Cyberpunk, cyber thrillers, biotech chillers, from Multcolib My Librarian ErikaLike this list

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• Two Truths and a Lie

  O'Brien, Cory,

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  In a near-future LA that is partially submerged, an aging combat-drone veteran must solve the murder of a tech executive from a firm that specializes in the storage of human memories.

• Noor

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  After a disastrous trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unity

  Bangs, Elly,

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  Danae is not only herself. She is concealing a connection to a grieving collective inside of her body. To heal she must escape the underwater enclave of Bloom City, and embark on a desperate journey through the post-apocalyptic wastelands of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Titanium Noir

  a Novel

  Harkaway, Nick, 1972-

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  When detective Cal Sounder is sent to investigate a routine homicide, he's shocked to discover that the victim is anything but ordinary - he's a Titan - one of this dystopian, near-future society's genetically-altered elites.

• Busted Synapses

  Satifka, Erica L.,

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  Alicia, a runaway New Woman, comes to small-town Wheeling, West Virginia, and gets entangled with Jess and Dale, throwing their lives of pointless work and drug-fueled virtual reality into chaos. Novella by a Portland author.

• Venomous Lumpsucker

  Beauman, Ned,

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  A biological cyberthriller set in the near future, by a writer described as one of the best new cyberpunk voices by William Gibson himself.

• More Perfect

  Oh, Temi,

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  In a near-future London, everyone is linked by an augmented reality called Panopticon.

• Robot Artists & Black Swans

  the Italian Fantascienza Stories

  Sterling, Bruce,

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  A collection of stories set in a near-future, technologically advanced Italy, by cyberpunk author Sterling, also known as "Bruno Argento."

• Version Zero

  Yoon, David,

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  When he questions what his company does with the data they collect, Max is fired. He decides to get even by rebooting the internet. After all, in order to fix things, sometimes you have to break them.

• Futureland

  Nine Stories of An Imminent World

  Mosley, Walter

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  Noir legend Walter Mosley takes his unique vision of American society into the future.

• The Electric State

  Stålenhag, Simon,

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  A young woman and a robot traverse a retro-futuristic California ravaged by war and VR addiction. Chilling, beautiful, and moving. An original combination of image, story, and sound (the author created an electronic soundtrack that can be found…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Peripheral

  Gibson, William, 1948-

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  In the near future, an AI is born and the human population has declined due to a slow apocalypse known as "the Jackpot." Puzzling out this strange new world and its workings is part of the fun. Slyly humorous and bracingly new.

• Infomocracy

  Older, Malka, 1977-

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  It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global microdemocracy. What could go wrong?

• Firebreak

  Kornher-Stace, Nicole,

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  Just your average side-hustle: finding a missing girl for a “SecOps” online super-soldier celebrity. Secrets and thrills ensue, natch. (description by My Librarian Ross).

• Akira アキラ

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  One of the most influential examples of anime, Akira is based on the manga (comic book) by Katsuhiro Otomo.

• Akira. Book One

  Ōtomo, Katsuhiro, 1954-

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  The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, making him a target for a shadowy agency that will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like the one that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Attack Surface

  Doctorow, Cory,

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  When an elite hacker employed by a multinational cybersecurity company switches sides, she must help the dissidents and activists she previously surveilled. This one is for the techies, full of IT jargon and clever exploits.

• Snow Crash

  Stephenson, Neal,

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  In twenty-first-century America, a teenaged computer hacker finds himself fighting a computer virus that battles virtual reality technology and a deadly drug that turns humans into zombies.

• Neuromancer

  Gibson, William, 1948-

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  A hacker with crippled abilities must hunt a mysterious AI. The novel that gave us the term cyberspace and prefigured our ultra-connected, always online world.

• Ghost in the Shell

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  The classic anime.