Books like Islands in the Net
Laura Webster, who works for a global corporate cooperative in a networked 2023, is drawn into a world of data havens and pirates when an assassination takes place at her lodge in Texas.
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Neuromancer
A washed-up hacker jacks into cyberspace for one last heist in the neon-lit urban sprawl that launched the cyberpunk genre.
Synners
In a near-future Los Angeles, a media company buys up the hackers and video artists it needs for a technology that plugs images straight into the brain, and a stroke in one user's head turns into a virus on the net.
Moxyland
In a near-future Cape Town where phones are also tools of state control, a corporate-sponsored art student, a rich kid, a blogger and a hacker are caught up in the same crackdown.
He, She and It
In 2059, after losing custody of her son to her ex-husband's corporation, Shira Shipman goes home to Tikva, a free Jewish town on a ruined American coast, and is asked to help teach Yod, an illegal cyborg built to defend it, how to be human.
Hardwired
Cowboy, a jacked-in smuggler who runs hovertanks across the borders of a broken America ruled from orbit, teams up with Sarah, a cybernetically armed hired killer.
Burning Chrome
Gibson's early stories, among them Johnny Mnemonic, New Rose Hotel and the title story, set in and around the world of Neuromancer.
Trouble and Her Friends
India Carless, a hacker known as Trouble who quit the net when new laws made it dangerous, comes back when someone starts committing crimes under her name.
Schismatrix
In a solar system split between the Shapers, who remake their bodies with genetics, and the Mechanists, who remake theirs with machines, Abelard Lindsay, a disgraced diplomat, lives through centuries of change.
Snow Crash
Hiro Protagonist, a hacker and swordsman who delivers pizza for the Mafia in a carved-up future Los Angeles, hears of a drug called Snow Crash that works in the Metaverse and in the real world.
Autonomous
A biotech pirate, a military robot, and a runaway slave converge in a near-future thriller about pharmaceutical freedom and corporate control.
Moving Mars
Casseia Majumdar, a young student from one of the family clans that run Mars, is drawn into the politics of the colonies as Earth tightens its grip.
Stand on Zanzibar
In an overpopulated 2010 of surveillance, violence and information overload, an executive and a spy are drawn into a scheme to develop an African nation and a breakthrough in genetic engineering in Southeast Asia, in Brunner's 1968 collage novel.