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What do readers say about Neuromancer?
futuristic film noir dense and tangled adds to the atmosphere computers, hacking, and cyberspaceWinner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece-a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century's most potent visions of the future.
Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix-until he cros... More details on Neuromancer
“It’s not like I’m using,” Case heard someone say, as he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of the Chat. “It’s like my body’s developed this massive drug deficiency.” It was a Sprawl...
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What do readers say about Woken Furies?
cyberpunk and noir most openly transhumanist exciting adventure story cyberpunk/military science fictionMixing classic noir sensibilities with a searing futuristic vision of an age when death is nearly meaningless, Richard K. Morgan returns to his saga of betrayal, mystery, and revenge, as Takeshi Kovacs, in one fatal moment, joins forces with a myster... More details on Woken Furies
The wound stung like fuck, but it wasn’t as bad as some I’d had. The blaster bolt came in blind across my ribs, already weakened by the door plating it had to chew through to get to me. Priests, up ag...
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What do readers say about Altered Carbon?
noir science fiction fast paced action hardboiled detective novel classic noir meets cyberpunkNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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The shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning in this "tour de force of genre-bending, a brilliantly realized exercise in science fiction."-The New York Times Book... More details on Altered Carbon
In the Envoy Corps they teach you to let go before storage. Stick it in neutral and float. It’s the first lesson and the trainers drill it into you from day one. Hard-eyed Virginia Vidaura, dancer’s b...
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What do readers say about Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep??
it has substance grim and foreboding science fiction classic not everything was tidyA masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner
By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Tho... More details on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his bed awakened Rick Deckard. Surprised—it always surprised him to find himself awake without prior notice—he r...
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What do readers say about When Gravity Fails?
noir crime novel noir detective mystery hard-boiled detective novel a dismal mess throughoutIn a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hardway. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he's available…for a price.
For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the Arab ghetto, a madm... More details on When Gravity Fails
Chiriga’s nightclub was right in the middle of the Budayeen, eight blocks from the eastern gate, eight blocks from the cemetery. It was handy to have the graveyard so close-at-hand. The Budayeen was a...
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What do readers say about Leviathan Wakes?
long but smartly economical science fiction/space opera interesting and open-ended plot intricate and engagingFrom a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing... More details on Leviathan Wakes
A hundred and fifty years before, when the parochial disagreements between Earth and Mars had been on the verge of war, the Belt had been a far horizon of tremendous mineral wealth beyond viable econo...
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What do readers say about Snow Crash?
sarcastic, punk tone entertaining, fast-moving plot convoluted, but well rolled computers and technologyOne of Time's 100 best English-language novels
A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you'll recognize it immediately
Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison-a writer so original ... More details on Snow Crash
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What do readers say about Halting State?
fun and mentally stimulating perfunctory rather then fluid near future tale games and encryption"Halting State [is] a near-future story that is at once over-the-top and compellingly believable." - Vernor Vinge, author of Rainbows End
In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring... More details on Halting State
You are sitting, half-asleep, in an armchair. Your eyes are closed, and you feel very unsteady. Your head’s full of a postviral haze, the cotton-wool of slowed reflexes and dulled awareness. In stark ...
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What do readers say about Gun, With Occasional Music?
smart, dark and funny depressing but funny noir private-detective story scifi noir detective novelThe first novel by Jonathan Lethem (author of the award-winning Motherless Brooklyn) is a science-fiction mystery, a dark and funny post-modern romp serving further evidence that Lethem is the distinctive voice of a new generation.
Conrad Metcalf ha... More details on Gun, With Occasional Music
It was two weeks after I'd quit my last case, working for Maynard Stanhunt. The feeling was there before I tuned in the musical interpretation of the news on my bedside radio, but it was the musical n...
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What do readers say about The Atrocity Archives?
hard to categorise book fun geeky fluff refreshing and nostalgic stories are rightCharles Stross takes a departure from his epic science fiction to craft this cross between Len Deighton-style espionage and H.P. Lovecraftian horror.... More details on The Atrocity Archives
“THE ATROCITY ARCHIVE” IS A SCIENCE FICTION novel. Its form is that of a horror thriller with lots of laughs, some of them uneasy. Its basic premise is that mathematics can be magic. Its lesser premis...
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