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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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