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series10 books1981

Cyberpunk, tense and dark in tone, set in big city.

“Johnny Mnemonic, an early short story set in the same fictional milieu, predates the novels and introduces the courier Molly Millions before her role in the trilogy.”
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OtherlandSeries

series6 books1996

Cyberpunk, tense in tone.

“Otherland is a science fiction tetralogy by American writer Tad Williams, published between 1996 and 2001.”
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Ready Player OneSeries

series3 books2011

Cyberpunk and dystopia, adventurous in tone, about quests.

“The 2020 sequel, Ready Player Two, picks up after Wade has gained control of the OASIS and follows him and his friends into a new quest built around a brain-computer interface the creator left behind.”
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Halting StateSeries

series2 books2007

Cyberpunk, tense in tone, about surveillance.

“The plot centres on a bank robbery in a virtual world.”
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The Light of Other DaysNovel

Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxterstandalone novel2000

Challenging and tense in tone, about surveillance and technological singularity.

“An industrialist devises a technique to use tiny wormholes as light pipes to enable viewing of any event anywhere; and subsequently it becomes possible to use them to view any event in the past as well.”
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Subjective CosmologySeries

series3 books1992

Hard science fiction, challenging in tone.

“Within a detective fiction framework, the novel explores the consequences of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, which Egan acknowledges was chosen more for its entertainment value than for its likelihood of being correct.”
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