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City_Come_A_Walkin
   Title: City Come A-Walkin'
   Year: 1980
   Category: Novel   
   Author: John Shirley   
   Publisher: Dell Publishing   
   Plot:
Stu Cole is struggling to keep his nightclub, Club Anesthesia, afloat in the face of mob harassment when he's visited by a manifestation of the city of San Francisco, crystallized into a single enigmatic being. This amoral superhero leads him on a terrifying journey through the rock and roll demimonde as they struggle to save the city.
The_Artificial_Kid
   Title: The Artificial Kid
   Year: 1980
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Hardwired   
   Plot:
The Artificial Kid takes place on the planet Reverie, a world of coral continents, levitating islands, and the corrosive, transformative wilderness of "The Mass." Reverie has been transformed into a utopia/dystopia, with a stark class division. Arti, a heavily biologically modified boy from the Decriminalized Zone, becomes a pop star by selling videos of himself engaging in bloody combat with other fighters for the entertainment of the upper classes. When Reverie's founder, Moses Moses emerges from seven centuries of cryosleep, and Arti discovers an unpleasant secret about his past, both have to flee to escape from the powers of the "Cabal" that controls Reverie from behind the scenes.
The_Integrated_Man
   Title: The Integrated Man
   Year: 1980
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Michael Berlyn   
   Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell   
   Plot:
In a future where minds are enslaved by computer chips, one man seeks revenge. Michael Berlyn is an American computer game designer and writer. He is known as an Implementor at Infocom, part of the text adventure game design team. Berlyn joined Marc Blank in founding the game company Eidetic, which later became Sony Bend. He is also a composer and continues to create games for the Apple App Store.
The_Nikopol_Trilogy
   Title: The Nikopol Trilogy
   Year: 1980
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Enki Bilal   
   Publisher: Humanoids   
   Plot:
A collection of three loosely-related stories that take place in a future Paris after the world has suffered two recent nuclear wars. In the first, a man named Nikopol is revived after 30 years only to be possessed by the Egyptian god Horus, who aspires to overthrow the dictatorial government. In the second, a blue-haired reporter gets caught up Nikopol and Horus's scheme, while also fleeing memories of her murderous past. And finally, the son of Nikopol travels to the heart of Saharan Africa to investigate a weather anomaly. The trilogy was adapted into a live action film in 2004 and a video game in 2008.
New_Rose_Hotel
   Title: New Rose Hotel
   Year: 1981
   Category: Short Story   
   Author: William Gibson   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
The story follows two corporate extraction agents, who perform the new version of corporate espionage, grabbing scientists and engineers from rival firms. Given the level of protection offered, extracting them from a company is a highly dangerous affair. In the story, the narrator and his partner Fox have joined up with a new associate, Sandii, in an attempt to extract an extremely talented biologist from a hot new German research company. The company's security is superb, and the attempt takes considerable time to plan.
The_Incal
   Title: The Incal
   Year: 1981
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky   Mœbius   
   Publisher: Humanoids   
   Plot:
John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside down when he discovers an ancient, mystical artifact called "The Incal." Difool s adventures will bring him into conflict with the galaxy s greatest warrior, the Metabaron, and will pit him against the awesome powers of the Technopope. These encounters and many more make up a tale of comic and cosmic proportions that has Difool fighting for not only his very survival, but also the survival of the entire universe.
True_Names
   Title: True Names
   Year: 1981
   Category: Novella   
   Author: Vernor Vinge   
   Publisher: Dell   
   Plot:
The story follows the progress of a group of computer hackers (called "warlocks" in the story) who are early adopters of a new full-immersion virtual reality technology, called the "Other Plane". Warlocks penetrate computers around the world for personal profit or curiosity. Forming a cabal, they must keep their true identities—their "True Names"—secret even to each other and to the "Great Adversary", the United States government, as those who know a warlock's True Name can force him to work on their behalf, or even cause a "True Death" by killing the warlock in real life.
Akira
   Title: Akira
   Year: 1982
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Katsuhiro Otomo   
   Publisher: Kodansha   Dark Horse   
   Plot:
Otomo’s seminal manga follows members of teenaged motorcycle gang who become entangled in (and help facilitate) the destruction of Neo Tokyo. After gang member Tetsuo begins to exhibit latent psychic powers, the military—which harbors its own psychics—detains him, prompting the gang’s leader, Kaneda, to join a faction of rebels and try to rescue his friend. As Tetsuo’s powers develop, he loses touch with reality and unleashes mass destruction upon the city. The comic’s 1988 animated feature adaptation is regarded as a high-water mark of animation, as well as a worldwide success that helped to popularize anime outside of Japan.
Blade_Runner_Comics
   Title: Blade Runner: The Official Comics Illustrated Version
   Year: 1982
   Category: Comics   
   Author: Archie Goodwin   Al Williamson   Carlos Garzon   Dan Green   Ralph Reese   
   Publisher: Marvel   
   Plot:
Stan Lee presents the Marvel Comics illustrated version of Blade Runner. Based on the novel Do Androids Dreams of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
Burning_Chrome
   Title: Burning Chrome
   Year: 1982
   Category: Short Story   
   Author: William Gibson   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
"Burning Chrome" tells the story of two free-lance hackers - Automatic Jack, the narrator and a hardware specialist; and Bobby Quine, a software expert. Bobby becomes infatuated with a girl named Rikki and wants to become wealthy in order to impress her. Jack has acquired a powerful Russian "icebreaker" program that can penetrate corporate security systems. Bobby suggests that they use it to break into the system of a notorious and vicious criminal known as Chrome, who handles money transfers for organized crime, and Jack reluctantly agrees to help. The break-in is successful, and Jack and Bobby empty Chrome's bank accounts, but they discover afterward that Rikki had been working in a brothel with ties to Chrome. She uses her earnings to buy a set of cybernetic eye implants for herself and go to Hollywood; the news leaves both men devastated, as they have grown to love her, and Jack never sees her again.
Software
   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.
The_Running_Man
   Title: The Running Man
   Year: 1982
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Stephen King   Richard Bachman   
   Publisher: Signet   
   Plot:
The Running Man is set within a dystopian future in which the poor are seen more by the government as worrisome rodents than actual human beings. The protagonist of The Running Man, Ben Richards, is quick to realize this as he watches his daughter, Cathy, grow more sick by the day and tread closer and closer to death. Desperate for money to pay Cathy’s medical bills, Ben enlists himself in a true reality style game show where the objective is to merely stay alive.
TRON
   Title: TRON
   Year: 1982
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Brian Daley   
   Publisher: New English Library   
   Plot:
Computer programmer Kevin Flynn is transported inside the software world of a mainframe computer, where he interacts with various programs in his attempt to get back out. During his adventure he meets Tron, a rebel program fighting the tyrannical Master Control Program.
Black_Magic_M66
   Title: Black Magic M66
   Year: 1983
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Masamune Shirow   
   Publisher: Seishinsha   Dark Horse   
   Plot:
When two malfunctioning combat androids are accidentally unleashed on a "Terminate at All Costs" mission against the unsuspecting granddaughter of their creator, an entire city becomes the battleground and not even the military may be able to stop them! The girl's only hope: Sybil, a freelance journalist who's out to get the scoop of her life, if she can somehow keep both herself and her subject alive long enough to file a report. But first, she has to remember to put her clothes on!
Ronin
   Title: Ronin
   Year: 1983
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Frank Miller   
   Publisher: DC Comics   
   Plot:
Written by Frank Miller; Art by Frank Miller In this tale of a legendary warrior, the Ronin, a dishonored, masterless 13th century samurai, is mystically given a second chance to avenge his master's death. Finding himself suddenly reborn in a futuristic and corrupt 21st century New York City, the samurai discovers he has one last chance to regain his honor. But to do so, he must defeat the reincarnation of his master's killer, the ancient demon Agat. In a time and place both foreign and unfathomable to him, the Ronin stands against his greatest enemy with his life and more importantly, his soul at stake.
nocover
   Title: A Cyborg Manifesto
   Year: 1984
   Category: Other   
   Author: Donna J. Haraway   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
"A Cyborg Manifesto" is an essay written by Donna Haraway and published in 1984. In it, the concept of the cyborg is a rejection of rigid boundaries, notably those separating "human" from "animal" and "human" from "machine." She writes: "The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust."
Cyberpunk_BB
   Title: Cyberpunk
   Year: 1984
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Bethke   
   Publisher: Bruce Bethke   
   Plot:
A gang of unruly teenagers cut school and go joy-riding around "the Net" on their hopped-up portable computers, committing casual acts of vandalism and just generally being a$holes. Our hero is a good kid who's fallen in with a bad crowd; his parents eventually realize something is wrong and try to suppress the relationship. This results in the kid finally using his technical skills for deliberate purpose, to rebel against his parents -- and to win, because the paradigm shift is completely in his favor.
Dr_Adder
   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.
Frontera
   Title: Frontera
   Year: 1984
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Lewis Shiner   
   Publisher: Baen Books   
   Plot:
Ten years ago the world's governments collapsed, and now the corporations are in control. Houston's Pulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera to search for survivors. Reese, aging hero of the US space program, knows better. The colonists are not only alive, they have discovered a secret so devastating that the new rulers of Earth will stop at nothing to own it. Reese is equally desperate to use it for his own very personal agenda. But none of them have reckoned with Kane, tortured veteran of the corporate wars, whose hallucinatory voices are urging him to complete an ancient cycle of heroism and alter the destiny of the human race.
Neuromancer
   Title: Neuromancer
   Year: 1984
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Gibson   
   Publisher: Ace   
   Plot:
Henry Dorsett Case is a low-level hustler in the dystopian underworld of Chiba City, Japan. Once a talented computer hacker, Case was caught stealing from his employer. As punishment for his theft, Case's central nervous system was damaged with a mycotoxin, leaving him unable to access the global computer network in cyberspace, a virtual reality dataspace called the "Matrix". Unemployable, addicted to drugs, and suicidal, Case desperately searches the Chiba "black clinics" for a miracle cure. Case is saved by Molly Millions, an augmented "street samurai" and mercenary for a shadowy ex-military officer named Armitage, who offers to cure Case in exchange for his services as a hacker. Case jumps at the chance to regain his life as a "console cowboy," but neither Case nor Molly knows what Armitage is really planning. Case's nervous system is repaired using new technology that Armitage offers the clinic as payment, but he soon learns from Armitage that sacs of the poison that first crippled him have been placed in his blood vessels as well. Armitage promises Case that if he completes his work in time, the sacs will be removed; otherwise they will dissolve, disabling him again. He also has Case's pancreas replaced and new tissue grafted into his liver, leaving Case incapable of metabolizing cocaine or amphetamines and apparently ending his drug addiction.
RAMO
   Title: Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick
   Year: 1984
   Category: Short Story   
   Author: Philip K. Dick   Patricia S. Warrick   
   Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press   
   Plot:
In these 15 stories about robots and androids, Philip K. Dick asks these questions. The answers differ with each story—in the fictional world and in the exploring mind of Dick the only certainty is change—but the author establishes some guidelines: “To be human, one must maintain his intellectual and spir­itual freedom at all costs. He must refuse obedience to any ideology; he must re­main unpredictable, unfettered by pat­terns and routines.”
Appleseed
   Title: Appleseed
   Year: 1985
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Masamune Shirow   
   Publisher: Various   
   Plot:
Appleseed takes place in the 22nd century, after the non-nuclear Third World War has decimated the Earth. While countries like Great Britain, USA and China have difficulty maintaining order and power, international organizations like the "Sacred Republic of Munma" and "Poseidon" have been established in the aftermath.
Eclipse
   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.
Schismatrix
   Title: Schismatrix
   Year: 1985
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Arbor House   
   Plot:
The main character, Abelard Lindsay, is born in the ancient lunar colony Mare Serenitatis Circumlunar Corporate Republic, into a family of aristocratic Mechanists, but after being sent to the Shaper’s Ring Council, he receives specialized and experimental diplomatic training and gives his loyalty to the Shapers' cause. He, his best friend and fellow Shaper protege Philip Constantine and the beautiful and passionate Preservationist Vera Kelland lead an insurgency against the rulers of the republic, who use Mechanist technology to prolong their lives. The three of them influence the younger generation towards the Shapers' cause in their pursuit of Preservationism, a movement devoted to the preservation of earth-bound human culture. Kelland and Lindsay agree to kill themselves as a political statement, but Lindsay reneges on his suicide pact after Kelland is dead. Constantine attempts to kill Lindsay but instead kills a Mechanist, creating a scandal.
Shatter
   Title: Shatter
   Year: 1985
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Mike Saenz   Peter B. Gillis   
   Publisher: First Comics   
   Plot:
A cop in the future uncovers a global media company's scheme involving harvesting human brains, and decides to join an underground resistance force to take down the company. Coincidentally, he also possesses a “golden brain,” which is invaluable to the company. This book is notable for being the first comic drawn entirely on a computer, specifically a first-generation Apple Macintosh.
The_Adolescence_Of_P-1
   Title: The Adolescence Of P-1
   Year: 1985
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Thomas J. Ryan   
   Publisher: Bean Books   
   Plot:
A young college student writes a self replicating computer “virus,” programed to survive, that becomes self aware. The program grows and makes mistakes and learns.
The_Glass_Hammer
   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.
The_Terminator
   Title: The Terminator
   Year: 1985
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Randall Frakes   James Cameron   
   Publisher: Spectra   
   Plot:
The time is now... but he comes from the Year of Darkness, 2029. He was created to reshape the future by destroying the present. He feels no pity, no pain, no fear. He feels nothing. He is an unstoppable killing machine programmed for murder. He is... The Terminator!
Count_Zero
   Title: Count Zero
   Year: 1986
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Gibson   
   Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd   
   Plot:
Seven years after the events of Neuromancer, strange things begin to happen in the Matrix, leading to the proliferation of what appear to be voodoo gods (hinted to be the fractured remains of the joined AIs that were Neuromancer and Wintermute). Two powerful multinational corporations, Maas Biolabs and Hosaka, are engaged in a battle for control over a powerful new technology (a biochip), using hackers and the Matrix as well as espionage and violence.
Dominion
   Title: Dominion
   Year: 1986
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Shirow Masamune   
   Publisher: Hakusensha   Dark Horse   
   Plot:
Welcome to the future, where the norms are vast bio-constructed cities, air toxic enough to force citizens to wear oxygen masks, and crime so severe that the cops drive tanks! When a mysterious winged girl with the power to cleanse the poisoned air is kidnapped by the villainous Buaku, police mini-tank commander Leona Ozaki, her tank Bonaparte, and her lovesick partner Al must confront the arch-criminal and his catgirl molls-the beautiful and deadly Annapuma and Unipuma-before Buaku's master plan kicks into gear. Buaku has more than money on his mind, and the future fate of humanity hangs in the balance!
Hardwired
   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.
Mirrorshades
   Title: Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
   Year: 1986
   Category: Short Story   
   Author: Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Arbor House   
   Plot:
With their hard-edged, street-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech societies and low-life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive "cyberpunk" short fiction collection.
When_Gravity_Fails
   Title: When Gravity Fails
   Year: 1986
   Category: Novel   
   Author: George Alec Effinger   
   Publisher: Arbor House   
   Plot:
A series of brutal murders soon begins to panic the Budayeen, and Audran is almost executed by Friedlander Bey, who at first considers him to be the killer. He is then forced by the centuries-old Bey to become his investigator, and even worse, is made to subject himself to extensive, partly experimental cybernetic modifications; an advanced form of the brain "wiring" he has dreaded before.
American_Flagg
   Title: American Flagg!
   Year: 1987
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Howard Chaykin   
   Publisher: Titan Books   
   Plot:
America, 2031. TV star Reuben Flagg is drafted to protect the citizens of Chicago as a Plexus Ranger, having pretended to be one onscreen. The inexperienced Flagg must tackle an America blighted by a biased and oppressive media, dubious 'wars', widespread political corruption and environmental disaster...Never-before-collected, this bitingly prescient satirical series is an all-time classic.
Consider_Phlebas
   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.
Death_Arms
   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.
Mindplayers
   Title: Mindplayers
   Year: 1987
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Pat Cadigan   
   Publisher: Bantam Spectra   
   Plot:
A dare goes awry when Ali tries on a stolen madcap and is afflicted with psychotic delusions that will not go away. "Cured" by a mindplayer, Ali is soon forced to become one herself or face a prison sentence as a "mind criminal."
Vacuum_Flowers
   Title: Vacuum Flowers
   Year: 1987
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Michael Swanwick   
   Publisher: Ace   
   Plot:
Among the vanguard of today's boldest writers, Michael Swanwick presents his world of plug-in personalities, colonized asteroids, and a daring fugitive named Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark, a high-tech criminal seeking refuge on Earth's orbiting settlements--where all human evils blossom in the vacuum of space.
Voice_Of_The_Whirlwind
   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.
Islands_In_The_Net
   Title: Islands In The Net
   Year: 1988
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Arbor House   
   Plot:
The action takes place in 2023–2025 in Galveston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Grenada, an island on the northeast coast of South America; Singapore; and Africa. Protagonist Laura Webster, mother of three-month-old Loretta, works as a public relations employee for Rizome, a global corporation of economic democrats. Together with her husband David they run the Lodge, a resort for Rizome workers on the island of Galveston. The action sets off when Rizome organizes a conference between itself and three data havens - EFT Commerzbank of Luxembourg, The Young Soo Chim Islamic Bank and Grenada United Bank - in the Lodge. After the first day of the conference Winston Stubbs, the Grenadan representative, is assassinated. The organization which admits to killing him calls itself "F.A.C.T." (Free Army of Counter-Terrorism). Rizome decides to send Laura with her husband and baby to Grenada on a diplomatic mission to prove that Rizome had nothing to do with the murder.
Machine_Man
   Title: Machine Man
   Year: 1988
   Category: Comics   
   Author: Tom DeFalco   Herb Trimpe   Barry Windsor-Smith   
   Publisher: Marvel   
   Plot: N/A
Machine_Sex_And_Other_Stories
   Title: Machine Sex And Other Stories
   Year: 1988
   Category: Short Story   
   Author: Candas Jane Dorsey   
   Publisher: Tesseract   Women’s Press   
   Plot: N/A
Metrophage
   Title: Metrophage
   Year: 1988
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Richard Kadrey   
   Publisher: Hardwired   
   Plot:
Welcome to Los Angeles...where anger, hunger and disease run rampant, and life and hope are strictly rationed. This is Jonny's world. He's a street-wise hustler, a black-market dealer in drugs that heal the body and cool the mind. All he cares about is his own survival. Until a strange plague turns L.A. into a city of death--and Jonny is forced to put everything on the line to find the cure. If it can be found on earth...
Mona_Lisa_Overdrive
   Title: Mona Lisa Overdrive
   Year: 1988
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Gibson   
   Publisher: Victor Gollancz Ltd   
   Plot:
Taking place eight years after the events of Count Zero and fifteen years after Neuromancer, the story is formed from several interconnecting plot threads, and also features characters from Gibson's previous works (such as Molly Millions, the razor-fingered mercenary from Neuromancer). One of the plot threads concerns Mona, an innocent young prostitute who has a more-than-passing resemblance to famed Simstim superstar Angie Mitchell. Mona is hired by shady individuals for a "gig" which later turns out to be part of a plot to abduct Angie.
The_Player_Of_Games
   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.
Wetware
   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.
A_Fire_In_The_Sun
   Title: A Fire In The Sun
   Year: 1989
   Category: Novel   
   Author: George Alec Effinger   
   Publisher: Doubleday   
   Plot:
Taking place some months after the events described in When Gravity Fails, Marîd Audran, once a small-time hustler on the streets of the decadent Budayeen, finds himself as one of the lieutenants of Friedlander Bey or "Papa", the most influential man in the city. With his independence taken from him and being stationed as a liaison between Bey and the local law enforcement under the supervision of Sergeant Hajjar, Audran is forced to pair up with his colleague Jirji Shaknahyi in order to track down yet another serial killer who likes to remove some of the internal organs of their victims. Although Hajjar does not share his theory about the murders being connected, Audran begins to suspect there might be more to the recent killings than meets the eye, and wonders where the so-called Phoenix File fits in.
AD_Police_Dead_End_City
   Title: A.D. Police: Dead End City
   Year: 1989
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Toshimichi Suzuki   Tony Takezaki   
   Publisher: VIZ Media   Samourai   Manga Books   
   Plot:
The manga is set in 2032. The A.D. Police are an elite group of highly trained and specially equipped police officers, who have been formed to deal with terrorist activities and Boomer crimes in the city of Mega Tokyo. The A.D. Police are offered a great deal of leeway in their activities, often blockading large sections of the city and causing great amounts of property damage in the course of fulfilling their duty. Despite their dedication to their jobs, however, the citizens of Mega Tokyo tend to dislike and distrust members of the A.D. Police, seeing them as corrupt and ineffectual.
Bubblegum_Crisis
   Title: Bubblegum Crisis
   Year: 1989
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Bubblegum Crisis
   Author: Various   
   Publisher: Various   
   Plot:
The series involves the adventures of the Knight Sabers, an all-female group of mercenaries who don powered exoskeletons and fight various problems, most frequently rogue robots. The success of the series spawned several sequel series.
Crystal_Express
   Title: Crystal Express
   Year: 1989
   Category: Short Story   
   Author: Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Arkham House   
   Plot:
Crystal Express is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling. It was released in 1989 by Arkham House. It was initially published in an edition of 4,231 copies and was the author's first book published by Arkham House.
Cyberpunk_Bad_Dreams
   Title: Cyberpunk: Bad Dreams
   Year: 1989
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Scott Rockwell   Kevin VanHook   Darryl Banks   
   Publisher: Innovation Comics   
   Plot:
Bad Dreams is the story of one man's quest for a free mind and a free life. Topo is a juggler, one of the players in a game of dueling body images. He seems to care more for the interior world of the Playing Field than for the "real world" of corporate greed and human emotion. But when Juno, a former lover, becomes caught up in the "real world,"only Topo can save her.
GITS_Comics
   Title: Ghost In The Shell (Ghost In The Shell #1)
   Year: 1989
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Ghost In The Shell
   Author: Masamune Shirow   
   Publisher: Kodansha   
   Plot:
In the rapidly converging landscape of the 21st century Major Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including ghost hackers When he track the trail of one hacker, her quest leads her to a world she could never have imagined.
Neuromancer_Comics
   Title: Neuromancer: The Graphic Novel
   Year: 1989
   Category: Comics   
   Author: William Gibson   Tom De Haven   Bruce Alan Jensen   
   Publisher: Epic Comics   
   Plot:
The comic adaptation of Gibson’s groundbreaking novel which put cyberpunk on the map. After a condition renders him unable to access cyberspace, Case, an out-of-work, drug-addled hacker, is hired by a mysterious patron who promises to cure him. They also enlist Molly Millions, a “razorgirl” with extensive body modifications, who helps them take on entrenched corporate syndicates as well as a powerful article intelligence. The comic only covered the book’s first two chapters before it was discontinued.
Silent_Mobius
   Title: Silent Mobius
   Year: 1989
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Kia Asamiya   
   Publisher: VIZ Media   Fujimi Shobo   
   Plot:
In the 21st century the 'Entities' came... and the human race needed new heroes. Meet the A.M.P. (Abnormal Mystery Police), six young women with psychic and super powers ready and willing to do combat with the worst monsters, megadynes, and dragons that future Tokyo has to offer! In these three stories, set in the year 2026, learn the secrets of Katsumi Liqueur, daughter of a great sorcerer; Nami Yamigumo, heir to a mighty clan of priests; and Kiddy Phenil, survivor of a traumatic past.
Solip_System
   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.
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