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  • Cover of Oath of Fealty
    Oath of FealtyNovel

    Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle · standalone novel · 1981

    Set in north america.

    “Set in the near future, it involves an arcology, a large inhabited structure, called Todos Santos, which rises above a crime-ridden Los Angeles, California, but has little beyond casual contact with the city.”

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  • Cover of Ready Player One
    Ready Player OneSeries

    series · 3 books · 2011

    Adventurous in tone, about virtual reality and 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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  • Cover of The Shockwave Rider
    The Shockwave RiderNovel

    John Brunner · standalone novel · 1975

    Cyberpunk, dark in tone, about totalitarianism, set in north america.

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  • Cover of The Thousandth Floor
    The Thousandth FloorSeries

    series · 3 books · 2016

    Set in north america.

    “Katharine McGee's trilogy imagines Manhattan in 2118 as a single thousand-story tower housing every stratum of society, following five teenagers whose ambitions collide as they climb toward, or fall from, its highest floors.”

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  • Cover of Sprawl Trilogy
    Sprawl TrilogySeries

    series · 10 books · 1981

    Cyberpunk, dark in tone, about artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

    “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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  • Cover of Moxyland
    MoxylandNovel

    Lauren Beukes · standalone novel · 2008

    Cyberpunk, dark in tone, about totalitarianism, set in africa.

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