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Cyberpunk Books

Neuromancer by William Gibson book cover

Neuromancer

Author: William Gibson

Year: 1984

Rating: 3.9

Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.The Matrix is a world…

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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson book cover

Snow Crash

Author: Neal Stephenson

Year: 1978

Rating: 4.02

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon…

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Count Zero by William Gibson book cover

Count Zero

Author: William Gibson

Year: 1986

Rating: 4.01

A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he’s perfecte…

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Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan book cover

Altered Carbon

Author: Richard K. Morgan

Year: 2002

Rating: 4.05

Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-c…

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Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson book cover

Mona Lisa Overdrive

Author: William Gibson

Year: 1988

Rating: 3.99

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering a…

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick book cover

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Author: Philip K. Dick

Year: 1968

Rating: 4.08

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then...'retire' them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like hum…

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