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1) Repo virtual
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The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities--augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive. Enter Julius Dax, online...
2) Sleepwalker
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"Riley's sleepwalking is getting worse, threatening her simple life as a science-teaching nun in Brazil. When Thomas, a mysterious man shows up and claims that she is not who she believes herself to be, she finds herself caught in the middle of a political conspiracy and she is the key person of interest. Determined to uncover the truth of her identity, Riley finds herself pursued by a mysterious woman, Arisu, who insists they had worked together...
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Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn is the first of his kind--an empathy tracker, an emotional soothsayer, with a felt sense for the future of the we. In simpler terms, he can spot cultural shifts and trends before they happen. It's a useful skill for a certain kind of company. A unique blend of cutting-edge technology and traditional cyberpunk, Last Tango in Cyberspace explores...
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"Gerald Alva Miller Jr.'s Understanding William Gibson is a thoughtful examination of the life and work of William Gibson, author of eleven novels and twenty short stories. Gibson is the recipient of many notable awards for science fiction writing including the Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick awards. Gibson's iconic novel, Neuromancer, popularized the concept of cyberspace. With his early stories and his first trilogy of novels, Gibson became the...
5) Mortal Coils
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Mortal Coils Aldous Huxley - Mortal Coils is a collection of five short fictional pieces written by Aldous Huxley in 1921.
As a Hollywood screenwriter Huxley used much of his earnings to bring Jewish and left-wing writer and artist refugees from Hitler's Germany to the US. He worked for many of the major studios including MGM and Disney.
In 1953, Huxley and Maria applied for United States citizenship. When Huxley refused to bear arms for the U.S....
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Under the Sunset Bram Stoker - Under the Sunset is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula), first published in 1881.
Its significance in the development of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the seventeenth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in October, 1978
A collection of gothic stories from Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula...
7) Necrotech
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K. C. Alexander begins their SINless duology with a novel hailed by New York Times bestselling author Chuck Wendig as "sci-fi that's slick, sharp and snarky…"
A filthy city, overpopulated and underregulated, with even less mercy than a rusted pipe to the eye.
For the saints that run it, it's called home.
Anybody with the right cred can score an upgrade, it's just a matter of who, what and how much. Good tech, bad tech, big tech, micro tech,...
8) Cyber Secure
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Cyber Secure the first of the Cyber trilogy is set in the year 2132 and based, upon one of IT's biggest shortcomings. The main character enters IT security with the very first Security Company whose sole purpose is to protect everyone's financial well-being with everything done by means of computerized transactions. The main character's primary function was to keep the world's financial system safe with the tools devised for the purpose of tracking...
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Sleep State Interrupt centers around Waylee Freid, an unemployed journalist and musician with ever-worsening bipolar disorder, and her countercultural friends in the decaying city of Baltimore. Frustrated by the injustice of a system that benefits only a few, and the apathy of a population content to lose themselves in a virtual reality called BetterWorld, the group busts a notorious teenage hacker out of jail and sneaks into a closed election fundraiser...
10) Bunny Tricks
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Mr. Vidyut passed away and is hosting his own funeral via hologram. Many of the greatest of Neocastle come to pay their last respects and see where the old mans money will go.
But there's trickery afoot and Sehseh is right in the thick of it. Though with new allies and past secrets the planned attack by the PMC may not go quite as planned.
11) Earth Hour
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There are ever so many ways to conduct a war. Only a few of them look like war.
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Anne Harris returns with an outstanding look at the near future. Never before has her technological insight been so acute, or her portrayal of sex and gender issues more startling or insightful.
A bio-technology corporation has created a new species, intelligent, four-armed, humanoid "tetras" who can live in the vats in which "the company" grows biopolymers. Both the tetras and the human vat-divers they were created to replace are at the mercy of...
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In a post-cyberpunk future, where global economic activity is carried out in a virtual-gaming realm, a new blood-transmitted virus has become a black-market staple due to its temporary rejuvenating effects, forcing infected "Eternals" into tightly knit underground communities where they must hack the V-net for basic food and shelter. In the first book of a series that "revitalizes the cyber-fiction genre with its vivid prose and believable characters"...
14) TechnoTantric
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Imagine a world very much like our own, in a time that may soon be ours. A world where there are 2 Taj Mahals, bio-augmented goondas, Hollywood in India, and typical corporations. A world where metaphysical phenomena such as aural reading, astral projection, and clairvoyance are considered commonplace.Meet Tara, an IPS officer investigating a series of mysterious suicides with links to mega-company ZyraCorp. Guided by her intuition and sense of justice,...
15) LoveStar
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LoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves, thus freeing mankind from wires and devices, and allowing consumerism, technology, and science to run rampant over all aspects of daily life. Cordless modern men and women are paid to howl advertisements at unsuspecting passers-by, REGRET machines eliminate doubt over roads not taken, soul mates are identified...
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Don't miss Katharine Duckett's Tor.com Original cyberpunk short story "The Ones Who Look"
Ethical Empire built the gate to heaven, and their employees hold the keys. By offering custom-built afterlives through full-brain uploads, they answered the needs of a society pushed to the brink by climate change and cascading antibiotic failure. But, for Zoe, who works daily to assess the sins of users and decide who's worthy of salvation, heaven is not so...
17) El artefacto
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El narrador, un profesor de ciencias en la universidad, es un ciborg, tiene un brazo inteligente. Desde esta experiencia, interpreta la realidad de la computación y en general, los límites de la inteligencia humana. Sus teorías se entremezclan con una investigación: la naturaleza de un artefacto que aparece en el pliegue de un cerebro registrado en un TAC.
Se trata de una novela de Ciencia Ficción, quizás en la categoría de Cyberpunk, escrita...
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22nd Century Samurai is a book following the Cyber Trilogy concentrating on the children of the main character in the Cyber trilogy.
The book is written in three parts with each part dedicated to the accomplishments and chosen direction each takes in their lives. Each child was directed by their parents to follow what they loved instead of an income, if it led to wealth, it would only happen if they loved what path they chose to make as a career....
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What Does It Mean To Be Human?
In a futuristic society where people were forced to leave a devastated Earth behind and set up their lives somewhere out amongst the stars. Three people wrestle with forging connections and building community in the face of intolerance and fear.
RAVI has been Re-Animated, brought back to life by the government for purposes unknown. When the Resistance raid the Re-Animation Centre halfway through his welcome...
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Después del éxito de Fracasamos al soñar, el autor vuelve con una nueva entrega en la que la acción, el misterio, las aventuras y el amor, servirán de excusa para reflexionar sobre la ética, el transhumanismo, la nueva condición poshumana y las posibilidades que encierra. Un mundo para el olvido también nos habla de ecología y de las consecuencias futuras de nuestras decisiones presentes, porque si algo tienen en común ambas novelas, estas...