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  • Cover of Blade Runner Universe
    Blade Runner UniverseSeries

    series · 6 books · 1968

    About robots and identity.

    “Together the two trace the story's path from prose original to screen and comic-page adaptation.”

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    Start with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? →

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  • Cover of Sprawl Trilogy
    Sprawl TrilogySeries

    series · 10 books · 1981

    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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    Start with Neuromancer →

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  • Cover of Budayeen
    BudayeenSeries

    series · 13 books · 1973

    completed

    Set in middle east.

    “Budayeen Nights, published after Effinger's death, gathers his shorter fiction set in the same neon-lit quarter.”

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    Start with The City on the Sand →

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  • Cover of Snow Crash
    Snow CrashNovel

    Neal Stephenson · standalone novel · 1992

    Adventurous in tone, about virtual reality.

    “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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  • Cover of Bug Jack Barron
    Bug Jack BarronNovel

    Norman Spinrad · standalone novel · 1969

    About surveillance.

    “In this regard, Spinrad has cited the influence of Beat writers William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac.”

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  • Cover of Bridge Trilogy
    Bridge TrilogySeries

    series · 4 books · 1990

    Science fiction and cyberpunk, set in near future and big city.

    “Set in a near-future California, the novel takes place after an earthquake has damaged the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and turned it into an improvised settlement known as the Bridge.”

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    Start with Virtual Light →

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