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Neuromancer

Neuromancer more books like this

by William Gibson

William Gibson's groundbreaking debut became an instant classic, sweeping for the first time all of science fiction's major awards (the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Philip K. Dick), coining the term "cyberspace," and effectively launching the cyberpunk subgenre in the mid-'80s. Having grown out of a subculture disillusioned with technology's ...

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Cryptonomicon

Cryptonomicon more books like this

by Neal Stephenson

Weaving between two separate time lines, this novel depicts the adventures of a codebreaker, a Japanese lieutenant, and a U.S. Marine in World War II with the modern-day tale of their grandchildren, who are jointly investigating a mysterious computer program in Southeast Asia.

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Snow Crash

Snow Crash more books like this

by Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson staked out a piece of William Gibson's cyberterritory in this 90s slacker-hacker novel. In a Balkanized America run entirely by corporations, a computer hacker moonlighting as a pizza delivery guy and a tough young female courier take on a glass-knife-wielding Aleut who possesses a nuclear bomb and a mogul planning to use ancient ...

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Children of the Mind

Children of the Mind more books like this

by Orson Scott Card

In this, the fourth Ender Wiggins novel, Ender and Jane, an artificial intelligence who has grown alongside Ender for thousands of years, try to save the three sentient races of Lusitania from being destroyed by using a method of space travel that abolishes the limitations of light-speed.

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Spook Country

Spook Country more books like this

by William Gibson

The latest "New York Times" bestseller by the author of "Pattern Recognition" offers the story of an investigative journalist who is assigned the task of finding a spook--an intelligence agent who refuses to sleep in the same place twice.

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Watchers

Watchers more books like this

by Dean R Koontz

A top-secret government laboratory creates two unnatural entities. One is a terrifying monster; the other, a highly intelligent dog, is the only one who can stop it. Now both are on the loose.

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Count Zero

Count Zero more books like this

by William Gibson

In this sequel to "Neuromancer," AI's are on the prowl through cyberspace, inserting themselves into the affairs of others.

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Prey

Prey more books like this

by Michael Crichton

In the middle of the Nevada desert, scientists work on the development of nanotechnologies to help all of mankind. But when an accident unleashes the microscopic machines into the outside world, humans find themselves facing an enemy that is not only smaller than any previously seen, but smarter....

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The naked god

The naked god more books like this

by Peter F Hamilton

This is the third volume in Hamilton's massive space opera--following THE REALITY DYSFUNCTION and THE NEUTRONIUM ALCHEMIST, both of which really MUST be read prior to attempting this one. It examines the alien cultures that may--or may not!--control the "present-time" universe of 2600 in which the descendents of humanity have split into ...

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Diamond age : or, A young lady's illustrated primer

Diamond age : or, A young lady's illustrated primer more books like this

by Neal Stephenson

Neo-Victorian and genius nanotechnologist John Percival Hackworth has created an interactive educational device, the Primer, for the granddaughter of one of the rich and powerful. He also has created an illicit copy of the device for his own daughter, but that copy is stolen from him and given to Nell, a child with no prospects for education or ...

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Foundation more books like this

by Isaac Asimov

The first volume of the "Foundation" series is essentially a reworking of the fall of the Roman Empire written as a vast, all-encompassing science fiction opera. It is such a well-conceived and elaborate a social and political autopsy that, even after Asimov's death in 1992, books set inside the Foundation universe continue to be written.

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3001 the Final Odyssey more books like this

by Arthur Charles Clarke

In the book "2001" astronaut Frank Poole was cryogenically frozen after Hal the computer killed him. In "3001" he's resurrected in a society far more advanced than the one he departed--one in which humankind is in serious danger.

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Forever War more books like this

by Joe Haldeman

Soldiers fight throughout centuries and millennia by making time traveling "collapsar jumps." As a result, they never come to know a society or to build a home. Their alienation was envisioned as analogous to that of the soldiers who fought in Vietnam. Winner of the 1975 Nebula and 1976 Hugo awards.

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Red Mars more books like this

by Kim Stanley Robinson

The first book in Robinson's much-lauded Mars series introduces the first 100 settlers on Mars. The debate commences among the scientists: original unique splendor of the red planet or Earth-like clone? Winner of the 1993 Nebula Award for Best Novel.

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Forward the Foundation more books like this

by Isaac Asimov

Seldon, the inventor of a science known as pyschohistory, predicts the collapse of the Empire.

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The Reality Dysfunction more books like this

by Peter F Hamilton

A window to the past is opened when a space scavenger discovers data belonging to an alien race. Light years away, the seeds of chaos are sown on a planet in the process of colonization. And as intergalactic governments argue, a subtle change takes place that will affect the future survival of all living things

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Halting State more books like this

by Charles Stross

In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. The investigation seems pointless, but she soon realizes that the virtual world may have a devastating effect in the real one--and that someone is about to launch an attack upon both.

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The neutronium alchemist more books like this

by Peter F. Hamilton

The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers, but now follow a far from divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world. On planets and asteroids, individuals battle for survival against the strange and brutal forces ...

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On Basilisk Station more books like this

by David Weber

The first in a series featuring Commander Honor Harrington.

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Altered Carbon more books like this

by Richard Morgan

This debut SF novel by British writer Richard Morgan won the 2004 Philip K. Dick Award and was a New York Times Notable Book for 2003. In a dark future, humans have the technology to transfer their consciousness into new bodies, provided that they can afford the procedure. When he dies on the job, UN investigator Takeshi Kovacs gets a new body on ...

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Eternity more books like this

by Greg Bear

Here is the powerful sequel to Eon, now with a dramatic new cover, coinciding with the Tor mass market release of Bear's latest novel, Moving Mars. At the close of Eon, Patricia Vasquez settled on an alternate Earth, Garry Lanier retired, and the Jarts and Naderites were caught in the Corridor. Now the fate of the universe is up for grabs.

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Door Into Summer more books like this

by Robert A Heinlein

An inventor of timesaving household devices is frozen for 30 years after falling prey to an unscrupulous partner and girlfriend, who plan to profit from his latest invention, a specialized robot. When his wakes up in the year 2000, though, he realizes that his foes didn't count on one thing--time travel was perfected in the interim, allowing the ...

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Honor of the Queen more books like this

by David Weber

In the second Honor Harrington book, Commander Harrington winds up in the middle of a series of heated political discussions between represents from two religiously fundamentalist planets--both of which have serious problems with women in position of power.

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Flag in Exile more books like this

by David Weber

Captain Harrington may be all that stands between her adopted planet and its devastation.

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Inversions more books like this

by Iain M Banks

Dr. Vosill, personal physician to the king in Haspidus, has more enemies at court than she suspects. Across the mountains, DeWar, chief bodyguard to the Protector General of Tassasen, has enemies, but his methods of combat are more direct. The two strangers act as loyal servants to their nations, but their true agendas are as elusive as their ...

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