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Cybernetic_Jungle
   Title: Cybernetic Jungle
   Year: 1992
   Category: Novel   
   Author: S. N. Lewitt   
   Publisher: Ace   
   Plot:
His family destroyed and his dreams crushed by the corporation that controls his Brazilian home through technology and drugs, Paulo seeks revenge, aided by Zaide, a woman with a computer implant in her brain that provides access to government data.
Destroying_Angel
   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.
Dreamships
   Title: Dreamships
   Year: 1992
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Melissa Scott   
   Publisher: Tor   
   Plot:
Dreamships is the story of a freelance space pilot and her crew, who are hired by a rich corporate owner to track down her crazy brother--who just may have created the first sentient Artificial Intelligence. Social texture and a tough, cyberpunk attitude make this an exceptionally intense read.
Fiction_2000
   Title: Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative
   Year: 1992
   Category: Other   
   Author: George Edgar Slusser   Tom Shippey   Thomas Shippey   
   Publisher: University of Georgia Press   
   Plot:
Will novels and stories be relevant in the next millennium, when the boundaries between illusion and reality, and observer and observed, may dissipate in a whirl of images, signals and data? This essay collection divines the prospects of fiction in the information age by examining cyberpunk literature. A movement less than a decade old, cyberpunk is driven by deep concerns about society, ethics, and new technology and has been defined as the literature of the first generation of science-fiction writers actually to live in a science-fiction world.
Fools
   Title: Fools
   Year: 1992
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Pat Cadigan   
   Publisher: Spectra   
   Plot:
When Marva, a Method actress, awakens in a hologram pool, carrying in her head the memory of a murder, she must think fast to find out whose life she is living and to elude the Escort Service assassins who are pursuing her.
Frame_137
   Title: Frame 137
   Year: 1992
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: James O'Barr   
   Publisher: Dark Horse   
   Plot:
The 4 page story opens with the young Jonny Z, sitting at the bar of Frame 137 - the underground tech saloon run by Rico, one of the few people Jonny likes and trusts. Jonny's dealer Big T is fashionably late, as always, and Jonny scans the crowd as he wishes cancer variants on T for making him wait. After Big T shows, Jonny swallows a pharmaceutical rainbow of caps and tabs, which cools his previously tweaking system as he waits for the arrival of his 'client', Leo, a Kiddy flesh dealer Jonny's being paid to kill. It's a standard revenge hit, commissioned after Leo moved in and Skinny D's little sister went missing. When Leo arrives, he has two twin A-Steroid Boys as bodyguards, the group takes a booth near the door and Jonny smiles, noting it's not gonna be Leo's night. Jonny's consciousness drowns in memories and amphetamines, as he approaches the booth contemplating his history and what it means to be an assassin. His ceramic Vach 9mm loaded, and out of sight, Jonny confronts Leo and his A-Boys. Leo and Jonny stare each other down, threats are exchanged and tension mounts, a standoff, broken when the A-Boys stand, and Jonny blasts them back down. Jonny swings back around to Leo, catching him still seated he presses his gun to Leo's head. Sweating, Leo tries to talk his way out of the situation. Jonny smiles, and pulls the trigger. Jonny turns and heads for the door. Giving Rico a sign that he'll square up with him for the damage later, he disappears from the bar. The Iggy Pops track "Dog Food" starts playing over the jukebox as Jonny fades back into the night.
Intron_Depot
   Title: Intron Depot
   Year: 1992
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Masamune Shirow   
   Publisher: Seishinsha   
   Plot:
Japanese artist Masamune Shirow is well known to discriminating comics readers. American editions of his spectacular graphic epics have been highly praised and voraciously collected. Now, his gorgeous and highly detailed color art has been collected for the first time into a single, handsome trade paperback. Beautifully printed in Japan and featuring text in both Japanese and English, this package features nearly two hundred full-color Shirow works, 47 published for the first time anywhere in the world! This book is a nearly complete archive of Shirow's color work from 1981 to 1991, including material from Appleseed, Dominion, Black Magic, Orion, and much more. This is an absolute must for fans of Shirow, science-fiction and fantasy art, and manga.
Neji
   Title: Neji
   Year: 1992
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Kaori Yuki   
   Publisher: Hakusensha   
   Plot:
Neji and his fiancé were killed after getting caught up in an unfortunate kidnapping situation. After being cryogenically frozen by the GERA, the ESP research facility, for 40 years, Neji wakes up. It doesn’t take long for the GERA to discover Neji’s extremely powerful and unnatural powers and to make him into one of their mercenaries. However, Neji finds out his fiancé will be used as a guinea pig for the research facility's medical research and desperately tries to escape. In the second part, Neji encounters his nephew, who is also created from GERA and both begin on their journey through the future where human-like robots are used as slaves.
RoboCop_Vs_Terminator
   Title: RoboCop Vs The Terminator (#4)
   Year: 1992
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Frank Miller's RoboCop
   Author: Frank Miller   
   Publisher: Dark Horse   
   Plot: N/A
Snow_Crash
   Title: Snow Crash
   Year: 1992
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Neal Stephenson   
   Publisher: Bantam Books   
   Plot:
At the beginning of the novel, the main character, Hiro Protagonist, discovers the name of a new pseudo-narcotic, "Snow Crash", being offered at an exclusive Metaverse nightclub. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id falls victim to Snow Crash's effects, which are apparently unique in that they are experienced in the Metaverse and also in the physical world. Hiro uses his computer hacking, sharp cognitive skills, and sword-fighting to uncover the mystery of "Snow Crash"; his pursuit takes the reader on a tour of the Sumerian culture, a fully instantiated anarcho-capitalist society, and a virtual meta-society patronized by financial, social, and intellectual elites. As the nature of Snow Crash is uncovered, Hiro finds that self-replicating strings of information can affect objects in a uniform manner even though they may be broadcast via diverse media, a realization that reinforces his chosen path in life.
Steel_Beach
   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...
Storming_The_Reality_Studio
   Title: Storming The Reality Studio
   Year: 1992
   Category: Other   
   Author: Various   
   Publisher: Duke University Press   
   Plot:
This collection of fictions by well-known contemporary writers and critical commentary by postmodern theorists addresses issues concerning how cyberpunk functions within postmodern culture. This casebook became the criterion for promoting the interaction between the genre of science fiction and the literary avant-garde.
Terminator_Hunters_And_Killers
   Title: Terminator Hunters And Killers
   Year: 1992
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels
   Author: Toren Smith   Adam Warren   Chris Warner   Bill Jaaska   
   Publisher: Dark Horse Comics   
   Plot:
Collects Terminator: Hunters and Killers (1992) #1-3
The_Difference_Engine
   Title: The Difference Engine
   Year: 1992
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Gibson   Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Spectra   
   Plot:
1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the future: Sybil Gerard - dishonored woman and daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward "Leviathan" Mallory - explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant - diplomat and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for...
The_Hacker_Files
   Title: The Hacker Files
   Year: 1992
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Lewis Shiner   Thomas Sutton   Mark Buckingham   
   Publisher: DC Comics   
   Plot:
The Hacker Files is a twelve issue DC Comics mini-series published from August 1992 to July 1993. It was written by Lewis Shiner and illustrated by Tom Sutton.
The_Metabarons
   Title: The Metabarons
   Year: 1992
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky   Juan Giménez   
   Publisher: Humanoids   
   Plot:
A grand scale space opera about family, sacrifice, and survival told within an immense universe, both in scope and originality. A must-read cult spin-off of The Incal, by Moebius and Jodorowsky, centering around the fascinating lineage of the ultimate warrior. This collection introduces the Metabaron's bloodline and reveals the origins of their deep-seated principles. Find out the source of the family's vast wealth, learn why every Metabaron has cybernetic implants, and why the only way to become the next Metabaron is for him to defeat his own father in a mortal combat. Follow each successive generation as it struggles to overcome the forces amassed against it in a galaxy corrupted by greed, power, and terror. A true classic in the pantheon of graphic storytelling and Science Fiction as a whole.
The_Terminator_Secondary_Objectives
   Title: The Terminator: Secondary Objectives
   Year: 1992
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels
   Author: James Robinson   Paul Gulacy   Karl Kesel   
   Publisher: Dark Horse Comics   
   Plot:
Like the title says, John Connor is no longer the objective. Now, Sarah Connor is the target, and several 'Terminators' from the future show up to carry out this mission. Who will stop them?
The_Terminator_The_Enemy_Within
   Title: The Terminator: The Enemy Within
   Year: 1992
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels
   Author: Ian Edginton   Vincent Giarrano   
   Publisher: Dark Horse Comics   
   Plot:
This volume collects the sizzling four-issue miniseries written by Ian Edginton, illustrated by Vince Giarrano and colored by Steve Buccellato. Dudley, the half-human/half-Terminator, must fight impulses from his computer half that pressure him to eliminate the humans Mary Randall and Astin. With another Terminator still on their trail, the three must quickly decide whom to trust, and how to fight Terminators on both ends of the timeline!
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