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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Eternal Prison
Jeff Somers · 406 pages
Avery Cates is a wanted man. After surviving the worst bioengineered disaster in history, Cates finds himself incarcerated - in Chengara Penitentiary. As Chengara has a survival rate of exactly zero, the system's most famous gunner must do some serious plotting. And a betrayal or so later, he achieves his goal. At a price.All he has to do now is defeat some new personal demons, forge some unlikel
Altered Carbon
Richard K. Morgan · 480 pages
Mankind is strung out across interstellar space, and human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies, but some things never change, so when Takeshi is downloaded into the body of a ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer he shouldn't be surprised.
Tears in Rain
Rosa Montero · 417 pages
In the United States of Earth, Madrid, 2109, the number of techno-human deaths is rapidly growing. Detective Bruna Husky is hired to discover what's behind this wave of insanity. She must trust no one, because those who call themselves allies are ready to betray her.
Heavy Liquid
Paul Pope
In the late 21st century, "S," a former narcotics agent turned private investigator and petty criminal, is addicted to heavy liquid, a hallucinatory drug that is being pursued for its various other properties by an unscrupulous art collector, a gang of ruthless gunmen, and the government.
Neuromancer
William Gibson · 288 pages
The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, *Neuromancer* is the classic cyberpunk novel. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, *Neuromancer* was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future — a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Tom Sweterlitsch · 342 pages
A genre-mixing sci-fi, dystopian noir mystery, a disturbing tale of deceit, with tangled griefs of murder and conspiracy that haunt a virtual world...trippy and hard-boiled.
Delirium
Susan Kaye Quinn · 48 pages
Lirium plays the part of the grim reaper well, with his dark trenchcoat, jackboots, and the black marks on his soul that every debt collector carries. He's just in it for his cut, the ten percent of the life energy he collects before he transfers it on to the high potentials, the people who will make the world a better place with their brains, their work, and their lives. That hit of life energy,
Spares
Michael Marshall Smith · 272 pages
Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls – we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own...Spares – human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye – but some people are doing all the taking. Spares – the story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares Farm, he still ha
RASL
Jeff Smith · 468 pages
From the *New York Times* best selling author of *BONE* comes a stark, gritty sci-fi series about a dimension-jumping art thief, a man who races through space and time searching for his next big score and trying to escape his past. Known only by the four letter word found spray-painted at the scene of a crime, RASL stumbles across a mystery that spans centuries, and not only threatens to expose hi
Want
Cindy Pon · 327 pages
Jason Zhou is trying to survive in Taipei, a city plagued by pollution and viruses, but when he discovers the elite are using their wealth to evade the deadly effects, he knows he must do whatever is necessary to fight the corruption and save his city.
Needle in the Groove
Jeff Noon · 288 pages
A Purple Place for Dying
John D. MacDonald · 213 pages
Travis McGee #3 Travis McGee is summoned to Arizona by a rich, beautiful arrogant woman. And then she's dead - shot in the back at long range, lying crumpled on the ground at his feet. With the would-be client eliminated, and on a dime's worth of fee in his pocket, any ordinary detective would walk away fast. But Travis McGee is no ordinary detective.
Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity
Robert Brockway · 339 pages
Red is a user, pusher and a drug addict. And that's not a problem. Everybody in the Four Posts is nursing an addiction to something. In fact, their entire economy is based on the 'feed'. An officially sanctioned, omnipresent drug delivery system with terminals in every home. Red's talent for mixing new and interesting narcotic concoctions isn't an issue, but the fact that he accidentally ran while
The Artificial Kid
Bruce Sterling · 245 pages
Miles above the surface, the ultra-wealthy live in orbital homes, watching the surface citizens' home-produced videos of sex and extreme violence. The title character of The Artificial Kid, Arti, is the most popular of the Combat Artists. Arti has reached the height of his fame--equally loved by his fans and friends and despised by his competitors. However, he is not entirely who he seems to be, a
Blame!, Vol. 1
Tsutomu Nihei · 232 pages
Killy is a man of few words who packs one very powerful gun. He wanders an endless labyrinth of cyberdungeons filled with concrete and steel, fighting off cyborgs and other bizarre silicate creatures.
Rai, Volume 1: Welcome to New Japan
Matt Kindt · 112 pages
The year is 4001 A.D. - led by the artificial intelligence called "Father," the island nation of Japan has expanded out of the Pacific and into geosynchronous orbit with the ravaged Earth below. With billions to feed and protect, it has fallen to one solitary guardian to enforce the law of Father's empire - the mysterious folk hero known as Rai. They say he can appear out of nowhere. They say he is
Akira, Vol. 1
Katsuhiro Otomo · 363 pages
In Neo-Tokyo, built on the former site of Tokyo after World War III, two teenagers are targeted by agencies after they develop paranormal abilities.