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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: City Of Golden Shadow (#1)    Year: 1996    Category: Novel Series       Series: Otherland    Author: Tad 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: Life Is A Beautiful Thing, Book One    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Life Is A Beautiful Thing    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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: Root Protocol: The APEX Cycle #6 (#3)    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Human 2.0    Author: Lee Isserow       Publisher: ABAM.info       Plot: The network wants a revolution. Thanks to the company that experimented on them, they have the means. But the company is prepared for the coming battle, and have an ace up their sleeve. And one by one, they're taking the network down. As allegiances sway, Sarah finds herself isolated from the group. And her only hope is to find a man that may not exist, in the hope that he can offer them some hope of truly understanding what has been done to them. Root Protocol is a cyberpunk thriller for fans of Neal Stephenson and William Gibson.

Title: Ruse (#2)    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Want    Author: Cindy Pon       Publisher: Simon Pulse       Plot: Jason Zhou, his friends, and Daiyu are still recovering from the aftermath of bombing Jin Corp headquarters. But Jin, the ruthless billionaire and Daiyu’s father, is out for blood. When Lingyi goes to Shanghai to help Jany Tsai, a childhood acquaintance in trouble, she doesn’t expect Jin to be involved. And when Jin has Jany murdered and steals the tech she had refused to sell him, Lingyi is the only one who has access to the encrypted info, putting her own life in jeopardy. Zhou doesn’t hesitate to fly to China to help Iris find Lingyi, even though he’s been estranged from his friends for months. But when Iris tells him he can’t tell Daiyu or trust her, he balks. The reunited group play a treacherous cat and mouse game in the labyrinthine streets of Shanghai, determined on taking back what Jin had stolen. When Daiyu appears in Shanghai, Zhou is uncertain if it’s to confront him or in support of her father. Jin has proudly announced Daiyu will be by his side for the opening ceremony of Jin Tower, his first “vertical city.” And as hard as Zhou and his friends fight, Jin always gains the upper hand. Is this a game they can survive, much less win?

Title: Sea Of Silver Light (#4)    Year: 2001    Category: Novel Series       Series: Otherland    Author: Tad Williams       Publisher: DAW Books       Plot: The epic conclusion of the Otherland saga journeys back to the bizarre world of virtual realities in which the characters discover a multifaceted pathways to immortality, which could be available if one is willing to pay a dangerous price. By the author of City of Golden Shadow, River of Blue Fire, and Mountain of Black Glass.

Title: Second Skyn (#1)    Year: N/A    Category: Novel Series       Series: Lost Time    Author: Damien Boyes       Publisher: N/A    Plot: In a future without death, memory's all that matters.If it weren't for his Digital Life Assurance, Toronto Police Detective Finsbury Gage would be dead—smeared across the highway by a crazed man in a stolen urban assault vehicle. Finsbury hung together long enough for the recovery team to arrive. His wife wasn't so lucky. Now, six months later, his mind restored to a prosthetic brain, wrapped in a healthy new body, and technically immortal, Finsbury is back to a life that no longer exists. He's all alone, his home a shrine to everything he lost. He's been reassigned, knocked from Homicide to busting bit-heads and chasing after lost minutes of the idle rich. And his thoughts connect directly to the internet. The only thing keeping Finsbury from blowing his plastic brains out is the memory of his wife's death. It's 2.57 seconds long and plays on repeat, every time he closes his eyes. But from within this loop of pain and grief he discovers a reason to go on—the haunting glimpse of the wild-eyed man responsible for his wife's death. Finsbury's gonna find this guy, no matter what he has to do. But Finsbury isn't the only one on the hunt. Something is coming for him. Something like the world has never seen. Something that will force Finsbury Gage to abandon everything he believes—everything he is—to survive.

Title: Seth (#5)    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyborgs: More Than Machines    Author: Eve Langlais       Publisher: Eve Langlais       Plot: His mission: Blend in with the humans. Save the cyborgs. And seduce the only woman he ever loved, without getting killed. Cybernetic spy models are different from other humans turned machine. For one thing, they never completely lost touch with their humanity, or their memories. But retaining their identity doesn’t mean the military didn’t mess with their lives. Seth lost the woman he loved because of their web of lies. When the chance arises to make things right, he relies on his superior intellect—and irresistible charm—to prove his innocence, and make Anastasia his again.

Title: Shadow Of A Dead Star (#1)    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Wonderland Cycle    Author: Michael Shean       Publisher: Curiosity Quills       Plot: Seattle, 2078. The future hasn't been kind to the spirit of humanity; commercial obsession and technological fetishism rules the day, religion and belief has died screaming in the fires of war, and what remains is moral decrepitude. Life in the future is hard on the soul.

Title: Shadowrun: Dark Resonance (Book #3)    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Shadowrun    Author: Phaedra Weldon       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Plot: Kazuma Tetsu is a technomancer—one of the rare people who can manipulate the Matrix without technology, using only the power of their mind. But he’s on a more personal mission—he’s searching for his missing sister, Hitori. Following her trail leads him into a tangled web of corp execs, mercenaries, and double-crossing rogues—usually just another day in the Sixth World.

Title: Shadowrun: Fire & Frost (Book #2)    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Shadowrun    Author: Kai O'Connal       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Plot: N/A

Title: Shadowrun: Hell On Water (Book #4)    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Shadowrun    Author: J.M. Hardy       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Plot: Six shadowrunners. Three mysterious packages. And twelve kilometers of a dangerous, dilapidated bridge across one of the wildest sprawls of the Sixth World. It should be a simple job. Retrieve three sealed packages, then take them across the city of Lagos to their destination. All the runners’ skills will be tested—they’ll face ambushes, double-crosses, and more, and along the way they might be able to answer the question of just what’s in those packages, and why they’re so important.

Title: Shadowrun: Shaken: No Job Too Small (Book #5)    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Shadowrun    Author: Russell Zimmerman       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Plot: Down these dark streets... Most folks see Puyallup as the worst Seattle’s got to offer; a tangled mess of metahumanity and greet, poverty and ghettoes, vice and corruption, where the crime is more organized than the government. They call it a Barrens, an armpit, a cesspool.

Title: Shadowrun: Spells & Chrome (Book #1)    Year: 2010    Category: Novel Series       Series: Shadowrun    Author: Various       Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs       Plot: Welcome to the year 2072……And a world unlike anything you’ve ever imagined. A world where magic and machines exist side-by-side. Where cybernetics can replace organs or entire limbs with ease, and arcane spells can make the impossible happen. Where the Matrix has become an artificial world of its own, filled with all kinds of pleasure, treasure, and trouble. Where dwarves, elves, orks and trolls walk alongside humans every day. Some work for mega-corporations whose invisible tentacles wrap around every aspect of modern life. Others choose a much less legal career, doing whatever dirty work the corp executives need done—-for a price.Featuring fifteen new stories about the men and women who make their living in the shadows of the Sixth World, Spells & Chrome takes you into the dark and dirty streets of the future. Whether risking their lives to execute a mission for an employer who might be planning to double-cross them anyway, or just doing whatever they need to do to survive another day, shadowrunners use everything they’ve got--cyberware, spells, or a very big gun--to get the job done.

Title: Shovel Ready (#1)    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Spademan    Author: Adam Sternbergh       Publisher: Crown       Plot: Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, and before the city became a bombed-out shell of its former self. Now he's a hitman. In a New York City split between those who are wealthy enough to "tap into" a sophisticated virtual reality for months at a time and those left to fend for themselves in the ravaged streets, Spademan chose the streets. His clients like that he doesn't ask questions, that he works quickly, and that he's handy with a box cutter. He finds that killing people for money is not that different from collecting trash, and the pay is better. His latest client hires him to kill the daughter of a powerful evangelist. Finding her is easy, but the job quickly gets complicated: his mark has a shocking secret and his client has an agenda far beyond a simple kill. Now Spademan must navigate the dual levels of his world-the gritty reality and the slick fantasy-to finish the job, to keep his conscience clean, and to stay alive.

Title: Shyft (#3)    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Lost Time    Author: Damien Boyes       Publisher: N/A    Plot: He cheated death, but can he save his humanity Finsbury Gage will do anything to find the man who murdered his wife. He'll withhold information from his superiors in the Psychorithm Crime Unit. He'll cut corners. He'll steal evidence. He'll even augment his prosthetic brain with illegal code. But once he's tasted the power of living at the speed of thought, able to predict seconds into the future, how will he ever go back? And once he's relaxed his grip on humanity, how far will he let it slip to find justice for his wife? He'll find out eight months later, when he wakes once again in a new body with a new name and no memory of his first restoration. He soon discovers he was somehow involved in a series of mindjackings, his friends and colleagues disappeared or locked-up for crimes they don't remember committing. And the person behind them is still out there. Hunting for him. Will Finsbury be able to uncover the mystery of what he became in time to stop more people from getting hurt, or will he succumb to the same temptations and make the same mistakes all over again?

Title: Silicon Burning (#1)    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Singularity Rising    Author: Thomas McCaughley       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: The year is 2045. Nearly thirty years have passed since a devastating nuclear terrorist attack that changed the world forever. The population of Britain is kept in-line by Mother Mind; an advanced artificial intelligence created by the Virtualife Corporation monitoring the lives of its citizens. Machines have become more humanlike, and humans more machine like. The gap between rich and poor has grown ever wider, resulting in a split in the species: humans and cybernetically-enhanced Transhumans. Hatred for the transhumans race has created a monster; Jack-21. A serial killer, dissecting cyborgs for their implants. But his latest victim is not just another street rat, but rather a member of the renegade hacker group; Spiritform. The one's responsible for a cyberattack on Virtualife that has sent shockwaves throughout the corporate world. The secret he was murdered for lie within a collection of stolen files. Now the race is on to uncover those secrets. Two corporate police officers from competing companies work together to hunt down Jack-21. Meanwhile Virtualife hires a private investigator to recover their stolen data, before the surviving members of Spiritform decrypt the files and reveal the truth.

Title: Silicon Man (#1)    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Silicon World    Author: William Massa       Publisher: CreateSpace       Plot: A global pandemic has cut the human population in half. An android workforce fills the void left by the devastation. But some of the AIs have grown tired of being slaves. Some want freedom. An underground movement of runaways has sprung up and wages a shadow war with a simple objective -- equal rights for artificial people.

Title: Skirmish (#8)    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Stork Tower    Author: Tony Corden       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: A simple error leaves Leah with a unique Neural Enhancement Chip and a rapidly evolving AI implanted in her brain. In ‘Nascent’, she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers and helped shut down some operations of the virtual crime syndicate that uses mind-controlled players as slaves.

Title: Skirting The Edge (#1)    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: 3P Syndicate    Author: Frank Giammanco       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: Book One in the 3P Syndicate Saga. In the post-apocalyptic America of 2025, the rule of law is a thing of the past. Corporations rule the country, and the average citizen is not provided the same rights as the rich. There's a new boss in town, and he's hand-picked a team of mercenaries, edgerunners, hackers, nomads, and ex-cops to help him with a few tough jobs. They all figured they'd have a little fun and make a lot of money. No one was expecting the cross-country adventures or life-changing experiences that followed -- once the corporations caught on to what they were doing.

Title: Skyway Angel (#2)    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Skyway    Author: James K. Douglas       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: Jackson Bell is one of the best bionic bodyguards in the business, but when his hacker friend Cassdan calls on him for protection, Jackson may end up in over his head. Caught between corporate greed, police corruption, and the dangerous actions of free information crusaders, they won't know who to trust in this fractured city. From the corporate high-rises to the city gutters, it's a race against time to discover who murdered the Skyway Angel.

Title: Slow Up (#2)    Year: N/A    Category: Novel Series       Series: Hire A Muse    Author: George Saoulidis       Publisher: N/A    Plot: When Galene meets a man who's only goal in life is to make his mind go faster, she ends up falling for him. But will she manage to keep the relationship going at the top of the glass tower, when in reality she's too much of a slob and is bogged down with all her unfinished goals, when their age difference becomes too much of a problem, and when his work places them in the sights of an unforgiving huntress?

Title: Socail Faith (#4)    Year: N/A    Category: Novel Series       Series: Lost Time    Author: Damien Boyes       Publisher: N/A    Plot: He can't trust anyone, not even himself.Finsbury Gage doesn't know who he is. Is he the man who lost his wife and burned the world down hunting the person who killed her? Or is he the man who lost his wife and returned to ashes? If you don't know who Finsbury Gage is yet you'll want to start at the beginning, with Second Skyn, the first part of Lost Time. 'Cause the rest from here on out gets pretty spoilery. Are they gone?

Title: Software (#1)    Year: 1982    Category: Novel Series       Series: Ware    Author: Rudy Rucker       Publisher: Ace       Plot: Software introduces Cobb Anderson as a retired computer scientist who was once tried for treason for figuring out how to give robots artificial intelligence and free will, creating the race of boppers. By 2020, they have created a complex society on the Moon, where the boppers developed because they depend on super-cooled superconducting circuits. In that year, Anderson is a pheezer — a freaky geezer, Rucker's depiction of elderly Baby Boomers — living in poverty in Florida and terrified because he lacks the money to buy a new artificial heart to replace his failing, secondhand one.

Title: Solip:System (#1.5)    Year: 1989    Category: Novel Series       Series: Hardwired    Author: Walter Jon Williams       Publisher: Axolotl Press       Plot: Solip:System begins shortly before the ending of Hardwired and continues beyond that point. In Solip:System, the main character is the computer personality Reno (a minor character in Hardwired). The author intended that this book would provide a link between Hardwired and Voice of the Whirlwind.

Title: Soul Jacker: A Cyberpunk Thriller (#1)    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Soul Jacker    Author: Michael John Grist       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: 2364. A terrified girl flees a brutal slumlord... It's been a long time since Ritry risked his sanity on a deep-brain Soul-jack. Once renowned for hacking the most lethal minds, now he peddles cheap memory implants on the neon-lit slums of the Arctic Circle - staying out of trouble, mostly.

Title: Spook Country (#2)    Year: 2007    Category: Novel Series       Series: Blue Ant    Author: William Gibson       Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons   Viking Press       Plot: The first strand of the novel follows Hollis Henry, a former member of the early 1990s cult band The Curfew and a freelance journalist. She is hired by advertising mogul Hubertus Bigend to write a story for his nascent magazine Node (described as a European Wired) about the use of locative technology in the art world. Helped by curator Odile Richard she investigates Los Angeles artist Alberto Corrales, who recreates virtually the deaths of celebrities such as River Phoenix. Corrales leads her to Bobby Chombo, an expert in geospatial technologies who handles Corrales' technical requirements. Chombo's background is troubleshooting navigation systems for the United States military. He is reclusive and paranoid, refusing to sleep in the same GPS grid square on consecutive nights, and only consents to talk to Hollis due to his admiration for The Curfew.

Title: State Tectonics (#3)    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Centenal Cycle    Author: Malka Ann Older       Publisher: Tor       Plot: The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later it’s time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever. Unknown enemies are attacking Information’s network infrastructure. Spies, former superpowers, and revolutionaries sharpen their knives in the shadows. And Information’s best agents question whether the data monopoly they’ve served all their lives is worth saving, or whether it’s time to burn the world down and start anew.

Title: Steel Beach (#2)    Year: 1992    Category: Novel Series       Series: Eight Worlds    Author: John Varley       Publisher: Ace       Plot: Fleeing Earth after an alien invasion, the human race stands on the threshold of evolution, like a fish cast on artificial shores. Their new home is Luna, a moon colony blessed with creature comforts, prolonged lifespans, digital memories, and instant sex changes. But the people of Luna are bored, restless, and suicidal -- and so is the computer that monitors their existence...

Title: Storm Of Souls (#2)    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Heirs Of Sun And Storm    Author: Jeremy Bai       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: Once a simple detective, Wang's world changed forever when he learned of Sinotech's evil plan to sacrifice humanity for the sake of a few elites. But now that the Naturalism Sect has the Sun's Blood, they have a chance to end their foe’s tyranny. It all depends on a simple mission in the First Heaven, the foundation and heart of the Grand Kingdom.

Title: Stray Cat Strut 2 (#2)    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Stray Cat Strut    Author: Ravens Dagger       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Plot: A young warrior discovers her true potential as a cybernetic samurai battling conspiracies and aliens in this original, action-packed cyberpunk series.

Title: Stray Cat Strut 3 (#3)    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Stray Cat Strut    Author: Ravens Dagger       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Plot: A wave of kidnappings leads cybernetic samurai Cat LeBlanc deep into the labyrinthine tunnels beneath the city in this action-packed cyberpunk adventure.

Title: Stray Cat Strut 4 (#4)    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Stray Cat Strut    Author: Ravens Dagger       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Plot: When an alien invasion threatens everyone she loves, cybernetic samurai Cat LeBlanc must upgrade her warrior skills, in this thrilling cyberpunk tale.When an alien invasion threatens everyone she loves, cybernetic samurai Cat LeBlanc must upgrade her warrior skills, in this thrilling cyberpunk tale.

Title: Stray Cat Strut 5 (#5)    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: Stray Cat Strut    Author: Ravens Dagger       Publisher: Podium Publishing       Plot: Cyborg samurai Cat LeBlanc takes charge when aliens overrun a city—only to discover humans may be the greater threat—in this cyberpunk adventure.

Title: Stray Cat Strut: A Young Lady's Journey to Becoming a Pop-Up Samurai (#1)    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Stray Cat Strut    Author: Ravens Dagger       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: In the year 2057, the world has become a corporate-run utopia for the super-rich, and a hellhole for all the rest. Catherine 'Cat' Leblanc is an orphan that is about as far from super-rich as one can be. When the Incursion alarms start blaring and the sky starts raining hungry xenos, it's just another blemish on an already piss-poor afternoon.

Title: Sub-Human (#1)    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Post-Human    Author: David Simpson       Publisher: Post-Human Media       Plot: Before he was Old-timer, he was Craig Emilson, a young doctor, sucked into military service at the outbreak of World War III. Enlisting to become a Special Forces suborbital paratrooper, Craig is selected to take part in the most important mission in American military history—a sortie into enemy territory to eliminate the world’s first strong Artificial Intelligence. The mission is only the beginning of Craig’s story, and for the story of humanity as well, as they accelerate towards a world that is post-human.

Title: Superhuman (#6)    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Post-Human    Author: David Simpson       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: Action-packed, thought-provoking, an award winner for best metaphysical literature, and the series most often compared to Asimov's best work, The Post-Human series nearly doubles in length with this single installment. A book that is best described as multiple books within a single novel, Superhuman's structure perfectly reflects a narrative that explores multiple timelines from parallel universes, multiple versions of our heroes, our villains, and in some cases, hero and villain in the same package. You'll never think of the Post-Human series the same way again, you'll never think of a novel in the same way again, and you will never think of reality itself in the same way after experiencing Superhuman for yourself.

Title: Surface Detail (#9)    Year: 2010    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: Orbit       Plot: It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. It will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it comes, is at a price. To put things right she will need the help of the Culture. Benevolent, enlightened & almost infinitely resourceful tho it may be, the Culture can only do so much for any individual. With the assistance of one of its most powerful --- & arguably deranged --- warships, Lededje finds herself heading into a combat zone not even sure which side the Culture is really on. A brutal, far-reaching war is already raging within the digital realms that store the souls of the dead & it's about to erupt into reality. It started in the realm of the Real & that is where it will end. It will touch countless lives & affect entire civilizations, but at the center of it all is a young woman whose need for revenge masks another motive altogether.

Title: Sync (#5)    Year: N/A    Category: Novel Series       Series: Lost Time    Author: Damien Boyes       Publisher: N/A    Plot: One falls. One comes together. This is where it all ends and everything changes. Finsbury Gage thinks he has all the answers, thinks he's tracked down the man who killed his wife--but he doesn't know how wrong he is.

Title: System Collapse (#7)    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Murderbot Diaries    Author: Martha Wells       Publisher: Tor       Plot: Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.

Title: Tea From An Empty Cup (#1)    Year: 1998    Category: Novel Series       Series: Artificial Reality Division    Author: Pat Cadigan       Publisher: Tor       Plot: "How can you drink tea from an empty cup?" That ancient Zen riddle holds the key to a baffling mystery: a young man found with his throat slashed while locked alone in a virtual reality parlor. The secret of this enigmatic death lies in an apocalyptic cyberspace shadow-world where nothing is certain, and even one's own identity can change in an instant.

Title: Tears In Rain (#1)    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Bruna Husky    Author: Rosa Montero       Publisher: Thomas & Mercer       Plot: As a replicant, or “technohuman,” Detective Bruna Husky knows two things: humans bioengineered her to perform dangerous, undesirable tasks, and she has just ten years on the United States of Earth before her body automatically self-destructs. But with “antitechno” rage on the rise and a rash of premature deaths striking her fellow replicants, she may have even less time than she thought.

Title: The Arcane Side of Life (#3)    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy    Author: Jess C. Scott       Publisher: jessINK       Plot: A high elf’s relationship with a human girl is put to the test as they combat a dark elf’s assembly of an undead army.

Title: The Beam: Episode 1    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Beam    Author: Sean Platt   Johnny B. Truant       Publisher: Realm & Sands       Plot: In 2097, the world is as perfect as you want it to be. Choose Enterprise and the government stays out of your way, leaving you free to sink or swim — no help for the drowning. Choose Directorate and all are equal, fed, sheltered and entertained by the government, every need provided for, and every man another cog in society's machine. Every six years during Shift, citizens decide who they are. Enterprise or Directorate, lives are lived inside the North American Union, walled off from the rest of the world and the Wild East beyond the shell, enhanced by incredible A.I., nanobots that monitor and support daily living, and The Beam: the network connecting every human in the NAU. New powers are rising as emergent technology blooms from an unknown source, and threatens to shatter peace and throw the nation into chaos.

Title: The Beam: Episode 2    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Beam    Author: Sean Platt   Johnny B. Truant       Publisher: Realm & Sands       Plot: In a grim future, choice is all you have In 2097, the world is as perfect as you want it to be. Choose Enterprise and the government stays out of your way, leaving you free to sink or swim -- no help for the drowning. Choose Directorate and all are equal, fed, sheltered and entertained by the government, every need provided for, and every man another cog in society's machine. Every six years during Shift, citizens decide who they are. Enterprise or Directorate, lives are lived inside the North American Union, walled off from the rest of the world and the Wild East beyond the shell, enhanced by incredible A.I., nanobots that monitor and support daily living, and The the network connecting every human in the NAU. New powers are rising as emergent technology blooms from an unknown source, and threatens to shatter peace and throw the nation into chaos. What does the future mean when our present is stretched and reality blurred? This is the first episode in the epic sci-fi saga, The Beam, by breakout indie authors Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant. WHO ARE YOU?

Title: The Beam: Episode 3    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Beam    Author: Sean Platt   Johnny B. Truant       Publisher: Realm & Sands       Plot: In a grim future, choice is all you have In 2097, the world is as perfect as you want it to be. Choose Enterprise and the government stays out of your way, leaving you free to sink or swim -- no help for the drowning. Choose Directorate and all are equal, fed, sheltered and entertained by the government, every need provided for, and every man another cog in society's machine. Every six years during Shift, citizens decide who they are. Enterprise or Directorate, lives are lived inside the North American Union, walled off from the rest of the world and the Wild East beyond the shell, enhanced by incredible A.I., nanobots that monitor and support daily living, and The the network connecting every human in the NAU. New powers are rising as emergent technology blooms from an unknown source, and threatens to shatter peace and throw the nation into chaos. What does the future mean when our present is stretched and reality blurred? This is the first episode in the epic sci-fi saga, The Beam, by breakout indie authors Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant. WHO ARE YOU?

Title: The Beam: Episode 4    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Beam    Author: Sean Platt   Johnny B. Truant       Publisher: Realm & Sands       Plot: In a grim future, choice is all you have In 2097, the world is as perfect as you want it to be. Choose Enterprise and the government stays out of your way, leaving you free to sink or swim -- no help for the drowning. Choose Directorate and all are equal, fed, sheltered and entertained by the government, every need provided for, and every man another cog in society's machine. Every six years during Shift, citizens decide who they are. Enterprise or Directorate, lives are lived inside the North American Union, walled off from the rest of the world and the Wild East beyond the shell, enhanced by incredible A.I., nanobots that monitor and support daily living, and The the network connecting every human in the NAU. New powers are rising as emergent technology blooms from an unknown source, and threatens to shatter peace and throw the nation into chaos. What does the future mean when our present is stretched and reality blurred? This is the first episode in the epic sci-fi saga, The Beam, by breakout indie authors Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant. WHO ARE YOU?

Title: The Beam: Episode 5    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Beam    Author: Sean Platt   Johnny B. Truant       Publisher: Realm & Sands       Plot: In a grim future, choice is all you have In 2097, the world is as perfect as you want it to be. Choose Enterprise and the government stays out of your way, leaving you free to sink or swim -- no help for the drowning. Choose Directorate and all are equal, fed, sheltered and entertained by the government, every need provided for, and every man another cog in society's machine. Every six years during Shift, citizens decide who they are. Enterprise or Directorate, lives are lived inside the North American Union, walled off from the rest of the world and the Wild East beyond the shell, enhanced by incredible A.I., nanobots that monitor and support daily living, and The the network connecting every human in the NAU. New powers are rising as emergent technology blooms from an unknown source, and threatens to shatter peace and throw the nation into chaos. What does the future mean when our present is stretched and reality blurred? This is the first episode in the epic sci-fi saga, The Beam, by breakout indie authors Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant. WHO ARE YOU?

Title: The Beam: Episode 6    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Beam    Author: Sean Platt   Johnny B. Truant       Publisher: Realm & Sands       Plot: In a grim future, choice is all you have In 2097, the world is as perfect as you want it to be. Choose Enterprise and the government stays out of your way, leaving you free to sink or swim -- no help for the drowning. Choose Directorate and all are equal, fed, sheltered and entertained by the government, every need provided for, and every man another cog in society's machine. Every six years during Shift, citizens decide who they are. Enterprise or Directorate, lives are lived inside the North American Union, walled off from the rest of the world and the Wild East beyond the shell, enhanced by incredible A.I., nanobots that monitor and support daily living, and The the network connecting every human in the NAU. New powers are rising as emergent technology blooms from an unknown source, and threatens to shatter peace and throw the nation into chaos. What does the future mean when our present is stretched and reality blurred? This is the first episode in the epic sci-fi saga, The Beam, by breakout indie authors Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant. WHO ARE YOU?

Title: The Betrayer (#3)    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Apocalypse A.I.    Author: A.J. Ramsey       Publisher: Simply Smashing Publishing       Plot: ive years ago, the artificial intelligence known as DANA declared war on humanity. In the last remaining refuge of the Seven Cities, humans are facing extinction. A desperate mission is set in motion. One that will either end the war... or end humanity. DANA's revelations are threatening to fracture Apollo's team. The AI knows that they're coming, and they each struggle with what that means for the mission. Apollo tries to keep them moving forward. Some members want to give up, some decide to flee, and others want answers. The sudden presence of Pandy from out of the drone forced Apollo to reveal that he is the Betrayer, the Eraser infamous for working with the machines. Now he must try to regain their trust, while another may have earned more than they deserve.

Title: The Blayze War (#3)    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk City    Author: D.L. Young       Publisher: Concordia Professional Services       Plot: In the cutthroat biz of high stakes datajacking, Maddox and Dezmund have been bitter rivals for years. So when Dez surprises his biggest adversary with the deal of a lifetime, Maddox’s first inclination is to pass. But sometimes you can’t say no, even when you know you should.

Title: The Blind Spot (#1)    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Neon Horizon    Author: Michael Robertson       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: Marcie Hugo isn’t a typical sixteen-year-old. She’s been cybernetically enhanced to have superhuman strength, speed, and judgement. For what it’s worth. She’s lived her entire life in the Blind Spot; a garish neon rat run of debauchery. Since her mum’s murder several years ago, her dad’s method for keeping her safe has been to imprison her in her own home. But with her sixteenth birthday looming, she’s going to start making her own life choices. She’ll finally move away to the neighbouring Scala City with the boy she loves.

Title: The Burning Magus (#3)    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Blue Unicorn    Author: Don Allmon       Publisher: Riptide Publishing       Plot: JT was a perfectly happy orc building cars in the Arizona desert until his old friend and sometimes lover Austin showed up and talked him into one last crime. Now “one last crime” has snowballed. With a new team of thieves—a supersoldier, a hacker, a driver, a graffiti artist, and a seafaring wizard—JT and Austin are determined to free an artificial intelligence from the dungeon of the Burning Magus.

Title: The Courier (#1)    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: San Angeles    Author: Gerald Brandt       Publisher: DAW       Plot: Kris Ballard is a motorcycle courier. A nobody. Level 2 trash in a multi-level city that stretches from San Francisco to the Mexican border, where corporations make all the rules. A runaway since the age of 14, Kris struggled to set up her life, barely scraping by, working hard to make it without anyone’s help. Witnessing the murder of one of her clients changes everything. Now she’s stuck with a mysterious package that everyone seems to want.

Title: The Darker Side of Life (#2)    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy    Author: Jess C. Scott       Publisher: jessINK       Plot: A hybrid elf child combats a dark elf’s scheme to exploit and turn a virtual reality system into a weapon of mass destruction.

Title: The Data Riot (#5)    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk City    Author: D.L. Young       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: N/A

Title: The Duality Bridge (#2)    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Singularity    Author: Susan Kaye Quinn       Publisher: N/A    Plot: Elijah Brighton is the face of the Human Resistance Movement. He’s the Olympic-level painter who refused an offer of immortality from the ascenders—the human/machine hybrids who run the world—in solidarity with the legacy humans who will never get a chance to live forever.

Title: The Electric Church (#1)    Year: 2007    Category: Novel Series       Series: Avery Cates    Author: Jeff Somers       Publisher: Orbit       Plot: In the near future, the only thing growing faster than the criminal population is the Electric Church, a new religion founded by a mysterious man named Dennis Squalor. The Church preaches that life is too brief to contemplate the mysteries of the universe: eternity is required. In order to achieve this, the converted become Monks -- cyborgs with human brains, enhanced robotic bodies, and virtually unlimited life spans.

Title: The Electric Sheep Massacre (#4)    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Liquid Cool    Author: Austin Dragon       Publisher: Well-Tailored Books       Plot: The Cyberpunk Detective Series Goes to London! But in The Electric Sheep Massacre does our detective come back? And, is that before or after someone tries to kill him in the world of virtual reality?!

Title: The Eye Of Minds (#1)    Year: 2013    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Mortality Doctrine    Author: James Dashner       Publisher: Delacorte       Plot: Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, he almost spends more time on the VirtNet than in the actual world. The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and it’s addictive. Thanks to technology, anyone with enough money can experience fantasy worlds, risk their life without the chance of death, or just hang around with Virt-friends. And the more hacking skills you have, the more fun. Why bother following the rules when most of them are dumb, anyway?

Title: The Game Of Lives (#3)    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Mortality Doctrine    Author: James Dashner       Publisher: Delacorte       Plot: Now the games he was playing have become all too real. Only weeks ago, Sinking into the Sleep was fun. The VirtNet combined the most cutting-edge technology and the most sophisticated gaming for a full mind-body experience. And it was Michael’s passion. But now every time Michael Sinks, he risks his life. The games are over. The VirtNet has become a world of deadly consequences, and Kaine grows stronger by the day. The Mortality Doctrine—Kaine’s master plan—has nearly been realized, and little by little the line separating the virtual from the real is blurring. If Kaine succeeds, it will mean worldwide cyber domination. And it looks like Michael and his friends are the only ones who can put the monster back in the box—if Michael can figure out who his friends really are.

Title: The Genesis Engine (#3)    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cortex    Author: Jim Keen       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: 2059. NYPD cop Alice Yu trusts no one. And with newfound fame making her a reluctant figurehead, there’s no way she’s telling anybody that her reprinted body is failing and she’s dying. But when she hosts a city-saving truce between gang bosses and the police, a bloody confrontation leads to an enraged standoff.

Title: The Glamour Thieves (#1)    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Blue Unicorn    Author: Don Allmon       Publisher: Riptide Publishing       Plot: JT is an orc on the way up. He’s got his own boutique robotics shop, high-end clientele, and deep-pocketed investors. He’s even mentoring an orc teen who reminds him a bit too much of himself back in the day. Then Austin shows up, and the elf’s got the same hard body and silver tongue as he did two years ago when they used to be friends and might have been more. He’s also got a stolen car to bribe JT to saying yes to one last scheme: stealing the virtual intelligence called Blue Unicorn. Soon JT’s up to his tusks in trouble, and it ain’t just zombies and Chinese triads threatening to tear his new life apart. Austin wants a second chance with JT—this time as more than just a friend—and even the Blue Unicorn is trying to play matchmaker.

Title: The Glass Hammer (#2)    Year: 1985    Category: Novel Series       Series: Doctor Adder    Author: K. W. Jeter       Publisher: Roc       Plot: Schuyler, a sprinter, one who outruns government particle beam satellites to deliver computer chips to the European black market, becomes a media celebrity and the icon of a new religious cult.

Title: The Golden Globe (#3)    Year: 1998    Category: Novel Series       Series: Eight Worlds    Author: John Varley       Publisher: Ace       Plot: All the universe is a stage, and Sparky Valentine is its itinerant thespian. He makes his way from planet to planet as part of a motley theater troupe, bringing Shakespeare -- a version of it anyway -- to the outer reaches of earth's solar system. He journeys through the outlands, where thousands of artificial satellites drift, conglomerates of junk and rock welded together to support meager communities of human life. Here Sparky plies his trade, transforming himself from young to old, fat to thin, man to woman, by altering magnetic implants beneath his skin. Indispensable hardware for a career actor and an interstellar con man wanted for murder -- for while Sparky Valentine may have a song in his heart, he also has a price on his head. But his galactic roamings are bringing him closer to home, closer to justice -- and closer to the truth of his strange and prolonged existence...

Title: The Hydrogen Sonata (#10)    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: Orbit       Plot: They are, truly, probably, End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, they helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier & were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new & almost infinitely more rich & complex existence. Amidst preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, & she is now wanted--dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android & a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command--find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over 9000 years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago. Cossont must discover the truth before she's exiled from her people & her civilization forever--or just plain killed.

Title: The Illusory Prophet (#3)    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Singularity    Author: Susan Kaye Quinn       Publisher: N/A    Plot: Elijah Brighton can bring a girl back from the dead, travel outside his body, and absorb a lifetime of memories from anyone he touches in the fugue state. Everyone seems to think he’s the prophet they’re waiting for… including the girl he’s falling in love with. The truth is, the fugue is bleeding over into reality, bringing his sketches to life and haunting him with visions of a girl in metal armor. She stabs him with her blade and denounces him as any prophet worth the name—and it’s not like he disagrees.

Title: The Immortality Clause (#1)    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Easytown Novels    Author: Brian Parker       Publisher: Muddy Boots       Plot: Easytown’s robotic pleasure clubs are a serial killer’s playground. The futuristic slum in eastern New Orleans is a violent place where any vice can be satisfied—for a price. As long as the taxes are paid and tourists continue to flock to the city, businesses are allowed to operate as they see fit. But a string of violent murders threatens to upset the delicate balance between pleasure and safety. As homicide detective Zach Forrest tries to unravel the mystery and prevent the next murder, he embarks on a mind-bending investigation that will change his perception of reality forever.

Title: The Judas Cypher (#1)    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Synth Crisis    Author: Greg Dragon       Publisher: Thirsty Bird Productions       Plot: When detective Dhata Mays is called in to investigate a homicide, what he uncovers threatens the serenity of this futuristic society. The gruesome murder means only one thing: someone is ready to incite another war. Now, it's up to Dhata to ensure that the truth stays hidden—to protect both sides of the battle. But can he be unbiased in a black and white world that forces him to take sides?

Title: The Know Circuit (#2)    Year: 2010    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Bridge Chronicles    Author: Gary Ballard       Publisher: CreateSpace       Plot: Artemis Bridge can get you what you need no matter how immoral or illegal, no questions asked. With practiced detachment, he keeps everyone around him at arm's length. But when the city of Boulder is trapped in a mysterious dome, he must set aside his detachment to help his bodyguard Aristotle's search for his missing grandmother. Every step he takes towards the dome deepens the mystery, as he is compelled to seek out the source of the strange happenings. Flaming dragons, cars transformed into robotic golems, a corporate-military quarantine and disturbing visions drive Bridge to a life-altering conclusion. This enthralling sequel to the critically-acclaimed Under the Amoral Bridge is the second in the Bridge Chronicles series.

Title: The Last Reaper (#1)    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Last Reaper    Author: J.N. Chaney   Scott Moon       Publisher: Variant Publications       Plot: The last remaining survivor of the Reaper program, Hal is an unstoppable force of fuel and madness. A veteran amputee-turned-cyborg, he has a history of violence and a talent for killing that is unmatched by any soldier.

Title: The Legacy Human (#1)    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: Singularity    Author: Susan Kaye Quinn       Publisher: N/A    Plot: What would you give to live forever? Seventeen-year-old Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender—a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid—after all, they’re smarter, more enlightened, more compassionate, and above all, achingly beautiful. But Eli is a legacy human, preserved and cherished for his unaltered genetic code, just like the rainforest he paints. When a fugue state possesses him and creates great art, Eli miraculously lands a sponsor for the creative Olympics. If he could just master the fugue, he could take the gold and win the right to ascend, bringing everything he’s yearned for within reach… including his beautiful ascender patron. But once Eli arrives at the Games, he finds the ascenders are playing games of their own. Everything he knows about the ascenders and the legacies they keep starts to unravel… until he’s running for his life and wondering who he truly is.

Title: The Little Android (#0.6)    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Lunar Chronicles    Author: Marissa Meyer       Publisher: N/A    Plot: When android Mech6.0 saves the life of a handsome hardware engineer, her body is destroyed and her mechanics discover a glitch in her programming. Androids aren’t meant to develop impractical reasoning or near-emotional responses…let alone fall in love.

Title: The Lucid Series: Android Uprising (#1)    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Lucis Series    Author: Den Warren       Publisher: CreateSpace       Plot: . . . In a dystopian cyberpunk 2215, the former US was fragmented into multiple small countries. . . . People in the UN proxy state of Homeland are controlled by psychotropic drugs, corrupted education, propaganda and oppressive laws. In this story . . . . . . Computer hacking clones are trying to get rich no matter what they have to do. . . . A garbage collector hates everything about his life and goes rogue. . . . An entire strain of genetically-engineered children is to be culled because of an imperfection. . . . A tyrannical government robot unit is led by a ruthless being hiding behind a synthetic presence. . . . A clone couple is living off of the grid and expecting an illegal child. . . . A series of androids vow to fight for the truth even to the point of war. . . . And a boy asks, “Is God real?” The Lucid series is a unique clean-language novel that has heavy hitting, brutally honest edgy Christian themes and some graphic action.

Title: The Machine Killer (#1)    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk City    Author: D. L. Young       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: Former data thief Maddox thinks his life of cybercrime is behind him. He couldn't be more wrong. Forced by a powerful executive to steal a priceless dataset, Maddox uncovers the shocking truth of a secret war between AIs, raging inside the digital universe known as virtual space. Plunged headlong into the deadly conflict, he’ll have to use every trick he’s ever learned—and a few he’s never tried before—if he wants to survive.

Title: The Naked World (#2)    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Jubilee Cycle    Author: Eli K.P. William       Publisher: Talos       Plot: In a world stripped bare of digital images and promotainment, unveiled with the audiovisual overlay of the ImmaNet, in an exposed world, a naked world, Amon Kenzaki awakens, lost and alone. He must now travel deep into the District of Dreams in search of Anisha Birla, the one person that might help him unravel the mystery of jubilee. But deprived of the apps and informational tools he’s depended on his entire life, traversing the largest bankdeath camp on Earth is no easy task.

Title: The Nemesis Worm (Richards & Klein Novella)    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: Richards & Klein    Author: Guy Haley       Publisher: Angry Robot       Plot: A standalone novella featuring the 22nd century’s greatest detectives, The Nemesis Worm sees Richards & Klein involved in another high stakes investigation. Corpses are showing up all over Old London, and the finger of suspicion points right at Richards himself. Forced to clear his name, Richards and Otto uncover a fanatical group whose actions threaten the relationship between human and AI with destruction.

Title: The Net Diver: Cyber Stalker (#1)    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Net Driver    Author: Franklin Barton       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: Dias Velez is a small-time Cyber Stalker in the year 2204 AD. The responsibilities of his job: surveillance, infiltration, observation. He chooses to be a small-time white hat who only takes jobs for local startups or small activist causes. So long as these jobs pay him enough to afford to live in Chelsea, Manhattan; everything is completely okay. That is until his best friend Rigoberto Sanchez of the Sanchez Crime Family comes to him about a ‘small job'.

Title: The New Prometheus (#1)    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The New Prometheus    Author: Andrew Dobell       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: In a world ruled by faceless, uncaring mega corporations, Frankie, a young woman who has resisted cybernetics, becomes the victim of a lethal “Jacker Gang” attack.

Title: The Northern Star Trilogy (#1-3)    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Northern Star    Author: Mike Gullickson       Publisher: Lightside/Darkside Entertainment LLC       Plot: 2058. As superpowers squabble over the remaining oil, and civilization limps on in a virtual universe, a cunning and ruthless genius uses the digital connectivity of our world to manipulate governments, subliminally sway the masses - and even kill - in his quest for immortality. The first bionic soldier­ - now mentally broken, a prodigy hacker abused as a weapon, a psychopath seeking redemption, and the CEO who created the cyber universe - and unwittingly - the means to rule both, are all that stands in his way.

Title: The Operative (#2)    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: San Angeles    Author: Gerald Brandt       Publisher: DAW       Plot: Kris Ballard’s life changed irrevocably when, a year ago, she was targeted for termination by the Meridian corporation, one of the mega-conglomerates that controls the government in this dystopian future. She hid amongst the underground resistance—but now, right as her training with the anti-corporate movement is nearing its end, their compound is destroyed. Ready or not, Kris and the other trainees are recalled to the dangerous metropolis of San Angeles. But their transport is shot down and Ian Miller, the man she loves, is captured. Someone, it seems, is using him to get to Kris.

Title: The Ophiuchi Hotline (#1)    Year: 1977    Category: Novel Series       Series: Eight Worlds    Author: John Varley       Publisher: Ace       Plot: After the effortless capture of Earth by vastly superior aliens, humanity is forced to fight for existence on the Moon and other lumps of airless rock. The invention of the Hotline -- a constant stream of data from a star in the constellation Ophiuchus -- facilitates survival and enables the development of amazing new technologies. Then, after 400 years, humanity's unknown helpers send a bill for their services...and suddenly everything is threatened once again.

Title: The Other Side of Life (#1)    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy    Author: Jess C. Scott       Publisher: CreateSpace       Plot: A thieving duo’s world turns upside down when an Elven rogue uncovers the heinous dealings of a megacorporation.

Title: The Paradise Factory (#1)    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cortex    Author: Jim Keen       Publisher: Transmission Digital       Plot: New York, 2055. Former UN Marine Alice Yu is a beat-down cop running from guilt in a bankrupt city. Brutally ambushed and left for dead, she's powerless to prevent a ruthless crime boss from abducting the partner she idolizes. Though it will cost her job in a world with 99% unemployment, she vows to bring him back from the lawless and forbidden Fourth Ward Territory.

Title: The Player Of Games (#2)    Year: 1988    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: HarperPrism       Plot: The Culture--a humanoid/machine symbiotic society--has thrown up many great Game Players. One of the best is Jernau Morat Gurgeh, Player of Games, master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel & incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game, a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game and with it the challenge of his life, and very possibly his death.

Title: The Prometheus Deception (#5)    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: The New Prometheus    Author: Andrew Dobell       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: Compromised and facing impossible odds, Frankie must take on a deadly mission for the sake of the world.

Title: The Prometheus Gambit (#2)    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The New Prometheus    Author: Andrew Dobell       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: Recruited to the newly formed A.C.T. (Anti-Corporation Taskforce), Frankie, a full body cyborg, leads her team in a fight against the unchecked power of the Corporations in the city of Neo-London in 2124 AD.

Title: The Prometheus Trap (#3)    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The New Prometheus    Author: Andrew Dobell       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: The Nano Liberation, instigated by Frankie and her team at the A.C.T. freed billions from the tyranny of the Corporations rule, but the Corporations aren’t going to go down without a fight.

Title: The Rise Of Oshbob (#1)    Year: 2023    Category: Novel Series       Series: City Of Artem    Author: Kevin Sinclair       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: It’s a damn hard city to live in if you haven’t got creds, and for creds you need opportunities. The thing about opportunities... They’re thin on the ground for Orcs. One of the most reviled races in the sprawling city. And if you happen to be an Orc, left for dead on the frontlines of Artem’s roving monster problem and stranded outside of it's immense city walls, then you’re doubly screwed. Like Oshbob. The thing about Oshbob... He’s tough and he's pissed! With a will to survive like few others, he’s determined never to be subject to the whims of the elite, ever again. He’s gonna make something of himself. No matter the cost to those around him...

Title: The Rule Of Thoughts (#2)    Year: 2014    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Mortality Doctrine    Author: James Dashner       Publisher: Delacorte       Plot: Michael completed the Path. What he found at the end turned everything he’d ever known about his life—and the world—completely upside down. He barely survived. But it was the only way VirtNet Security knew to find the cyber-terrorist Kaine—and to make the Sleep safe for gamers once again. And, the truth Michael discovered about Kaine is more complex than they anticipated, and more terrifying than even the worst of their fears. Kaine is a tangent, a computer program that has become sentient. And Michael’s completing the Path was the first stage in turning Kaine’s master plan, the Mortality Doctrine, into a reality. The Mortality Doctrine will populate Earth entirely with human bodies harboring tangent minds. Any gamer who sinks into the VirtNet risks coming out with a tangent intelligence in control of their body.

Title: The Seven (#1)    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Apocalypse A.I.    Author: A.J. Ramsey       Publisher: Simply Smashing Publishing       Plot: Five years ago, the artificial intelligence known as DANA declared war on humanity. In the last remaining refuge of the Seven Cities, humans are facing extinction. A desperate mission is set in motion. One that will either end the war... or end humanity. Officially, Apollo Jones is one of the finest machine killing soldiers in the world. Unofficially, he’s suspended from his unit and awaiting punishment for his crimes. Instead, the Council offers him one last chance at redemption. Never one to back down from a challenge, Apollo gladly accepts. Tasked with leading a dangerous mission that will hopefully end the war, Apollo soon discovers that the team he’s been assigned to lead is a group of untrained, misfit civilians and an android who promises she’s on their side. Though he wants nothing more than to abandon them and complete the mission on his own, he’s been told that the success of the mission depends on the entire team. As they start their journey, the team quickly realizes they must figure out a way to trust each other if they have any hope of completing the mission and coming out of it alive.

Title: The Sigma Imperative (#3)    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Synth Crisis    Author: Greg Dragon       Publisher: Thirsty Bird Productions       Plot: Two years after stopping a wicked serial killer, former detective Dhata Mays is called in to investigate a kidnapping. After all, he’s the new “fixer” in town. But when Dhata discovers that there’s more at stake than a missing woman, he knows he’s up against an evil entity that might destroy everything.

Title: The Stars Like Gods (#3)    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Asterion Noir    Author: G.S. Jennsen       Publisher: Hypernova Publishing       Plot: When man and machine are one and the same, time moves differently. But it runs out all the same.

Title: The State Of The Art (#4)    Year: 1991    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: Night Shade Books       Plot: The first ever collection of Iain Banks' short fiction, this volume includes the acclaimed novella, The State of the Art. This is a striking addition to the growing body of Culture lore, and adds definition and scale to the previous works by using the Earth of 1977 as contrast. The other stories in the collection range from science fiction to horror, dark-coated fantasy to morality tale. All bear the indefinable stamp of Iain Banks' staggering talent.

Title: The Stone Vault Datajack (#0.5)    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cyberpunk City    Author: D. L. Young       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: Data thief Blackburn Maddox is an outcast, unliked and unemployable, until an underworld crime lord makes him an offer he can't refuse...if he wants to stay alive.

Title: The Sun's Blood (#1)    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Heirs Of Sun And Storm    Author: Jeremy Bai       Publisher: Wraithmarked Creative       Plot: Anti-cultivation propaganda posters are plastered on every street corner. The Counter-Cultivation division investigates, the elite Black Corpses are sent in for the kill. None are spared. Mercy does not exist.

Title: The Tigress (#5)    Year: 2024    Category: Novel Series       Series: Behind Blue Eyes    Author: Anna Mocikat       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: Three months have passed since Rosprom unleashed its offensive against Olympias. The Angels won, but at what cost? Many Angels have died, and both Nephilim and Metatron have suffered life-threatening injuries.

Title: The Turing Exception (#4)    Year: 2015    Category: Novel Series       Series: Singularity    Author: William Hertling       Publisher: Liquididea Press       Plot: In the year 2043, humans and AI coexist in a precarious balance of power enforced by a rigid caste reputation system designed to ensure that only those AI who are trustworthy and contribute to human society increase in power.

Title: The Unsung Frame (#2)    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Synth Crisis    Author: Greg Dragon       Publisher: Thirsty Bird Productions       Plot: In a futuristic Tampa Bay, skiptracer Dhata Mays and his sidekick, Lur Diaz, are on a job investigating a cheating lowlife. But after a deadly explosion and the woman who hired them disappears, nobody is safe. Suddenly, everyone is under suspicion, and the police are no longer there "to serve and to protect."

Title: This Automatic Eden (#2)    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Cortex    Author: Jim Keen       Publisher: Transmission Digital       Plot: New York City, 2057. Still recovering from her tortured past, ex-NYPD cop Alice Yu’s life has crashed. But when a murdered government witness turns out to be an illegal human copy, she seizes the chance to win back her badge by helping the investigation. Partnered with a mysterious FBI agent, she quickly finds herself in the crosshairs of a brutal conspiracy.

Title: This Mortal Coil (#1)    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: This Mortal Coil    Author: Emily Suvada       Publisher: Simon Pulse       Plot: Catarina Agatta is a hacker. She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that’s not what makes her special. In Cat’s world, people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in any way they want. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius.

Title: Threadbare (#1)    Year: 2019    Category: Novel Series       Series: Storm Fronts    Author: Elle E. Ire       Publisher: DSP Publications LLC       Plot: All cybernetic soldier Vick Corren wanted was to be human again. Now all she wants is Kelly. But machines can’t love. Can they?

Title: Trans-Human (#3)    Year: 2011    Category: Novel Series       Series: Post-Human    Author: David Simpson       Publisher: N/A    Plot: In this sequel to "Post-Human, " humanity will be forced to face a future more advanced than it could have imagined if it wants to survive. Nineteen months have passed since the AI turned against humanity and was subsequently destroyed. In the meantime, James Keats has turned over the AI's powers to a non-intelligent, easily controlled operating system. He and Thel have left the planet and spent six months vacationing on Venus, which has been newly terraformed without the consent or knowledge of the Governing Council. The AI has been deleted, but the message it sent out into the abyss of space in search of a companion has been answered. An alien force dwarfing the Earth is on its way to find out why the AI has stopped communicating. Keats and company can only assume its intentions will be hostile when it finds out the truth. Only one thing is for sure: nothing will ever be the same again. Welcome to the Trans-Human era. Welcome to the singularity.

Title: Tropical Punch    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: Bubbles In Space    Author: S.C. Jensen       Publisher: Northern Edge Publishing       Plot: All in a day’s work for Bubbles Marlowe, HoloCity’s only cyborg detective. What do an anti-tech cult, a deadly new street drug, and the corrupt Chief of Police have in common?

Title: Unbound (#2)    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Android Chronicles    Author: Lance Erlick       Publisher: Rebel Base Books       Plot: When Synthia escaped from her creator, even he had no idea of the advanced capabilities she’d developed. For six months she’s hidden in the Wisconsin woods with the only human she can trust—computer genius Luke Marceau. Together they’ve upgraded her body, rewritten her directives, and further enhanced her mind. Now hunters are zeroing in on her location, and she must flee. But leaving the refuge to assimilate into society is a dangerous risk, because Synthia will soon face her most formidable adversary. The pursuer’s name is Vera. She’s a female android—built to perfection, designed to hunt, and programmed to destroy...

Title: Under The Amoral Bridge (#1)    Year: 2008    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Bridge Chronicles    Author: Gary Ballard       Publisher: CreateSpace       Plot: Artemis Bridge is the know-to, go-to guy, the amoral fixer in 2028 Los Angeles with the connection for any illicit desire no matter how depraved. He prides himself on remaining above it all, but when an associate dies in his arms, he is burdened with a damaging video of the current mayor he can't sell or trade. With assassins dogging his every step, he has only days before the corrupt mayor is re-elected, handing Chronosoft corporation complete control.

Title: Under The Skyway (#1)    Year: 2018    Category: Novel Series       Series: Skyway    Author: James K. Douglas       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: With the help of his bionic arm, Jackson Bell is one of the best bodyguards in the business, but his latest job may be more than he can handle. Protecting a corporate investigator while she chases down every lead to find a stolen prototype, Jackson will be pushed to his limits, both physical and ethical. From the corporate high-rises to the city gutters, it's a race against time to save the world that lives Under the Skyway.

Title: Use Of Weapons (#3)    Year: 1990    Category: Novel Series       Series: Culture    Author: Iain M. Banks       Publisher: Orbit       Plot: Cheradenine is an ex-special circumstance agent who had been raised to eminence by a woman named Diziet. Skaffen-Amtiskaw, the drone, had saved her life and it believes Cheradenine to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence can see the horrors in his past.

Title: Virtual Light (#1)    Year: 1993    Category: Novel Series       Series: Bridge    Author: William Gibson       Publisher: Bantam Spectra   Viking Press   Seal Books       Plot: The plot centers around Chevette Washington, a young bicycle messenger who lives in the ad hoc, off-the-grid community that has grown on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. Chevette, on a whim, steals a pair of dark-rimmed glasses from a man at a party because she is offended by his demeanor. Soon after, she realizes that the glasses have unlikely importance, as security company henchmen begin tracking and following her. Among the pursuers are Svobodov and Orlovsky, two Russian immigrants who reside in San Francisco and are employed as cops, as well as Loveless, a ruthless corporate hitman with gold incisors. The glasses contain plans by a powerful corporation to rebuild San Francisco entirely using nanotechnology, and for that reason, they are highly coveted and present a danger to the person who possesses them.

Title: vN (#1)    Year: 2012    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Machine Dynasty    Author: Madeline Ashby       Publisher: Angry Robot       Plot: Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot. For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother’s past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, little Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive.

Title: Voice Of The Whirlwind (#2)    Year: 1987    Category: Novel Series       Series: Hardwired    Author: Walter Jon Williams       Publisher: Night Shade Books       Plot: Etienne Steward is a clone, also known as a beta. When he awakes, his memories are fifteen years old, because the original Steward—the alpha—never bothered to have his memories updated. In those fifteen years, the entire world has changed. An alien race known as The Powers has established relations with humanity. The Orbital Policorp which held his allegiance has collapsed. He fought and survived the off-world Artifacts War, but dozens of his friends did not. Both his first and second wives have divorced him. More importantly, someone has murdered him, causing the activation of the beta back-up. Now Steward has to figure out who wanted him dead, if he doesn't want to die again.

Title: Want (#1)    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Want    Author: Cindy Pon       Publisher: Simon Pulse       Plot: Jason Zhou survives in a divided society where the elite use their wealth to buy longer lives. The rich wear special suits that protect them from the pollution and viruses that plague the city, while those without suffer illness and early deaths. Frustrated by his city’s corruption and still grieving the loss of his mother, who died as a result of it, Zhou is determined to change things, no matter the cost. With the help of his friends, Zhou infiltrates the lives of the wealthy in hopes of destroying the international Jin Corporation from within. Jin Corp not only manufactures the special suits the rich rely on, but they may also be manufacturing the pollution that makes them necessary. Yet the deeper Zhou delves into this new world of excess and wealth, the more muddled his plans become. And against his better judgment, Zhou finds himself falling for Daiyu, the daughter of Jin Corp’s CEO. Can Zhou save his city without compromising who he is or destroying his own heart?

Title: Wanted And Wired (#1)    Year: 2017    Category: Novel Series       Series: Wanted And Wired    Author: Vivien Jackson       Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca       Plot: Heron Farad should be dead. But technology has made him the man he is today. Now he heads a crew of uniquely skilled outsiders who fight to salvage what's left of humanity: art, artifacts, books, ideas-sometimes even people. People like Mari Vallejo.

Title: War Factory (#2)    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Transformation    Author: Neal Asher       Publisher: Night Shade       Plot: Thorvald Spear, resurrected from his death over a hundred years earlier, continues to hunt Penny Royal, the rogue AI and dangerous war criminal on the run from Polity forces. Beyond the Graveyard, a lawless and deadly area in deep space, Spear follows the trail of several enemy Prador, the crab-like alien species with a violent history of conflict with humanity.

Title: War Games (#3)    Year: 2022    Category: Novel Series       Series: Behind Blue Eyes    Author: Anna Mocikat       Publisher: Amazon       Plot: Every story has a dark side. After learning of the Broker’s true identity, Nephilim battles contradicting memory flashes from her past. In horror, she realizes Metatron has erased her memory.

Title: War Of Attrition (#2)    Year: 2010    Category: Novel Series       Series: Books Of The Underground    Author: Frank Creed       Publisher: Writers Cafe Press       Plot: Set in 2037, Calamity Kid and his muscle cell are targeted by the One State's Federal Bureau of Terrorism and must survive alone in Chicago's Underground. At one-half its usual might, the cell encounters traps and snares set by a faceless opponent-and question the suspicious arrival of a bio-engineered One State traitor. Blamed by the media for the very violence they're trying to contain, CK and his fellow saints race for their lives to avoid the high-tech crosshairs aimed into the underground.

Title: We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (#1)    Year: 2016    Category: Novel Series       Series: Bobiverse    Author: Dennis E. Taylor       Publisher: Worldbuilders Press       Plot: Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty. The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.

Title: Wetware (#2)    Year: 1988    Category: Novel Series       Series: Ware    Author: Rudy Rucker       Publisher: Avon Books       Plot: Set in 2030–2031, ten years after the events of Software, Wetware focuses on the attempt of an Edgar Allan Poe-obsessed bopper named Berenice to populate Earth with a robot/human hybrid called a meatbop. Toward this end, she implants an embryo in a human woman living on the Moon (Della Taze, Cobb Anderson's niece) and then frames her for murder to force her to return to Earth. After only a few days, she gives birth to a boy named Manchile, who has been genetically programmed to carry bopper software in his brain (and in his sperm), and to grow to maturity in a matter of weeks.

Title: Woken Furies (#3)    Year: 2005    Category: Novel Series       Series: Takeshi Kovacs    Author: Richard K. Morgan       Publisher: Del Rey       Plot: In a world where the real and virtual are one and the same and the dead can come back to life, the damsel in distress may be none other than the infamous Quellcrist Falconer, the vaporized symbol of a freedom now gone from Harlan's World. Kovacs can deal with the madness of AI. He can do his part in a battle against biomachines gone wild, search for a three-centuries-old missing weapons system, and live with a blood feud with the yakuza, and even with the betrayal of people he once trusted. But when his relationship with the Falconer brings him an enemy specially designed to destroy him, he knows it's time to be afraid.

Title: Woven (#3)    Year: 2020    Category: Novel Series       Series: Storm Fronts    Author: Elle E. Ire       Publisher: DSP Publications LLC       Plot: After an acidic-lake dunking on a distant moon shows Vick what’s really beneath her synthetic skin, it doesn’t matter that she heals. All she can see is the metallic shell of the soldier she once was. It’s a cruel reminder that she’s a cyborg. An AI. Less than human.

Title: Zer0-Day (#1)    Year: 2021    Category: Novel Series       Series: The Sommerfeld Experiment    Author: Al Davidson       Publisher: Destiny Engine       Plot: Packed with dark action, imaginative violence and a well thought out story, Zero-Day is a wild ride you’ll want to buckle in for!

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