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  • Cover of Halting State
    Halting StateSeries

    series · 2 books · 2007

    Tense in tone, about artificial intelligence and surveillance.

    “The plot centres on a bank robbery in a virtual world.”

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  • Cover of Greg Mandel
    Greg MandelSeries

    series · 5 books · 1993

    Tense and mysterious in tone, about psychic powers, set in british isles.

    “Greg Mandel is a former special-forces soldier with a psychic 'gland' implant for reading emotions, working as a private investigator in a near-future Britain recovering from an authoritarian climate-crisis government.”

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  • Cover of Hardwired
    HardwiredSeries

    series · 3 books · 1986

    Tense in tone.

    “Voice of the Whirlwind, published three years later, is a loosely connected follow-up set in the same future, sharing its technological and political backdrop with a different cast of characters.”

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  • Cover of The Jackpot Trilogy
    The Jackpot TrilogySeries

    series · 2 books · 2014

    Mysterious and tense in tone, set in north america.

    “Gibson's 2020 book Agency is set in the same world.”

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  • Cover of Dream Park Universe
    Dream Park UniverseSeries

    series · 6 books · 1981

    Science fiction, set in near future.

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  • Cover of Vurt
    VurtSeries

    series · 4 books · 1993

    Set in british isles.

    “In Jeff Noon's alternate Manchester, an entire subculture has formed around Vurt: a hallucinogenic, colour-coded feather that plunges users into a shared alternate reality as vivid and dangerous as real life.”

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