Cyber Fiction: Daring to Dream the Dark
Explore the best cyber fiction books with 'Cyber Fiction: Daring to Dream the Dark.' Dive into daring, dark, and dreamy tales of futuristic worlds and high-tech adventures.
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Neuromancer
by William Gibson
Case, a nerve-damaged data thief, is recruited by a new employer for a last-chance run against a powerful artificial intelligence.
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Islands in the Net
by Bruce Sterling
Information is power, and even in the peaceful post-millenial age, power corrupts. Data pirates, new-age mercenaries, high-tech shamans, and murder stalk a brutal netherworld of …
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White Light
by Rudy von Bitter Rucker
Felix Rayman spends the day teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, and daydreaming. When his dreams finally separate him from his physical body, …
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Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
The “brilliantly realized” (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired …
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The Cat who Walks Through Walls
by Robert Anson Heinlein
Join forces with a swashbuckling duo of inter-galactic space rogues struggling to save the future and history of civilization.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner One of The …
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Synners
by Pat Cadigan
Hooked on artificial reality, an outlaw band of hackers must find the answer when a new computer virus in the network threatens their destruction.
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Jack Faust
by Michael Swanwick
Désespéré par l'inutilité de son savoir, le Docteur Faust brûle ses livres. Alors, une voix étrange retentit et l'appelle. Méphistophélès va offrir à Faust des …
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Ghost In the Shell 2: Innocence (Novel-Hard Cover)
by Masaki Yamada
The hulking cyborg counterterrorist Batou doesn't have a family; his electronic brain never dreams. So why did he dream the other night--and dream that he …
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Rim
by Alexander Besher
In 2027, Satori Corporation, a virtual reality entertainment giant, is in a cutthroat corporate war to preserve its market share and save the lives of …
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Permutation City
by Greg Egan
Transformed into an electronic code, a Copy must discover an alternate way out, back into its real body, because the original avenue of escape has …
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Vurt
by Jeff Noon
A cyberpunk novel with a difference, a rollicking, dark, yet humorous examination of a future in which the boundaries between reality and virtual reality are …
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The Shockwave Rider
by John Brunner
"Brunner writes about the future as if he and the reader were already living in it!"--The New York Times Book Review"When John Brunner first told …
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Ambient
by Jack Womack
Combining the nightmarish vision of J. G. Ballard and the linguistic brilliance of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, Ambient is Jack Womack's stunning first novel. …
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The Long Orbit
by Mick Farren
Though firmly ensconced in a futuristic world, Marlowe lives in the past of 1940s detectives, but his fantasy life assumes the hard edge of reality …
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He, She and It
by Marge Piercy
"A triumph of the imagination. Rich, complex, impossible to put down."—Alice Hoffman In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has …
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Mockingbird
by Walter S. Tevis
Mockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying. Those that survive spend their days in a narcotic bliss or choose …
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The Man who Fell to Earth
by Walter S. Tevis
T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. But instead of aid, Newton discovers loneliness and despair that …
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Psykosis
by Wilhelmina Baird
In order to avert imminent war, the Earth's government agrees to negotiate with alien invaders. The military's representative is Swordfish, a veteran of the Third …
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Lucifer's Dragon
by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Passion di Orchi is no more than the obscenely rich daughter of a West Coast mafia boss - until she decides to rebuild Venice. In …
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Hardwired
by Walter Jon Williams
ears ago, the last desperate hopes of Earth were crushed as corporate Orbital blocs ruling from on high devastated the planet's face. Today, the autocratic …
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Cyberweb
by Lisa Mason
In the sequel to the author's popular "cyberpunk" novel Arachne, a female fugitive living in post-apocalyptic San Francisco becomes the target of a robotic mercenary …
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Slapstick or Lonesome No More!
by Kurt Vonnegut
“Some of the best and most moving Vonnegut.”—San Francisco Chronicle Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of …
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Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the internationally acclaimed MaddAddam trilogy is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the …
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Nova Swing
by M. John Harrison
Years after Ed Chianese’s fateful trip into the Kefahuchi Tract, the tract has begun to expand and change in ways we never could have predicted—and, …
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Viriconium
by M. John Harrison
A magnificent city existing on the ringes of the past, and on the brink of destruction, Viriconium • With a foreword by Neil Gaiman Available …
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Light
by M. John Harrison
In Harrison's dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, where the rules are made up--and broken--along the way, …