Best Cyberpunk Books

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Snow Crash
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After the Internet, what came next?Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash, a cyberdrug. Trouble is Snow Crash is also a computer virus - and something more. Because once taken it infects the person...
Appears in 15 articles
Neuromancer
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Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cybe...
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The inspiration for the films Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
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It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!...
Appears in 12 articles
Altered Carbon
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Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a...
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Nancy PearlAccelerando
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The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.Struggling to sur...
Appears in 7 articles
The Ghost in the Shell
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Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cy...
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Winner of the ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD, and shortlisted for the NEBULA, SYNNERS is a classic of cyberpunk fiction.Synners are synthesizers - not machines, but people. They take images from the brains of performers, and turn them into a form which can be packaged, sold and consumed. This book is set in a world where new technology spawns new crime bef...
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In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that...
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The Stars My Destination
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In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hit men — and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive. The Stars My Destination is a classic of ...
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Alan CooperSchismatrix Plus
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Bruce Sterling has called his Shaper/Mechanist novel Schismatrix "my favorite among my books." It is a detailed history of a spacefaring humanity divided into two camps: The Shapers, who prefer genetic enhancements, and the Mechanists, who rely on prosthetics. Sterling also published five Shaper/Mechanist stories between 1982-84, which have been co...
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Trouble and Her Friends
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The Paragons of Queer Speculative Fiction series keeps alive books vital to gay imagination. India Carless, alias Trouble, managed to stay one step ahead of the feds until she retired from life as a hacker and settled down to run a small network for an artist's co-op. Now someone has stolen her pseudonym and begun to use it for criminal hacking. So...
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
Vurt by Jeff Noon
Count Zero by William Gibson
Mirrorshades by Bruce Sterling
Eclipse by John Shirley
Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams
Akira, Vol. 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo
Daemon by Daniel Suarez
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1 by Warren Ellis
Diaspora by Greg Egan
The Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker
Want by Cindy Pon
Distraction by Bruce Sterling
Infomocracy by Malka Older
The Glass Hammer by K. W. Jeter
Moxyland by Lauren Beukes
Company Town by Madeline Ashby
Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Psion by Joan D. Vinge
Screwtop / The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree Jr.
Otherland by Tad Williams
When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
The Fortunate Fall by Raphael Carter
Blood Music by Greg Bear
Night Sky Mine by Melissa Scott
Mindplayers by Pat Cadigan
The Electric Church by Jeff Somers
Crashcourse by Wilhelmina Baird