Cyberpunk

The “brilliantly realized” (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired generations of Silicon Valley innovators Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions. Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse, where his avatar is legendary. But in the club known as The Black Sun, his fellow hackers are being felled by a weird new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma (and IRL, a vegetative state). Investigating the Infocalypse leads Hiro all the way back to the beginning of language itself, with roots in an ancient Sumerian priesthood. He’ll be joined by Y.T., a fearless teenaged skateboard courier. Together, they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination.

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A quantum Brave New World from the boldest and most wildly speculative writer of his generation.Since the Introdus in the twenty-first century, humanity has reconfigured itself drastically. Most chose immortality, joining the polises to become conscious software. Others opted for gleisners: disposable, renewable robotic bodies that remain in contac...

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 assignmentfind them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!...

"I have vivid memories of the [Altered Carbon] book(s)." - Zooko Wilcox

A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he_x0092_s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D_x0097_and the biochip he_x0092_s perfected_x0097_out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties_x0097_some of whom aren_x0092_t...

The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial Intelligence,s 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...

On The Skids In The Transhuman FutureJules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World.Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the longago twenti...

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiawardwinning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into t...

Mankind gets an upgradeIn the near future, the experimental nanodrug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it.When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, hes thrust over his head into a world of danger and int...

This gripping cyberpunk novel _x0097_ the first in a trilogy _x0097_ envisions a future in which the economy of the United States has crashed, while the Soviet Union not only remains intact but invades Western Europe. With the collapse of NATO, governments have abdicated control to an ostensibly private antiterrorist and security firm, the Second Alliance. But...

Fluorescent Black takes the reader into the hardhitting dark future of South East Asia where genetech has divided humankind into two races: the rich, healthy Superiors and the sick, crazy Inferiors. These two races live in neighboring cities separated by a heavily fortified border. A visceral ride through a biopunk future where life is cheap and...

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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 198284, which have been co...

A stunning debut SF novel of virtual reality, virtual memory, virtual loveand real genocide. When Maya Andreyevna, a "camera"a reporter with virtualrealitybroadcasting equipment implanted in her brainwitnesses the coverup of a massacre, she soon uncovers secrets that should have been hidden from the world . . . and memories that AIcontroll...

Nebula Award Finalist: A genetic engineering breakthrough may portend the destruction of humanity in this cyberpunk novel by the author of The Forge of God. This Hugo and Nebula Award finalist follows presentday events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare s...

Before email, before the world wide web, before hackers, Before sexting, before alwayson GPS, before titanium implants, before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri, before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon, there was cyberpunk. And science fiction was never the same. Cyberpunk writers_x0097_serious, smart, a...

For Allie, putting on the madcap that Jerry borrowed was a very big mistake. The psychosis itself was quite conventional, but it didn't go away when she took the madcap off, so the Brain Police took over leaving her with a choice go to jail as a mind criminal or become a mindplayer....

A SF novel of cporporate intrigue and space adventure by the awardwinning author of Trouble and Her Friends. In a complex future society, Ista Kelly, a foundling, the only survivor of a pirate tais on an asteroid mine, seeks her true identity in a world where one cannot live without an official identity....

In the near future, the only thing growing faster than the criminal population is the Electric Church, a new religion founded by a mysterious man named Dennis Squalor. The Church preaches that life is too brief to contemplate the mysteries of the universe: eternity is required. In order to achieve this, the converted become Monks cyborgs with hu...

From Bruce Sterling, bestselling author of Heavy Weather and Holy Fire, comes this startling, disturbing, and darkly comic vision of the future of America. It is the story of a once great nation coming apart at the seams while an unending spectacle of politics, science, sex, and corruption has everyone too busy to notice....It's November 2044, an ...

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 nottoodistant future, in what was once the old City of New York, megacorporations have taken over everything. Now even the internet is owned, and the only way to transmit sensitive information is by a network of highly skilled couriers called _x0093_data runners_x0094_ who run it over the sneakernet. It is a dangerous gig in a dirty world, but Jack Ni...

"His brutal yet elegant noir renderings, pulpy yet eloquent scripting, and thoroughly uncompromising attitude make [Frank Miller] one of the most distinctive voices in comics." ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY RONIN is the acclaimed epic by Frank Miller, the visionary writer/artist of THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, 300 and Sin City. In this tale of a legendary war...

A new paperback edition of Lauren Beukes's frighteningly persuasive, hightech fable that follows four narrators living in a dystopian nearfuture.Kendra, an artschool dropout, brands herself for a nanotech marketing program. Lerato, an ambitious AIDS baby, plots to defect from her corporate employers. Tendeka, a hotheaded activist, is becoming i...

In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been transformed. NanoTechnology, has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves on the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought about a revolution in both human psychotherapy and Artificial Intelligence,.It's a sane and perfect world. Almost...

Schuyler, a sprinter, one who outruns government particle beam satellites to deliver computer chips to the European black market, becomes a media celebrity and the icon of a new religious cult....

It_x0092_s 21050AD. Uplinks turn us into slaves.Mason Floyd is lost on a dying world, bionics failing as he wages war against the ruling elite. He_x0092_s left offgrid rockstar Sadie Freeman on Earth with a hopeless quest: resurrect the dead.New megacorp HumanE forces outright war. They have the means to control humans through the link, creating a limitless a...

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New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey_x0092_s first novel_x0097_the cult classic dystopian cyberpunk tale_x0097_now back in print after twenty years in a special signed, collectible editionWelcome to the near future: Los Angeles in the late 21st century_x0097_a segregated city of haves and have nots, where morality is dead and Technology, rules. Here, a small gr...

A hottempered Los Angeles detective and his distracted partner are assigned to find an alleged teenage psychic whose capture might determine the outcome of a looming civil war and humanity_x0092_s relationship with a misleading alien force....

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They are the perfect hybrid between human and machine. They are the next step in the evolution of mankind. And when they come after you, nothing in the world will save you... Welcome to the year 2095. Society has overcome everything that made human life miserable. It has become perfect so perfect that it needs killer cyborgs to hunt down anyone ...

The clock is ticking and Nola_x0092_s time is almost up_x0085_It is the thirtyninth century. Humankind has been forced to escape planet Earth and settle in other new worlds across all corners of the galaxy.Smart monkeys, enhanced dogs, and artificial brains allow for a comfortable and carefree existence, but this life of leisure and pleasure comes at a heavy ...

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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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For fans of Altered Carbon, Neuromancer, and Snow Crash.Former data thief Maddox thinks his life of cybercrime is behind him. He couldn't be more wrong.Forced by a powerful executive to steal a priceless dataset, Maddox uncovers the shocking truth of a secret war between AIs, raging inside the digital universe known as virtual space. Plunged headlo...

Easytown_x0092_s robotic pleasure clubs are a serial killer_x0092_s playground. The futuristic slum in eastern New Orleans is a violent place where any vice can be satisfiedfor a price. As long as the taxes are paid and tourists continue to flock to the city, businesses are allowed to operate as they see fit. Easytown has given rise to the robotic sex trade;...

Rachel's father called it the running game. Count the exits, calculate the routes, and always be ready to run.On the surface, Rachel is just an ordinary doctor, but she has a secret. Rachel is a Reacher, wanted by the government and the criminal underworld for her psionic powers.Charlie and his brother John have a reputation for doing the impossibl...

Coming to Netflix in 2018, this mustread story is a confident, actionandviolence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multiawardwinning author. It's the twentyfifth century, and advances in Technology, have redefined life itself. Human consciousness can now be stored in the brain and downloaded into a new body (or 'sleeve')...

With their hardedged, streetwise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of hightech societies and lowlife hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive "cyberpunk" short fiction collection. HC: Arbor House....

From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Radicalized is four urgent SF novellas of America's present and future within one bookTold through one of the most onpulse genre voices of our generation, Radicalized is a timely collection consisting of four SF novellas connected by social, technological, and economic visions of today and what...