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Angel_Station
   Title: Angel Station
   Year: 1990
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Walter Jon Williams   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
Using faster-than-light technology, the human race has colonized dozens of star systems. Ubu Roy and his sister, Beautiful Maria are down-on-their-luck traders on the edge of human space. In a last-ditch effort to make money to pay their debts and repair their aging spacecraft, they are reduced to searching uncharted space for singularities to capture and sell. In a rare stroke of luck, Ubu and Maria happen upon an alien spacecraft and make humanity's first contact with an alien race. As chance would have it, the alien ship is also in dire economic straights. The alien technology is stronger than humanity's in some areas (such as biotechnology) and weaker in other areas (such as applied physics), providing ample opportunities for trade between the two ships. Both ships become rich in their respective societies by repeated trade with each other. However, Ubu and Maria's secret is discovered by their trading rivals, resulting in a struggle to determine who will control the lucrative trade with the aliens. Ubu and Maria ultimately succeed through Ubu's better understanding of the alien race's psychology and Maria's genetically-engineered psychic abilities.
Batman_Digital_Justice
   Title: Batman: Digital Justice
   Year: 1990
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Pepe Moreno   Doug Murray   Mike Gold   
   Publisher: Marvel   
   Plot:
100 years into the future, a computer virus calling itself "the Joker" is menacing the world's banking and business systems. In this "Batman" adventure, the latest advances in high-definition computer technology have been brought to the comic-book medium.
Battle_Angel_Alita
   Title: Battle Angel Alita (Gunnm)
   Year: 1990
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Yukito Kishiro   
   Publisher: Shueisha   
   Plot:
A female cyborg with no memories of her past becomes a mercenary in Scrapyard, a post-apocalytpic sprawl built beneath Tiphares, a floating city inhabited by affluent citizens. Alita is a master of an ancient martial art, using it to track down renegade cyborgs. As time goes on, she begins to recall snippets of her past and devotes her time to investigating where she came from. A sequel series, Battle Angel Alita: Last Order ran from 2000–2014, and a final sequel, Gunnm: Mars Chronicle, is currently ongoing. A two-episode animated adaptation of the original comic was released in 1993.
Cyberbooks
   Title: Cyberbooks
   Year: 1990
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Ben Bova   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
Computer genius Carl Lewis has invented the "Cyberbook", an electronic device that instantly and inexpensively brings the written word to the masses. But not everyone warms to Carl's ideas. Add corporate spies, authors threatening to strike, and a wave of mysterious murders, and you have Ben Bova at his best.
Cyberpunk_Book_Two_Issue_1
   Title: Cyberpunk Book Two: The Appearances Are The Masks Of Time
   Year: 1990
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Scott Rockwell   
   Publisher: Innovation Comics   
   Plot:
Three years later... Times change and people change. Now, Juno is running the corporation that Roi built, trading in software and data in the cutthroat corporate world of the near future. Topo has (almost literally) dropped off the face of the Earth, and Juno is getting anxious to find him. Enter the Grey Lensman, a small-time software pirate who thinks he knows where Topo can be found. He recruits a trio of muscleheaded musicians called the Hotboys to help him find the infamous Mole that destroyed Roi's data base.
Cyberpunk_ATHHB
   Title: Cyberpunk: Almost The Highest Human Bliss
   Year: 1990
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Scott Rockwell   Darryl Banks   
   Publisher: Innovation Comics   
   Plot:
Even if Topo can survive Roi's ICE (Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics), he must still try to rescue Juno. No easy task, as Roi has actually wiped her entire mind and stored it in his data banks.
Cyberpunk_The_Seraphim_Files
   Title: Cyberpunk: The Seraphim Files
   Year: 1990
   Category: Comics   
   Author: Scott Rockwell   
   Publisher: Innovation Comics   
   Plot: N/A
Hard_Boiled
   Title: Hard Boiled
   Year: 1990
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Frank Miller   Geof Darrow   
   Publisher: Dark Horse   
   Plot:
Carl Stelz thinks he leads an average life as a tax collector, but memories of a horrific accident haunt his dreams, all while his family seems to be hiding something from him. It’s not long before he discovers the truth: he’s actually a super-powered robotic assassin named Nixon who is a crucial player in a revolution aimed at freeing robots from their programming. The three-issue series earned both Miller and Darrow an Eisner for Best Writer/Artist in 1991.
Never_Deal_With_A_Dragon
   Title: Never Deal With A Dragon (Shadowrun: Secrets Of Power)
   Year: 1990
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Robert N. Charrette   
   Publisher: Roc   
   Plot:
Sam Verner is a star researcher for Renraku Computer Systems at the corporate headquarters in Tokyo, but when his sister goblinizes into an Ork, he is transferred to the Seattle arcology in disgrace. His life takes another turn for the worse when the commuter flight from the airport is hijacked by shadowrunners (Sally Tsung, Ghost, Kham, Dodger). Sam's cooperation with the runners earns him the enmity of another passenger, security specialist Alice Crenshaw. When Sam discovers that the runners were manipulated into releasing a lethal virus inside the arcology, he is able to convince them to undo the damage. They insist he accompany them, however, and though they are successful, Sam is forced to shoot a security guard in self-defense. Though the runners advise against it, Sam decides to stay with Renraku.
Red_Spider_White_Web
   Title: Red Spider White Web
   Year: 1990
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Misha Nogha   
   Publisher: Morgan Publications   
   Plot:
First U.S. publication of the acclaimed out of print British edition (Morrigan Publications, 1990) with original foreword by Brian Aldiss and Afterword by James P. Blaylock and a new Introduction by John Shirley. This novel was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in England (1990) and won the Readercon Award in 1991. #20 in the Wordcraft Speculative Writers Series.
RoboCop_Comics
   Title: RoboCop
   Year: 1990
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Bob Harras   Alan Kupperberg   
   Publisher: Marvel   
   Plot:
Ruthlessly murdered and resurrected, Detroit police officer Alex Murphy was transformed into ROBOCOP, a 24-hour a day cyborg cop. He must track down his murderers and fight corruption in the very corporation that built him. Now that corporation wants to see him dismantled.
Simians
   Title: Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
   Year: 1990
   Category: Other   
   Author: Donna J. Haraway   
   Publisher: Routledge   
   Plot:
Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as creatures which have had a great destabilizing place in Western evolutionary technology and biology. Throughout this book, Haraway analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs. At once a social reality and a science fiction, the cyborg--a hybrid of organism and machine--represents transgressed boundaries and intense fusions of the nature/culture split. By providing an escape from rigid dualisms, the cyborg exists in a post-gender world, and as such holds immense possibilities for modern feminists. Haraway's recent book, Primate Visions, has been called outstanding, original, and brilliant, by leading scholars in the field.
Use_Of_Weapons
   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.
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