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Sprawl TrilogySeries
series10 books1981
Dark in tone, 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.”
from the catalogue
Start with Neuromancer →
Ready Player OneSeries
series3 books2011
Dystopia, adventurous in tone, about quests.
“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.”
from the catalogue
Start with Ready Player One →
OtherlandSeries
series6 books1996
Set in our world.
“Otherland is a science fiction tetralogy by American writer Tad Williams, published between 1996 and 2001.”
from the catalogue
Start with City of Golden Shadow →
Avatar ChroniclesSeries
series3 books2004
Start with Epic →
Halting StateSeries
series2 books2007
About surveillance.
“The plot centres on a bank robbery in a virtual world.”
from the catalogue
Start with Halting State →
The Mortality DoctrineSeries
series4 books2013
“The Eye of Minds opens James Dashner's Mortality Doctrine trilogy in a near-future where a teenage gamer is recruited to help stop a rogue hacker named Kaine who threatens mass destruction from inside the virtual world he haunts.”
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Start with Gunner Skale →