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Blame
   Title: Blame!
   Year: 1998
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Tsutomu Nihei   
   Publisher: Kodansha   
   Plot:
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.
Channel_Zero
   Title: Channel Zero
   Year: 1998
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Brian Wood   
   Publisher: Image   
   Plot:
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.
City_Of_Golden_Shadow
   Title: City Of Golden Shadow
   Year: 1998
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Ted Williams   
   Publisher: DAW Books   
   Plot:
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.
Cowboy_Bebop_Shooting_Star
   Title: Cowboy Bebop: Shooting Star
   Year: 1998
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Owen Thomas   Cain Kuga   
   Publisher: Tokyopop   
   Plot:
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.
Distraction
   Title: Distraction
   Year: 1998
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Millennium   Orion   
   Plot:
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.
Eden
   Title: Eden: It's an Endless World!
   Year: 1998
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Hiroki Endo   
   Publisher: Dark Horse   
   Plot:
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!
Hex
   Title: Hex
   Year: 1998
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Rhiannon Lassiter   
   Publisher: Simon Pulse   
   Plot:
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....
Inversions
   Title: Inversions (#6)
   Year: 1998
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Culture
   Author: Iain M. Banks   
   Publisher: Pocket Books   
   Plot:
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.
Noir
   Title: Noir
   Year: 1998
   Category: Novel   
   Author: K. W. Jeter   
   Publisher: Spectra   
   Plot:
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.
One_Of_Us
   Title: One Of Us
   Year: 1998
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Michael Marshall Smith   
   Publisher: Harper Collins   
   Plot:
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.
River_Of_Blue_Fire
   Title: River Of Blue Fire (#2)
   Year: 1998
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Otherland
   Author: Tad Williams   
   Publisher: DAW Books   
   Plot:
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.
Tea_From_An_Empty_Cup
   Title: Tea From An Empty Cup (#1)
   Year: 1998
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Artificial Reality Division
   Author: Pat Cadigan   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
"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.
The_Engineer_Reconditioned
   Title: The Engineer Reconditioned
   Year: 1998
   Category: Short Story   
   Author: Neal Asher   
   Publisher: Wildside Press   
   Plot:
Mysterious aliens, ruthless terrorists, androids with attitude, genetic manipulation, punch-ups with lasers and giant spaceships! What more do you want?
The_Golden_Globe
   Title: The Golden Globe (#3)
   Year: 1998
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Eight Worlds
   Author: John Varley   
   Publisher: Ace   
   Plot:
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...
Wyrm
   Title: Wyrm
   Year: 1998
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Mark Fabi   
   Publisher: Bantam Spectra   
   Plot:
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.
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