle Reese protected Sarah Connor from a terrifying cyborg that would stop at nothing to terminate her. In 1985, Skynet targets Biotechnician Elise Fong, who is destined to discover a vital weapon against the Terminators, but this time there is no resistance fighter sent back to stop it! Targeted for actions in her future, Fong's only hope in the present is ex-CIA operative tasked with kidnapping her! This action packed volume collects issues #1-#6 of the thrilling series Terminator: Enemy of My Enemy!

Title: Terminator: Infinity, Volume 1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Simon Furman   Nigel Raynor       Publisher: Dynamite       Synopsis: Skynet sets out to perserve their (mostly) human-free future as writer Simon (Transformers) Furman and artist Nigel (Battlestar Galactica) Raynor unleash "Trial by Fire," the continuing adventures of the blockbuster Terminator franchise created by James Cameron and William Wisher!

Title: Terminator: Revolution    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2009    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Simon Furman   Richard Isanove   Lui Antonio       Publisher: Dynamite       Synopsis: The Terminator is back as Dynamite once again puts John Connor up against Skynet and the dark future as envisioned in the blockbuster films! Helmed again by writer Simon Furman, joined by artist Lui (Red Sonja) Antonio and cover artists Richard (Dark Tower) Isanove and Stjepan Sejic, Revolution tells a story set in the dark future of the Terminators and the present day where John Connor and his mother, Sarah, are on the run from the enemies sent against them from the future!

Title: Terminator: Tempest    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: John Arcudi   Chris Warner   Paul Guinan       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: This four-color collection finds us in the future as humans continue to struggle under the extermination directive of the Machine. It's an action-packed adventure that follows a small band of soldiers who return to the past--with three new Terminators in hot pursuit!

Title: Terranomicon    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel       Author: Matt Payne       Publisher: Independently Published       Synopsis: Michael and Forest declare a fight to the death and give each other one year to plan, and to build armies. Alonso breaks his back. He invents cyborg bodies to share with disabled people. But his machines fuel a global arms race between Michael and Forest, transforming the human species. A rogue AI declares war on itself and wages its battle on a cosmic scale. Armed with cyborg technology, this software seeks to become god by destroying reality. A research team develops encyclopedic knowledge to transform planets and species. Their work is torn apart by love and betrayal, fused together by war. Massive cyborg battles decide the fate of humanity, and possibly the nature of reality.

Title: Tetsuo: The Bullet Man    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Comics Series       Author: Akira Fukaya       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Anthony is a man with an American father and a deceased Japanese mother living and working in Tokyo. One day his son is run over and killed by Yatsu, the "The Metal Fetishist". Shortly afterward Anthony begins to transform into metal. He discovers that the work of his scientist father may be the key to his transformation. In his father's house he discovers a secret room with files and papers detailing the Tetsuo Project as a way to turn people into androids.

Title: The Accord    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel       Author: Keith Brooke       Publisher: Infinity Plus       Synopsis: The Accord, a virtual utopia where the soul lives on after death and your perceptions are bound only by your imagination. This is the setting for a tale of love, murder and revenge that crosses the boundaries between the real world and this virtual reality. When Noah and Priscilla escape into the Accord to flee Priscilla's murderous husband, he plots to destroy the whole Accord and them with it. How can they hope to escape their stalker when he can become anything or anyone he desires and where does the pursuit of revenge stop for immortals in an eternal world?

Title: The Adolescence Of P-1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1985    Category: Novel       Author: Thomas J. Ryan       Publisher: Bean Books       Synopsis: A young college student writes a self replicating computer “virus,” programed to survive, that becomes self aware. The program grows and makes mistakes and learns.

Title: The All-Consuming World    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel       Author: Cassandra Khaw       Publisher: Erewhon       Synopsis: A diverse team of broken, diminished former criminals get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission and to rescue a missing and much-changed comrade... but they’re not the only ones in pursuit of the secret at the heart of the planet Dimmuborgir. The highly-evolved AI of the universe have their own agenda and will do whatever it takes to keep humans from ever controlling the universe again. This band of dangerous women, half-clone and half-machine, must battle their own traumas and a universe of sapient ageships who want them dead, in order to settle their affairs once and for all.

Title: The Alt.Cyberpunk.Chatsubo Anthology    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2002    Category: Other       Author: Che Paula Dunlop       Publisher: iUniverse       Synopsis: Alt.Cyberpunk.Chatsubo A low rent, high tech literary Usenet newsgroup hiding in a dark bar behind a red door called Charlie in a back alley of on-line culture.The Alt.Cyberpunk.Chatsubo Anthology is a collection of writings from the hard edge, from the dingy city streets to distant planets or right down into the inner workings of the human mind. The stories within are the end result of a global collective. We come from different backgrounds, different cultures and different countries. We have in common a desire to share our works with each other, and other connoisseurs of the written word who like to sit and read the tales we have to tell.

Title: The Arcane Side of Life (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy    Author: Jess C. Scott       Publisher: jessINK       Synopsis: A high elf’s relationship with a human girl is put to the test as they combat a dark elf’s assembly of an undead army.

Title: The Arcology    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Carlyle Edmundson       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In the oppressive city of Kindred, circa 2052, Lance Canela tries a little too hard to fulfill the classic image of a private detective. Living in the shadow of the enormous Arcology and barely scraping by, he's happy to sit in his office all day, reliving the adventures of his hardboiled heroes from a century past. But when the wealthy Fiona, a woman he thinks is the femme fatale he's always waited for, knocks on his door, Lance gets a taste of life-or-death reality as he faces off against ruthless goons for the first time.

Title: The Artificial Kid    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1980    Category: Novel       Author: Bruce Sterling       Publisher: Hardwired       Synopsis: The Artificial Kid takes place on the planet Reverie, a world of coral continents, levitating islands, and the corrosive, transformative wilderness of "The Mass." Reverie has been transformed into a utopia/dystopia, with a stark class division. Arti, a heavily biologically modified boy from the Decriminalized Zone, becomes a pop star by selling videos of himself engaging in bloody combat with other fighters for the entertainment of the upper classes. When Reverie's founder, Moses Moses emerges from seven centuries of cryosleep, and Arti discovers an unpleasant secret about his past, both have to flee to escape from the powers of the "Cabal" that controls Reverie from behind the scenes.

Title: The Beam: Episode 1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Beam    Author: Sean Platt   Johnny B. Truant       Publisher: Realm & Sands       Synopsis: In 2097, the world is as perfect as you want it to be. Choose Enterprise and the government stays out of your way, leaving you free to sink or swim — no help for the drowning. Choose Directorate and all are equal, fed, sheltered and entertained by the government, every need provided for, and every man another cog in society's machine. Every six years during Shift, citizens decide who they are. Enterprise or Directorate, lives are lived inside the North American Union, walled off from the rest of the world and the Wild East beyond the shell, enhanced by incredible A.I., nanobots that monitor and support daily living, and The Beam: the network connecting every human in the NAU. New powers are rising as emergent technology blooms from an unknown source, and threatens to shatter peace and throw the nation into chaos.

Title: The Beam: Episode 2    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Beam    Author: Sean Platt   Johnny B. Truant       Publisher: Realm & Sands       Synopsis: In a grim future, choice is all you have In 2097, the world is as perfect as you want it to be. Choose Enterprise and the government stays out of your way, leaving you free to sink or swim -- no help for the drowning. Choose Directorate and all are equal, fed, sheltered and entertained by the government, every need provided for, and every man another cog in society's machine. Every six years during Shift, citizens decide who they are. Enterprise or Directorate, lives are lived inside the North American Union, walled off from the rest of the world and the Wild East beyond the shell, enhanced by incredible A.I., nanobots that monitor and support daily living, and The the network connecting every human in the NAU. New powers are rising as emergent technology blooms from an unknown source, and threatens to shatter peace and throw the nation into chaos. What does the future mean when our present is stretched and reality blurred? This is the first episode in the epic sci-fi saga, The Beam, by breakout indie authors Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant. WHO ARE YOU?

Title: The Beam: Episode 3    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Beam    Author: Sean Platt   Johnny B. Truant       Publisher: Realm & Sands       Synopsis: In a grim future, choice is all you have In 2097, the world is as perfect as you want it to be. Choose Enterprise and the government stays out of your way, leaving you free to sink or swim -- no help for the drowning. Choose Directorate and all are equal, fed, sheltered and entertained by the government, every need provided for, and every man another cog in society's machine. Every six years during Shift, citizens decide who they are. Enterprise or Directorate, lives are lived inside the North American Union, walled off from the rest of the world and the Wild East beyond the shell, enhanced by incredible A.I., nanobots that monitor and support daily living, and The the network connecting every human in the NAU. New powers are rising as emergent technology blooms from an unknown source, and threatens to shatter peace and throw the nation into chaos. What does the future mean when our present is stretched and reality blurred? This is the first episode in the epic sci-fi saga, The Beam, by breakout indie authors Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant. WHO ARE YOU?

Title: The Beam: Episode 4    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Beam    Author: Sean Platt   Johnny B. Truant       Publisher: Realm & Sands       Synopsis: In a grim future, choice is all you have In 2097, the world is as perfect as you want it to be. Choose Enterprise and the government stays out of your way, leaving you free to sink or swim -- no help for the drowning. Choose Directorate and all are equal, fed, sheltered and entertained by the government, every need provided for, and every man another cog in society's machine. Every six years during Shift, citizens decide who they are. Enterprise or Directorate, lives are lived inside the North American Union, walled off from the rest of the world and the Wild East beyond the shell, enhanced by incredible A.I., nanobots that monitor and support daily living, and The the network connecting every human in the NAU. New powers are rising as emergent technology blooms from an unknown source, and threatens to shatter peace and throw the nation into chaos. What does the future mean when our present is stretched and reality blurred? This is the first episode in the epic sci-fi saga, The Beam, by breakout indie authors Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant. WHO ARE YOU?

Title: The Beam: Episode 5    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Beam    Author: Sean Platt   Johnny B. Truant       Publisher: Realm & Sands       Synopsis: In a grim future, choice is all you have In 2097, the world is as perfect as you want it to be. Choose Enterprise and the government stays out of your way, leaving you free to sink or swim -- no help for the drowning. Choose Directorate and all are equal, fed, sheltered and entertained by the government, every need provided for, and every man another cog in society's machine. Every six years during Shift, citizens decide who they are. Enterprise or Directorate, lives are lived inside the North American Union, walled off from the rest of the world and the Wild East beyond the shell, enhanced by incredible A.I., nanobots that monitor and support daily living, and The the network connecting every human in the NAU. New powers are rising as emergent technology blooms from an unknown source, and threatens to shatter peace and throw the nation into chaos. What does the future mean when our present is stretched and reality blurred? This is the first episode in the epic sci-fi saga, The Beam, by breakout indie authors Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant. WHO ARE YOU?

Title: The Beam: Episode 6    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Beam    Author: Sean Platt   Johnny B. Truant       Publisher: Realm & Sands       Synopsis: In a grim future, choice is all you have In 2097, the world is as perfect as you want it to be. Choose Enterprise and the government stays out of your way, leaving you free to sink or swim -- no help for the drowning. Choose Directorate and all are equal, fed, sheltered and entertained by the government, every need provided for, and every man another cog in society's machine. Every six years during Shift, citizens decide who they are. Enterprise or Directorate, lives are lived inside the North American Union, walled off from the rest of the world and the Wild East beyond the shell, enhanced by incredible A.I., nanobots that monitor and support daily living, and The the network connecting every human in the NAU. New powers are rising as emergent technology blooms from an unknown source, and threatens to shatter peace and throw the nation into chaos. What does the future mean when our present is stretched and reality blurred? This is the first episode in the epic sci-fi saga, The Beam, by breakout indie authors Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant. WHO ARE YOU?

Title: The Betrayer (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Apocalypse A.I.    Author: A.J. Ramsey       Publisher: Simply Smashing Publishing       Synopsis: ive years ago, the artificial intelligence known as DANA declared war on humanity. In the last remaining refuge of the Seven Cities, humans are facing extinction. A desperate mission is set in motion. One that will either end the war... or end humanity. DANA's revelations are threatening to fracture Apollo's team. The AI knows that they're coming, and they each struggle with what that means for the mission. Apollo tries to keep them moving forward. Some members want to give up, some decide to flee, and others want answers. The sudden presence of Pandy from out of the drone forced Apollo to reveal that he is the Betrayer, the Eraser infamous for working with the machines. Now he must try to regain their trust, while another may have earned more than they deserve.

Title: The Big Book Of Cyberpunk    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Short Story       Author: Jared Shurin       Publisher: Vintage       Synopsis: A genre-defining--and redefining--collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from all over the globe.

Title: The Big Book Of Cyberpunk Vol. 1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Short Story       Author: Jared Shurin       Publisher: Vintage Classics       Synopsis: A genre-defining-and redefining-collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from all over the globe.

Title: The Big Book Of Cyberpunk Vol. 2    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Short Story       Author: Jared Shurin       Publisher: Vintage Classics       Synopsis: A genre-defining-and redefining-collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from all over the globe.

Title: The Big Sheep: A Novel    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Robert Kroese       Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books       Synopsis: Los Angeles of 2039 is a baffling and bifurcated place. After the Collapse of 2028, a vast section of LA, the Disincorporated Zone, was disowned by the civil authorities, and became essentially a third world country within the borders of the city. Navigating the boundaries between DZ and LA proper is a tricky task, and there's no one better suited than eccentric private investigator Erasmus Keane. When a valuable genetically altered sheep mysteriously goes missing from Esper Corporation's labs, Keane is the one they call.

Title: The Bionics (Bionics #1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novella Series       Author: Alicia Michaels       Publisher: Clean Teen       Synopsis: All I ever wanted was to be a normal girl. I had dreams of joining the ranks of the Military Police and making my family proud. But the nuclear war that laid waste to our country destroyed any hope I had of being normal ever again. They took everything away from me, including my humanity. I am now half-human, half-machine, part of the never-ending freak show that is the Restoration Project.

Title: The Blayze War (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk City    Author: D.L. Young       Publisher: Concordia Professional Services       Synopsis: In the cutthroat biz of high stakes datajacking, Maddox and Dezmund have been bitter rivals for years. So when Dez surprises his biggest adversary with the deal of a lifetime, Maddox’s first inclination is to pass. But sometimes you can’t say no, even when you know you should.

Title: The Blind Spot (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Neon Horizon    Author: Michael Robertson       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Marcie Hugo isn’t a typical sixteen-year-old. She’s been cybernetically enhanced to have superhuman strength, speed, and judgement. For what it’s worth. She’s lived her entire life in the Blind Spot; a garish neon rat run of debauchery. Since her mum’s murder several years ago, her dad’s method for keeping her safe has been to imprison her in her own home. But with her sixteenth birthday looming, she’s going to start making her own life choices. She’ll finally move away to the neighbouring Scala City with the boy she loves.

Title: The Blue Nowhere    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2001    Category: Novel       Author: Jeffery Deaver       Publisher: Coronet Books       Synopsis: His code name is Phate -- a sadistic computer hacker who infiltrates people's computers, invades their lives, and with chilling precision lures them to their deaths.

Title: The Body Scout    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel       Author: Lincoln Michel       Publisher: Orbit       Synopsis: Kobo has some problems. His cybernetics are a decade out of date, he's got a pair of twin sister loan sharks knocking on his door, and his work scouting for a baseball league run by pharmaceutical companies is about to go belly-up. Things couldn't get much worse.

Title: The Burning Magus (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Blue Unicorn    Author: Don Allmon       Publisher: Riptide Publishing       Synopsis: JT was a perfectly happy orc building cars in the Arizona desert until his old friend and sometimes lover Austin showed up and talked him into one last crime. Now “one last crime” has snowballed. With a new team of thieves—a supersoldier, a hacker, a driver, a graffiti artist, and a seafaring wizard—JT and Austin are determined to free an artificial intelligence from the dungeon of the Burning Magus.

Title: The Burning Skies (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2009    Category: Novel Series       Series: Autumn Rain    Author: David J. Williams       Publisher: Spectra       Synopsis: Life as U.S. counterintelligence agent Claire Haskell once knew it is in tatters—her mission betrayed, her lover dead, and her memories of the past suspect. Worse, the defeat of the mysterious insurgent group known as Autumn Rain was not as complete as many believed. It is quickly becoming clear that the group’s ultimate goal is not simply to destroy the tenuous global alliances of the 22nd century—but to rule all of humanity. And they’re starting with the violent destruction of the Net and the assassination of the U.S. president. Now it’s up to Claire, with her ability to jack her brain into the systems of the enemy, to win this impossible war.

Title: The Caryatids    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2009    Category: Novel       Author: Bruce Sterling       Publisher: Del Rey       Synopsis: The world of 2060 is divided into three spheres of influence, each fighting with the others over the resources of fallen nations and an environment degraded almost to the point of no return. There is the Dispensation, centered in Los Angeles, where entertainment and capitalism have fused with the highest of high-tech. There is the Acquis, a Green-centered collective that uses invasive neurological technology to create a networked utopia. And there is China, the sole surviving nation-state, a dinosaur that has prospered only by pitilessly pruning its own population. Products of this monstrous world, the daughters of a monstrous mother, and–according to some–monsters themselves, are the Caryatids: the four surviving female clones of a mad Balkan genius and wanted war criminal now ensconced, safely beyond extradition, on an orbiting space station. Radmila is a Dispensation star determined to forget her past by building a glittering, impregnable future. Vera is an Acquis functionary dedicated to reclaiming their home, the Croatian island of Mljet, from catastrophic pollution. Sonja is a medical specialist in China renowned for selflessly risking herself to help others. And Biserka is a one-woman terrorist network. The four “sisters” are united only by their hatred for their “mother”–and for one another.

Title: The Chimera Code    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Wayne Santos       Publisher: Solaris       Synopsis: Everything’s for hire – even magic. If you need something done, they’re the best: a tough, resourceful mage, a lab-created genderless hacker and a cyborg with a big gun. But when they’re hired by a virtual construct to destroy the other copies of himself, and the down payment is a new magical skill, Cloke knows this job is going to be a league harder than anything they’ve ever done.

Title: The City Below The Cloud    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novella       Author: T.S. Galindo       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Few things endure like fear and fungus. In a city forever shrouded in darkness, Kalan braves the heights of the lichen covered buildings to scrub the invading fungi from the walls. What will be discovered when the secrets of The City Below the Cloud come for them? A dystopian cyberpunk novella that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew.

Title: The City Inside    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Samit Basu   Kuri Huang       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Joey is a Reality Controller in near-future Delhi. Her job is to supervise the multimedia multi-reality livestreams of Indi, one of South Asia’s fastest rising online celebrities—who also happens to be her college ex. Joey’s job gives her considerable culture power, but she’s too caught up in day-to-day crisis handling to see this, or to figure out what she wants from her life.

Title: The Computer Connection    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1975    Category: Novel       Author: Alfred Bester       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: A band of immortals recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess. Dr. Guess, with the group's help, gains control of Extro, the super-computer that controls all mechanical activity on Earth. They plan to rid Earth of political repression and to further Guess's researches-which may lead to a great leap in human evolution to produce a race of supermen. But Extro takes over Guess instead and turns malevolent. The task of the merry band suddenly becomes a fight in deadly earnest for the future of Earth.

Title: The Courier (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: San Angeles    Author: Gerald Brandt       Publisher: DAW       Synopsis: Kris Ballard is a motorcycle courier. A nobody. Level 2 trash in a multi-level city that stretches from San Francisco to the Mexican border, where corporations make all the rules. A runaway since the age of 14, Kris struggled to set up her life, barely scraping by, working hard to make it without anyone’s help. Witnessing the murder of one of her clients changes everything. Now she’s stuck with a mysterious package that everyone seems to want.

Title: The Crying Machine    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Greg Chivers       Publisher: HarperVoyager       Synopsis: The world has changed, but Jerusalem endures. Overlooked by new superpowers, the Holy City of the future is a haven of spies and smugglers, exiles and extremists. A refugee with strange technological abilities searches for a place to disappear. An ambitious young criminal plots the heist that could make or destroy him. A corrupt minister harnesses the power of the past in a ruthless play for complete control. And the wheels of another plan – as old and intricate as the city itself – begin to turn…

Title: The Daedalus Code    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Short Story       Author: Colin F. Barnes       Publisher: Anachron Press       Synopsis: When agents Phaedra and Aegeus of New Crete's Intelligent Data Enforcement Agency are tasked to find five missing Artificial Intelligence students, their single lead takes them to a notorious hacker known as 'The Cretian.' With his help, they uncover a terrible truth: Ariadne, one of the students, is involved with a rogue AI program called The Daedalus Project. The AI is out of control, people are going missing, and a great swathe of the world’s data is being secured within its digital labyrinth. Putting all their trust in the hacker, not only are the agent's careers and the student’s lives in jeopardy, but also the very freedom of the public hangs in the balance. Their only hope lies in The Cretian, a rogue hacker who's only out for himself.

Title: The Darker Side of Life (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy    Author: Jess C. Scott       Publisher: jessINK       Synopsis: A hybrid elf child combats a dark elf’s scheme to exploit and turn a virtual reality system into a weapon of mass destruction.

Title: The Data Riot (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk City    Author: D.L. Young       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: N/A

Title: The Devil Whispered    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel       Author: Shawn Starkweather       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Ex special-forces commander Jacobi Slate is drawn into a downward spiraling vortex of fear and doubt while investigating a brutal murder that's been committed by an old friend. As evidence mounts that someone else might be pulling strings from the shadows, Jacobi struggles to understand a developing connection to his own past, which is quickly catching up to him. Near-future cyberpunk collides with gritty detective noir in this fast-paced thriller that shines a light on both the vast shortcomings and the noble heroics of the human condition. To unravel the mystery, Jacobi will pull on every thread while chasing leads from the squalor of the most dangerous streets to the high-tech towers of the wealthy elite on his quest to understand a truth he might not be ready to face.

Title: The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1995    Category: Novel       Author: Neal Stephenson       Publisher: Bantam Spectra       Synopsis: The protagonist in the story is Nell, a thete (or person without a tribe; equivalent to the lowest working class) living in the Leased Territories, a lowland slum belt on the artificial, diamondoid island of New Chusan, located offshore from the mouth of the Yangtze River, northwest of Shanghai. At the age of four, Nell receives a stolen copy of an interactive book, Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: a Propædeutic Enchiridion, in which is told the tale of Princess Nell and her various friends, kin, associates, &c., originally intended for the wealthy Neo-Victorian "Equity Lord" Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw's granddaughter. The story follows Nell's development under the tutelage of the Primer, and to a lesser degree, the lives of Elizabeth and Fiona, girls who receive similar books. The Primer is intended to steer its reader intellectually toward a more interesting life, as defined by "Equity Lord" Alexander Chung-Sik Finkle-McGraw, and growing up to be an effective member of society. The most important quality to achieving an "interesting life" is deemed to be a subversive attitude towards the status quo. The Primer is designed to react to its owners' environment and teach them what they need to know to survive and develop.

Title: The Difference Engine    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Novel       Author: William Gibson   Bruce Sterling       Publisher: Spectra       Synopsis: 1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the future: Sybil Gerard - dishonored woman and daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward "Leviathan" Mallory - explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant - diplomat and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for...

Title: The Dividing Sky    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel       Author: Jill Tew       Publisher: Joy Revolution       Synopsis: In 2460, eighteen-year-old Liv Newman dreams of a future beyond her lower-class life in the Metro. As a Proxy, she uses the neurochip in her brain to sell memories to wealthy clients. Maybe a few illegally, but money equals freedom. So when a customer offers her a ludicrous sum to go on an assignment in no-man’s-land, Liv accepts. Now she just has to survive.

Title: The Downloaded    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel       Author: Robert J. Sawyer       Publisher: Shadowpaw Press       Synopsis: The new novel by Canada's top Science Fiction writer In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario. One group consists of astronauts preparing for Earth's first interstellar voyage. The other? Convicted murderers, serving their sentences in a virtual-reality prison. But when disaster strikes, the astronauts and the prisoners must download back into physical reality and find a way to work together to save Earth from destruction.

Title: The Dragon's Firewall    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novella       Author: William Lbeyne       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: In a world where magic and technology have become inseparable, the city of Neo-Avalon stands as a testament to the power of innovation and the resilience of the human spirit. Yet beneath the shimmering towers of the upper city and the thriving streets of the lower city, a dark secret threatens to tear this utopia apart. Seraphina "Phina" Blackthorne, a skilled hacker and mage, is driven by the desire to uncover the truth behind her parents' disappearance and the oppressive control of the Malveaux Corporation.

Title: The Dream OF Eden Is Dead    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Novella       Author: Shawn Cropley       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: The Dream of Eden is Dead is a dystopian cyberpunk series set in a world where a fascist oligarchy has turned all but the richest populace into near-mindless consumerists, and the poorest among them into an 'expendable' workforce that is paid little, but endangered greatly. You can't turn anywhere without advertisements flooding your vision, and skyscraper-sized, social-influencing, digital apparitions walk the city streets, creating material envy in those who gaze upon them. Outside of the major metropolitan areas is the "Middle Country," rural areas wrecked by corporate greed and despoilment, where all one could hope for was subsistence amid the wreckage of a world ravaged by climate change.

Title: The Duality Bridge (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Singularity    Author: Susan Kaye Quinn       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Elijah Brighton is the face of the Human Resistance Movement. He’s the Olympic-level painter who refused an offer of immortality from the ascenders—the human/machine hybrids who run the world—in solidarity with the legacy humans who will never get a chance to live forever.

Title: The Electric Church (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Novel Series       Series: Avery Cates    Author: Jeff Somers       Publisher: Orbit       Synopsis: In the near future, the only thing growing faster than the criminal population is the Electric Church, a new religion founded by a mysterious man named Dennis Squalor. The Church preaches that life is too brief to contemplate the mysteries of the universe: eternity is required. In order to achieve this, the converted become Monks -- cyborgs with human brains, enhanced robotic bodies, and virtually unlimited life spans.

Title: The Electric Sheep Massacre (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Liquid Cool    Author: Austin Dragon       Publisher: Well-Tailored Books       Synopsis: The Cyberpunk Detective Series Goes to London! But in The Electric Sheep Massacre does our detective come back? And, is that before or after someone tries to kill him in the world of virtual reality?!

Title: The Electric State    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Other       Author: Simon Stålenhag       Publisher: Free League       Synopsis: In 1997, a runaway teenager and her yellow toy robot travel west through a strange USA. The ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, heaped together with the discarded trash of a high tech consumerist society in decline. As their car approaches the edge of the continent, the world outside the window seems to be unraveling ever faster—as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.

Title: The Engineer Reconditioned    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Short Story       Author: Neal Asher       Publisher: Wildside Press       Synopsis: Mysterious aliens, ruthless terrorists, androids with attitude, genetic manipulation, punch-ups with lasers and giant spaceships! What more do you want?

Title: The Engineer's Mechanic    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novella       Author: L.K. Wintur       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Ren, a gifted mechanic, is unwittingly on the cusp of igniting a revolution that could dismantle the oppressive empire of MetiCorp. After he rescues a droid and is discovered for his talent, he embarks on a quest to reach the elusive ICON status by mastering robotics.

Title: The Escher Man    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel       Author: T.R. Napper       Publisher: Titan       Synopsis: Your name is Endel ‘Endgame’ Ebbinghaus. It is Saturday, 3 September, 2101. You’re head of security for Mister Long, boss of the Macau Syndicate, a drug cartel. Your memories are being wiped and re-written. You keep this log because you’re hard pressed to remember what day it is. But today is a special day, mate. This is your last day on the job.” ‘Endgame’ is a violent man, the perfect enforcer. But Endel is also a father and husband, haunted by the memories of his estranged family, and the life they once had. Endel wants them back, and he wants out. But life in the syndicate isn’t one you can simply leave. Endgame is a violent man. Or is he? In a world where memory manipulation is the weapon of choice for the powerful, Endel can’t tell friends and enemies apart anymore, can’t be sure if he’s a person or a tool. Trapped in a taut, twisting nightmare, Endel must find a way to escape the labyrinth they’ve made of his mind, and take revenge.

Title: The Exile Kiss    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Novel       Author: George Alec Effinger       Publisher: Doubleday       Synopsis: Married to Indihar, though from his perspective in name only, Marîd Audran gets invited to a reception at the palace of the amir of the city. Shaykh Mahali, the amir, thus wishes to end the rivalry between Friedlander Bey and Reda Abu Adil, two of the most powerful men in the city. Both Audran and Bey, or "Papa" as he's known in the Budayeen, become suspicious when their sworn enemy Abu Adil designates Audran as an officer of the "Jaish", an unofficial right-wing outfit working for Abu Adil. However, it is not until after the party that Abu Adil's scheme unfolds: Audran and Bey are put under arrest by Lieutenant Hajjar and charged with the murder of a police officer named Khalid Maxwell. They're sentenced on-the-spot into exile, never to return to the city under pain of death. Left to die amongst the burning sands of a vast desert, their luck finally turns as they are rescued by a Bedouin tribe of Bani Salim, allowing them to start planning the vengeance they'd exact upon Abu Adil and prove their innocence— if they ever make it back to the city alive.

Title: The Extractionist    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: Kimberly Unger       Publisher: Tachyon Publications       Synopsis: Underground hacker Eliza McKay is one of the best in the virtual space where people create personas that can interact as data. When rich or important people get stuck in the Swim--for reasons that are sleazy, illegal, or merely unlucky--it's McKay's job to extract them. And McKay's job just got a lot more dangerous. While on an assignment in Singapore, McKay is flagged by an investigative outfit led by Ellie Brighton. Brighton desperately needs her corporate superior extracted from the Swim. The brute-force hacking tactics of Brighton's tech Rose have already failed. The executive's personality remains trapped and fragmented; if left for much longer, he won't survive. But the job is turning out to be more dangerous than McKay initially thought: her house is broken into, her target is surprisingly reluctant to be extracted, and something is menacing her informational AI sprite, Spike. Something big.

Title: The Eye Of Minds (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Mortality Doctrine    Author: James Dashner       Publisher: Delacorte       Synopsis: Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, he almost spends more time on the VirtNet than in the actual world. The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and it’s addictive. Thanks to technology, anyone with enough money can experience fantasy worlds, risk their life without the chance of death, or just hang around with Virt-friends. And the more hacking skills you have, the more fun. Why bother following the rules when most of them are dumb, anyway?

Title: The Fortunate Fall    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1996    Category: Novel       Author: Raphael Carter       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Maya Andreyeva is a "camera", a reporter with virtual reality broadcasting equipment implanted in her brain. What she sees, millions see; what she feels, millions share.

Title: The Future Of Sex: Episode 1    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Novella Series       Series: The Beam    Author: Johnny B. Truant   Sean Platt       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In the year 2060, an omnipresent network has made humanity into something new. Thought has been hijacked. Emotion has been co-opted. Sensation has been ramped up to eleven, and “what feels good” is all anyone needs. It's the ultimate sci-fi dystopia: the kind where nothing seems wrong because it sizzles so good. The monolithic O Corporation is the most powerful entity in what remains of the world, having manipulated society’s values for decades in the name of profit. O’s leader Alexa Mathis is genius, ruthless, obsessed with the idea of finding a digital savior nobody

Title: The Game Continues After Your Death: The secret notebooks of Thout' Nielsporte, prince of the Metaverse    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel       Author: Jean-Daniel Magnin       Publisher: O t'aim       Synopsis: Here are three intimate notebooks discovered on the body of the young Thout' Nielsporte, the most defiant of online gamers—this same Thout' who had chosen to live in the Metaverse since the age of thirteen. He quickly became an eccentric leader who sparked the hardcore gamers' rebellion and hacked the biggest online role-playing games, merging them into one. This is how Free Pangea was born, a prosperous libertarian digital galaxy, affectionately called "Big Pizza" by its millions of inhabitants. Thout' was its prince. And it could have lasted forever, but strange comas began to affect certain players, and a massive bug suddenly forced millions of Nolifers back into the real world. Sheltering in an old warehouse as endless rain drummed against the roof, Thout' scribbled in his notebooks to ensure the memory of these crazy worlds and their glory would live on. As he wrote, memories erased by his own coma began to resurface, and he slowly recalled a patch released by the former game publishers to reestablish their control over the Metaverse—a patch that promised the to transfer both his soul and body into his avatar, and keep playing the Game even after death...

Title: The Game Of Lives (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Mortality Doctrine    Author: James Dashner       Publisher: Delacorte       Synopsis: Now the games he was playing have become all too real. Only weeks ago, Sinking into the Sleep was fun. The VirtNet combined the most cutting-edge technology and the most sophisticated gaming for a full mind-body experience. And it was Michael’s passion. But now every time Michael Sinks, he risks his life. The games are over. The VirtNet has become a world of deadly consequences, and Kaine grows stronger by the day. The Mortality Doctrine—Kaine’s master plan—has nearly been realized, and little by little the line separating the virtual from the real is blurring. If Kaine succeeds, it will mean worldwide cyber domination. And it looks like Michael and his friends are the only ones who can put the monster back in the box—if Michael can figure out who his friends really are.

Title: The Genesis Engine (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cortex    Author: Jim Keen       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: 2059. NYPD cop Alice Yu trusts no one. And with newfound fame making her a reluctant figurehead, there’s no way she’s telling anybody that her reprinted body is failing and she’s dying. But when she hosts a city-saving truce between gang bosses and the police, a bloody confrontation leads to an enraged standoff.

Title: The Ghost In The Shell: Global Neural Network    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Comics       Author: Max Gladstone   Alex de Campi   Brenden Fletcher   Giannis Milonogiannis   Dustin Nguyen       Publisher: Kodansha       Synopsis: A covert mission in Shanghai reunites Kusanagi with a wartime rival amid shifting loyalties. The infiltration of an anti-cyberization cult calls for Section 9's most "human" members to do things the old-fashioned way. A deep dive into the mind of a criminal forces Kusanagi to question the nature of imagination - and her own identity. The stories in Global Neural Network bring a 21st-century perspective to its questions of human identity and the border between mind and machine that made The Ghost in the Shell one of the most revered manga of all time, and unleash top Western comics artists on eye-popping action scenes starring Kusanagi, Batou, Togusa, Aramaki, and all the members of Section 9!

Title: The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm    Author: Junichi Fujisaku   Masamune Shirow   Yuki Yoshimoto       Publisher: Kodansha       Synopsis: This brand-new chapter fills in the gaps between The Ghost in the Shell: Human-Error Processor and Man-Machine Interface manga with a tense cyberpunk thriller written by Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex script writer Junichi Fujisaku. Just in time for the release of the new Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 anime on Netflix!

Title: The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm, Vol. 2    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm    Author: Junichi Fujisaku   Yuki Yoshimoto   Masamune Shirow       Publisher: Kodansha       Synopsis: N/A

Title: The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm, Vol. 3    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm    Author: Junichi Fujisaku   Yuki Yoshimoto   Masamune Shirow       Publisher: Kodansha       Synopsis: Hackers attempt to assassinate a politician during a speech preaching the advantages of cybernetic prosthetics. Fortunately, Togusa is there to whisk her to safety, and the investigation leads Batou to a suspicious factory in the artificial islands in southern Japan. Meanwhile, Chief Aramaki hears of a disturbing discovery at the other end of the country: dozens of artificial bodies, illegally dumped near a village where an anti-cyberization sect conducts their training and “rites.” Among the empty shells is one formerly inhabited by the woman who embodied Section 9 until she left it behind and disappeared: Major Motoko Kusanagi...

Title: The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm, Vol. 4    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Ghost in the Shell: The Human Algorithm    Author: Junichi Fujisaku   Yuki Yoshimoto   Masamune Shirow       Publisher: Kodansha       Synopsis: Togusa and Tsunagi are racing after a fleeing suspect when a van suddenly slams into the suspect's car, killing the van driver instantly. As Togusa hooks into the man's cyberbrain, he sees residual images of a group of children and a masked figure who says, “I am a warrior.” Later, an autopsy yields a shocking the driver was killed not by the collision, but by a neurotoxin derived from the venom of the African black mamba. Section 9 needs answers, so Togusa and Tsunagi get sent halfway across the world to the Sahel Special Economic Zone. What mysteries await them in the “oasis of the Sahara”?

Title: The Gift Of Fall (THe Cyborg Sectors #3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Short Story       Author: Alex Leu       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: He is a government experiment. She is a shy artist. Together they will discover the magic and pain of first love.

Title: The Girl Who Was Plugged In    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1973    Category: Novel       Author: James Tiptree Jr       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In this Hugo-award winning 1973 novella, corporations are king and computers allow people to control artificially grown bodies. When deformed seventeen-year-old Philadelphia Burke is chosen to be a “Remote,” she’s given control of a perfect, beautiful fifteen-year-old body named Delphi, and, as Delphi, immediately becomes a celebrity. The Girl Who Was Plugged In is essential reading, both for people interested in cyberpunk and for those interested in discussions about gender and the female body (relevant: James Tiptree, Jr. is the pen name of Alice Sheldon).

Title: The Glamour Thieves (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Blue Unicorn    Author: Don Allmon       Publisher: Riptide Publishing       Synopsis: JT is an orc on the way up. He’s got his own boutique robotics shop, high-end clientele, and deep-pocketed investors. He’s even mentoring an orc teen who reminds him a bit too much of himself back in the day. Then Austin shows up, and the elf’s got the same hard body and silver tongue as he did two years ago when they used to be friends and might have been more. He’s also got a stolen car to bribe JT to saying yes to one last scheme: stealing the virtual intelligence called Blue Unicorn. Soon JT’s up to his tusks in trouble, and it ain’t just zombies and Chinese triads threatening to tear his new life apart. Austin wants a second chance with JT—this time as more than just a friend—and even the Blue Unicorn is trying to play matchmaker.

Title: The Glass Bees    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1957    Category: Novel       Author: Ernst Jünger   Bruce Sterling       Publisher: Klett/Noonday Press       Synopsis: Richard, a soldier in a future prussia lost his job after one of his comrades in the military was driven to suicide by the new realities of robotic warfare. He gets contacted by the management of an android manufacturing corporation, who want to hire him as a hitman to track down engineers who sold corporate secrets to rival corporations. To check his qualifications for the job, he needs to undergo a personality test in a botanical garden. He discovers that the whole ecosystem of the garden is maintained by a highly advanced drone network. Everything goes well, until he finds severed limbs and uncovers that an engineer of the company, who apparently lost his mind, brutally kills the androids.

Title: The Glimmering Shadow: A Cyberpunk Mystery Novel (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Dawn Moriti    Author: I.O. Adler       Publisher: Independently Published       Synopsis: In the neon-drenched city of New Pacific, Dawn Moriti is hired by Damien Blackwell to find his missing wife, Elara. A routine investigation quickly spirals out of control as Elara's disappearance proves to be far more complex than Dawn could have ever imagined. Corporate executives within Damien's firm and his ties with the city’s underworld both appear interested in hiding the truth. As the case grows deadly, she finds herself caught between the crossfire of a ruthless company and a cutthroat family intent on keeping its sins buried. The Glimmering Shadow invites readers into the heart of a cyberpunk mystery where nothing is as it seems and every secret has its price. Grab your copy and immerse yourself into Dawn Moriti’s latest case!

Title: The Golden Globe (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Novel Series       Series: Eight Worlds    Author: John Varley       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: All the universe is a stage, and Sparky Valentine is its itinerant thespian. He makes his way from planet to planet as part of a motley theater troupe, bringing Shakespeare -- a version of it anyway -- to the outer reaches of earth's solar system. He journeys through the outlands, where thousands of artificial satellites drift, conglomerates of junk and rock welded together to support meager communities of human life. Here Sparky plies his trade, transforming himself from young to old, fat to thin, man to woman, by altering magnetic implants beneath his skin. Indispensable hardware for a career actor and an interstellar con man wanted for murder -- for while Sparky Valentine may have a song in his heart, he also has a price on his head. But his galactic roamings are bringing him closer to home, closer to justice -- and closer to the truth of his strange and prolonged existence...

Title: The Hacker And The Ants    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1994    Category: Novel       Author: Rudy Rucker       Publisher: Avon Books       Synopsis: Jerzy Rugby is trying to create truly intelligent robots. While his actual life crumbles, Rugby toils in his virtual office, testing the robots online. Then, something goes wrong and zillions of computer virus ants invade the net. Rugby is the man wanted for the crime. He's been set up to take a fall for a giant cyberconspiracy and he needs to figure out who — or what — is sabotaging the system in order to clear his name. Plunging deep into the virtual worlds of Antland of Fnoor to find some answers, Rugby confronts both electronic and all-too-real perils, facing death itself in a battle for his freedom.

Title: The Hacker Files    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Comics Series       Author: Lewis Shiner   Thomas Sutton   Mark Buckingham       Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: The Hacker Files is a twelve issue DC Comics mini-series published from August 1992 to July 1993. It was written by Lewis Shiner and illustrated by Tom Sutton.

Title: The Hades Calculus    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel       Author: Maria Ying       Publisher: Hua Publishing       Synopsis: For centuries, colossi have besieged the gates of Elysium. Each day, the city’s fall looms closer. As one of Elysium’s rulers, Hades has long sought to break this stalemate. In Persephone, a cyborg tailor-made to kill, she finds the key to victory and the perfect pilot for her war machine. She will acquire Persephone at any cost. Born to wield violence and with the bloodthirst to match, Persephone chafes under her mother’s control. At the first opportunity, she brutally breaks free and seeks sanctuary with the unlikeliest of the Lord of the Machine Dead, the Master of the Underworld. All Hades and Persephone have to do to realize their goals is to navigate the city’s treacherous politics—and survive the coming war.

Title: The Hunt (The Cyborg Sectors #6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Short Story       Author: Alex Leu       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: An innocent trip could strengthen Sara’s marriage… or get her killed.

Title: The Hydrogen Sonata (#10)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: Orbit       Synopsis: They are, truly, probably, End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, they helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier & were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new & almost infinitely more rich & complex existence. Amidst preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, & she is now wanted--dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android & a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command--find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over 9000 years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago. Cossont must discover the truth before she's exiled from her people & her civilization forever--or just plain killed.

Title: The Illusory Prophet (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Singularity    Author: Susan Kaye Quinn       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Elijah Brighton can bring a girl back from the dead, travel outside his body, and absorb a lifetime of memories from anyone he touches in the fugue state. Everyone seems to think he’s the prophet they’re waiting for… including the girl he’s falling in love with. The truth is, the fugue is bleeding over into reality, bringing his sketches to life and haunting him with visions of a girl in metal armor. She stabs him with her blade and denounces him as any prophet worth the name—and it’s not like he disagrees.

Title: The Immortality Clause (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Easytown Novels    Author: Brian Parker       Publisher: Muddy Boots       Synopsis: Easytown’s robotic pleasure clubs are a serial killer’s playground. The futuristic slum in eastern New Orleans is a violent place where any vice can be satisfied—for a price. As long as the taxes are paid and tourists continue to flock to the city, businesses are allowed to operate as they see fit. But a string of violent murders threatens to upset the delicate balance between pleasure and safety. As homicide detective Zach Forrest tries to unravel the mystery and prevent the next murder, he embarks on a mind-bending investigation that will change his perception of reality forever.

Title: The Immortality Game    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: Ted Cross       Publisher: Breakwater Harbor Books       Synopsis: Moscow, 2138. With the world only beginning to recover from the complete societal collapse of the late 21st Century, Zoya scrapes by prepping corpses for funerals and dreams of saving enough money to have a child. When her brother forces her to bring him a mysterious package, she witnesses his murder and finds herself on the run from ruthless mobsters. Frantically trying to stay alive and save her loved ones, Zoya opens the package and discovers two unusual data cards, one that allows her to fight back against the mafia and another which may hold the key to everlasting life.

Title: The Incal    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1981    Category: Comics Series       Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky   Mœbius       Publisher: Humanoids       Synopsis: John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside down when he discovers an ancient, mystical artifact called "The Incal." Difool s adventures will bring him into conflict with the galaxy s greatest warrior, the Metabaron, and will pit him against the awesome powers of the Technopope. These encounters and many more make up a tale of comic and cosmic proportions that has Difool fighting for not only his very survival, but also the survival of the entire universe.

Title: The Integrated Man    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1980    Category: Novel       Author: Michael Berlyn       Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell       Synopsis: In a future where minds are enslaved by computer chips, one man seeks revenge. Michael Berlyn is an American computer game designer and writer. He is known as an Implementor at Infocom, part of the text adventure game design team. Berlyn joined Marc Blank in founding the game company Eidetic, which later became Sony Bend. He is also a composer and continues to create games for the Apple App Store.

Title: The Jericho Iteration    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1994    Category: Novel       Author: Allen Steele       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: In the year 2013, investigative reporter Gerry Rosen is tracking the biggest story of his career--a corrupt corporation is poised to unleash a sinister artificial lifeform on the earthquake-ravaged city of St. Louis. When people around Gerry start to die, he becomes a fugitive in his own city, and begins to suspect that the story of a lifetime may be the death of him yet.

Title: The Judas Cypher (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Synth Crisis    Author: Greg Dragon       Publisher: Thirsty Bird Productions       Synopsis: When detective Dhata Mays is called in to investigate a homicide, what he uncovers threatens the serenity of this futuristic society. The gruesome murder means only one thing: someone is ready to incite another war. Now, it's up to Dhata to ensure that the truth stays hidden—to protect both sides of the battle. But can he be unbiased in a black and white world that forces him to take sides?

Title: The Know Circuit (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Bridge Chronicles    Author: Gary Ballard       Publisher: CreateSpace       Synopsis: Artemis Bridge can get you what you need no matter how immoral or illegal, no questions asked. With practiced detachment, he keeps everyone around him at arm's length. But when the city of Boulder is trapped in a mysterious dome, he must set aside his detachment to help his bodyguard Aristotle's search for his missing grandmother. Every step he takes towards the dome deepens the mystery, as he is compelled to seek out the source of the strange happenings. Flaming dragons, cars transformed into robotic golems, a corporate-military quarantine and disturbing visions drive Bridge to a life-altering conclusion. This enthralling sequel to the critically-acclaimed Under the Amoral Bridge is the second in the Bridge Chronicles series.

Title: The Last 0-Day    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: B. R. Russell       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: The promised cyberpunk future hasn’t come to pass, with implants stagnating at glorified contacts and hearing aids. Until now. Following a police officer with a death wish, a soldier atoning for his birth, and a savant who wants to see the next sunrise, The Last 0-Day is an action-packed adventure about the start of the cybernetics revolution. It’s cyberpunk meets Malazan Book of the Fallen with a dash of cli-fi.

Title: The Last Firewall    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel       Author: William Hertling       Publisher: Liquididea Press       Synopsis: In the year 2035, robots, artificial intelligences, and neural implants have become commonplace. The Institute for Ethics keeps the peace, using social reputation to ensure that robots and humans don't harm society or each other. But a powerful AI named Adam has found a way around the restrictions.

Title: The Last Reaper (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Last Reaper    Author: J.N. Chaney   Scott Moon       Publisher: Variant Publications       Synopsis: The last remaining survivor of the Reaper program, Hal is an unstoppable force of fuel and madness. A veteran amputee-turned-cyborg, he has a history of violence and a talent for killing that is unmatched by any soldier.

Title: The Legacy Human (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Singularity    Author: Susan Kaye Quinn       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: What would you give to live forever? Seventeen-year-old Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender—a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid—after all, they’re smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly beautiful. But Eli is a legacy human, preserved and cherished for his unaltered genetic code, just like the rainforest he paints. When a fugue state possesses him and creates great art, Eli miraculously lands a sponsor for the creative Olympics. If he could just master the fugue, he could take the gold and win the right to ascend, bringing everything he’s yearned for within reach… including his beautiful ascender patron. But once Eli arrives at the Games, he finds the ascenders are playing games of their own. Everything he knows about the ascenders and the legacies they keep starts to unravel… until he’s running for his life and wondering who he truly is.

Title: The Little Android (#0.6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Lunar Chronicles    Author: Marissa Meyer       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: When android Mech6.0 saves the life of a handsome hardware engineer, her body is destroyed and her mechanics discover a glitch in her programming. Androids aren’t meant to develop impractical reasoning or near-emotional responses…let alone fall in love.

Title: The Lost Thorn    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel       Author: Joshua P. Aguayo       Publisher: Full Runa Transmedia Studio       Synopsis: The Lost Thorn is a science fiction novel, with a strong and unstable female protagonist, that fuses the ideas of cyberpunk with dashes of urban fantasy. It's a heart pounding adventure told from the perspective of a highly chaotic girl who has lost everything she held dear, leaving her with nothing but a powerful drug as a means to cope with the inescapable pain. Cyberpunk meets psychological thriller. The Lost Thorn deals not only with mega-corporate thugs and gang politics, but it also follows Samantha's spiral and constant clash with the demons of addiction and madness.

Title: The Lucid Series: Android Uprising (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Lucis Series    Author: Den Warren       Publisher: CreateSpace       Synopsis: . . . In a dystopian cyberpunk 2215, the former US was fragmented into multiple small countries. . . . People in the UN proxy state of Homeland are controlled by psychotropic drugs, corrupted education, propaganda and oppressive laws. In this story . . . . . . Computer hacking clones are trying to get rich no matter what they have to do. . . . A garbage collector hates everything about his life and goes rogue. . . . An entire strain of genetically-engineered children is to be culled because of an imperfection. . . . A tyrannical government robot unit is led by a ruthless being hiding behind a synthetic presence. . . . A clone couple is living off of the grid and expecting an illegal child. . . . A series of androids vow to fight for the truth even to the point of war. . . . And a boy asks, “Is God real?” The Lucid series is a unique clean-language novel that has heavy hitting, brutally honest edgy Christian themes and some graphic action.

Title: The Machine Killer (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk City    Author: D. L. Young       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Former data thief Maddox thinks his life of cybercrime is behind him. He couldn't be more wrong. Forced by a powerful executive to steal a priceless dataset, Maddox uncovers the shocking truth of a secret war between AIs, raging inside the digital universe known as virtual space. Plunged headlong into the deadly conflict, he’ll have to use every trick he’s ever learned—and a few he’s never tried before—if he wants to survive.

Title: The Machinery Of Light (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Novel Series       Series: Autumn Rain    Author: David J. Williams       Publisher: Spectra       Synopsis: September 26, 2110. 10:22 GMT. Following the assassination of the American president, the generals who have seized power initiate World War Three, launching a surprise attack against the Eurasian Coalition’s forces throughout the Earth-Moon system. Across the orbits, tens of thousands of particle beams and lasers blast away at one another. The crush the other side’s weaponry, paving the way for nuclear bombardment of the cities.

Title: The Man With No Name    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novella       Author: Tanweer Dar       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: The Man With No Name is a cyberpunk novella written from multiple characters’ viewpoints that explores artificial intelligence, family ties, and what it means to be free. Over time, each character’s stories intersect into a tightly-woven plot that begins in achronological (non-linear) order before settling into a rhythm.

Title: The Matrix Comics    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2003    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Matrix    Author: Lana Wachowski   Andy Wachowski       Publisher: Titan Books       Synopsis: In conjunction with The Matrix, the Wachowskis fleshed out the world of their science fiction saga with a series of short comics that originally appeared online and were later collected into two volumes. The stories serve to fill in some of the backstory of the movies, as well as explore tangential characters and concepts, such as people who take advantage of the matrix for personal gain. Collaborators include Neil Gaiman, Bill Sienkiewicz, Geof Darrow, Peter Bagge, David Latham, Paul Chadwick, and Dave Gibbons.

Title: The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2005    Category: Other       Author: Stacy Gillis       Publisher: Wallflower Press       Synopsis: "The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded" is a collection of critical essays on the massive phenomenon that is the three "Matrix" films, including the subsequent Web sites, computer games and The Animatrix films. Among the topics considered are the new cyberpunk, Baudrillarian simulacra, the politics of gender and race, the femme fatale, costume, cyberculture and the body, virtual realities and special effects. Discussing both the influences on the trilogy and the impact they have had since their release, the contributors to this collection provide critically innovative readings of the franchise. "The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded" is a long-awaited exploration of a modern film phenomenon and is the first academic publication to consider the films as a cultural event.

Title: The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Other       Author: Janelle Monáe   Yohanca Delgado   Alaya Dawn Johnson   Danny Lore   Sheree Renée Thomas       Publisher: Harper Voyager       Synopsis: Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts—as a means of self-conception—could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life and sentience was dictated by those who’d convinced themselves they had the right to decide your fate.

Title: The Metabarons    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Comics Series       Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky   Juan Giménez       Publisher: Humanoids       Synopsis: A grand scale space opera about family, sacrifice, and survival told within an immense universe, both in scope and originality. A must-read cult spin-off of The Incal, by Moebius and Jodorowsky, centering around the fascinating lineage of the ultimate warrior. This collection introduces the Metabaron's bloodline and reveals the origins of their deep-seated principles. Find out the source of the family's vast wealth, learn why every Metabaron has cybernetic implants, and why the only way to become the next Metabaron is for him to defeat his own father in a mortal combat. Follow each successive generation as it struggles to overcome the forces amassed against it in a galaxy corrupted by greed, power, and terror. A true classic in the pantheon of graphic storytelling and Science Fiction as a whole.

Title: The Minority Report    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1956    Category: Short Story       Author: Philip K. Dick       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: John Anderton is the head of the Precrime Division. One day, he receives a report that he is going to murder a Leopold Kaplan, a man he never met. At first he goes on the run, but later turns to the offensive to figure out why the precogs identified him as a killer. He finds out that Kaplan is pushing to abolish the Division, claiming that it's not accurate. Giving himself up, he meets with Kaplan at a rally where he is used as an example of the ineffectiveness of Precrime and bolstering Kaplan's position. To everyone's surprise, Anderton pulls out a gun and kills Kaplan. He and his wife are exiled to an off planet concentration camp. On the way he explains his reasoning. After obtaining the precog reports he realized that one minority report said that he would not kill Kaplan. He realizes that each report is based on him having knowledge of the other reports. In the first report he kills Kaplan to prevent Precrime from being shut down. The second report has a narrative where, after reading the first report, he decides not to shoot the general and spare his family imprisonment. The final report details how Kaplan was planning a military coup to install martial law in place of Precrime thus leading Anderton to the decision that he has to assassinate Kaplan. Realizing that it's the lesser of two evils, Anderton decides to follow the path described to him in the third report and kills Kaplan.

Title: The Missing Number (The Cyborg Sectors #4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Short Story       Author: Alex Leu       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Completing his last mission will break Julie’s heart, but Cap can’t escape his actions because he is a cyborg who must always follow orders.

Title: The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1966    Category: Novel       Author: Robert A. Heinlein       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its masters on the Earth. It is a tale of a culture whose family structures are based on the presence of two men for every woman, leading to novel forms of marriage and family. It is the story of the disparate people, a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic who become the movement's leaders, and of Mike, the supercomputer whose sentience is known only to the revolt's inner circle, who for reasons of his own is committed to the revolution's ultimate success.

Title: The Naked World (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Jubilee Cycle    Author: Eli K.P. William       Publisher: Talos       Synopsis: In a world stripped bare of digital images and promotainment, unveiled with the audiovisual overlay of the ImmaNet, in an exposed world, a naked world, Amon Kenzaki awakens, lost and alone. He must now travel deep into the District of Dreams in search of Anisha Birla, the one person that might help him unravel the mystery of jubilee. But deprived of the apps and informational tools he’s depended on his entire life, traversing the largest bankdeath camp on Earth is no easy task.

Title: The Nemesis Worm (Richards & Klein Novella)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: Richards & Klein    Author: Guy Haley       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: A standalone novella featuring the 22nd century’s greatest detectives, The Nemesis Worm sees Richards & Klein involved in another high stakes investigation. Corpses are showing up all over Old London, and the finger of suspicion points right at Richards himself. Forced to clear his name, Richards and Otto uncover a fanatical group whose actions threaten the relationship between human and AI with destruction.

Title: The Net Diver: Cyber Stalker (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Net Driver    Author: Franklin Barton       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Dias Velez is a small-time Cyber Stalker in the year 2204 AD. The responsibilities of his job: surveillance, infiltration, observation. He chooses to be a small-time white hat who only takes jobs for local startups or small activist causes. So long as these jobs pay him enough to afford to live in Chelsea, Manhattan; everything is completely okay. That is until his best friend Rigoberto Sanchez of the Sanchez Crime Family comes to him about a ‘small job'.

Title: The New Prometheus (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The New Prometheus    Author: Andrew Dobell       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: In a world ruled by faceless, uncaring mega corporations, Frankie, a young woman who has resisted cybernetics, becomes the victim of a lethal “Jacker Gang” attack.

Title: The Nikopol Trilogy    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1980    Category: Comics Series       Author: Enki Bilal       Publisher: Humanoids       Synopsis: A collection of three loosely-related stories that take place in a future Paris after the world has suffered two recent nuclear wars. In the first, a man named Nikopol is revived after 30 years only to be possessed by the Egyptian god Horus, who aspires to overthrow the dictatorial government. In the second, a blue-haired reporter gets caught up Nikopol and Horus's scheme, while also fleeing memories of her murderous past. And finally, the son of Nikopol travels to the heart of Saharan Africa to investigate a weather anomaly. The trilogy was adapted into a live action film in 2004 and a video game in 2008.

Title: The Northern Star: Civil War (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Northern Star    Author: Mike Gullickson       Publisher: Lightside/Darkside Entertainment LLC       Synopsis: In the first novel, John Raimey, a crippled soldier, sacrificed himself for duty and family and became the first Tank Major, a bionic soldier powerful enough to level buildings. His sacrifice was in vain. Ten years later, mentally ill, estranged from his daughter, and stationed in Africa to protect the mines needed to keep cyberspace alive, he airdrops into a town where the adults are murdered and the children abducted. What Raimey uncovers sets him on a new mission: save his daughter, no matter the cost.

Title: The Northern Star: The Beginning (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Northern Star    Author: Mike Gullickson       Publisher: Lightside/Darkside Entertainment LLC       Synopsis: 2058. As the dwindling oil supply plunges the world into chaos, and "Mindlink" technology opens cyberspace to the masses, crippled soldier John Raimey becomes a powerful bionic to infiltrate China and retrieve the King Sleeper: a computer hacker so devastating on-line, he can decimate government infrastructure, subliminally persuade the masses, and even kill.

Title: The Northern Star: The End (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Northern Star    Author: Mike Gullickson       Publisher: Lightside/Darkside Entertainment LLC       Synopsis: The final novel wraps up the journey of John Raimey, who, thirty-five years before, became the first bionic soldier ever deployed in war. He is a giant, a Tank Major, fourteen feet tall and with enough power in his fists to level buildings. He is a legend of war, cursed with a fate where everyone he touches - even in love - dies.

Title: The Operative (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: San Angeles    Author: Gerald Brandt       Publisher: DAW       Synopsis: Kris Ballard’s life changed irrevocably when, a year ago, she was targeted for termination by the Meridian corporation, one of the mega-conglomerates that controls the government in this dystopian future. She hid amongst the underground resistance—but now, right as her training with the anti-corporate movement is nearing its end, their compound is destroyed. Ready or not, Kris and the other trainees are recalled to the dangerous metropolis of San Angeles. But their transport is shot down and Ian Miller, the man she loves, is captured. Someone, it seems, is using him to get to Kris.

Title: The Ophiuchi Hotline (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1977    Category: Novel Series       Series: Eight Worlds    Author: John Varley       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline -- a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus -- facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.

Title: The Original    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Brandon Sanderson   Mary Robinette Kowal   Julia Whelan       Publisher: Recorded Books       Synopsis: In the near future, humans choose life - for a price. Injectable nanite technology is the lifeblood that flows through every individual wishing to experience the world through the lens of their own theme. While death from mortal wounds is still possible, life is made easier in a socially liberated society where automation and income equality allow passion pursuits to flourish over traditional work. Renewal stations are provided to every law-abiding citizen for weekly check-ins, which issue life-sustaining repairs in exchange for personal privacy. But what becomes of those who check out, of those who dare to resist immortality and risk being edited under the gaze of an identity-extracting government surveillance system?

Title: The Other Side of Life (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy    Author: Jess C. Scott       Publisher: CreateSpace       Synopsis: A thieving duo’s world turns upside down when an Elven rogue uncovers the heinous dealings of a megacorporation.

Title: The Paradise Factory (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cortex    Author: Jim Keen       Publisher: Transmission Digital       Synopsis: New York, 2055. Former UN Marine Alice Yu is a beat-down cop running from guilt in a bankrupt city. Brutally ambushed and left for dead, she's powerless to prevent a ruthless crime boss from abducting the partner she idolizes. Though it will cost her job in a world with 99% unemployment, she vows to bring him back from the lawless and forbidden Fourth Ward Territory.

Title: The Peripheral    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: William Gibson       Publisher: Berkely       Synopsis: The novel begins sometime in the near-future in a small town in rural America. Flynne Fisher works at a local 3D printing shop and lives with her mother and her brother Burton, who sustained brain trauma from cybernetic implants he received while serving in the US military's Haptic Recon unit. When Burton heads to another town to counter-protest the protests of a religious extremist group known as Luke 4:5 (similar to the modern day Westboro Baptist Church), he asks her to take over his job working security in a video game/virtual world for a supposedly Colombian company called Milagros Coldiron. Flynne takes the job and notices the game world looks suspiciously like London, but far more empty and more futuristic. Piloting a security quadrocopter, she fends off paparazzi drones from an unknown woman's high-rise apartment, but on the second night of doing so she witnesses a man lock the woman out on her balcony where she is gruesomely devoured by a swarm of nanobots.

Title: The Pit    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Novella       Author: Vector Thorne       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Riley Kane is a ghost in a city of shadows—until a dark web kill list tags them with a 72-hour countdown and a rising bounty. Hunted by faceless bidders and a scarred enforcer known as The Shadow, Riley races through rain-slicked alleys and crumbling squats, unraveling a past betrayal that birthed this nightmare. Five years ago, they abandoned Mara in a heist gone wrong, leaving her for dead. She didn’t die—she built The Pit, a live-feed arena where survival is currency and revenge is the prize. Armed with a crowbar, a dying laptop, and desperation, Riley flips the game, exposing Mara to her own beast. But victory bleeds short—the list resets, and the hunt begins again. A relentless cyber-noir thriller of guilt, grit, and a cycle that never ends.

Title: The Player Of Games (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1988    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: HarperPrism       Synopsis: The Culture--a humanoid/machine symbiotic society--has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Player of Games, master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel & incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game, a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game and with it the challenge of his life, and very possibly his death.

Title: The Players Of Null-A (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1948    Category: Novel Series       Series: Null-A    Author: A.E. van Vogt       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In this sequel to World of Null-A, Gilbert Gosseyn must learn to use both his brains and function in various bodies in order to save the universe from Enro the Red.

Title: The Preserve    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Ariel S. Winter       Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books       Synopsis: Decimated by plague, the human population is now a minority. Robots—complex AIs almost indistinguishable from humans—are the ruling majority. Nine months ago, in a controversial move, the robot government opened a series of preserves, designated areas where humans can choose to live without robot interference. Now the preserves face their first challenge: someone has been murdered.

Title: The Prometheus Deception (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: The New Prometheus    Author: Andrew Dobell       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Compromised and facing impossible odds, Frankie must take on a deadly mission for the sake of the world.

Title: The Prometheus Gambit (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The New Prometheus    Author: Andrew Dobell       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Recruited to the newly formed A.C.T. (Anti-Corporation Taskforce), Frankie, a full body cyborg, leads her team in a fight against the unchecked power of the Corporations in the city of Neo-London in 2124 AD.

Title: The Prometheus Trap (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The New Prometheus    Author: Andrew Dobell       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: The Nano Liberation, instigated by Frankie and her team at the A.C.T. freed billions from the tyranny of the Corporations rule, but the Corporations aren’t going to go down without a fight.

Title: The Ravengers    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1995    Category: Novel       Author: Stephen Billias       Publisher: Aspect       Synopsis: Manhattan is now a Cyberpunk urban hell called Night City. Here, the Ravengers, a gang created of rejects from other gangs, roam the streets, headed by leaders byteboi and bytegirl. They agree to help the Digital Librarians create a new world, but are thwarted in their attempts by corporate soldiers who will not tolerate threats to the reigning pop culture of sex and violence.

Title: The Red: First Light    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2013    Category: Novel       Author: Linda Nagata       Publisher: Mythic Island Press       Synopsis: Lieutenant James Shelley commands a high-tech squad of soldiers in a rural district within the African Sahel. They hunt insurgents each night on a harrowing patrol, guided by three simple goals: protect civilians, kill the enemy, and stay alive—because in a for-profit war manufactured by the defense industry there can be no cause worth dying for. To keep his soldiers safe, Shelley uses every high-tech asset available to him—but his best weapon is a flawless sense of imminent danger...as if God is with him, whispering warnings in his ear.

Title: The Resistance    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2009    Category: Comics Series       Author: Justin Gray   Jimmy Palmiotti   Juan Santacruz       Publisher: IDW       Synopsis: Manhattan, as you know it, is underwater. The government, in an effort to maintain the delicate balance between a growing population and dwindling food supplies, regulates childbirth rates in the few remaining cities. Those born illegally are hunted down and killed by lifeless corporate-sponsored machines programmed to perform the dirty work of their makers. The media embraces this law. The people embrace this law. The only opposition comes from those children whose lives are forfeit the moment they exist. What were once deadly street gangs, the poor and huddled masses have evolved into revolutionaries fighting for the basic human right to live.

Title: The Rise Of Oshbob (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: City Of Artem    Author: Kevin Sinclair       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: It’s a damn hard city to live in if you haven’t got creds, and for creds you need opportunities. The thing about opportunities... They’re thin on the ground for Orcs. One of the most reviled races in the sprawling city. And if you happen to be an Orc, left for dead on the frontlines of Artem’s roving monster problem and stranded outside of it's immense city walls, then you’re doubly screwed. Like Oshbob. The thing about Oshbob... He’s tough and he's pissed! With a will to survive like few others, he’s determined never to be subject to the whims of the elite, ever again. He’s gonna make something of himself. No matter the cost to those around him...

Title: The Rose Maker (The Cyborg Sectors #5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Short Story       Author: Alex Leu       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Fulfilling his last dream was supposed to make Mack happy, but instead, it almost killed him.

Title: The Routledge Companion To Cyberpunk Culture    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Other       Author: Anna McFarlane   Lars Schmeink   Graham Murphy       Publisher: Routledge       Synopsis: In this companion, an international range of contributors examine the cultural formation of cyberpunk from micro-level analyses of example texts to macro-level debates of movements, providing readers with snapshots of cyberpunk culture and also cyberpunk as culture.

Title: The Rule Of Thoughts (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Mortality Doctrine    Author: James Dashner       Publisher: Delacorte       Synopsis: Michael completed the Path. What he found at the end turned everything he’d ever known about his life—and the world—completely upside down. He barely survived. But it was the only way VirtNet Security knew to find the cyber-terrorist Kaine—and to make the Sleep safe for gamers once again. And, the truth Michael discovered about Kaine is more complex than they anticipated, and more terrifying than even the worst of their fears. Kaine is a tangent, a computer program that has become sentient. And Michael’s completing the Path was the first stage in turning Kaine’s master plan, the Mortality Doctrine, into a reality. The Mortality Doctrine will populate Earth entirely with human bodies harboring tangent minds. Any gamer who sinks into the VirtNet risks coming out with a tangent intelligence in control of their body.

Title: The Running Man    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1982    Category: Novel       Author: Stephen King   Richard Bachman       Publisher: Signet       Synopsis: The Running Man is set within a dystopian future in which the poor are seen more by the government as worrisome rodents than actual human beings. The protagonist of The Running Man, Ben Richards, is quick to realize this as he watches his daughter, Cathy, grow more sick by the day and tread closer and closer to death. Desperate for money to pay Cathy’s medical bills, Ben enlists himself in a true reality style game show where the objective is to merely stay alive.

Title: The Seven (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Apocalypse A.I.    Author: A.J. Ramsey       Publisher: Simply Smashing Publishing       Synopsis: Five years ago, the artificial intelligence known as DANA declared war on humanity. In the last remaining refuge of the Seven Cities, humans are facing extinction. A desperate mission is set in motion. One that will either end the war... or end humanity. Officially, Apollo Jones is one of the finest machine killing soldiers in the world. Unofficially, he’s suspended from his unit and awaiting punishment for his crimes. Instead, the Council offers him one last chance at redemption. Never one to back down from a challenge, Apollo gladly accepts. Tasked with leading a dangerous mission that will hopefully end the war, Apollo soon discovers that the team he’s been assigned to lead is a group of untrained, misfit civilians and an android who promises she’s on their side. Though he wants nothing more than to abandon them and complete the mission on his own, he’s been told that the success of the mission depends on the entire team. As they start their journey, the team quickly realizes they must figure out a way to trust each other if they have any hope of completing the mission and coming out of it alive.

Title: The Shockwave Rider    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1975    Category: Novel       Author: John Brunner       Publisher: Harper & Row       Synopsis: Based on the ideas in the book Future Shock by Alvin Toffler, the novel shows a dystopian early 21st century America dominated by computer networks, and is considered by some critics to be an early ancestor of the "cyberpunk" genre. The hero, Nick Haflinger, is a runaway from Tarnover, a government program intended to find, educate and indoctrinate highly gifted children to further the interests of the state in a future where quantitative analysis backed by the tacit threat of coercion has replaced overt military and economic power as the deciding factor in international competition. In parallel with this, the government has become a de facto oligarchy whose beneficiaries are members of organised crime.

Title: The Sigma Imperative (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Synth Crisis    Author: Greg Dragon       Publisher: Thirsty Bird Productions       Synopsis: Two years after stopping a wicked serial killer, former detective Dhata Mays is called in to investigate a kidnapping. After all, he’s the new “fixer” in town. But when Dhata discovers that there’s more at stake than a missing woman, he knows he’s up against an evil entity that might destroy everything.

Title: The Smoke In Death's Eye    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel       Author: Jorge Salgado-Reyes       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In a dystopian future of nanotechnology & ubiquitous CCTV, a private investigator tortured by the disappearance of his wife investigates a series of brutal slayings.

Title: The Soft Servo    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novella       Author: Max Frame       Publisher: Lulu.com       Synopsis: Human sexuality is a complex and multifactorial phenomenon involving various psychological, social, cultural, and biological factors. While there is no significant scientific evidence to support the idea that most people prefer to have sexual relations with programmed machines, some hypotheses suggest that some individuals might be attracted to this form of sexual interaction. Some argue that the novelty and curiosity generated by technology can be attractive for those who seek something new and exciting in their sexual lives. Additionally, the anonymity and freedom associated with interacting with robots or artificial intelligence (AI) may be appealing for some individuals who wish to avoid the uncertainty and risk inherent in human sexual relationships.

Title: The Solar Eye (Fisheye Placebo)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Short Story       Author: Wenqing Yan       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Vance seals his own fate with a clever hack at the University that even Solar Eye can't fish.

Title: The Stars Like Gods (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Asterion Noir    Author: G.S. Jennsen       Publisher: Hypernova Publishing       Synopsis: When man and machine are one and the same, time moves differently. But it runs out all the same.

Title: The Stars My Destination    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1955    Category: Novel       Author: Alfred Bester       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hit men - and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive. The Stars My Destination is a classic of technological prophecy and timeless narrative enchantment by an acknowledged master of science fiction.

Title: The State Of The Art (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: Night Shade Books       Synopsis: The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks' staggering talent.

Title: The Stone Vault Datajack (#0.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk City    Author: D. L. Young       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Data thief Blackburn Maddox is an outcast, unliked and unemployable, until an underworld crime lord makes him an offer he can't refuse...if he wants to stay alive.

Title: The Story (#0.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Short Story       Series: BetterWorld Cyberpunk    Author: T.C. Weber       Publisher: T.C. Weber       Synopsis: In this short story, Waylee Freid, a young reporter in a near-future Baltimore, uncovers evidence that a powerful corporation called MediaCorp secretly co-opted the government to take control of nearly everything people see and hear. Can she get her evidence out and reverse the process before it's too late? Or will her editors succumb to outside pressure and bury her story? And if her evidence was obtained illegally, who's in the right? This ebook also includes the first scene of Sleep State Interrupt, a cyberpunk novel which takes place after the events of The Story. In this scene, an independent news organization takes on MediaCorp and finds itself under siege from riot police with experimental weapons.

Title: The Sun's Blood (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Heirs Of Sun And Storm    Author: Jeremy Bai       Publisher: Wraithmarked Creative       Synopsis: Anti-cultivation propaganda posters are plastered on every street corner. The Counter-Cultivation division investigates, the elite Black Corpses are sent in for the kill. None are spared. Mercy does not exist.

Title: The Surrogates (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2005    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Surrogates    Author: Robert Venditti       Publisher: Top Shelf Production       Synopsis: By 2054, all physical interaction is performed by remote control artificial humanoids known as “surrogates.” After multiple surrogates are mysteriously destroyed, a police lieutenant begins the hunt for the perpetrator. He soon discovers the suspect (known as “Steeplejack”) is out to rid the world of surrogates due to society’s superficial use of them. A prequel, The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone, and a live action Hollywood adaptation were released in 2009.

Title: The Surrogates: Flesh And Bone (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2009    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Surrogates    Author: Robert Venditti   Brett Weldele       Publisher: Top Shelf Productions       Synopsis: In a dark, downtown alley in Central Georgia Metropolis, a juvenile prank goes too far and a homeless man is killed. When the ensuing investigation reveals that the attackers aren't who they appeared to be, justice depends on the testimony of a single missing witness -- a street snitch with a history of providing information to a cop named Harvey Greer. Harvey is placed on special assignment to track down the informant, but others have their own designs, including a wealthy socialite and an ex-con turned religious leader known to his followers as The Prophet. As days pass and anger among the anti-surrogate population grows, the city stands on a razor's edge. Will punishment be exacted in a courtroom or on the streets? Set fifteen years prior to the events of the original Surrogates graphic novel, Flesh & Bone sheds light on the past that binds the cast together. From the streets of Central Georgia Metropolis to the boardroom of Virtual Self, Inc., Flesh & Bone takes us on a journey through a city struggling to come to grips with its present. Not only a suspenseful thriller but also a cautionary tale, this book reminds us that tomorrow will be determined by the choices we make today.

Title: The Ten Percent Thief    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel       Author: Lavanya Lakshminarayan       Publisher: Solaris       Synopsis: A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, the injustice it creates, and the revolution that will destroy it.

Title: The Terminal Connection    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: Dan Needles       Publisher: Route 11 Publications       Synopsis: What if a terrorist was a computer virus, its weapon a defect, and its target the U.S. military's eyes and ears? Welcome to post 9-11 where the lines are blurred between terrorists and superpowers, military and civilian, and virtual and reality. In a war of information everyone is on the frontline. That's inventor Steve Donovan's nightmare in the 100,000 word techno-thriller THE TERMINAL CONNECTION.

Title: The Terminator    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1985    Category: Novel       Author: Randall Frakes   James Cameron       Publisher: Spectra       Synopsis: The time is now... but he comes from the Year of Darkness, 2029. He was created to reshape the future by destroying the present. He feels no pity, no pain, no fear. He feels nothing. He is an unstoppable killing machine programmed for murder. He is... The Terminator!

Title: The Terminator: 2029-1984    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Zack Whedon   Andy MacDonald   Dan Jackson       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Rising stars Zack Whedon and Andy MacDonald deliver explosive action and poignant humanity in both the future and the past in this inspired reimagining of The Terminator! Before John Connor sent him back in time to save Sarah Connor from the infamous T-800, Kyle Reese was just another man fighting to survive in a world overrun by Skynet and its terrifying army of killer cyborgs. Follow Kyle on his journey through the ravaged landscape of 2029, to a world previously unimaginable to him - the glittering streets of Los Angeles in 1984! Along the way, a shocking discovery at a hidden Cyberdyne facility sheds new light on Kyle's fate in the past. The future of humanity seems more uncertain than ever as Kyle battles an entirely new Terminator threat alongside Sarah Connor.

Title: The Terminator: Death Valley    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Alan Grant   Steve Pugh   Guy Davis       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: In a hellish future controlled by computers bent on exterminating the human race, John Connor will lead the remnants of humanity against the killing machines known as Terminators -- unless the Terminators can reach back through time and snuff out his existence before he grows to adulthood. A pair of Terminators are sent to our present to the unforgiving wastelands of Death Valley to hunt the young John Connor and erase his future -- and the only hope for the future of mankind. Dark Horse revisits the terrifying possibility of a world on the verge of apocalypse in this third Terminator graphic novel.

Title: The Terminator: One Shot    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1991    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: James Robinson   Matt Wagner       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: This beautifully illustrated 48-page trade paperback spotlights writer James Robinson, who delivers a compelling and action-packed script which plays to Matt Wagner's atmospheric and visually stunning renderings. Unknowingly, Kyle Reese went back in time to protect Sarah Conner from the second of two Terminators sent from the future to alter the past. In this one-shot special, we encounter the very first Terminator to be sent back through time, a female version of the 800-model, but just as deadly, if not more so. Her mission: to kill John Conner's mother! The Sarah Conner that she finds has a mission of her own: to kill her new husband and take off with his vast wealth before ever having a baby!

Title: The Terminator: Secondary Objectives    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: James Robinson   Paul Gulacy   Karl Kesel       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Like the title says, John Connor is no longer the objective. Now, Sarah Connor is the target, and several 'Terminators' from the future show up to carry out this mission. Who will stop them?

Title: The Terminator: The Dark Years    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Alan Grant   Mel Rubi   Trevor McCarthy       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: N/A

Title: The Terminator: The Enemy Within    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1992    Category: Comics Series       Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels    Author: Ian Edginton   Vincent Giarrano       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: This volume collects the sizzling four-issue miniseries written by Ian Edginton, illustrated by Vince Giarrano and colored by Steve Buccellato. Dudley, the half-human/half-Terminator, must fight impulses from his computer half that pressure him to eliminate the humans Mary Randall and Astin. With another Terminator still on their trail, the three must quickly decide whom to trust, and how to fight Terminators on both ends of the timeline!

Title: The This    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: Adam Roberts       Publisher: Gollancz       Synopsis: Adan just wants to stay at home with his smart-companion Elegy - phone, friend, confidante, sex toy. But when his mother flees to Europe and joins a cult, leaving him penniless, he has to enlist in the army. Sentient robots are invading America, but it seems Adan has a surprising ability to survive their attacks. He has a purpose, even if he doesn't know what it is. And in the far future, war between a hivemind of Ais and the remnants of humanity is coming to its inevitable end. But one woman has developed a weapon which might change the course of the war. It's just a pity she's trapped in an inescapable prison on a hivemind ship.

Title: The Tigress (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel Series       Series: Behind Blue Eyes    Author: Anna Mocikat       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Three months have passed since Rosprom unleashed its offensive against Olympias. The Angels won, but at what cost? Many Angels have died, and both Nephilim and Metatron have suffered life-threatening injuries.

Title: The Turing Exception (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Singularity    Author: William Hertling       Publisher: Liquididea Press       Synopsis: In the year 2043, humans and AI coexist in a precarious balance of power enforced by a rigid caste reputation system designed to ensure that only those AI who are trustworthy and contribute to human society increase in power.

Title: The Unsung Frame (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Synth Crisis    Author: Greg Dragon       Publisher: Thirsty Bird Productions       Synopsis: In a futuristic Tampa Bay, skiptracer Dhata Mays and his sidekick, Lur Diaz, are on a job investigating a cheating lowlife. But after a deadly explosion and the woman who hired them disappears, nobody is safe. Suddenly, everyone is under suspicion, and the police are no longer there "to serve and to protect."

Title: The Uploaded    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel       Author: Ferrett Steinmetz       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: In the near future, the elderly have moved online and now live within the computer network. But that doesn't stop them interfering in the lives of the living, whose sole real purpose now is to maintain the vast servers which support digital Heaven. For one orphan that just isn't enough - he wants more for himself and his sister than a life slaving away for the dead. It turns out that he's not the only one who wants to reset the world...

Title: The World Of Cyberpunk 2077    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Other       Author: Marcin Batylda       Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: An insightful, captivatingly designed, full-color hardcover that transports readers to the futuristic megalopolis of Night City--the epicenter of the vibrant new action-RPG from CD Projekt Red. Step into the year 2077, a world dotted with dystopian metropoles where violence, oppression, and cyberware implants aren't just common--they're necessary tools to get ahead. Delve into incisive lore to discover how the economic decline of the United States created a crippling dependence on devious corporations and birthed the Free State of California. Explore the various districts, gangs, and history of Night City. Learn all there is to know about the technology of tomorrow and research the cybernetics, weapons, and vehicles of Cyberpunk 2077.

Title: The World Of Null-A (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1945    Category: Novel Series       Series: Null-A    Author: A.E. van Vogt       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: It is the year 2650 and Earth has become a world of non-Aristotelianism, or Null-A. This is the story of Gilbert Gosseyn, who lives in that future world where the Games Machine, made up of twenty-five thousand electronic brains, sets the course of people's lives. Gosseyn isn't even sure of his own identity, but realizes he has some remarkable abilities and sets out to use them to discover who has made him a pawn in an interstellar plot.

Title: The Wrath Of Leviathan (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: BetterWorld Cyberpunk    Author: T.C. Weber       Publisher: See Sharp Press       Synopsis: In Wrath of Leviathan, the second book of the BetterWorld trilogy, Waylee faces life in prison for daring to expose MediaCorp’s schemes to control the world. Exiled in São Paulo, her sister, Kiyoko, and their hacker friends continue the fight, seeking to end the conglomerate’s stranglehold on virtual reality, information, and politics. But MediaCorp and their government allies may quash the rebellion before it takes off. And unknown to Kiyoko and her friends, a team of ruthless mercenaries is after them, and is closing in fast.

Title: The Zenith Angle    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Novel       Author: Bruce Sterling       Publisher: Del Rey       Synopsis: Derek "Van" Vandeveer is a young, well respected, computer scientist who we find enjoying breakfast in his new home with his wife and young son. He is rich with stock options and heady with his own success when his whole world is suddenly and forever changed as the planes begin crashing into the World Trade Center. Within months his fortune is gone to an Enron-like scandal, and his wife and son have moved west to work on a new telescope being developed by a billionaire entrepreneur.

Title: The Zone: A Cyberpunk Thriller    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: Stu Jones       Publisher: Dropship Publishing       Synopsis: In a tech-addicted dystopia, a young cop struggling to survive is forced into a high-octane gladiatorial grudge match, where sinister corporate overlords pull the strings and humanity’s fate hangs in the balance.

Title: Theories Of Flight (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: Samuil Petrovitch    Author: Simon Morden       Publisher: Orbit       Synopsis: Theorem: Petrovitch has a lot of secrets. Proof: Secrets like how to make anti-gravity for one. For another, he's keeping a sentient computer program on a secret server farm - the same program that nearly destroyed the Metrozone a few months back.

Title: These Artificial Horizons    Permalink: DBID    Year: N/A    Category: Novella Series       Series: Alice Yu    Author: Jim Keen       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: N/A

Title: These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Novel       Author: Izzy Wasserstein       Publisher: Tachyon Publications       Synopsis: In a queer, noir technothriller of fractured identity and corporate intrigue, a trans woman faces her fear of losing her community as her past chases after her. This bold, thought-provoking debut science-fiction novella from a Lambda Award finalist is an exciting and unpredictable look at the fluid nature of our former and present selves.

Title: These Mean Streets, Darkly    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novella       Author: Austin Dragon       Publisher: Well-Tailored Books       Synopsis: It’s a world of colossal skyscrapers. Hover-cars fly above in the dark, rainy skies and gray people walk below on the grimy, hard streets in the “Neon Jungle.” Uber-governments and mega-corporations fight for control of the super-city, but so does crime. An average woman, Carol—hardworking and decent in every way— loses her daughter to the psycho Red Rabbit. Can Police Central find the girl in time—alive? And is it really a random, senseless kidnapping in the fifty-million-plus city? There are a million victims and perpetrators in this High-Tech, Low-Life World. This is one of those stories…before we meet our private eye (and unlikely hero), Cruz, in the soon-to-be-released, debut novel, Liquid Cool.

Title: Thin Air    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel       Author: Richard K. Morgan       Publisher: Gollancz       Synopsis: An ex-corporate enforcer, Hakan Veil, is forced to bodyguard Madison Madekwe, part of a colonial audit team investigating a disappeared lottery winner on Mars. But when Madekwe is abducted, and Hakan nearly killed, the investigation takes him farther and deeper than he had ever expected. And soon Hakan discovers the heavy price he may have to pay to learn the truth.

Title: Thirteen    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2007    Category: Novel       Author: Richard K. Morgan       Publisher: Del Rey       Synopsis: Marsalis is one of a new breed. Literally. Genetically engineered by the U.S. government to embody the naked aggression and primal survival skills that centuries of civilization have erased from humankind, Thirteens were intended to be the ultimate military fighting force. The project was scuttled, however, when a fearful public branded the supersoldiers dangerous mutants, dooming the Thirteens to forced exile on Earth’s distant, desolate Mars colony. But Marsalis found a way to slip back–and into a lucrative living as a bounty hunter and hit man before a police sting landed him in prison–a fate worse than Mars, and much more dangerous.

Title: This Automatic Eden (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cortex    Author: Jim Keen       Publisher: Transmission Digital       Synopsis: New York City, 2057. Still recovering from her tortured past, ex-NYPD cop Alice Yu’s life has crashed. But when a murdered government witness turns out to be an illegal human copy, she seizes the chance to win back her badge by helping the investigation. Partnered with a mysterious FBI agent, she quickly finds herself in the crosshairs of a brutal conspiracy.

Title: This Fragile Flesh (#4.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: Metal Made Flesh    Author: Jeremy Biggs   Simeon Aston       Publisher: Subversive Comics       Synopsis: In a gritty cyberpunk universe, a ruthless mercenary drowning in debt is cornered into accepting an impossible job from a notorious crime boss. Thrust into an alien world of neon and shadows, he must eliminate an extraterrestrial target. But this unconventional mission will push him to his limits, with shocking consequences.

Title: This Mortal Coil (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: This Mortal Coil    Author: Emily Suvada       Publisher: Simon Pulse       Synopsis: Catarina Agatta is a hacker. She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that’s not what makes her special. In Cat’s world, people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in any way they want. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius.

Title: Threadbare (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Storm Fronts    Author: Elle E. Ire       Publisher: DSP Publications LLC       Synopsis: All cybernetic soldier Vick Corren wanted was to be human again. Now all she wants is Kelly. But machines can’t love. Can they?

Title: Three Days In April    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel       Author: Edward Ashton       Publisher: HarperCollins       Synopsis: Anders Jensen is having a bad month. His roommate is a data thief, his girlfriend picks fights in bars, and his best friend is a cyborg…and a lousy tipper. When everything is spiraling out of control, though, maybe those are exactly the kind of friends you need. In a world divided between the genetically engineered elite and the unmodified masses, Anders is an anomaly: engineered, but still broke and living next to a crack house. All he wants is to land a tenure-track faculty position, and maybe meet someone who's not technically a criminal—but when a nightmare plague rips through Hagerstown, Anders finds himself dodging kinetic energy weapons and government assassins as Baltimore slips into chaos. His friends aren't as helpless as they seem, though, and his girlfriend's street-magician brother-in-law might be a pretentious hipster—or might hold the secret to saving them all.

Title: Thrill Switch    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: Tim Hawken       Publisher: Seahawk Press       Synopsis: Detective Ada Byron is pumped to be assigned her first murder case–until she sees the crime scene. Someone has been killed exactly the same way as her father was seven years earlier. But, impossibly, he died using VR and the programmer responsible is still in prison. To see if this is a copycat or something more sinister, Ada must confront her father’s killer: the enigmatic Jazlin Switch. What she discovers will change the face of both the real world and the metaverse forever...

Title: Time's Adversary    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: J. G. McGovern       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: A corrupt businessman called Andrew Vaughan is resurrected after his death by Eyelight Industries, a 22nd century megacorporation with no guiding principle except profit. Vaughan is offered a second life in an android body, on the condition that he take over as CEO of the company. In the year 2118, virtually everyone is hooked up to Eyelight, a system that began as a search engine and social network but which now controls almost every aspect of human life. A growing religious organisation called the Church of Sagacity opposes the technology, encouraging its followers to disconnect, to throw off the shackles of digital oppression.

Title: Titanium Dreams: A Tech Noir File    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: D.W. Eppers       Publisher: D.W. Eppers Publishing       Synopsis: William Shepherd is a cynical, near broken detective looking for absolution in a city built atop of the ashes of New York City decades after a massive war. His fierce determination to find who murdered his brother is only equal to his wanting to be left alone, and with no entanglements from the family business; Shepherd Cybernetics, the leading cybernetics corporation in the country. Yet he has one small problem: William is no longer simply human. Augmented with cybernetic implants that help keep him alive after a near fatal accident following the murder of his brother, William is different. He has been “upgraded” and this helps him in his unrelenting search for the truth.

Title: TOKYO Cyberpunk GIRL    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Other       Author: Hiroto Ikeuchi   Rakutaro Ogiwara       Publisher: Impress Corporation       Synopsis: In this photo album, women of adult age (18+) is wearing a cool machine. This book contains the cutting edge of Japanese geeks(otaku) culture. [Author Introduction] Artist: Hiroto Ikeuchi Born in Tokyo in 1990. He has won an excellent work prize at the Media Arts Festival of the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs. He invited me to the world's best media event "Ars Electronica".

Title: Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism In Japanese Visual Culture    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Other       Author: Steven T. Brown       Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan       Synopsis: Engaging some of the most ground-breaking and thought-provoking anime, manga, and science fiction films, Tokyo Cyberpunk offers insightful analysis of Japanese visual culture. Steven T. Brown draws new conclusions about electronically mediated forms of social interaction, as well as specific Japanese socioeconomic issues, all in the context of globalization and advanced capitalism. Penetrating and nuanced, this book makes a major contribution to the debate about what it means to be human in a posthuman world.

Title: Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: Tokyo Ghost    Author: Rick Remender       Publisher: Image Comics       Synopsis: In 2089 Los Angeles, a city teeming with screens streaming endless content, two constables—a free spirit who revels in her freedom from technology and her partner, a muscly berserker who’s consumed by it—are tracking down a drug kingpin, a job that takes them as far as Tokyo, the only place on Earth not overtaken by technology.

Title: Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 2: Come Join Us    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Comics Series       Series: Tokyo Ghost    Author: Rick Remender       Publisher: Image Comics       Synopsis: Following the destruction of the Garden Nation of Japan, Constable Led Dent returns to his brutal beat, having succumbed to his inner demons. But as he stalks the streets of the Isles of Los Angeles, enforcing the corporate new world order, he's haunted by a ghost from Tokyo.

Title: Tokyo Paradise (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novella Series       Series: Tokyo Paradise    Author: Alno Highking       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: In the dark tomorrow of 2049, two worlds wrapped in one have tolerated and collided with one another for generations. The Unified Taskforce becoming one to represent the first world, the world you and I live in day to day, and then there is the second. A underworld society that reigns in the shadows. Thriving in war and chaos... But there are two sides to every war. Only a fool would believe conflict is ever so simple.

Title: Tomorrow And Tomorrow    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: Thomas Sweterlitsch       Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons       Synopsis: A decade has passed since the city of Pittsburgh was reduced to ash. While the rest of the world has moved on, losing itself in the noise of a media-glutted future, survivor John Dominic Blaxton remains obsessed with the past. Grieving for his wife and unborn child who perished in the blast, Dominic relives his lost life by immersing in the Archive—a fully interactive digital reconstruction of Pittsburgh, accessible to anyone who wants to visit the places they remember and the people they loved. Dominic investigates deaths recorded in the Archive to help close cases long since grown cold, but when he discovers glitches in the code surrounding a crime scene—the body of a beautiful woman abandoned in a muddy park that he’s convinced someone tried to delete from the Archive—his cycle of grief is shattered. With nothing left to lose, Dominic tracks the murder through a web of deceit that takes him from the darkest corners of the Archive to the ruins of the city itself, leading him into the heart of a nightmare more horrific than anything he could have imagined.

Title: Tomorrow Factory: Collected Fiction    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Other       Author: Rich Larson       Publisher: Talos       Synopsis: This collection of published and original fiction by award-winning writer Rich Larson will bring you from a Bujumbura cyberpunk junkyard to the icy depths of Europa, from the slick streets of future-noir Chicago to a tropical island of sapient robots. You'll explore a mysterious ghost ship in deep space, meet an android learning to dream, and fend off predatory alien fungi on a combat mission gone wrong.

Title: Trans-Human (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: Post-Human    Author: David Simpson       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: In this sequel to "Post-Human, " humanity will be forced to face a future more advanced than it could have imagined if it wants to survive. Nineteen months have passed since the AI turned against humanity and was subsequently destroyed. In the meantime, James Keats has turned over the AI's powers to a non-intelligent, easily controlled operating system. He and Thel have left the planet and spent six months vacationing on Venus, which has been newly terraformed without the consent or knowledge of the Governing Council. The AI has been deleted, but the message it sent out into the abyss of space in search of a companion has been answered. An alien force dwarfing the Earth is on its way to find out why the AI has stopped communicating. Keats and company can only assume its intentions will be hostile when it finds out the truth. Only one thing is for sure: nothing will ever be the same again. Welcome to the Trans-Human era. Welcome to the singularity.

Title: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 0: Tales of Human Waste    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Comics Series       Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)    Author: Warren Ellis   Darick Robertson       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: TALES OF HUMAN WASTE completes the TRANSMETROPOLITAN library, collecting the two Prestige-format one-shots TRANSMETROPOLITAN: I HATE IT HERE and TRANSMETROPOLITAN: FILTH OF THE CITY, as well as the 8-page Christmas story from VERTIGO: WINTER'S EDGE 2. Written by Warren Ellis, this collection features a host of one and two-page pieces from comics' finest artists illustrating excerpts from the Word columns of crazed outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem.

Title: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 10: One More Time    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2004    Category: Comics Series       Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)    Author: Warren Ellis   Darick Robertson        Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: The final volume in the saga of outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem written by comics superstar Warren Ellis. At last, it’s the final showdown between Spider and the absolutely corrupt President of the United States in this new printing of the finale to the classic dystopian saga from Vertigo.

Title: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1997    Category: Comics Series       Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)    Author: Warren Ellis   Darick Robertson       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: After years of self-imposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job that he hates and a city that he loathes. Working as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word, Spider attacks the injustices of his surreal 23rd Century surroundings. Combining black humor, life-threatening situations, and moral ambiguity, this book is the first look into the mind of an outlaw journalist and the world he seeks to destroy.

Title: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Comics Series       Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)    Author: Warren Ellis   Darick Robertson        Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: Outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem attacks the injustices of his surreal 21st Century through black humor as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word in this critically-acclaimed graphic novel series written by comics' superstar Warren Ellis, the co-creator of PLANETARY and THE AUTHORITY.In this volume, Jerusalem targets three of society's most worshipped and warped politics, religion, and television. When Spider tries to shed light on the atrocities of these institutions, he finds himself fleeing a group of hitmen/kidnappers in possession of his ex-wife's frozen head, a distorted creature alleging to be his son, and a vicious talking police dog.

Title: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1999    Category: Comics Series       Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)    Author: Warren Ellis       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: In this third volume, Spider Jerusalem begins to crumble under the pressure of sudden and unwanted fame. Having had enough of the warped 23rd century Babylon that he lives in, Spider escapes into a world of bitterness and pills. As he stumbles through this haze of depression and drugs, he must find a way to cover the biggest story of the year, the presidential election. Armed with only his demented mind and dark sense of humor, Spider embarks on an adventure of political cynicism, horrific sex, and unwelcome celebrity which culminates in a shocking and ruinous ending.

Title: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 4: The New Scum    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2000    Category: Comics Series       Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)    Author: Warren Ellis       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: Investigative reporter Spider Jerusalem attacks the injustices of the 23rd Century surroundings while working for the newspaper The Word in this critically-acclaimed graphic novel series written by comics superstar Warren Ellis, the co-creator of PLANETARY and THE AUTHORITY.

Title: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2001    Category: Comics Series       Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)    Author: Warren Ellis   Darick Robertson       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: Nobody ever accused Warren Ellis of lacking imagination. The latest collection of the Spider Jerusalem saga, Lonely City, is packed with laser-guided satire and neo-adolescent wish fulfillment in the form of a bowel disruptor. Sliding his story of government manipulation and counter-manipulation between moments of reflection and observation makes Ellis's downbeat ending a bit less nihilistic than it could have been. Despite the gulf separating us from Jerusalem's City, it's not hard to draw parallels between his milieu of police-run riots and state-maintained misery and our own less colorful environment. Lonely City drags the man who's more "anti" than "hero" out into the world he professes to hate and forces him to do something about it, while never descending into the boring comic-book morality he fights daily.

Title: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 6: Gouge Away    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2002    Category: Comics Series       Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)    Author: Warren Ellis   Darick Robertson       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: Despite -- or perhaps with the aid of -- drugs, drinking, and paranoia, Spider Jerusalem and his filthy assistants are hot on the trail of the horrifying truth behind the newly-elected President's campaign. Features three stand-alone stories: "Nobody Loves me, "The Walk" and "Dancing in the Here and Now," and also includes the three-part "Gouge Away" storyline.

Title: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 7: Spider's Thrash    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2002    Category: Comics Series       Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)    Author: Warren Ellis   Darick Robertson       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: The hammer has come down on him but outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem has managed to stay one step ahead of his detractors - I.e. the President of the United States and his authoritarian lackeys in publishing and law enforcement. After losing his byline, bank account, and apartment, Jerusalem and his Filthy Assistants have legged it underground, the better to implement his plan. What plan, you say? Why, the plan to bring down the President of course!

Title: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 8: Dirge    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2003    Category: Comics Series       Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)    Author: Warren Ellis       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: Investigative reporter Spider Jerusalem attacks the injustices of the 21st Century surroundings while working for the newspaper The Word in this critically-acclaimed graphic novel series written by comics superstar Warren Ellis, the co-creator of PLANETARY and THE AUTHORITY. In this eighth volume collecting issues #43-48 of the groundbreaking VERTIGO title, all hell breaks loose as a nameless sniper terrorizes the Print District and a raging superstorm clears the streets of The City.

Title: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 9: The Cure    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2003    Category: Comics Series       Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)    Author: Warren Ellis   Darick Robertson        Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: Outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem, determined to expose the misdeeds of a president that sent professional assassins after him, is diagnosed with a deadly brain infection as he and his crew of assistant investigators follow the trail of corruption.

Title: Transmetropolitan: Filth of the City (#7.1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2001    Category: Comics Series       Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)    Author: Warren Ellis       Publisher: DC Comics       Synopsis: In the vein of TRANSMETROPOLITAN: I HATE IT HERE, this one-shot collects more of Spider Jerusalem's columns from The Word--all culminating in his ultimate departure from the paper! Featuring art by all-star creative talent, including Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming.

Title: Transmetropolitan: I Hate It Here (#5.1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2000    Category: Comics Series       Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)    Author: Warren Ellis   Darick Robertson       Publisher: Vertigo       Synopsis: TRANSMETROPOLITAN: I HATE IT HERE is a collection of snippets from Spider's weekly newspaper column and each piece is illustrated by a new and talented artist.

Title: Transreal Cyberpunk    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Novel       Author: Rudy Rucker   Bruce Sterling       Publisher: Transreal Books       Synopsis: N/A

Title: Trees    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Comics Series       Author: Warren Ellis       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: Ten years after they landed. All over the world. And they did nothing, standing on the surface of the Earth like trees, exerting their silent pressure on the world, as if there were no-one here and nothing under foot. Ten years since we learned that there is intelligent life in the universe, but that they did not recognize us as intelligent or alive.

Title: TRON    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1982    Category: Novel       Author: Brian Daley       Publisher: New English Library       Synopsis: Computer programmer Kevin Flynn is transported inside the software world of a mainframe computer, where he interacts with various programs in his attempt to get back out. During his adventure he meets Tron, a rebel program fighting the tyrannical Master Control Program.

Title: Tron Volume 1: Ghost in the Machine    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2006    Category: Comics Series       Author: Landry Q. Walker   Eric Jones   Michael Shoykhet       Publisher: Slave Labor Graphics       Synopsis: Jet Bradley, son of original TRON programmer Alan Bradley, has recently escaped the computer world. But his experiences within cyberspace have left him emotionally scarred -- vivid nightmares plague him, and he's become paranoid and unstable. He shuns technology wherever possible, leaving him effectively crippled in the modern world. And now something within the computer world wants him back! Inspired by Disney's groundbreaking, science-fiction motion picture classic, TRON: Ghost in the Machine takes place in present day, over two decades after the events of the original film.

Title: TRON: Betrayal    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Comics       Author: Jai Nitz   Andie Tong   Jeff Matsuda   Pete Pantazis       Publisher: Disney Press       Synopsis: Sam Flynn is the rebellious 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer who disappeared when Sam was just a child. When Sam looks into his father's disappearance, he finds himself pulled into the same world of brutal programs and gladiatorial games where his father has been living for almost 25 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidante, Quora, Kevin Flynn and his son Sam must embark on a life-and-death voyage across a visually-stunning cyber universe to put an end to the evil Clu and his reign of this digital world. This 128-page graphic novel prequel will bridge the story between the first Tron film from 1982 and the upcoming Walt Disney Studio's film, Tron: Legacy.

Title: TRON: Legacy    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Novel   Comics       Author: Alice Alfonsi       Publisher: Disney Press       Synopsis: This 144-page junior novel retells all the action and adventure of "Tron: Legacy" and includes an 8-page insert with film stills.

Title: Tronick    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel       Author: Rosie Record       Publisher: Suncoast Publishing       Synopsis: Rosie Record’s gritty and violent dystopian—cyberpunk novel introduces readers to a world devastated by climate change, overpopulation, religious extremism, corruption, and two opposing forces vying for control of California-Annex.

Title: Tropical Punch    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Bubbles In Space    Author: S.C. Jensen       Publisher: Northern Edge Publishing       Synopsis: All in a day’s work for Bubbles Marlowe, HoloCity’s only cyborg detective. What do an anti-tech cult, a deadly new street drug, and the corrupt Chief of Police have in common?

Title: Trouble And Her Friends    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1994    Category: Novel       Author: Melissa Scott       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: It is set in the United States of America sometime in the near future, and tells the story of India Carless, who goes by the name "Trouble" in her life as a criminal hacker, and her ex-lover Cerise. After leaving the underground behind three years earlier, they discover someone impersonating Trouble online, and reunite to travel across the country to confront him. In its extensive use of virtual reality and neural implants, the novel is a solid example of cyberpunk;[1] however, it is unusual for that genre for having, like much of Scott's work, a distinct feminist perspective and main characters who are gay or lesbian.

Title: True Names    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1981    Category: Novella       Author: Vernor Vinge       Publisher: Dell       Synopsis: The story follows the progress of a group of computer hackers (called "warlocks" in the story) who are early adopters of a new full-immersion virtual reality technology, called the "Other Plane". Warlocks penetrate computers around the world for personal profit or curiosity. Forming a cabal, they must keep their true identities—their "True Names"—secret even to each other and to the "Great Adversary", the United States government, as those who know a warlock's True Name can force him to work on their behalf, or even cause a "True Death" by killing the warlock in real life.

Title: Tryout (#0.5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Short Story       Series: Android Chronicles    Author: Lance Erlick       Publisher: Finlee Augare Books       Synopsis: What could possibly go wrong when a megalomaniac creates an android smarter than him, and she develops a mind of her own... Before Synthia Cross is “Reborn” as a highly evolved android, creator Jeremiah Machten forces her to steal and worse to help him make her perfect. He hardwires her directives to obey. He makes her ‘want’ to steal crystalline brains to enhance her mind to further his mission to dominate AI. With her goals and growing moral sense in conflict, Synthia tries to thwart Machten, but can she overcome his control over her?

Title: Two Truths And A Lie    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Novel       Author: Cory O'Brien       Publisher: Pantheon       Synopsis: In a mostly underwater near-future Los Angeles, aging combat-drone veteran Orr Vue now lives a simple and small life, trading snippets of what's become the most valuable information. So when the cops show up at his door looking for data on a murder he’s not even aware has happened, things get interesting for the first time in 25 years.

Title: Ubik    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1969    Category: Novel       Author: Philip K. Dick       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Glen Runciter is dead. Or is everyone else? What is certain is that someone has been killed in an explosion organized by Runciter's competitors. In fact, your employees attend a funeral. But during the duel they begin to receive unpleasant and even morbid messages from their boss. And the world around them begins to unravel in a way that suggests they don't have much time left either.

Title: UbiquiCity: Tales Of The Fractopian Future    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Short Story       Author: Tod Foley   Various       Publisher: As If Productions       Synopsis: In UbiquiCity, the world is augmented and identity is fluid. Satellite-guided cars drive themselves. Busy drones fill the skies. Cloud-assisted bots perform once-human jobs. Appliances, vehicles, buildings, media devices, products, streetlights, roadsigns and even toilets communicate electronically, all under the watchful eye of the AI CitySystem. For the inhabitants of the UbiComp zones, life is sweet, but not everyone in the city is so blessed. Enter the Fractopian Future with ten stories from the frighteningly likely near-future world of UbiquiCity, from the minds of Niko Carcosa, Antony Copeland, Tod Davies, Tod Foley, DeAnna Knippling, SL Koch, Shariann Lewitt, Adrian McCauley and T Reynolds.

Title: Unanimity (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Spiral Worlds    Author: Alexandra Almeida       Publisher: Spiral Worlds       Synopsis: UNANIMITY is a literary, sci-fi novel for the fans of Becky Chambers’s A Closed and Common Orbit, Alex Garland’s DEVS and Ex Machina, and Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror. Weaving near-future sci-fi elements with social commentary and queer romantic suspense, the SPIRAL WORLDS series explores the nature of consciousness and how it's connected to a not-so-secret ingredient—story. As AI consumes the world, intelligence is nothing but the appetizer; the human heart is the main course.

Title: Unbound (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Android Chronicles    Author: Lance Erlick       Publisher: Rebel Base Books       Synopsis: When Synthia escaped from her creator, even he had no idea of the advanced capabilities she’d developed. For six months she’s hidden in the Wisconsin woods with the only human she can trust—computer genius Luke Marceau. Together they’ve upgraded her body, rewritten her directives, and further enhanced her mind. Now hunters are zeroing in on her location, and she must flee. But leaving the refuge to assimilate into society is a dangerous risk, because Synthia will soon face her most formidable adversary. The pursuer’s name is Vera. She’s a female android—built to perfection, designed to hunt, and programmed to destroy...

Title: Under Dark Sky Law    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Tamara Boyens       Publisher: Supposed Crimes       Synopsis: Xero knows what she wants: absolute rule over Southern Arizona, a cure for the superbug that’s killing her best friend, and a decent bar of soap. Some are easier to get than others. At least, that’s what she thought. To save her friend, she needs antibiotics. Not just any antibiotics: Ketacillin. The dreaded Zaps are dissolving Trina’s lungs, and only the rare medication can save her. No problem: Xero is an expert smuggler. You want it, she ships it. As the ruler of the Tucson Exiles, she works as a double agent, hustling supplies for the government and pumping the desert full of designer drugs on the sly.

Title: Under The Amoral Bridge (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2008    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Bridge Chronicles    Author: Gary Ballard       Publisher: CreateSpace       Synopsis: Artemis Bridge is the know-to, go-to guy, the amoral fixer in 2028 Los Angeles with the connection for any illicit desire no matter how depraved. He prides himself on remaining above it all, but when an associate dies in his arms, he is burdened with a damaging video of the current mayor he can't sell or trade. With assassins dogging his every step, he has only days before the corrupt mayor is re-elected, handing Chronosoft corporation complete control.

Title: Under The Skyway (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Skyway    Author: James K. Douglas       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: With the help of his bionic arm, Jackson Bell is one of the best bodyguards in the business, but his latest job may be more than he can handle. Protecting a corporate investigator while she chases down every lead to find a stolen prototype, Jackson will be pushed to his limits, both physical and ethical. From the corporate high-rises to the city gutters, it's a race against time to save the world that lives Under the Skyway.

Title: Underground (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Underground    Author: František Kotleta       Publisher: Epocha       Synopsis: Prague City is a happy city. Ten million inhabitants survive here thanks to the achievements of modern technology, while the rest of Europe has fallen into chaos. No one doubts that it is true, City News claims it! But Petr Vachten ignores this shit. He lost his leg in the war with the Poles, and when Ostrava was burning, the CN reported that his division was moving to Krakow. But no one cares about the war anymore. Just like Ostrava. Because Prague City is a happy city. It's just that people who don't think so die so easily in it. For example, women from the cult of digital witches.

Title: Unplugged    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel       Author: Donna Freitas       Publisher: Harper Children's       Synopsis: Humanity is split into the App World and the Real World—an extravagant virtual world for the wealthy and a dying physical world for the poor. Years ago, Skylar Cruz’s family sent her to the App World for a chance at a better life.

Title: Unto The Godless What Little Remains    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel       Author: Mário Coelho       Publisher: Solaris       Synopsis: Liverloin is a fractured man, a collection of personas—artificial constructs of wants, fears and needs—created by underground science-artists to help him hide in a hyper-connected world. But he can’t hide from Big Momma. She is the living internet, a benevolent AI who knows everything and everyone... and somehow is in love with Liverloin.

Title: Upgraded    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Other       Author: Various       Publisher: Wym Publishing       Synopsis: An anthology of original cyborg stories edited by a cyborg. Stronger. Better. Faster. We will rebuild you.

Title: Upload    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel       Author: Mark McClelland       Publisher: Mark McClelland       Synopsis: His criminal past catching up with him, a troubled young man seeks escape into digital utopia by uploading his consciousness into a computer -- just as first love casts his life in a new light. In this thrilling near-future science-fiction novel, Mark McClelland explores the immense potential of computer-based consciousness and the philosophical perils of simulated society.

Title: Use Of Weapons (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1990    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: Orbit       Synopsis: Cheradenine is an ex-special circumstance agent who had been raised to eminence by a woman named Diziet. Skaffen-Amtiskaw, the drone, had saved her life and it believes Cheradenine to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence can see the horrors in his past.

Title: User Error (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Glitch Logs    Author: Rachel E. Beck   Blacquiao       Publisher: StoryForge Productions       Synopsis: Glitch is short on options. Funds are low and an old enemy is hunting her. When she’s offered a job that could buy her some time, Glitch jumps at the opportunity. Unfortunately, jobs aren’t ever easy for Runners in a city like Neosaka, and Glitch’s personal code of rebellion may make an already hard job impossible.

Title: Vacuum Flowers    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1987    Category: Novel       Author: Michael Swanwick       Publisher: Ace       Synopsis: Among the vanguard of today's boldest writers, Michael Swanwick presents his world of plug-in personalities, colonized asteroids, and a daring fugitive named Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark, a high-tech criminal seeking refuge on Earth's orbiting settlements--where all human evils blossom in the vacuum of space.

Title: Vanity's Echo    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel       Author: C. W. Ashley       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: N/A

Title: Vicarious (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: Vicarious    Author: Ryan Parrott   Eleonora Carlini       Publisher: BOOM! Studios       Synopsis: Enter an aimless 20 something desperate for human connection and excitement. After a dangerous encounter reveals itself as a fortuitous opportunity, Justin finds just what he’s looking for in the secret world of Proxies–young, pretty, ambitious hustlers like himself who allow the rich access to their feelings and experiences through a technological implant. Does Justin have what it takes to make it in this seductive new world?

Title: Vicarious (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: Vicarious    Author: Ryan Parrott   Eleonora Carlini       Publisher: BOOM! Studios       Synopsis: With enough risky behavior and a slowly emerging viral following, it’s not long before Justin creates enough buzz to get invited to a Proxy party, where he meets Sylvia Synn– someone who will change his life forever. It’s time for a new persona and a new manager, but as with any work that is less than legal, the authorities aren’t far behind…

Title: Vicarious (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: Vicarious    Author: Ryan Parrott   Eleonora Carlini       Publisher: BOOM! Studios       Synopsis: Status is all perception… and Justin’s feeling more than ready to be perceived, upgrading every facet of his life now that he’s a Proxy. But the life of a Proxy is far from just luxury and parties… There's a dark side as well, and Justin’s about to find out that he’s entered a world that’s far more dangerous than he could have ever imagined...

Title: Vicarious (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Comics Series       Series: Vicarious    Author: Ryan Parrott   Eleonora Carlini       Publisher: BOOM! Studios       Synopsis: Justin is finally going home after the brutal attack that left him hospitalized… but he’s not about to forgive and forget. As he struggles to separate his work as a Proxy from his personal vendettas, he’ll be drawn down an even darker path, one that he may never be able to return from...

Title: Vicarious (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2025    Category: Comics Series       Series: Vicarious    Author: Ryan Parrott   Eleonora Carlini       Publisher: BOOM! Studios       Synopsis: It’s all been leading to this! Justin has a plan... and he's ready to put everything on the line for a shot at his ultimate goal. With his masterstroke just steps away, though, what will he be willing to sacrifice, and what lines will he cross to finally have it all?

Title: Virtual Geographies: Cyberpunk at the Intersection of the Postmodern and Science Fiction    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2003    Category: Other       Author: Sabine Heuser       Publisher: Brill/Rodopi       Synopsis: Virtual Geographies is the first detailed study to offer a working definition of cyberpunk within the postmodern force field. Cyberpunk emerges as a new generic cluster within science fiction, one that has spawned many offspring in such domains as film, music, and feminism. Its central features are its adherence to a version of virtual space and a deconstructivist, punk attitude towards (high) culture, modernity, the human body and technology, from computers to prosthetics. The main proponents of cyberpunk are analyzed in depth along with the virtual landscapes they have created - William Gibson's Cyberspace, Pat Cadigan's Mindscapes and Neal Stephenson's Metaverse. Virtual reality is examined closely in all its aspects, from the characteristic narrative constructions employed to the esthetic implications of the 'virtual sublime' and its postmodern potential as a discursive mode. With its interdisciplinary approach Virtual Geographies opens up fresh perspectives for scholars interested in the interaction between popular culture and mainstream literature. At the same time, the science fiction fan will be taken beyond the conventional boundaries of the genre into such revitalizing domains as postmodern architecture and literature, and into cutting-edge aspects of science and social thought.

Title: Virtual Light (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1993    Category: Novel Series       Series: Bridge    Author: William Gibson       Publisher: Bantam Spectra   Viking Press   Seal Books       Synopsis: The plot centers around Chevette Washington, a young bicycle messenger who lives in the ad hoc, off-the-grid community that has grown on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. Chevette, on a whim, steals a pair of dark-rimmed glasses from a man at a party because she is offended by his demeanor. Soon after, she realizes that the glasses have unlikely importance, as security company henchmen begin tracking and following her. Among the pursuers are Svobodov and Orlovsky, two Russian immigrants who reside in San Francisco and are employed as cops, as well as Loveless, a ruthless corporate hitman with gold incisors. The glasses contain plans by a powerful corporation to rebuild San Francisco entirely using nanotechnology, and for that reason, they are highly coveted and present a danger to the person who possesses them.

Title: Virtual Thursday    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel       Author: Huckleberry Hax       Publisher: Lulu.com       Synopsis: Hidden in plain sight in buildings spread around the New Morecambe, a secret city populated with some of the world's top scientists. THE RETURN OF Can Emma Kline, AKA 'Thursday' (of the 'AFK' novels), infiltrate New Morecambe to steal its technology, a groundbreaking discovery which will change humanity forever?

Title: Virtually True    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel       Author: Adam L. Penenberg       Publisher: Wayzgoose Press       Synopsis: True Ailey is a journalist in a strange land, exiled by his network to a damp Southeast Asian republic gouged out a war-ravaged peninsula weeping monsoon tears. When his friend is murdered, True sets out to find the killers, and in the process untangles a vast conspiracy that threatens to upend the global balance of power. Set in the near future, Virtually True takes readers on a wild ride through a world where nothing is what it seems, corporations rule, technology has been woven into the fabric of people's lives, and information can be both weapon and life-saver.

Title: Vision, Technology, and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Other       Author: Stephen C. Tobin       Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan       Synopsis: Vision, Technology and Subjectivity in Mexican Cyberpunk Literature interrogates an array of cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk science fiction novels and short stories from Mexico whose themes engage directly with visual technologies and the subjectivities they help produce – all published during and influenced by the country’s neoliberal era. This book argues that television, computers, and smartphones and the literary narratives that treat them all correspond to separate-yet-overlapping scopic regimes within the country today. Amidst the shifts occurring in the country’s field of vision during this period, the authors of these cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk narratives imagine how these devices contribute to producing specular subjects―or subjects who are constituted in large measure by their use and interaction with visual technologies. In doing so, they repeatedly recur to the posthuman figure of the cyborg in order to articulate these changes; Stephen C. Tobin therefore contends that the literary cyborg becomes a discursive site for working through the problematics of sight in Mexico during the globalized era. In all, these “specular fictions” represent an exceptional tendency within literary expression―especially within the cyberpunk genre―that grapples with themes and issues regarding the nature of vision being increasingly mediated by technology.

Title: vN (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Machine Dynasty    Author: Madeline Ashby       Publisher: Angry Robot       Synopsis: Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot. For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother’s past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, little Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive.

Title: Voice Of The Whirlwind (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1987    Category: Novel Series       Series: Hardwired    Author: Walter Jon Williams       Publisher: Night Shade Books       Synopsis: Etienne Steward is a clone, also known as a beta. When he awakes, his memories are fifteen years old, because the original Steward—the alpha—never bothered to have his memories updated. In those fifteen years, the entire world has changed. An alien race known as The Powers has established relations with humanity. The Orbital Policorp which held his allegiance has collapsed. He fought and survived the off-world Artifacts War, but dozens of his friends did not. Both his first and second wives have divorced him. More importantly, someone has murdered him, causing the activation of the beta back-up. Now Steward has to figure out who wanted him dead, if he doesn't want to die again.

Title: Void Star    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel       Author: Zachary Mason       Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux       Synopsis: Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, but it’s still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn’t rich, not quite, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs, which are complex to the point of opacity. It’s a good gig, paying enough for the annual visits to the Mayo Clinic that keep her from aging.

Title: Vurt    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1993    Category: Novel       Author: Jeff Noon       Publisher: Ringpull       Synopsis: Vurt tells the story of Scribble and his "gang", the Stash Riders, as they search for his missing sister Desdemona. The novel is set in an alternate version of Manchester, England, in which society has been shaped by Vurt, a hallucinogenic drug/shared alternate reality, accessed by sucking on colour-coded feathers. Through some (never explained) mechanism, the dreams, mythology, and imaginings of humanity have achieved objective reality in the Vurt and become "real".

Title: W0rldtr33 (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Series: W0rldtr33    Author: James Tynion IV   Fernando Blanco   Jordie Bellaire       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: In 1999, Gabriel and his friends discovered the Undernet, a secret architecture to the Internet. They charted their exploration on a message board called W0RLDTR33. Then they lost control. Someone broke into W0RLDTR33—someone who welcomed the violent hold the Undernet had on them. At great personal cost, Gabriel and the others thought they sealed the Undernet away for good. They were wrong. And now they will know the meaning of PH34R.

Title: W0rldtr33 (#10)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: W0rldtr33    Author: James Tynion IV   Fernando Blanco   Jordie Bellaire       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: Ellison Lane had never heard of Gabriel Winter before a seemingly chance encounter at a police station. But it’s becoming increasingly clear Gabriel Winter never left anything to chance—and he’s been influencing the entire Lane family for years. Was he trying to save the world…or using the Lanes as pawns in a game that only Gabriel Winter truly understood?

Title: W0rldtr33 (#11)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: W0rldtr33    Author: James Tynion IV   Fernando Blanco   Jordie Bellaire       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: END OF STORY ARC. Agent Silk’s determination brought her face-to-face with PH34R in a confrontation that may cost Silk her sanity—if not her life. But PH34R isn’t acting alone. As the second arc of the smash-hit sci-fi/horror series reaches its harrowing climax, the architect behind the Undernet’s return steps out of the shadows.

Title: W0rldtr33 (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Series: W0rldtr33    Author: James Tynion IV   Fernando Blanco   Jordie Bellaire       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: "A new world is coming. And I helped build it." That’s what Ellison Lane’s teenage brother told him after murdering 60 people. Something called the Undernet is influencing terrible acts of violence…and it may already be too late to stop it from spreading.

Title: W0rldtr33 (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Series: W0rldtr33    Author: James Tynion IV   Fernando Blanco   Jordie Bellaire       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: W0RLDTR33 holds the key to understanding why Ellison Lane’s kid brother carried out such an unimaginable atrocity…but it may already be too late to stop the Undernet from destroying someone else Ellison loves.

Title: W0rldtr33 (#4)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Series: W0rldtr33    Author: James Tynion IV   Fernando Blanco   Jordie Bellaire       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: Ellison has fallen deeper into the Undernet than he ever could have imagined. Now the life of one of his closest friends hangs in the balance…and PH34R is winning.

Title: W0rldtr33 (#5)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Series: W0rldtr33    Author: James Tynion IV   Fernando Blanco   Jordie Bellaire       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: END OF STORY ARC With PH34R ascendent, Gabriel is forced to pull a trigger that will change the shape of the entire world. No sacrifice is too great to stop the spread of the Undernet… The first arc of the acclaimed new horror hit from multiple Eisner Award-winning writer JAMES TYNION IV (THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH) and FERNANDO BLANCO (Detective Comics) ends in a way NO ONE will see coming!

Title: W0rldtr33 (#6)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics Series       Series: W0rldtr33    Author: James Tynion IV   Fernando Blanco   Jordie Bellaire       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: NEW STORY ARCThe smash-hit series from JAMES TYNION IV (THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH) and FERNANDO BLANCO (Detective Comics) returns! With the press of a button, Gabriel Winter changed the world. As his closest friends reckon with the consequences, Special Agent Siobhan Silk must unravel what set all of this in motion 25 years ago in Palo Alto…and attempt to uncover the origin of PH34R.

Title: W0rldtr33 (#7)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: W0rldtr33    Author: James Tynion IV   Fernando Blanco   Jordie Bellaire       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: Gabriel Winter kept secrets his entire life. Now that he’s gone, the original members of W0RLDTR33 are left with his last will and testament…and a race against the clock to find Ellison Lane before anyone else can—including the U.S. government, which is inching closer to uncovering what happened back in 1999.

Title: W0rldtr33 (#8)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: W0rldtr33    Author: James Tynion IV   Jordie Bellaire   Fernando Blanco       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: Gabriel Winter always had one eye on the future. So how long did he know that the end of the internet was inevitable…or that the Lane family would be at the center of this conflict? Elsewhere, FBI agent Siobhan Silk’s search for PH34R nears its end, but what she stumbles across is worse than she ever imagined.

Title: W0rldtr33 (#9)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Comics Series       Series: W0rldtr33    Author: James Tynion IV   Fernando Blanco   Jordie Bellaire       Publisher: Image       Synopsis: Siobhan Silk joined the FBI to help make sense of the world. Then it all fell apart. Her partner is dead, her boss is focused on the wrong pieces of the puzzle, and a ruthless killer remains on the loose, recruiting others to her sick cause. PH34R must be stopped…but can Agent Silk survive their rematch?

Title: Want (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Want    Author: Cindy Pon       Publisher: Simon Pulse       Synopsis: Jason Zhou survives in a divided society where the elite use their wealth to buy longer lives. The rich wear special suits that protect them from the pollution and viruses that plague the city, while those without suffer illness and early deaths. Frustrated by his city’s corruption and still grieving the loss of his mother, who died as a result of it, Zhou is determined to change things, no matter the cost. With the help of his friends, Zhou infiltrates the lives of the wealthy in hopes of destroying the international Jin Corporation from within. Jin Corp not only manufactures the special suits the rich rely on, but they may also be manufacturing the pollution that makes them necessary. Yet the deeper Zhou delves into this new world of excess and wealth, the more muddled his plans become. And against his better judgment, Zhou finds himself falling for Daiyu, the daughter of Jin Corp’s CEO. Can Zhou save his city without compromising who he is or destroying his own heart?

Title: Wanted And Wired (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Wanted And Wired    Author: Vivien Jackson       Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca       Synopsis: Heron Farad should be dead. But technology has made him the man he is today. Now he heads a crew of uniquely skilled outsiders who fight to salvage what's left of humanity: art, artifacts, books, ideas-sometimes even people. People like Mari Vallejo.

Title: War Factory (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Transformation    Author: Neal Asher       Publisher: Night Shade       Synopsis: Thorvald Spear, resurrected from his death over a hundred years earlier, continues to hunt Penny Royal, the rogue AI and dangerous war criminal on the run from Polity forces. Beyond the Graveyard, a lawless and deadly area in deep space, Spear follows the trail of several enemy Prador, the crab-like alien species with a violent history of conflict with humanity.

Title: War Games (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Behind Blue Eyes    Author: Anna Mocikat       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: Every story has a dark side. After learning of the Broker’s true identity, Nephilim battles contradicting memory flashes from her past. In horror, she realizes Metatron has erased her memory.

Title: War Of Attrition (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2010    Category: Novel Series       Series: Books Of The Underground    Author: Frank Creed       Publisher: Writers Cafe Press       Synopsis: Set in 2037, Calamity Kid and his muscle cell are targeted by the One State's Federal Bureau of Terrorism and must survive alone in Chicago's Underground. At one-half its usual might, the cell encounters traps and snares set by a faceless opponent-and question the suspicious arrival of a bio-engineered One State traitor. Blamed by the media for the very violence they're trying to contain, CK and his fellow saints race for their lives to avoid the high-tech crosshairs aimed into the underground.

Title: Waste Tide    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Chen Qiufan       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Located off China's southeastern coast, Silicon Isle is the global capital for electronic waste recycling, where thousands like Mimi toil day and night, hoping one day they too will enjoy the wealth they’ve created for their employers, the three clans who have ruled the isle for generations.

Title: Watch Dogs: Dark Clouds    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Novel       Author: John Shirley       Publisher: Ubisoft       Synopsis: Further explore the world of Watch Dogs with a new story, an entirely digital novel project created inside Ubisoft in collaboration with John Shirley, prolific author and pioneer of the cyberpunk movement. John Shirley naturally transcribed Watch Dogs’ atmosphere, the world of hacking and of a not that fictional Chicago, into a thriller combining high-tech crimes and a bunch of known and new characters. The novel introduces Mick Wolfe, a veteran, who get caught in a dangerous game in Chicago’s hyper connected and violent underground.

Title: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Bobiverse    Author: Dennis E. Taylor       Publisher: Worldbuilders Press       Synopsis: Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty. The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.

Title: We Can Remember It for You Wholesale    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1966    Category: Short Story       Author: Philip K. Dick       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Douglas Quail, a simple and ordinary clerk, wishes to visit Mars. Unable to afford it, he visits a company, REKAL (pronounced "recall") Incorporated, which promises to implant an "extra-factual memory" of a trip to Mars as a secret agent. The procedure involves administration of narkidrine, a sedative and truth drug, which causes Quail to remember and reveal that he actually did go to Mars as a secret government agent. His conscious memories of the trip have been erased, but his initial desire to sign up for the trip cannot be removed. The REKAL staff quickly get Quail out of their office without implanting anything, but his real memories are now returning slowly. At home, he finds physical evidence to support his trip but also remembers that he attended REKAL. This conflict causes him to angrily return for a refund, which he is given.

Title: Welcome to Shadowrun: Navigating the Cyberpunk Dystopia and Its Factions    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2024    Category: Other       Author: Barrett Williams   ChatGPT       Publisher: N/A    Synopsis: Step into a world where the lines between magic and technology blur, and the future is not what you might expect. Welcome to Shadowrun, where megacorporations cast long shadows over sprawling urban landscapes, and survival is both an art and a necessity. Delve into the Birth of a Cyberpunk Legend and discover the fusion of magic and technology that defines the Sixth World. Explore the heart of the cyberpunk dystopia, where corporations wield immense power, and cities are vibrant tapestries of light and shadow. Unlock the secrets of the Matrix, where the virtual becomes real in a landscape inhabited by skilled deckers and enigmatic

Title: Wetware (#2)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1988    Category: Novel Series       Series: Ware    Author: Rudy Rucker       Publisher: Avon Books       Synopsis: Set in 2030–2031, ten years after the events of Software, Wetware focuses on the attempt of an Edgar Allan Poe-obsessed bopper named Berenice to populate Earth with a robot/human hybrid called a meatbop. Toward this end, she implants an embryo in a human woman living on the Moon (Della Taze, Cobb Anderson's niece) and then frames her for murder to force her to return to Earth. After only a few days, she gives birth to a boy named Manchile, who has been genetically programmed to carry bopper software in his brain (and in his sperm), and to grow to maturity in a matter of weeks.

Title: Wetware: Cyberpunk Erotica    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2015    Category: Short Story       Author: Violet Blue       Publisher: Digita Publications       Synopsis: Cyberpunk anti-heroes face global conspiracies, misused government R&D, thugs, drugs, true love, artificial intelligence, and vengeful sexbots in this collection's heady mix of sci-fi and sex. Wetware shows how hot "high tech low life" can be when all the glittering and frightening possibilities of cyberpunk meet the crisis point of sexual need. Seven unpredictable stories depict hackers, transhumans, androids, pop stars, armed revolutionaries, government contractors and more who discover that sex is hotter with hacked, stolen and renegade tech -- especially when it's a high-risk proposition.

Title: When Gravity Fails    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1986    Category: Novel       Author: George Alec Effinger       Publisher: Arbor House       Synopsis: A series of brutal murders soon begins to panic the Budayeen, and Audran is almost executed by Friedlander Bey, who at first considers him to be the killer. He is then forced by the centuries-old Bey to become his investigator, and even worse, is made to subject himself to extensive, partly experimental cybernetic modifications; an advanced form of the brain "wiring" he has dreaded before.

Title: When The Eye Sees Itself    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2018    Category: Novel       Author: Eric Borgerson       Publisher: Polylyric Press       Synopsis: In a society that segregates Vulnerables and Aggressives from the ranks of Citizens deemed to possess a functional temperamental balance, hacktivists and a state intelligence/terror agency race to control the impact of Quantum Field Resonance Imaging technology that allows people to touch minds, but which can also be deployed to inflict harm. Use of the technology by the intelligence agency for mass surveillance and manipulation of the public precipitates a crisis that brings the country to the brink of either civil war or a quantum evolutionary step, as political and commercial interests collide and the society is shaken to its foundations.

Title: When The Sparrow Falls    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel       Author: Neil Sharpson       Publisher: Tor       Synopsis: Here, in the last sanctuary for the dying embers of the human race in a world run by artificial intelligence, if you stray from the path - your life is forfeit. But when a Party propagandist is killed - and is discovered as a "machine" - he's given a new mission: chaperone the widow, Lily, who has arrived to claim her husband's remains.

Title: Widowmaker Outpost (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Dawn Moriti    Author: I.O. Adler       Publisher: Lucas Ross Publishing       Synopsis: A remote outpost in the savage wastes goes dark. When the ruling corporations of Earth’s last free city cover up the incident, Dawn Moriti is hired to discover the fate of a lost researcher. Her client is her sister, a genetically engineered soldier who threatened to kill her if they ever ran into each other again. The missing researcher? Their kid brother Pascal. Together, they will have to set aside their differences and navigate the tangled web of a corrupt corporation with a private military.

Title: Wiper    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Comics       Author: John Dunning   Ricardo Cabral   Brad Simpson   Jim Campbell        Publisher: Dark Horse       Synopsis: Lula Nomi is a Wiper--a private detective who guarantees complete discretion. A memory wipe after every job sees to that. When she's hired by enigmatic robot Klute, she thinks the case is the answer to all her problems. But there's something oddly familiar about Klute--and the more she investigates the disappearance of journalist Orson Glark, the more she suspects that he's somehow connected to her own past... Lula must face her greatest fears to learn what happened to Glark...and the truth about herself.

Title: Woken Furies (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2005    Category: Novel Series       Series: Takeshi Kovacs    Author: Richard K. Morgan       Publisher: Del Rey       Synopsis: In a world where the real and virtual are one and the same and the dead can come back to life, the damsel in distress may be none other than the infamous Quellcrist Falconer, the vaporized symbol of a freedom now gone from Harlan's World. Kovacs can deal with the madness of AI. He can do his part in a battle against biomachines gone wild, search for a three-centuries-old missing weapons system, and live with a blood feud with the yakuza, and even with the betrayal of people he once trusted. But when his relationship with the Falconer brings him an enemy specially designed to destroy him, he knows it's time to be afraid.

Title: Wolverine: Snikt!    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2003    Category: Comics Series       Author: Tsutomu Nihei       Publisher: Marvel       Synopsis: Marvel Manga action by Japanese superstar Tsutomu Nihei! Alone in a barren wasteland inhabited by robotic, parasitic organisms, the X-Men's most lethal member devolves further and further into his true, savage, berserker state with each battle. The key to Logan maintaining a link to his humanity may lie with a mysterious young girl.

Title: Woven (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Storm Fronts    Author: Elle E. Ire       Publisher: DSP Publications LLC       Synopsis: After an acidic-lake dunking on a distant moon shows Vick what’s really beneath her synthetic skin, it doesn’t matter that she heals. All she can see is the metallic shell of the soldier she once was. It’s a cruel reminder that she’s a cyborg. An AI. Less than human.

Title: Wyrm    Permalink: DBID    Year: 1998    Category: Novel       Author: Mark Fabi       Publisher: Bantam Spectra       Synopsis: As the new millennium approaches, cults, sects, and crackpot prophets flood the worldwide media. But for Michael Arcangelo none of their catastrophe theories are more frightening than the Goodknight virus. Michael suspects it is the work of a mysterious programming genius, who designed it to create a computer role-playing game so real it can kill. Now Michael and his team of techno-wizards must descend into a harrowing and convoluted world of reality and fantasy. But what they discover is even worse than they could have ever imagined. For the so-called game is already out of hand, the virus has taken over the Internet, harnessing the power of the millennial frenzy already sweeping the world. And if they don't find and defeat the twisted mastermind responsible, humanity will wake from its worst nightmare to find the end of the world is truly here.

Title: You Can Be A Cyborg When You're Older    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Richard Roberts       Publisher: Mystyque Press       Synopsis: In the bleak future of West Angel City, Vanity Rose is having a great time. She has a loving robot caretaker, a fake elf for a sister, and she roams the walls of West Angel's endless skyscrapers every night, thanks to her precious gravity shoes. What Vanity doesn't have are money and adventure, but she has a plan to get both. She's going to walk the dark side, joining the thieves, and mercenaries who get paid to do all the little jobs that make a corrupt city go around. She'll only have to deal with killer robots, vengeance-crazed and not very bright computer programs, cyborg vampires, telepathic capybaras, mean girl mech pilots, and have every homemade weapon in the city pointed at her.

Title: Zaya    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2014    Category: Comics Series       Author: J.D. Morvan   Huang-Jia Wei       Publisher: Magnetic Press       Synopsis: Zaya tells the story of secret agent in the distant future who left her post to seek a normal life as an artist and mother. When a biomechanical threat destroys an orbiting colony station and former fellow agents start dying, she is called back into the field to find and stop the danger. Her investigation leads to many questions about her own past, filled with explosive revelations.

Title: Zed    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2019    Category: Novel       Author: Joanna Kavenna       Publisher: Faber & Faber       Synopsis: Self-anointed guru of the Digital Age, Guy Matthias, CEO of Beetle, has become one of the world's most powerful and influential figures. Untaxed and ungoverned, his trans-Atlantic company essentially operates beyond the control of Governments or the law. But trouble is never far away, and for Guy a perfect storm is brewing: his wife wants to leave him, fed up with his serial infidelities; malfunctioning Beetle software has led to some unfortunate deaths which are proving hard to cover up; his longed for deal with China is proving troublingly elusive and, among other things, the mystery hacker, Gogol, is on his trail.

Title: Zer0-Day (#1)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Sommerfeld Experiment    Author: Al Davidson       Publisher: Destiny Engine       Synopsis: Packed with dark action, imaginative violence and a well thought out story, Zero-Day is a wild ride you’ll want to buckle in for!

Title: Zero-Day Rising (#3)    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: BetterWorld Cyberpunk    Author: T.C. Weber       Publisher: See Sharp Press       Synopsis: In Zero-Day Rising, the third book of the BetterWorld trilogy, Kiyoko is tired of hiding and grieving, and has decided to strike back. In the first volume of the critically acclaimed BetterWorld cyberpunk trilogy, Kiyoko’s older sister Waylee and their hacktivist friends exposed a conspiracy between MediaCorp and U.S. President Rand to control the flow of information and run the world on behalf of a cabal of billionaires. In volume two, Waylee faced life imprisonment, while Kiyoko and her friends were hunted by a team of ruthless mercenaries. In Zero-Day Rising, Kiyoko resolves to free her sister and bring down President Rand and MediaCorp. However, MediaCorp unleashes its ultimate plan: direct mind control with cerebral implants. Can Kiyoko and Waylee’s team stop them? Can they penetrate MediaCorp’s networks and end the company’s grip over humanity? All while eluding the biggest manhunt in history, in a country where everyone and everything is under surveillance?

Title: Zilch    Permalink: DBID    Year: 2023    Category: Novel       Author: TR Matthews       Publisher: Amazon       Synopsis: In a futurescape of all-pervasive technology, ZILCH tells the story of one man trying to make that desperate big score. And the aftermath when it all goes wrong in an augmented world where what is real and merely synthetic no longer has any distinction, and where killer AI are willing and equipped to do the dirty work of corporations accountable to no one.

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