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SynnersNovel
Pat Cadiganstandalone novel1991
About artificial intelligence, set in big city.
“In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim.”
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Sprawl TrilogySeries
series10 books1981
Tense in tone, about artificial intelligence, 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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Start with Neuromancer →
Ready Player OneSeries
series3 books2011
Dystopia, adventurous in tone, about quests, set in virtual world.
“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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Start with Ready Player One →
OtherlandSeries
series6 books1996
Tense in tone, about artificial intelligence, set in virtual world.
“Otherland is a science fiction tetralogy by American writer Tad Williams, published between 1996 and 2001.”
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Start with City of Golden Shadow →
The Light of Other DaysNovel
Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxterstandalone novel2000
Time travel, 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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Snow CrashNovel
Neal Stephensonstandalone novel1992
Adventurous in tone, about political intrigue and organized crime, set in big city.
“Like many of Stephenson's novels, its themes include history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics, and philosophy.”
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