17 Top fiction books like True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier by Vernor Vinge, Marvin Minsky, Mark Pesce, Richard M. Stallman, James Frenkel, Timothy C. May

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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…

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1. 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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  • cyberpunk
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"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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2. 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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  • cyberpunk
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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3. Selected Stories

By: Theodore Sturgeon

3.37

Format: 320 pages,

Thirteen ingenious stories--at once breathtaking, wondrous, horrifying, and achingly human--from on… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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4. 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

Similar categories in Alastair Reynolds's Chasm City book and Vernor Vinge's True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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5. Absolution Gap

By: Alastair Reynolds

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Inhibitors were designed to eliminate any life-form reaching a certain level of intelligence - … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
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6. 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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  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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7. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

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8. 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

Similar categories in Cory Doctorow's Little Brother book and Vernor Vinge's True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

  • cyberpunk
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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9. 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
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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10. 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 Vernor Vinge's True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

  • cyberpunk
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • essays
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • technology
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11. Redemption Ark

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the In… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction

12. House of Suns

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a… read more

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13. 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

Similar categories in Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) book and Vernor Vinge's True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"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)

"If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules"

-Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)

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14. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.71

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroil… read more

Similar categories in Mur Lafferty's Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) book and Vernor Vinge's True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

  • science fiction
  • fiction
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15. 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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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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16. Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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17. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

By: Salman Khan

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more

Similar categories in Salman Khan's Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) book and Vernor Vinge's True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

  • technology
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18. Doom Guy: Life in First Person

By: John Romero

4.31

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring, long-awaited autobiography of video-game designer and DOOM cocreator John Romero Jo… read more

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  • technology
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19. Attack Surface (Little Brother, #3)

By: Cory Doctorow

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface is a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers… read more

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  • cyberpunk
  • technology
  • fiction
  • science fiction
"Masha, I know you think that the ‘struggle for justice’ is a corny fantasy, but you live in a world where people have weekends, don’t get maimed on the job, and have constitutional rights, at least s…"

-Cory Doctorow, Attack Surface (Little Brother, #3)

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20. A Half-Built Garden

By: Ruthanna Emrys

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the… read more

Similar categories in Ruthanna Emrys's A Half-Built Garden book and Vernor Vinge's True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier

  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"They're nothing but dangerous questions."

-Ruthanna Emrys, A Half-Built Garden

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21. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

By: Andy Greenberg

4.50

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more

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  • technology

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4.01

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3.77

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4.01

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3.99

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