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The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

Vernor Vinge · 464 pages

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Mona Lisa Overdrive

William Gibson · 312 pages

Mona Lisa Overdrive is the final novel of the William Gibson's cyberpunk Sprawl trilogy. Living in the vast computer landscape of cyberspace, young Mona taps into the mind of world-famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell who deciphers cyperspace plans, including those devised by Japanese underworld.

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Walkaway: A Novel

Cory Doctorow · 560 pages

Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza―known to his friends as Hubert, Etc―was too old to be at that Communist party. But after watching the breakdown of modern society, he really has no where left to be―except amongst the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on the s

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Join

Steve Toutonghi · 328 pages

"What if you could live multiple lives simultaneously, have constant, perfect companionship, and never die? That's the promise of Join, a revolutionary technology that allows small groups of minds to unite, forming a single consciousness that experiences the world through multiple bodies. But as two best friends discover, the light of that miracle may be blinding the world to its horrors. Chance a

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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.

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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.

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Synners

Pat Cadigan · 448 pages

In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. A constant stream of new technology spawns crime before it hits the streets; the human mind and the external landscape have fused to the point where any encounter with "reality" is incidental.

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Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-machine Interface

Masamune Shirow · 312 pages

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Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome

John Scalzi · 118 pages

"In the near future--and sooner than you think--a new virus will sweep the globe. At first it will look like the flu, but then we will discover there is something else about it...something we weren't expecting. It will change society forever. No, this isn't another zombie virus. And no, this isn't the apocalypse. It's Haden's syndrome. We'll survive it. But the world will be remade in its image."-

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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein · 302 pages

It is the late 21st Century and the Moon has been colonized -- as a giant, open, prison. Every aspect of life is overseen by the Federated Nations "Lunar Authority"; until one day when a self-aware Super-Computer, a Jack of all Trades Technician, an Anarchist Professor, and a beautiful Blonde Revolutionary decide to change their world. The conspirators' plans go along beautifully...for a while.

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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

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The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories

Isaac Asimov · 211 pages

The Prime of Life [poem] Feminine Intuition Waterclap That Thou Art Mindful of Him Stranger in Paradise The Life and Times of Multivac The Winnowing The Bicentennial Man Marching In Old-Fashioned The Tercentenary Incident Birth of a Notion

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The Last Firewall

William Hertling · 322 pages

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Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang · 288 pages

Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll, a second Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the Sidewise Award for alternate history. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. Story for story, he is the most honored young writer in modern SF. Now, col

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The Atopia Chronicles

Matthew Mather · 496 pages

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Accelerando

Charles Stross · 448 pages

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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

Roger Williams · 176 pages

Deals with the ramifications of a powerful, superintelligent supercomputer that discovers a method of rewriting the "BIOS" of reality while studying a little known quirk of quantum physics discovered during the prototyping of its own specialised processors, ultimately heralding a technological singularity. Originally published on the kuro5in.org web community.

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The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick · 380 pages

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Brave New Worlds

Cory Doctorow, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, M. Rickert, Kate Wilhelm, Geoff Ryman, Neil Gaiman, Bryan Talbot, J.G. Ballard, Carrie Vaughn, James K. Morrow, Alex Irvine, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Genevieve Valentine, Sarah Langan, Kim Stanley Robinson, Matt Williamson, P · 489 pages

Collects short stories on civilization invading and dictating citizens lives, from authors including Shirley Jackson, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Geoff Rymann.

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WWW: Watch

Robert J. Sawyer · 352 pages

Blind from birth, Caitlin Decter received the gift of sight from a signal-processing retinal implant. But she can also "see" the digital data streams of the World Wide Web and a presence that lives within it. As Webmind works with Caitlin to understand her world, a secret government agency becomes aware of this new "intruder."

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Simulacron-3

Daniel F. Galouye · 163 pages

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Cyberabad Days

Ian McDonald · 279 pages

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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.

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