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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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".