Books like Little Eyes
In a near-future where people use small robotic animals to spy on each other, the intimacy of surveillance becomes a new kind of human connection.
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The Circle
Mae Holland lands a job at the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, on a dazzling California campus, and is swept up in its drive to make everything, her own life included, transparent.
The Visible Man
A therapist recounts her sessions with a patient who claims to have built a suit that makes him almost invisible, which he uses to watch people when they think they are alone.
Super Sad True Love Story
In a near-future New York where everyone rates each other and books are dying, an ageing schlub falls for a young Korean-American woman.
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.
A Scanner Darkly
Bob Arctor, an undercover narcotics agent in Orange County, lives among the users of Substance D, and his own department, which knows him only by a code name, assigns him to watch himself.
Ghostwritten
Nine loosely connected stories spanning the globe, linked by chance encounters and the invisible threads between strangers.
Fever Dream
Amanda lies dying in a rural clinic while a boy named David presses her to remember what happened on her holiday in the Argentine countryside with her daughter, and what poisoned them.
The Peripheral
A young woman in near-future rural America takes a gig testing what she thinks is a video game and witnesses a murder in a London seventy years ahead.
Little Brother
Marcus Yallow, a seventeen-year-old hacker who skips school to play a game around San Francisco, is caught near the scene of a terrorist attack, held and questioned by Homeland Security, and on his release sets out to fight back.
Player Piano
In a near-future where machines do all the work, a factory manager discovers that full employment was the only thing keeping civilisation from eating itself.
Fortune Smiles
Six stories, among them two North Korean defectors struggling to adjust to life in Seoul and a former Stasi prison warden in Berlin who cannot admit what happened there.
A Song for a New Day
After attacks and a pandemic have banned public gatherings, Luce, who played the last big concert, plays illegal shows, while Rosemary, who has never seen live music, is hired to find bands for a company that streams them.