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    Ready Player OneSeries

    series · 3 books · 2011

    Cyberpunk and dystopia, 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.”

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    Cyberpunk, 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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    OtherlandSeries

    series · 6 books · 1996

    Cyberpunk, set in our 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 →

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    series · 4 books · 2013

    Cyberpunk.

    “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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    Halting StateSeries

    series · 2 books · 2007

    Cyberpunk, about surveillance.

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

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    Avatar ChroniclesSeries

    series · 3 books · 2004

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