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The Vault of Dreamers

Caragh M. O'Brien · 425 pages

Rosie Sinclair, who attends an elite arts school where students are contestants on a high stakes reality show, skips her sleeping pill one night and discovers that the school is really a cover-up for the lucrative and sinister practice of dream harvesting.

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All That We See or Seem

Ken Liu · 404 pages

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The Passengers

John Marrs · 400 pages

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The Eye of Minds

James Dashner · 315 pages

"Michael is a skilled internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out."

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The Dystopia Chronicles

Matthew Mather · 416 pages

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The Running Man

Stephen King · 256 pages

The runaway bestseller about the ultimate reality showThe year is 2025. The Running Man is America's favorite television game show. Ben Richards is the program's latest contestant-and the Hunters' latest target in a rigged game of death…

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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

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Rainbows End

Vernor Vinge · 384 pages

From the back cover: World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. Now, when he awakens in San Diego, in the year 2025, with his mind and health restored, reality's a shock. Books are just about gone. Computers are old news, replaced by "smart" contact lenses that connect him to the Internet via his clothes and wireless nodes just about ev

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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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Zendegi

Greg Egan · 300 pages

Nasim is a young computer scientist, hoping to work on the Human Connectome Project: a plan to map every neural connection in the brain. But funding for the project is cancelled, and she ends up devoting her career to Zendegi, a computerised virtual world used by millions. Then, 15 years later, the Connectome Project is revived.

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Ready Player Two

Ernest Cline · 464 pages

An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you ready? Days after Oasis founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vault, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the Oasis a thousand times more wondrous, and addictive, than even Wade dreamed possible. Wit

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Children of the New World

Alexander Weinstein · 234 pages

Introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which the

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Net Force

Steve Perry · 354 pages

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Disclosure

Michael Crichton · 455 pages

Disclosure is a novel by Michael Crichton, his ninth under his own name and nineteenth overall, and published in 1994. The novel is set at a fictional computer hardware manufacturing company. The plot concerns protagonist Tom Sanders and his struggle to prove that he was sexually harassed by his female employer. --- Also contained in: - [Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Volume 5, 1994](ht

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Slant

Greg Bear · 455 pages

Greg Bear is the acclaimed winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards. He has written many books and short stories that have been praised by readers and critics alike. Earth, in the sixth decade of the twenty-first century, is a planet transformed by rapid technological advances. Nanotechnology has been refined and perfected, allowing people the ability to transform their bodies and environments

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The Dark Forest

Liu Cixin · 522 pages

"With the scope of Dune and the rousing action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. In Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion--in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have bee

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Directive 51

John Barnes · 484 pages

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Robopocalypse

Daniel H. Wilson · 347 pages

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Human.4

Mike A. Lancaster · 240 pages

Twenty-first century fourteen-year-old Kyle was hypnotized when humanity was upgraded to 1.0 and he, incompatible with the new technology, exposes its terrifying impact in a tape-recording found by the superhumans of the future.

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Stranded

Emily Barr

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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

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The Running Man

Richard Bachman · 352 pages

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Arena

Holly Jennings · 366 pages

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Halting State

Charles Stross · 360 pages

In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates, a dot-com startup company that's just been floated on the London stock exchange. The suspects are

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