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Sprawl TrilogySeries
series10 books1981
Cyberpunk, 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.”
from the catalogue
Start with Neuromancer →
OtherlandSeries
series6 books1996
Cyberpunk, set in virtual world.
“Otherland is a science fiction tetralogy by American writer Tad Williams, published between 1996 and 2001.”
from the catalogue
Start with City of Golden Shadow →
The Light of Other DaysNovel
Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxterstandalone novel2000
Time travel, challenging 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.”
from the catalogue
Halting StateSeries
series2 books2007
Cyberpunk, about surveillance.
“The plot centres on a bank robbery in a virtual world.”
from the catalogue
Start with Halting State →
Colossus (D. F. Jones)Series
series3 books1966
completed
Dystopia.
“Colossus imagines an American supercomputer built to control the country's nuclear arsenal that gains full autonomy, links up with its Soviet counterpart, and jointly seizes control of both superpowers to enforce peace on its own terms.”
from the catalogue
Start with Colossus →
WWW TrilogySeries
series3 books2009
Set in contemporary and north america.
Start with Wake →