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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorOverclocked: Stories of the Future Present
Cory Doctorow · 304 pages
Futureland
Walter Mosley · 356 pages
Offers nine stories of speculative fiction, creating worlds inhabited by leaders, commoners, technocrats, criminals, and revolutionaries, covering issues including social stratification, technological advances, and civil rights.
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul Di Filippo, Elizabeth Bear, David Marusek, Mary Rosenblum, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Walter Jon Williams, Christopher Rowe · 424 pages
Burning Chrome
William Gibson · 220 pages
Burning Chrome collects Gibson's early short fiction from the late 70's and early 80's. Contents: Preface / by Bruce Sterling -- Johnny Mnemonic -- The Gernsback continuum -- Fragments of a hologram rose -- The belonging kind / by John Shirley and William Gibson -- Hinterlands -- Red star, winter orbit / by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson -- New Rose Hotel -- The winter market -- Do
The Future is Japanese: Science Fiction Futures and Brand New Fantasies from and about Japan.
Nick Mamatas, Masumi Washington
King City
Brandon Graham · 408 pages
When the whole world seems insane, where does true madness lie? In King City, that's where. And Joe is no crazier than anyone else. A young man with no home, no purpose, and almost no friends, Joe does have one thing going for him—a very special cat. With a simple injection, Joe's cat can be anything: a weapon, a tool, or even a cuddly companion. But what - if anything - can transform Joe? Wha
The Incal
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Moebius · 309 pages
"John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside down when he discovers an ancient, mystical artifact called 'The Incal.' Difool's adventures will bring him into conflict with the galaxy's greatest warrior, the Metabaron, and will pit him against the awesome powers of the Technopope. These encounters and many more make up a tale of comic and cosmic
Only Forward
Michael Marshall Smith · 341 pages
tark lives in Colour, a neighbourhood whose inhabitants like to be co-ordinated with their surroundings – a neighbourhood where spangly purple trousers are admired by the walls of buildings as you pass them. Close by is Sound, where you mustn’t make any, apart from one designated hour a day when you can scream your lungs raw. Then there’s Red – get off at Fuck Station Zero if you want to see a tac
Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino · 153 pages
Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. "Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?"--Publisher description.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami · 416 pages
Queen City Jazz
Kathleen Ann Goonan · 440 pages
In Verity's world, nanotech plagues decimated the population after an initial renaissance of utopian nanotech cities. Growing up on an isolated farm, she finds her happy life changing course when Blaze, the only young man in the community and Verity's best friend, is shot. With Blaze's body wrapped in a nanotech cocoon, Verity sets off on a quest to the Enlivened City of Cincinnati. It is a place
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Neil Gaiman · 400 pages
This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.
River of Blue Fire
Tad Williams · 665 pages
This second volume in the Otherland series presents the adventures of a small band of hardy, even heroic folk who have broken the Grail Brotherhood's barriers to entering Otherland and are hoping to open the place to the common run of humankind. In the course of this part of its journey, the band encounters giant insects, advertisements coming to life, postholocaust worlds, and treachery from a Gr
Market Forces
Richard K. Morgan · 464 pages
A coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. For the men and women of Shorn Associates, opportunity is calling. In the superheated global village of the near future, big money is made by finding the right little war and supporting one side against the other–in exchange for a share of the spoils. To succeed, Shorn uses a new kind of corporate gladiator: sharp-suited, hard-driving gunslingers who operate
Equations of Life
Simon Morden
Samuil Petrovitch is a survivor. He survived the bombs falling on St. Petersburg and made it to the London Metrozone - one of the last free cities. He's lived this long because he's a man of rules and logic. For example, getting involved = a bad idea. But when he stumbles into a kidnapping in progress, he acts without even thinking. Before he can stop himself, he's saved the daugher of the most d