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The Light of Other DaysNovel
Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxterstandalone novel2000
Challenging in tone, about surveillance and 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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The Jackpot TrilogySeries
series2 books2014
About surveillance, set in north america.
“Gibson's 2020 book Agency is set in the same world.”
from the catalogue
Start with The Peripheral →
Colossus (D. F. Jones)Series
series3 books1966
completed
Dystopia.
“Colossus imagines an American supercomputer built to control the country's nuclear arsenal that gains full autonomy, links up with its Soviet counterpart, and jointly seizes control of both superpowers to enforce peace on its own terms.”
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Start with Colossus →
Halting StateSeries
series2 books2007
Cyberpunk, about surveillance.
“The plot centres on a bank robbery in a virtual world.”
from the catalogue
Start with Halting State →
OtherlandSeries
series6 books1996
Cyberpunk, about virtual reality, set in virtual 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 →
Sprawl TrilogySeries
series10 books1981
Cyberpunk, dark in tone, about virtual reality, 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.”
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Start with Neuromancer →