Islands in the Net
By: Bruce Sterling
3.86
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In the high-tech twenty-first century, a family of "corporate associates" descends into an underwor…
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1. Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
By: William Gibson
4.02
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
William Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteni… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- cyberpunk
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
"<> es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
"Trabajar con las dos manos" es una expresión que usamos, más o menos quiere decir que trabajan en los dos extremos. Blanco y negro, ¿me entiendes?"-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
"In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride."-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."-William Gibson, Count Zero (Sprawl, #2)
2. Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
By: William Gibson
4.01
Format: 312 pages, Mass Market Paperback
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his m… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- cyberpunk
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- science fiction
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"He'd grown up in white Jersey stringtowns where nobody knew shit about anything and hated anybody who did."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"está cambiando las cosas. Redistribuye el poder a su conveniencia. Información. Poder. Datos duros y puros. Pon la cantidad suficiente en manos de un solo hombre y..."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"in the blue-white flicker of freeway lights Mona had seen her own hand beside Angie's, and they weren't the same, not the same, not really the same shape, and that had made her glad."-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
"No,' [Angie] said, 'not like mine. Do you know anything about Africa religions, Porphyre?' He smirked, 'I'm not African.' 'But when you were a child...' 'When I was a child,' Porphyre said, 'I was wh…"-William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3)
3. The Shockwave Rider
By: John Brunner
3.77
Format: 52 pages, Paperback
One man has made it his mission to liberate the mental prisoners. to restore their freedom in a wor… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- cyberpunk
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- science fiction
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4. Islands in the Net
By: Bruce Sterling
3.86
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In the high-tech twenty-first century, a family of "corporate associates" descends into an underwor… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- cyberpunk
- fiction
- 20th century
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
5. Chasm City
By: Alastair Reynolds
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has bee… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
6. Dr. Adder
By: K.W. Jeter
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Set in a future where the United States has largely broken down into reluctantly cooperating enclav… read more
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- cyberpunk
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
7. Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)
By: Walter Jon Williams
3.06
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
Hardwired features high-tech thrills and unforgettable heroes in the great tradition of William Gib… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- cyberpunk
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
8. Ghost in the Shell (Ghost in the Shell, #1)
By: Masamune Shirow
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the rapidly converging landscape of the 21st century Major Kusanagi is charged to track down the… read more
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- cyberpunk
- fiction
- science fiction
9. Little Brother
By: Cory Doctorow
3.57
Format: None pages,
Marcus aka "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system w… read more
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- cyberpunk
- fiction
- science fiction
10. Spin (Spin, #1)
By: Robert Charles Wilson
3.66
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
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11. The Exile Kiss
By: George Alec Effinger
3.15
Format: None pages,
Marid Audran has risen from hustling on the streets of the decadent Budayeen ghetto to being the ri… read more
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- cyberpunk
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
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12. A Fire in the Sun
By: George Alec Effinger
3.15
Format: None pages,
Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Buday… read more
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- cyberpunk
- speculative fiction
- fiction
- science fiction
13. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
By: Tom Robbins
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Starring Sissy Hankshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a… read more
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- novels
- fiction
14. Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
By: William Gibson
4.06
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, s… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- cyberpunk
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
15. Idoru (Bridge #2)
By: William Gibson
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Now in trade paperback from the author of Neuromancer comes a story that takes readers to 21st cent… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- cyberpunk
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
16. Virtual Light (Bridge, #1)
By: William Gibson
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
Berry Rydell, an ex-cop, signs on with IntenSecure Armed Response in Los Angeles. He finds himself … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- cyberpunk
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
17. True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier
By: Vernor Vinge , Marvin Minsky , Mark Pesce , Richard M. Stallman , James Frenkel , Timothy C. May
3.65
Format: None pages,
This remarkable anthology reprints Hugo winner Vinge's "True Names" (1981), the story that began SF… read more
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- cyberpunk
- fiction
- science fiction
18. Zero History (Blue Ant, #3)
By: William Gibson
4.30
Format: 237 pages,
Hollis Henry never intended to work for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend again. But now she… read more
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19. Blood Music
By: Greg Bear
3.84
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the au… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- cyberpunk
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
"It is the bullet you don’t hear that gets you."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh. And now, it is forever."-Greg Bear, Blood Music
"He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?"-Greg Bear, Blood Music
20. Downward to the Earth
By: Robert Silverberg
3.90
Format: 176 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Who knoweth the spirit of men that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to… read more
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- fiction
- 20th century
- science fiction
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- speculative fiction
21. Another Roadside Attraction
By: Tom Robbins
3.80
Format: 8 pages,
Amanda, bella e giovane chiaroveggente dagli insoliti costumi morali (e materiali) e circondata da … read more
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22. Software (Ware, #1)
By: Rudy Rucker
3.68
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Cobb Anderson created the "boppers," sentient robots that overthrew their human overlords. But now … read more
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23. The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick 5: The Eye of The Sibyl
By: Thomas M. Disch , Philip K. Dick
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Philip K. Dick's works has continued to grow, and his… read more
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24. United States of Japan
By: Peter Tieryas
3.71
Format: 435 pages, ebook
Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody… read more
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25. Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
By: Neal Stephenson
3.93
Format: 927 pages, Paperback
Quicksilver is the story of Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, pursuing kn… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
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"he's surprised your tits come wi' a head attached"-Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
"Your diligence is setting an example for all of us—stop it!"-Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
"Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you."-Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
"Ten years ago I might have been offended," Daniel said. "Now, there's nothing I'll not believe."-Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
26. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
By: Philip K. Dick
3.65
Format: 192 pages, ebook
He awoke--and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Gre… read more
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27. Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
By: William Gibson , Bruce Sterling
4.06
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of B… read more
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- cyberpunk
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- speculative fiction
"It was hot, the night we burned Chrome."-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go."-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"It was one of those nights, I quickly decided, when you slip into an alternate continuum, a city that looks exactly like the one where you live, except for the peculiar difference that it contains no…"-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
"If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We c…"-William Gibson, Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0)
28. The Terraformers
By: Annalee Newitz
3.37
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more
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- speculative fiction
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- fiction
29. Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)
By: Christopher Ruocchio
4.62
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
The sixth novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fan… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"Your road will not be easy, nor your burden light." "That does not matter," I said. "It must be."-Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)
"I was nothing at all. The barest drop in a limitless ocean. One photon against the infinite Dark."-Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)
"You're a good man Albee. None of us is good lord. Edward said. It's for us to do good, despite ourselves."-Christopher Ruocchio, Disquiet Gods (Sun Eater, #6)
30. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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31. Agency (Jackpot #2)
By: William Gibson
3.81
Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition
In William Gibson's first novel since 2014's New York Times bestselling The Peripheral, a gifted "a… read more
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- cyberpunk
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- science fiction
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"I dislike calling them stubs,"-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)
"You’re too young to remember it,"-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)
"I like it. A Silicon Valley ghost story."-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)
"We’ve sourced something field-expedient,"-William Gibson, Agency (Jackpot #2)
