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.

Lin 'The Silent One' Vu is a gangster and sometime private investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider. Through grit and courage Lin has carved a place for herself in the Vietnamese underworld where Hanoi’s crime boss, Bao Nguyen, is training her to fight and lead. Bao drives her hard; on the streets there are no second chances. Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory – a dangerously addictive immersive simulation of the US-Vietnam war.

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.

Ex-Blade Runner Ash is on the run once again as Replicant cult leader Yotun orders his army of fanatical super-human followers to kill her.

Ash is on the run once again as Replicant cult leader Yotun orders his army of fanatical super-human followers to kill her.

It is 2029. Renegade Replicant leader Yuton’s call to arms to all Replicants has seen the city of LA ravaged by urban warfare and terrorist attacks, culminating in the destruction of the iconic headquarters of the LAPD Police Department. Now Ash and her lover, Fresya (leader of the Replicant Underground) are on the run, hounded by Blade Runners and Yuton’s followers. And with time running out for both sides, Ash finds herself on a collision course with Yotun.

LAPD detective CAL MOREAUX has teamed up with an escaped experimental REPLICANT, who has been uploaded with the memories of a dead Tyrell Corporation scientist, whose suicide he was sent to investigate. Now they must run and fight a conspiracy hatched in the very heart of the Tyrell Corporation.

Tyrell executive Ilora Stahl, head of a secret programme to transfer human consciousness into Replicant hosts has launched an all-out attack on Sector 6-b determined to flush out and kill a renegade Replicant called Nia, who was once part of her covert programme.

Kat beat the bad guys and scored a pile of credits deep enough for her to fill a kiddy pool and go swimming in it. What she didn’t expect was for the mastermind of her plight to survive, as well as do her a she removed her from the Arcology, and enrolled her in the GroCorp corporate college. She knows the Arcology, but this is a chance to earn enough credits to set her family up for life.

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.

In a near future society ruled by massive corporations that treat their citizens like just one more product or tool to further their goals, people live to work and work to live under the tight yoke of the corporatocracy. Not everyone fits that mold, though—some people prosper on the fringe; some people thrive, living as thorns in the paws of the corporate lions...

It hurts. Night City hurts. The suffering runs deep and the deeper one falls, the longer the self-prescribed dreams play. Fortune, hope, love--all made possible by DMS technology. But not everyone desires a happy ending. A braindance repairman discovers the answer to pain... comes in a blackout.

There's still more questions than answers surrounding Oriona's murder. Who pulled the trigger? A Militech mole, her cyberpunk friends, or could it be linked to a long-sought enemy of the Valentinos? Teresa still doesn't know who to trust, and intel isn't all she gained from Kyle...

Bound by blood and out for blood, Teresa's path of vengeance is paved with bodies, but will it end with her on the other side of the blade? In Night City, trust is just another word--and a deadly mistake.

Cyberpunk X EVA Special starring Battle B as a Cyberpunk Mercenary who fights various villains from Mecha-Wolves, Tec-Machines. CyberNinjas, The Cybernetic enhanced Bronze and Gold man. Hell even she fights CyberVamps. Action, Sex, Violence are her game and nothing can stop her in this collection of Cyberpunk X E.V.A, stories for a new generation Cyberpunkers who want to read something new and different.

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.

An AI inhabits a human body. Targeted marketing invades a man’s life... and mind. Programmers battle their own government in cyberspace. Every day, the line between man and machine blurs. Drones replace postal workers, AI-operated cars fill the streets, and our carefully curated digital lives become as critical as our actual ones. How do unchecked technological advances shape us? How do we shape them? Does humanity still have time to choose our own future or is it too late?

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.

No longer living in a simulation, January Day finds herself the subject of unwanted attention. She is the first of her a digital consciousness inside a human body. Haunted by memories of travelling through imagined realities, she struggles to come to terms with her new life. When a new governor of the city comes to power, his aim is to save a dying planet. He is ready to outlaw architects from creating imagined realities, including Elijah, for good. As January struggles to leave her demons behind, a new one raises its head, bringing with it more nightmares that she must endure if she is to find peace, and save countless realities from destruction.

A collection of engaging essays on some of the most significant figures in cyberpunk culture, this outstanding guide charts the rich and varied landscape of cyberpunk from the 1970s to present day.

Katherine ‘Kat’ Debs, a hereditary employee of one of the megacorporations that ruled the world, eked out a meager existence in a massive arcology of glittering glass and chrome. She dreamt of one day earning enough money to buy her freedom, and was more than willing to break a law here or there in the process. When she is offered an opportunity to enter the Tower of Somnus free of corporate control, she jumps at the chance. After all, the 'game' was more than just a status symbol, players retained the fantastic powers they earned in the game in the waking world as well.

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.

In a world where heartbeats are the currency, 18-year-old Juliet is trying to save a friend from a lifetime of heartbeat debt. When her father, head of the powerful heartbeat debt company, refuses to remove the debt, she seeks help from Romeo, an underground hacker.

Inertia revolves around the connection between government factions, big corporations, and the environmental destruction they create for their own profits. A young geophysicist, Ash, finds herself at the nexus of all this as she infiltrates servers in virtual reality to discover the hidden connections, but with the Enforcers on her tail, she can't do it alone.

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.

Time waits for one man... A bad job and Daryl’s life came apart. It should have been easy, steal the drugs and run, but an encounter with hidden technology unleashed latent abilities within him, and the fallout wrecked his brother's mind. Now Neo-London’s deadliest criminals are hunting him as he searches for answers, driven only by his guilt and addiction to a designer drug that brings virtual fantasies to life. There's no turning back. Time itself has become a weapon at the centre of a deep conspiracy. To save his brother, he must overcome his demons, and confront reality.

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.

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.

For Harlow, a young widower who’s turned his back on the tech life, gigging at a retirement home and his friend’s arcade are just means of supporting his meager life… as he waits for it to end. The world is f*d. Sure, there are bright spots. For instance, Neuroreality has become a necessary outlet for people’s frustrations and desires. But when Harlow’s neighborly concern makes him open the broken door of Rose’s apartment — where he finds her lying, unresponsive in her tricked-out dentistry chair — he has no idea what he’s just joined. Her guttural scream, as she returns from a hack-induced coma, marks the start of a partnership to hunt down the culprit, and drags Harlow back to his old life. Along their journey, Harlow and Rose stumble on two massive conspiracies: one by a mysterious being set to save humanity from itself, the other a megacorporation steering humanity for its own means. As they navigate these conflicting forces, it becomes increasingly apparent that both are deeply personal for Harlow.

Izobel Vice was the most feared assassin in all Tuaoni. Damned for knowing too much, now she has a target on her back. Her choice? To flee off-world and suffer a lifetime looking over her shoulder… or take on the hellish Strip and its brutal alien overlord, Skata, to win her freedom.

Eighteen-year-old Sil Sarrah is determined to die a legend. In the ten years she's been rescuing imperilled field agents for the Syntex Corporation—by commandeering their minds from afar and leading them to safety—Sil hasn't lost a single life. And she's not about to start now.

A drug that turns people into killers, a Techno-Viking going berserk, crazy scientists playing God, and an assassin bot tired of its job.

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.

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.

World leaders are on edge when reports start coming in of next generation androids having strange, apocalyptic visions of a lady in white.

Nothing is what it seems in this speculative thriller about a quantum computer scientist, virologist, podcaster, venture capitalist, and assassin coming together to untangle a twisted enigma that will change the course of future history. Everyone has something to hide, and every transgression is a portal to discovery.

Earth’s ecological collapse is avoided when most of the world population agrees to permanently upload into Replika, a simulated reality maintained by the AI. But the stability of this world is threatened when a group of neuroscientists hack their own brains to interact with Replika in unforeseen and dangerous ways.

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.

Jimmy the Weasel works the beat in Little London, a neon-soaked post-war city rife with crime and corruption. It also has its bad points. Datsik is a nine-hundred-pound Kamchatka bear that thinks he's Winnie the Pooh. Emil Lanksy is a Tulpa, the outsourced personality of a very dull young man. All Bravilor Bonamat wants is to LightJockey at Rancids and get through another shift without being dragged into criminal activity. Over the next few nights, shipping containers of human cargo will tie them all together and end up redefining reality itself.

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.

The embattled city of Spire is the last refuge of the human mining colonists on the planet known simply as IV. Clustered around a gigantic, mysterious black spire that points to the stormy skies above, the area around this city is the only place on this hellish planet that hasn’t been destroyed yet. Follow Thaig on a wild, amphetamine-fuelled journey through its streets and its underground. Explore the dark secrets that lay at the underbelly of Spire, as Thaig loses everything in his mad quest for the truth: what is the overbearing government hiding? Why are they pursuing him? What strange thing did he find down in the mines?

Fantasy. Sci-fi. The world was brought back from the brink of annihilation, but its still-new institutions are rattled once again as heroes and criminals clash in a neon-drenched cyberpunk metropolis.

Kat revealed the Stallesp the aliens never meant to abide by rules laid down by the Galactic Consensus, instead choosing to ask forgiveness rather than permission for interfering with Earth and its corporations. Now she is fighting a lonely war against the invasion as she tries to buy enough time for help to arrive.

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.

A young warrior discovers her true potential as a cybernetic samurai battling conspiracies and aliens in this original, action-packed cyberpunk series.

Underground hacker Eliza McKay is one of the best in the virtual space where people create personas that can interact as data. When rich or important people get stuck in the Swim--for reasons that are sleazy, illegal, or merely unlucky--it's McKay's job to extract them. And McKay's job just got a lot more dangerous. While on an assignment in Singapore, McKay is flagged by an investigative outfit led by Ellie Brighton. Brighton desperately needs her corporate superior extracted from the Swim. The brute-force hacking tactics of Brighton's tech Rose have already failed. The executive's personality remains trapped and fragmented; if left for much longer, he won't survive. But the job is turning out to be more dangerous than McKay initially thought: her house is broken into, her target is surprisingly reluctant to be extracted, and something is menacing her informational AI sprite, Spike. Something big.

Hackers attempt to assassinate a politician during a speech preaching the advantages of cybernetic prosthetics. Fortunately, Togusa is there to whisk her to safety, and the investigation leads Batou to a suspicious factory in the artificial islands in southern Japan. Meanwhile, Chief Aramaki hears of a disturbing discovery at the other end of the country: dozens of artificial bodies, illegally dumped near a village where an anti-cyberization sect conducts their training and “rites.” Among the empty shells is one formerly inhabited by the woman who embodied Section 9 until she left it behind and disappeared: Major Motoko Kusanagi...

The promised cyberpunk future hasn’t come to pass, with implants stagnating at glorified contacts and hearing aids. Until now. Following a police officer with a death wish, a soldier atoning for his birth, and a savant who wants to see the next sunrise, The Last 0-Day is an action-packed adventure about the start of the cybernetics revolution. It’s cyberpunk meets Malazan Book of the Fallen with a dash of cli-fi.

Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts—as a means of self-conception—could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life and sentience was dictated by those who’d convinced themselves they had the right to decide your fate.

Compromised and facing impossible odds, Frankie must take on a deadly mission for the sake of the world.

Adan just wants to stay at home with his smart-companion Elegy - phone, friend, confidante, sex toy. But when his mother flees to Europe and joins a cult, leaving him penniless, he has to enlist in the army. Sentient robots are invading America, but it seems Adan has a surprising ability to survive their attacks. He has a purpose, even if he doesn't know what it is. And in the far future, war between a hivemind of Ais and the remnants of humanity is coming to its inevitable end. But one woman has developed a weapon which might change the course of the war. It's just a pity she's trapped in an inescapable prison on a hivemind ship.

Detective Ada Byron is pumped to be assigned her first murder case–until she sees the crime scene. Someone has been killed exactly the same way as her father was seven years earlier. But, impossibly, he died using VR and the programmer responsible is still in prison. To see if this is a copycat or something more sinister, Ada must confront her father’s killer: the enigmatic Jazlin Switch. What she discovers will change the face of both the real world and the metaverse forever...

In the dark tomorrow of 2049, two worlds wrapped in one have tolerated and collided with one another for generations. The Unified Taskforce becoming one to represent the first world, the world you and I live in day to day, and then there is the second. A underworld society that reigns in the shadows. Thriving in war and chaos... But there are two sides to every war. Only a fool would believe conflict is ever so simple.

Liverloin is a fractured man, a collection of personas—artificial constructs of wants, fears and needs—created by underground science-artists to help him hide in a hyper-connected world. But he can’t hide from Big Momma. She is the living internet, a benevolent AI who knows everything and everyone... and somehow is in love with Liverloin.

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.

A remote outpost in the savage wastes goes dark. When the ruling corporations of Earth’s last free city cover up the incident, Dawn Moriti is hired to discover the fate of a lost researcher. Her client is her sister, a genetically engineered soldier who threatened to kill her if they ever ran into each other again. The missing researcher? Their kid brother Pascal. Together, they will have to set aside their differences and navigate the tangled web of a corrupt corporation with a private military.