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PastworldNovel
Ian Beckstandalone novel2009
Mysterious in tone, set in british isles.
“What if all of London were really an amusement park—a whole city returned to Victorian times to entertain visitors from the twenty-first century?”
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Lock InSeries
series3 books2014
Police procedural, mysterious in tone.
“John Scalzi's series follows a rookie FBI agent investigating crimes that exploit this new class of disability and technology, across the novels Lock In and Head On plus the interstitial oral history Unlocked.”
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Start with Lock In →
Snow CrashNovel
Neal Stephensonstandalone novel1992
Cyberpunk, adventurous in tone, about political intrigue and organized crime.
“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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Sprawl TrilogySeries
series10 books1981
Cyberpunk, dark in tone, about artificial intelligence.
“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 →
Hummingbird SalamanderNovel
Jeff VanderMeerstandalone novel2021
Dystopia, about ecological collapse.
Rainbows EndNovel
Vernor Vingestandalone novel2006
Thriller & suspense and hard science fiction, about surveillance.
“A science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025.”
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