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x36_Streets
   Title: 36 Streets
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: T.R. Napper   
   Publisher: Titan   
   Plot:
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.
A_Fire_In_The_Sun
   Title: A Fire In The Sun
   Year: 1989
   Category: Novel   
   Author: George Alec Effinger   
   Publisher: Doubleday   
   Plot:
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.
A_Scanner_Darkly
   Title: A Scanner Darkly
   Year: 1977
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Philip K. Dick   
   Publisher: Doubleday   
   Plot:
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.
A_Shadow_In_The_Flames
   Title: A Shadow In The Flames
   Year: 2007
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Michael G. Munz   
   Publisher: Booktrope   
   Plot:
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.
AI_Apocalypse
   Title: A.I. Apocalypse
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Hertling   
   Publisher: Liquididea Press   
   Plot:
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.
Acts_Of_The_Apostles
   Title: Acts Of The Apostles
   Year: 1999
   Category: Novel   
   Author: John F.X. Sundman   
   Publisher: Smashworks Inc   
   Plot:
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.
After_Day_One
   Title: After Day One
   Year: 2015
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Benjamin Levi Seims   
   Publisher: Booktrope   
   Plot:
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.
After_Mind
   Title: After Mind
   Year: 2015
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Spencer Wolf   
   Publisher: BentStrong Books   
   Plot:
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.
After_The_Revolution
   Title: After The Revolution
   Year: 2021
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Robert Evans   
   Publisher: AK Press   
   Plot:
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.
Agency
   Title: Agency
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Gibson   
   Publisher: Berkley   
   Plot:
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.
Airith_The_Kentilan_War
   Title: Airith: The Kentilan War
   Year: 2019
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bryan Butvidas   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Alpha_Two
   Title: Alpha Two
   Year: N/A
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Andrew Seas   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
Amped
   Title: Amped
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Daniel H. Wilson   
   Publisher: Doubleday   
   Plot:
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.
Android_Free_Fall
   Title: Android: Free Fall
   Year: 2011
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William H. Keith Jr.   
   Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games   
   Plot:
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.
Angel_Station
   Title: Angel Station
   Year: 1990
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Walter Jon Williams   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
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.
ARC_City_Stories
   Title: ARC City Stories
   Year: 2019
   Category: Novel   
   Author: J L Aarne   Davene Le Grange   Patrick Tillett   
   Publisher: Independently Published   
   Plot:
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.
Autonomous
   Title: Autonomous
   Year: 2017
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Annalee Newitz   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
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.
Auxiliary_London_2039
   Title: Auxiliary: London 2039
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Jon Richter   
   Publisher: TCK Publishing   
   Plot:
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.
Avogadro_Corp
   Title: Avogadro Corp
   Year: 2011
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Hertling   
   Publisher: Liquididea Press   
   Plot:
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.
Babylon_Babies
   Title: Babylon Babies
   Year: 1999
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Maurice G. Dantec   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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."
Bang_Bang_Bodhisattva
   Title: Bang Bang Bodhisattva
   Year: 2023
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Aubrey Wood   
   Publisher: Solaris   
   Plot:
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.
Battery_Life
   Title: Battery Life
   Year: 2023
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Brennan Gilpatrick   Gregory Lang   
   Publisher: Blackstone Publishing   
   Plot:
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.
Belligerent
   Title: Belligerent
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel   
   Author: B. N. Mauldin   
   Publisher: Fable Press   
   Plot:
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.
Better_Than_Real
   Title: Better Than Real: Sensual Solutions for the Discerning Client
   Year: 2006
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Huw Lyan Thomas   
   Publisher: Velluminous Press   
   Plot:
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.
Beyond_The_Dragons_Gate
   Title: Beyond The Dragon's Gate
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Yoon Ha Lee   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
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.
Black_Glass
   Title: Black Glass
   Year: 2008
   Category: Novel   
   Author: John Shirley   
   Publisher: Elder Signs Press   
   Plot:
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.
Black_Man
   Title: Black Man (Thirteen)
   Year: 2007
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Richard K. Morgan   
   Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd   
   Plot:
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.
Blackstar
   Title: Blackstar
   Year: 2015
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Joshua Viola   
   Publisher: FiXT   
   Plot:
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.
Blue_Pills
   Title: Blue Pills
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Armand Vespertine   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Brasyl
   Title: Brasyl
   Year: 2007
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Ian McDonald   
   Publisher: Pyr   
   Plot:
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.
Burn-In
   Title: Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: P.W. Singer   August Cole   
   Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt   
   Plot:
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.
Busted_Synapses
   Title: Busted Synapses
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Erica L. Satifka   
   Publisher: Broken Eye Books   
   Plot:
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.
Carbone_And_Silicium
   Title: Carbone & Silicium
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Mathieu Bablet   
   Publisher: Ankama   
   Plot:
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...
Cheatc0de
   Title: Cheatc0de
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Mikey Campling   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Cinder
   Title: Cinder
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Marissa Meyer   
   Publisher: Feiwel & Friends   
   Plot:
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.
City_Come_A_Walkin
   Title: City Come A-Walkin'
   Year: 1980
   Category: Novel   
   Author: John Shirley   
   Publisher: Dell Publishing   
   Plot:
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.
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.
Code_Walker
   Title: Code Walker
   Year: 2011
   Category: Novel   
   Author: G.L. Drummond   
   Publisher: Katarr Kanticles Press   
   Plot:
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.
Convergence_Chronicles
   Title: Convergence Chronicles: The Saga Of Metronia
   Year: 2023
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Andru Jorj   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Count_Zero
   Title: Count Zero
   Year: 1986
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Gibson   
   Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd   
   Plot:
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.
Crashing_Heaven
   Title: Crashing Heaven
   Year: 2015
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Al Robertson   
   Publisher: Gollancz   
   Plot:
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?
Creatures_Of_Light_And_Darkness
   Title: Creatures Of Light And Darkness
   Year: 1969
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Roger Zelazny   
   Publisher: Doubleday   
   Plot:
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.
Cryptonomicon
   Title: Cryptonomicon
   Year: 1999
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Neal Stephenson   
   Publisher: Avon   
   Plot:
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.
Cumulus
   Title: Cumulus
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Eliot Peper   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
Cyber_Dawn
   Title: Cyber Dawn
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel   
   Author: M.L. Adams   
   Publisher: Rialla Publishing LLC   
   Plot:
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.
Cyber_Dreams_Electric_Angels
   Title: Cyber Dreams & Electric Angels
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: PlumParrot   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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...
Cyber_Mage
   Title: Cyber Mage
   Year: 2021
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Saad Z. Hossain   
   Publisher: The Unnamed Press   
   Plot:
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.
Cyberblade_The_City_Of_Five_Skies
   Title: Cyberblade: The City Of Five Skies
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Z. Stone   
   Publisher: Livebook Publishing   
   Plot:
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.
Cyberbooks
   Title: Cyberbooks
   Year: 1990
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Ben Bova   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
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.
Cybernetic_Jungle
   Title: Cybernetic Jungle
   Year: 1992
   Category: Novel   
   Author: S. N. Lewitt   
   Publisher: Ace   
   Plot:
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.
Cyberpunk_BB
   Title: Cyberpunk
   Year: 1984
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Bethke   
   Publisher: Bruce Bethke   
   Plot:
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.
Cyberpunk_X_EVA
   Title: Cyberpunk X E.V.A. Special
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Carter Holland   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
CyberStorm
   Title: CyberStorm
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Matthew Mather   
   Publisher: PhutureNews Publishing   
   Plot:
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.
Damaged_Good
   Title: Damaged Good
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: J.E. Mac   
   Publisher: Dying Media Press   
   Plot:
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.
Data_Runner
   Title: Data Runner
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Sam A. Patel   
   Publisher: Diversion Books   
   Plot:
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.
Day_One
   Title: Day One
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Nate Kenyon   
   Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books   
   Plot:
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.
Diaspora
   Title: Diaspora
   Year: 1997
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Greg Egan   
   Publisher: Millennium   
   Plot:
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.
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.
Diver_Creed_Station
   Title: Diver Creed Station
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Oliver Phipps   
   Publisher: Gray Door   
   Plot:
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.
Division_Zero
   Title: Division Zero
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Matthew S. Cox   
   Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press   
   Plot:
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.
Do_Androids_Dream_Of_Electric_Sheep
   Title: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
   Year: 1968
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Philip K. Dick   
   Publisher: Doubleday   
   Plot:
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.
Dome_City_Blues
   Title: Dome City Blues
   Year: 2011
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Jeff Edwards   
   Publisher: Stealth Books   
   Plot:
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.
Down_And_Out
   Title: Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom
   Year: 2003
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Cory Doctorow   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
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.
Dreamships
   Title: Dreamships
   Year: 1992
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Melissa Scott   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
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.
Dystopias_Edge
   Title: Dystopia's Edge
   Year: 2021
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Ian Price   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
Echo_Effect
   Title: Echo Effect
   Year: 2017
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Robert D. Armstrong   
   Publisher: Robert D. Armstrong   
   Plot:
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.
Echoes
   Title: Echoes
   Year: 2015
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Laura Tisdall   
   Publisher: Tizl Press   
   Plot:
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.
Entropy_Angels
   Title: Entropy Angels
   Year: 2019
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Mark Harritt   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
Escapology
   Title: Escapology
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Ren Warom   
   Publisher: Titan Books   
   Plot:
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.
Exploded_View
   Title: Exploded View
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Sam McPheeters   
   Publisher: Talos   
   Plot:
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.
Fall
   Title: Fall, or Dodge In Hell
   Year: 2019
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Neal Stephenson   
   Publisher: William Morrow & Co   
   Plot:
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.
Flow_My_Tears_The_Policeman_Said
   Title: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
   Year: 1974
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Philip K. Dick   
   Publisher: Doubleday   
   Plot:
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.
Fools
   Title: Fools
   Year: 1992
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Pat Cadigan   
   Publisher: Spectra   
   Plot:
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.
Frontera
   Title: Frontera
   Year: 1984
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Lewis Shiner   
   Publisher: Baen Books   
   Plot:
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.
Futures_Guardian
   Title: Future's Guardian
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Paul Haedo   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
GITS
   Title: Ghost In The Shell
   Year: 1991
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Masamune Shirow   
   Publisher: Dark Horse   
   Plot:
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.
Ghost_Of_The_Neon_God
   Title: Ghost Of The Neon God
   Year: 2024
   Category: Novel   
   Author: T.R. Napper   
   Publisher: Titan   
   Plot:
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.
Ghosts_Of_Tomorrow
   Title: Ghosts Of Tomorrow
   Year: 2017
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Michael R. Fletcher   
   Publisher: Michael R. Fletcher   
   Plot:
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.
Glass_House_51
   Title: Glass House 51
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel   
   Author: John Hampel   
   Publisher: Bzff Books   
   Plot:
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.
Gnomon
   Title: Gnomon
   Year: 2017
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Nick Harkaway   
   Publisher: William Heinemann   
   Plot:
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.
Graft
   Title: Graft
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Matt Hill   
   Publisher: Angry Robot   
   Plot:
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.
Grand_Theft_AI
   Title: Grand Theft AI
   Year: 2024
   Category: Novel   
   Author: James Cox   
   Publisher: Blackstone Publishing   
   Plot:
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.
Halo
   Title: Halo
   Year: 1991
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Tom Maddox   
   Publisher: Kessinger Publishing   
   Plot:
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.
Halting_State
   Title: Halting State
   Year: 2007
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Charles Stross   
   Publisher: Ace   
   Plot:
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.
Hamlet_Prince_Of_Robots
   Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Robots
   Year: 2023
   Category: Novel   
   Author: M. Darusha Wehm   
   Publisher: In Potentia Press   
   Plot:
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.
Harmony
   Title: Harmony
   Year: 2008
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Project Itoh   
   Publisher: Haikasoru   
   Plot:
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.
Headcrash
   Title: Headcrash
   Year: 1995
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Bethke   
   Publisher: Warner Aspect   
   Plot:
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.
Heart_Threaded
   Title: Heart Threaded: A Young Adult Dystopian Cyberpunk Adventure
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: James L. Graetz   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
Heavy_Weather
   Title: Heavy Weather
   Year: 1995
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Bantam   
   Plot:
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.
Hell_A_Cyberpunk_Thriller
   Title: Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller
   Year: 1995
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Chet Williamson   
   Publisher: Prima Lifestyles   
   Plot:
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.
Hemispheres
   Title: Hemispheres
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Mark Everglade   
   Publisher: RockHill Publishing   
   Plot:
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.
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....
High-Opp
   Title: High-Opp
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Frank Herbert   
   Publisher: WordFire Press   
   Plot:
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.
Holo_Men
   Title: Holo Men
   Year: 1996
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Stephen Billias   
   Publisher: Aspect   
   Plot:
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.
Holo_Wars_The_Black_Hats
   Title: Holo.Wars: The Black Hats
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: R.M. Gonzales   
   Publisher: CreateSpace   
   Plot:
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?
Holy_Fire
   Title: Holy Fire
   Year: 1996
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Bantam Books   
   Plot:
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.
House_Of_Gold
   Title: House Of Gold
   Year: 2023
   Category: Novel   
   Author: C.T. Rwizi   
   Publisher: 47North   
   Plot:
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.
Human_Resources
   Title: Human Resources
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Heath M. Baron   
   Publisher: Barnes & Noble   
   Plot:
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.
Huntress
   Title: Huntress
   Year: 2018
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Stephanie Flint   
   Publisher: Infinitas Publishing   
   Plot:
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.
IC9_A_Cyberpunk_Detective_Story
   Title: IC9: A Cyberpunk Detective Story
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Tim Morgan   
   Publisher: Tim Morgan   
   Plot:
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?
Implanted
   Title: Implanted
   Year: 2018
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Lauren C. Teffeau   
   Publisher: Angry Robot   
   Plot:
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.
Implied_Spaces
   Title: Implied Spaces
   Year: 2008
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Walter Jon Williams   
   Publisher: Night Shade   
   Plot:
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.
Independent_Investigators_Inc
   Title: Independent Investigators Inc
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Ryan Sebastian   
   Publisher: Blurb   
   Plot:
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?
Inertia
   Title: Inertia
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Mark Everglade   
   Publisher: Rockhill Publishing LLC   
   Plot:
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.
Infinite_Detail
   Title: Infinite Detail
   Year: 2019
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Tim Maughan   
   Publisher: MCD Fsg Originals   
   Plot:
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.
Inscape
   Title: Inscape
   Year: 2021
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Louise Carey   
   Publisher: Gollancz   
   Plot:
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.
Interface
   Title: Interface
   Year: 1994
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Neal Stephenson   George F. Jewsbury   Stephen Bury   
   Publisher: Spectra   
   Plot:
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.
Islands_In_The_Net
   Title: Islands In The Net
   Year: 1988
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Arbor House   
   Plot:
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.
Join
   Title: Join
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Steve Toutonghi   
   Publisher: Soho Press   
   Plot:
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.
Kain
   Title: Kain
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Brie McGill   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Kingdom_Of_Without
   Title: Kingdom Of Without
   Year: 2023
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Andrea Tang   
   Publisher: Simon & Schuster   
   Plot:
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.
Koko_Takes_A_Holiday
   Title: Koko Takes A Holiday
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Kieran Shea   
   Publisher: Titan Books   
   Plot:
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.
Lament
   Title: Lament
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Jack Wallen   
   Publisher: Autumnal Press   
   Plot:
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.
Last_Tango_In_Cyberspace
   Title: Last Tango In Cyberspace
   Year: 2019
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Steven Kotler   
   Publisher: St. Martin's Press   
   Plot:
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.
Latent_State
   Title: Latent State
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Ben Winter   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Lies_Inc
   Title: Lies, Inc
   Year: 1966
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Philip K. Dick   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Life_Is_A_Beautiful_Thing
   Title: Life Is A Beautiful Thing
   Year: 2015
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Harmon Cooper   
   Publisher: Boycott Books   
   Plot:
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.
Livid
   Title: Livid
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Francesco Verso   
   Publisher: Fantastica   
   Plot:
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.
Machinehood
   Title: Machinehood
   Year: 2021
   Category: Novel   
   Author: S. B. Divya   
   Publisher: Gallary   Saga Press   
   Plot:
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.
Mal_Goes_To_War
   Title: Mal Goes To War
   Year: 2024
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Edward Ashton   
   Publisher: St. Martin's Press   
   Plot:
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.
Market_Forces
   Title: Market Forces
   Year: 2004
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Richard K. Morgan   
   Publisher: Ballantine Books   
   Plot:
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.
Maya
   Title: Maya
   Year: 2015
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Clyde DeSouza   
   Publisher: Penguin India   
   Plot:
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.
Memoria
   Title: Memoria
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Alex Bobl   
   Publisher: Sky Bridge   
   Plot:
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.
Memories_With_Maya
   Title: Memories With Maya
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Clyde DeSouza   
   Publisher: CreateSpace   
   Plot:
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...
Metrophage
   Title: Metrophage
   Year: 1988
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Richard Kadrey   
   Publisher: Hardwired   
   Plot:
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...
Mind_Burn
   Title: Mind Burn
   Year: 2023
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Rhett C. Bruno   T. E. Bakutis   
   Publisher: Blackstone Publishing   
   Plot:
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.
Mindplayers
   Title: Mindplayers
   Year: 1987
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Pat Cadigan   
   Publisher: Bantam Spectra   
   Plot:
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."
Mindwalker
   Title: Mindwalker
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Kate Dylan   
   Publisher: Hodder Books   
   Plot:
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.
Mona_Lisa_Overdrive
   Title: Mona Lisa Overdrive
   Year: 1988
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Gibson   
   Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd   
   Plot:
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.
Moon_Cops_On_The_Moon
   Title: Moon Cops On The Moon!
   Year: 2023
   Category: Novel   
   Author: C.T. Phipps   
   Publisher: Crossroad Press   
   Plot:
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.
More_Perfect
   Title: More Perfect
   Year: 2023
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Temi Oh   
   Publisher: Saga Press   
   Plot:
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.
Moxyland
   Title: Moxyland
   Year: 2008
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Lauren Beukes   
   Publisher: Jacana Media   
   Plot:
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.
Mr_Fear
   Title: Mr. Fear
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: J.L. Cummings   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
Necropolis
   Title: Necropolis
   Year: 2011
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Michael Dempsey   
   Publisher: Night Shade Books   
   Plot:
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.
Necrotic_City
   Title: Necrotic City
   Year: 2017
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Leland Lydecker   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Neon_Helix
   Title: Neon Helix (#1)
   Year: 2019
   Category: Novel   
   Series: Neon Helix Universe
   Author: Nik Whittaker   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
Neon_Echo
   Title: Neon/Echo
   Year: 2017
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Seth Ross   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Neuromancer
   Title: Neuromancer
   Year: 1984
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Gibson   
   Publisher: Ace   
   Plot:
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.
Never_Deal_With_A_Dragon
   Title: Never Deal With A Dragon (Shadowrun: Secrets Of Power)
   Year: 1990
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Robert N. Charrette   
   Publisher: Roc   
   Plot:
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.
Night_Sky_Mine
   Title: Night Sky Mine
   Year: 1997
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Melissa Scott   
   Publisher: Penguin Group   
   Plot:
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.
Nightstorm_City
   Title: Nightstorm City: And The N-50 Riots
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Dennis Toy Jr   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Nimbus
   Title: Nimbus
   Year: 1993
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Alexander Jablokov   
   Publisher: William Morrow & Company   
   Plot:
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...
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.
Normal
   Title: Normal
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Warren Ellis   
   Publisher: FSG Originals   
   Plot:
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.
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.
Open_Source
   Title: Open Source
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Anna L. Davis   
   Publisher: Anna L. Davis   
   Plot:
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.
Otaku
   Title: Otaku
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Chris Kluwe   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
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…
Pandora_Downloaded
   Title: Pandora Downloaded
   Year: 2023
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Yuki   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Paris_In_The_Twentieth_Century
   Title: Paris In The Twentieth Century
   Year: 1994
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Jules Verne   Richard Howard   Eugen Weber   
   Publisher: Del Rey   
   Plot:
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...
Prodigal
   Title: Prodigal
   Year: 2006
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Marc D. Giller   
   Publisher: Spectra   
   Plot:
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.
Prototype
   Title: Prototype
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Cassandra Ormand   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Randomize
   Title: Randomize (Forward Collection #6)
   Year: 2019
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Andy Weir   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
Re-Wired
   Title: Re-Wired
   Year: 2015
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Greg Dragon   
   Publisher: Thirsty Bird Productions   
   Plot:
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.
REAMDE
   Title: REAMDE
   Year: 2011
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Neal Stephenson   
   Publisher: William Morrow   Atlantic Books   
   Plot:
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.
Reap3r
   Title: Reap3r
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Eliot Peper   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
Red_Spider_White_Web
   Title: Red Spider White Web
   Year: 1990
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Misha Nogha   
   Publisher: Morgan Publications   
   Plot:
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.
Remember_Me_Synthetica
   Title: Remember Me, Synthetica
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: K. Aten   
   Publisher: Regal Crest Enterprises   
   Plot:
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).​
Replika_Sky_Mission
   Title: Replika: Sky's Mission
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Hugo Bernard   
   Publisher: Stephane Bergeron   
   Plot:
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.
Repo_Virtual
   Title: Repo Virtual
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Corey J. White   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
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.
Resurrection_Inc
   Title: Resurrection, Inc.
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Kevin J. Anderson   
   Publisher: ECW Press   
   Plot:
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.
Revolution_19
   Title: Revolution 19
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Gregg Rosenblum   
   Publisher: Harper Teen   
   Plot:
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.
River_Of_Gods
   Title: River Of Gods
   Year: 2004
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Ian McDonald   
   Publisher: Simon & Schuster   
   Plot:
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.
Robopocalypse
   Title: Robopocalypse
   Year: 2011
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Daniel H. Wilson   
   Publisher: Doubleday   
   Plot:
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.
Rubicon
   Title: Rubicon
   Year: 2023
   Category: Novel   
   Author: J.S. Dewes   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
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.
Runners
   Title: RUNNERS
   Year: 2023
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Justin Hale   
   Publisher: Indie Roots Media   
   Plot:
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.
Schismatrix
   Title: Schismatrix
   Year: 1985
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Arbor House   
   Plot:
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.
Sewer_Gas_And_Electric_The_Public_Works_Trilogy
   Title: Sewer, Gas And Electric: The Public Works Trilogy
   Year: 2004
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Matt Ruff   
   Publisher: Grove Press   
   Plot:
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.
nocover
   Title: Shadowrun: Triptych
   Year: 2008
   Category: Novel   
   Author: N/A
   Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs   
   Plot: N/A
She_Only_Boots_For_Me
   Title: She Only Boots For Me
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Alexander King   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
Shift
   Title: Shift
   Year: 2017
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Robert Lenz   Jacob Hunter   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
Silicon_Dawn
   Title: Silicon Dawn
   Year: 2015
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Massa   
   Publisher: CreateSpace   
   Plot:
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.
Simulacron-3
   Title: Simulacron 3
   Year: 1964
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Daniel F. Galouye   
   Publisher: J'ai lu   
   Plot:
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.
Sky_City_The_Rise_of_an_Orphan
   Title: Sky City: The Rise of an Orphan
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: R.D. Hale   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
Snow_Crash
   Title: Snow Crash
   Year: 1992
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Neal Stephenson   
   Publisher: Bantam Books   
   Plot:
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.
Song_Of_Scarabaeus
   Title: Song Of Scarabaeus
   Year: 2010
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Sara Creasy   
   Publisher: Harper Voyager   
   Plot:
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.
Stand_On_Zanzibar
   Title: Stand On Zanzibar
   Year: 1968
   Category: Novel   
   Author: John Brunner   
   Publisher: Doubleday   
   Plot:
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.
Starfall
   Title: Starfall
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Drew Harrison   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
Starlight_City
   Title: Starlight City
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Radford Lee   
   Publisher: Radford Lee   
   Plot:
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...
Strictly_Analog
   Title: Strictly Analog
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Richard Levesque   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Summer_Frost
   Title: Summer Frost (Forward Collection #2)
   Year: 2019
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Blake Crouch   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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?
Synners
   Title: Synners
   Year: 1991
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Pat Cadigan   
   Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press   
   Plot:
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.
Tangles_Game
   Title: Tangle's Game
   Year: 2019
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Stewart Hotston   
   Publisher: Abaddon   
   Plot:
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...
Technogenesis
   Title: Technogenesis
   Year: 2002
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Syne Mitchell   
   Publisher: Roc   
   Plot:
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.
The_Accord
   Title: The Accord
   Year: 2011
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Keith Brooke   
   Publisher: Infinity Plus   
   Plot:
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?
The_Adolescence_Of_P-1
   Title: The Adolescence Of P-1
   Year: 1985
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Thomas J. Ryan   
   Publisher: Bean Books   
   Plot:
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.
The_All-Consuming_World
   Title: The All-Consuming World
   Year: 2021
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Cassandra Khaw   
   Publisher: Erewhon   
   Plot:
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.
The_Arcology
   Title: The Arcology
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Carlyle Edmundson   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
The_Artificial_Kid
   Title: The Artificial Kid
   Year: 1980
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Hardwired   
   Plot:
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.
The_Big_Sheep
   Title: The Big Sheep: A Novel
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Robert Kroese   
   Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books   
   Plot:
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.
The_Blue_Nowhere
   Title: The Blue Nowhere
   Year: 2001
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Jeffery Deaver   
   Publisher: Coronet Books   
   Plot:
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.
The_Body_Scout
   Title: The Body Scout
   Year: 2021
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Lincoln Michel   
   Publisher: Orbit   
   Plot:
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.
The_Caryatids
   Title: The Caryatids
   Year: 2009
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Del Rey   
   Plot:
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.
The_Chimera_Code
   Title: The Chimera Code
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Wayne Santos   
   Publisher: Solaris   
   Plot:
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.
The_City_Inside
   Title: The City Inside
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Samit Basu   Kuri Huang   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
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.
The_Computer_Connection
   Title: The Computer Connection
   Year: 1975
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Alfred Bester   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
The_Crying_Machine
   Title: The Crying Machine
   Year: 2019
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Greg Chivers   
   Publisher: HarperVoyager   
   Plot:
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…
The_Diamond_Age
   Title: The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
   Year: 1995
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Neal Stephenson   
   Publisher: Bantam Spectra   
   Plot:
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.
The_Difference_Engine
   Title: The Difference Engine
   Year: 1992
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Gibson   Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Spectra   
   Plot:
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...
The_Dividing_Sky
   Title: The Dividing Sky
   Year: 2024
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Jill Tew   
   Publisher: Joy Revolution   
   Plot:
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.
The_Downloaded
   Title: The Downloaded
   Year: 2024
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Robert J. Sawyer   
   Publisher: Shadowpaw Press   
   Plot:
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.
The_Escher_Man
   Title: The Escher Man
   Year: 2024
   Category: Novel   
   Author: T.R. Napper   
   Publisher: Titan   
   Plot:
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.
The_Exile_Kiss
   Title: The Exile Kiss
   Year: 1991
   Category: Novel   
   Author: George Alec Effinger   
   Publisher: Doubleday   
   Plot:
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.
The_Fortunate_Fall
   Title: The Fortunate Fall
   Year: 1996
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Raphael Carter   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
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.
The_Game_Continues_After_Your_Death
   Title: The Game Continues After Your Death: The secret notebooks of Thout' Nielsporte, prince of the Metaverse
   Year: 2024
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Jean-Daniel Magnin   
   Publisher: O t'aim   
   Plot:
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...
The_Girl_Who_Was_Plugged_In
   Title: The Girl Who Was Plugged In
   Year: 1973
   Category: Novel   
   Author: James Tiptree Jr   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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).
The_Glass_Bees
   Title: The Glass Bees
   Year: 1957
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Ernst Jünger   Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Klett/Noonday Press   
   Plot:
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.
The_Hacker_And_The_Ants
   Title: The Hacker And The Ants
   Year: 1994
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Rudy Rucker   
   Publisher: Avon Books   
   Plot:
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.
The_Hades_Calculus
   Title: The Hades Calculus
   Year: 2024
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Maria Ying   
   Publisher: Hua Publishing   
   Plot:
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.
The_Immortality_Game
   Title: The Immortality Game
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Ted Cross   
   Publisher: Breakwater Harbor Books   
   Plot:
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.
The_Integrated_Man
   Title: The Integrated Man
   Year: 1980
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Michael Berlyn   
   Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell   
   Plot:
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.
The_Jericho_Iteration
   Title: The Jericho Iteration
   Year: 1994
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Allen Steele   
   Publisher: Ace   
   Plot:
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.
The_Last_0-Day
   Title: The Last 0-Day
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: B. R. Russell   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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.
The_Last_Firewall
   Title: The Last Firewall
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Hertling   
   Publisher: Liquididea Press   
   Plot:
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.
The_Lost_Thorn
   Title: The Lost Thorn
   Year: 2015
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Joshua P. Aguayo   
   Publisher: Full Runa Transmedia Studio   
   Plot:
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.
The_Moon_Is_A_Harsh_Mistress
   Title: The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
   Year: 1966
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Robert A. Heinlein   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
The_Peripheral
   Title: The Peripheral
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Gibson   
   Publisher: Berkely   
   Plot:
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.
The_Preserve
   Title: The Preserve
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Ariel S. Winter   
   Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books   
   Plot:
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.
The_Ravengers
   Title: The Ravengers
   Year: 1995
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Stephen Billias   
   Publisher: Aspect   
   Plot:
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.
The_Red_First_Light
   Title: The Red: First Light
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Linda Nagata   
   Publisher: Mythic Island Press   
   Plot:
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.
The_Running_Man
   Title: The Running Man
   Year: 1982
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Stephen King   Richard Bachman   
   Publisher: Signet   
   Plot:
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.
The_Shockwave_Rider
   Title: The Shockwave Rider
   Year: 1975
   Category: Novel   
   Author: John Brunner   
   Publisher: Harper & Row   
   Plot:
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.
The_Smoke_In_Deaths_Eye
   Title: The Smoke In Death's Eye
   Year: 2011
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Jorge Salgado-Reyes   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
In a dystopian future of nanotechnology & ubiquitous CCTV, a private investigator tortured by the disappearance of his wife investigates a series of brutal slayings.
The_Stars_My_Destination
   Title: The Stars My Destination
   Year: 1955
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Alfred Bester   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
The_Ten_Percent_Thief
   Title: The Ten Percent Thief
   Year: 2020
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Lavanya Lakshminarayan   
   Publisher: Solaris   
   Plot:
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.
The_Terminal_Connection
   Title: The Terminal Connection
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Dan Needles   
   Publisher: Route 11 Publications   
   Plot:
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.
The_Terminator
   Title: The Terminator
   Year: 1985
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Randall Frakes   James Cameron   
   Publisher: Spectra   
   Plot:
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!
The_This
   Title: The This
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Adam Roberts   
   Publisher: Gollancz   
   Plot:
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.
The_Uploaded
   Title: The Uploaded
   Year: 2017
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Ferrett Steinmetz   
   Publisher: Angry Robot   
   Plot:
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...
The_Zenith_Angle
   Title: The Zenith Angle
   Year: 2004
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Del Rey   
   Plot:
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.
The_Zone
   Title: The Zone: A Cyberpunk Thriller
   Year: 2023
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Stu Jones   
   Publisher: Dropship Publishing   
   Plot:
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.
Thin_Air
   Title: Thin Air
   Year: 2018
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Richard K. Morgan   
   Publisher: Gollancz   
   Plot:
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.
Thirteen
   Title: Thirteen
   Year: 2007
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Richard K. Morgan   
   Publisher: Del Rey   
   Plot:
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.
Three_Days_In_April
   Title: Three Days In April
   Year: 2015
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Edward Ashton   
   Publisher: HarperCollins   
   Plot:
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.
Thrill_Switch
   Title: Thrill Switch
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Tim Hawken   
   Publisher: Seahawk Press   
   Plot:
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...
Times_Adversary
   Title: Time's Adversary
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: J. G. McGovern   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Tomorrow_And_Tomorrow
   Title: Tomorrow And Tomorrow
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Thomas Sweterlitsch   
   Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons   
   Plot:
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.
Transreal_Cyberpunk
   Title: Transreal Cyberpunk
   Year: 2015
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Rudy Rucker   Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Transreal Books   
   Plot: N/A
TRON
   Title: TRON
   Year: 1982
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Brian Daley   
   Publisher: New English Library   
   Plot:
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.
Tronick
   Title: Tronick
   Year: 2021
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Rosie Record   
   Publisher: Suncoast Publishing   
   Plot:
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.
Trouble_And_Her_Friends
   Title: Trouble And Her Friends
   Year: 1994
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Melissa Scott   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
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.
Ubik
   Title: Ubik
   Year: 1969
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Philip K. Dick   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
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.
Under_Dark_Sky_Law
   Title: Under Dark Sky Law
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Tamara Boyens   
   Publisher: Supposed Crimes   
   Plot:
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.
Unplugged
   Title: Unplugged
   Year: 2016
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Donna Freitas   
   Publisher: Harper Children's   
   Plot:
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.
Unto_The_Godless_What_Little_Remains
   Title: Unto The Godless What Little Remains
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Mário Coelho   
   Publisher: Solaris   
   Plot:
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.
Vacuum_Flowers
   Title: Vacuum Flowers
   Year: 1987
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Michael Swanwick   
   Publisher: Ace   
   Plot:
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.
Vanitys_Echo
   Title: Vanity's Echo
   Year: 2021
   Category: Novel   
   Author: C. W. Ashley   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot: N/A
Virtually_True
   Title: Virtually True
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Adam L. Penenberg   
   Publisher: Wayzgoose Press   
   Plot:
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.
Void_Star
   Title: Void Star
   Year: 2017
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Zachary Mason   
   Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux   
   Plot:
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.
Vurt
   Title: Vurt
   Year: 1993
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Jeff Noon   
   Publisher: Ringpull   
   Plot:
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".
Waste_Tide
   Title: Waste Tide
   Year: 2019
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Chen Qiufan   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
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.
Watch_Dogs_Dark_Clouds
   Title: Watch Dogs: Dark Clouds
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel   
   Author: John Shirley   
   Publisher: Ubisoft   
   Plot:
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.
When_Gravity_Fails
   Title: When Gravity Fails
   Year: 1986
   Category: Novel   
   Author: George Alec Effinger   
   Publisher: Arbor House   
   Plot:
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.
When_The_Eye_Sees_Itself
   Title: When The Eye Sees Itself
   Year: 2018
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Eric Borgerson   
   Publisher: Polylyric Press   
   Plot:
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.
When_The_Sparrow_Falls
   Title: When The Sparrow Falls
   Year: 2021
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Neil Sharpson   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
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.
Widowmaker_Outpost
   Title: Widowmaker Outpost
   Year: 2022
   Category: Novel   
   Author: I.O. Adler   
   Publisher: Lucas Ross Publishing   
   Plot:
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.
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.
You_Can_Be_A_Cyborg_When_Your_Older
   Title: You Can Be A Cyborg When You're Older
   Year: 2019
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Richard Roberts   
   Publisher: Mystyque Press   
   Plot:
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.
Zed
   Title: Zed
   Year: 2019
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Joanna Kavenna   
   Publisher: Faber & Faber   
   Plot:
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.
Zilch
   Title: Zilch
   Year: 2023
   Category: Novel   
   Author: TR Matthews   
   Publisher: Amazon   
   Plot:
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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