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Count Zero

William Gibson · 262 pages

Turner, 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: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he's perfected. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of

Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-machine Interface

Masamune Shirow · 312 pages

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Haruki Murakami · 416 pages

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.

River of Gods

Ian McDonald · 597 pages

"August 15, 2047--Happy hundredth birthday, India. As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business--a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj--the waif, the mind reader, the prophet--when she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden. In the next few weeks, they will al

Queen of Angels

Greg Bear · 426 pages

In a world of wonders, wealth, and "perfect" mental health, a famous poet commits gruesome murder. Why? That crime, that question, leads a policewoman to a jungle of torture and forgotten gods; a writer to the bohemian shadows of a vast city; and a scientist directly into the mind -- the nightmare soul -- of the psychopath himself.

Freedom™

Daniel Suarez · 416 pages

The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller DaemonIn one of the most buzzed-about debuts of 2009, Daniel Suarez introduced a terrifying vision of a new world order, controlled by the Daemon, an insidious computer program unleashed by a hi-tech wunderkind, Daemon captured the attention of the tech community, became a New York Times and Indie bestseller, and left readers

The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

Neal Stephenson · 499 pages

The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what happens when a young girl of the poor underclass obtains the device.

Accelerando

Charles Stross · 448 pages

Apex

Ramez Naam · 733 pages

Global unrest spreads through the world, lies set off shockwaves of anger, rippling from mind to mind. Riot police battle neurally-linked protestors, armies are mobilized, political orders fall. Nexus-driven revolution is here. Against this backdrop a new breed of post-human children are growing into their powers. And a once-dead scientist is closing in on her ultimate aim- to seize the planet's

The Atopia Chronicles

Matthew Mather · 496 pages

The Golden Transcendence

John C. Wright · 350 pages

In spite of the sanctions against him, Phaeton risks everything to journey across the solar system in order to recover his lost memory and the Phoenix Exultant, humankind's first true starship.

Echopraxia

Peter Watts · 383 pages

A follow-up to the Hugo Award-nominated Blindsight, Echopraxia is set in a 22nd-century world transformed by scientific evangelicals, supernatural beings and ghosts, where defunct biologist Daniel Bruks becomes trapped on a spaceship destined to make an evolutionary-changing discovery.

Children of the Mind

Orson Scott Card · 370 pages

The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the univ

Mountain of Black Glass

Tad Williams · 736 pages

Teacher Renie Sulaweyo, the Bushman!Xabbu, and their companions struggle to solve the mysteries of Otherland before the virtual reality realm run by the ruthless Grail Brotherhood takes over the minds of Earth's children forever.

Crashing Heaven

Al Robertson · 352 pages

The Fall of Hyperion

Dan Simmons · 517 pages

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galax

The Quantum Thief

Hannu Rajaniemi · 336 pages

A breathtaking joyride through the solar system several centuries hence, a world of marching cities, ubiquitous public-key encryption, people who communicate via shared memory, and a race of hyper-advanced humans who originated as an MMORPG guild.

Autonomous

Annalee Newitz · 304 pages

When anything can be owned, how can we be free Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can’t otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they becom

WWW: Wake

Robert J. Sawyer · 360 pages

One of the foremost science fiction writers of our generation(SF Site) comes to Ace with a trilogy of the Webs awakening.Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at mathand blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. But Caitlins brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. So when she receive

Coils

Roger Zelazny, Fred Saberhagen · 250 pages

A new entity is being born. Its cells are microprocessors, its soul lives in data banks from Wall Street to Red Square. It is neither good nor evil. But it is very dangerous. The Angra Oil Corporation thinks it is just another resource to be used up.... Coils: The story of a man and a woman trapped in the battle between a soulless corporation and the soul of a new machine.

Void Star

Zachary Mason · 394 pages

Although the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, it's still a good time to be in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn't rich, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs, which are complex to the point of opacity. It's a

The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

Vernor Vinge · 464 pages

After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley

Rob Reid · 576 pages