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series2 books2007

Cyberpunk, about artificial intelligence.

“The plot centres on a bank robbery in a virtual world.”
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Bruce Sterlingstandalone novel1988

Cyberpunk, about class conflict, set in africa.

“The protagonist, swept up in events beyond her control, finds herself in places that are off the net, from a datahaven in Grenada, to a Singapore under terrorist attack, to the poorest and most disaster-struck parts of Africa.”
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Uglies UniverseSeries

series9 books2005

Dystopia.

“Tally Youngblood, the original tetralogy's protagonist, initially awaits her own operation before learning it also surgically dulls independent thought, driving her toward the hidden resistance community called the Smoke.”
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The Light of Other DaysNovel

Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxterstandalone novel2000

Time travel, challenging in tone, about 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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Library of America P. K. Dick CollectionSeries

series9 books1962

completed

Science fiction, set in near future.

“Technically banned, a novel called The Grasshopper Lies Heavy imagines a world where the Allies won instead — and its reclusive author, Hawthorne Abendsen, becomes an obsession for characters on every side.”
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Laurent MichaelmasSeries

series3 books1975

completed

About artificial intelligence.

“Budrys frames Michaelmas as a hidden protector keeping a fragile near-future world from chaos, blurring the line between reporting the news and making it.”
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Start with A Scraping at the Bones →

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