19 must-read science fiction fantasy books like Hardwired (Hardwired, #1) by Walter Jon Williams

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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…

If you liked the science fiction fantasy plot in Hardwired (Hardwired, #1) by Walter Jon Williams , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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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

Similar categories in William Gibson's Count Zero (Sprawl, #2) book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • 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)

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2. Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

By: William Gibson

3.89

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction ma… read more

Similar categories in William Gibson's Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"Boy, I was daid."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Things aren't different. Things are things."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"Don't let the little fuckers generation gap you."

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

"If god made anything better, he kept it for himself"

-William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)

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3. 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

Similar categories in William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl, #3) book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"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)

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4. 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

Similar categories in John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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5. 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
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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6. Thirteen

By: Richard K. Morgan

3.86

Format: 568 pages,

The future isn't what it used to be since Richard K. Morgan arrived on the scene. He unleashed Take… read more

Similar categories in Richard K. Morgan's Thirteen book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • cyberpunk
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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7. The Fractal Prince (Jean le Flambeur, #2)

By: Hannu Rajaniemi

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

"The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to." A physici… read more

Similar categories in Hannu Rajaniemi's The Fractal Prince (Jean le Flambeur, #2) book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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8. 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

Similar categories in Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1) book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook

9. The Guns of Avalon (The Chronicles of Amber #2)

By: Roger Zelazny

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Across the worlds of Shadow, Corwin, prince of blood royal, heir to the throne of Amber, gathers hi… read more

Similar categories in Roger Zelazny's The Guns of Avalon (The Chronicles of Amber #2) book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • science fiction
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in George Alec Effinger's The Exile Kiss book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • cyberpunk
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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11. Market Forces

By: Richard K. Morgan

3.83

Format: None pages,

A coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. For the men and women of Shorn Associates, opportunity is ca… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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12. All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge, #3)

By: William Gibson

4.06

Format: None pages,

Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel Idoru) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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13. 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
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
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14. 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
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
Cover of True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier by Vernor Vinge, Marvin Minsky, Mark Pesce, Richard M. Stallman, James Frenkel, Timothy C. May

15. 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

Similar categories in Vernor Vinge's True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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16. 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
  • 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

17. Schismatrix Plus

By: Bruce Sterling

3.67

Format: None pages,

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18. Accelerando

By: Charles Stross

3.72

Format: 640 pages,

The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits… read more

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19. 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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20. Heroes Die (The Acts of Caine, #1)

By: Matthew Woodring Stover

3.44

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

Renowned throughout the land of Ankhana as the Blade of Tyshalle, Caine has killed his share of mon… read more

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21. When Gravity Fails

By: George Alec Effinger

4.60

Format: None pages,

In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the … read more

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22. Synners

By: Pat Cadigan , Neil Gaiman

3.91

Format: 434 pages, Paperback

In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. A constant stream of new t… read more

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23. Protector (Known Space)

By: Larry Niven

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Phssthpok the Pak had been traveling for most of his thirty-two thousand years. His mission: save, … read more

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24. 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

Similar categories in William Gibson's Burning Chrome (Sprawl, #0) book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • 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)

Cover of Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) by Richard K. Morgan

25. Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

By: Richard K. Morgan

4.04

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited f… read more

Similar categories in Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1) book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
"You smoke?"

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

"Catholics get on well with tyranny. It's in the culture."

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

"Kültür, kirli hava gibidir. Farkında olmasanız dahi etkilenirsiniz."

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

"What we thought of as personality was no more than the passing shape of one of the waves in front of me."

-Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)

Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

26. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • science fiction fantasy
  • fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

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27. Snow Crash

By: Neal Stephenson

4.02

Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Meta… read more

Similar categories in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
"They made data a controlled substance."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"To condense fact from the vapor of nuance."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

"Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot."

-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

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28. Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence

By: Rafał Kosik

3.53

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This electrifying novel set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077 follows a group of strangers as they dis… read more

Similar categories in Rafał Kosik's Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Day of Ascension

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

3.92

Format: None pages, None

A Genestealer Cults Novel The people of forge world Morod have found a new hope against despair … read more

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  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 36 Streets by T.R. Napper

30. 36 Streets

By: T.R. Napper

3.95

Format: 453 pages, Paperback

Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this Ditmar and Aurealis award-winning, … read more

Similar categories in T.R. Napper's 36 Streets book and Walter Jon Williams's Hardwired (Hardwired, #1)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • audiobook
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31. Thin Air

By: Richard K. Morgan

4.04

Format: 530 pages, Hardcover

Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and bruta… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • cyberpunk
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • audiobook

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William Gibson

3.89

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C.L. Moore

3.72

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3.97

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