Books like Neuromancer
A washed-up hacker jacks into cyberspace for one last heist in the neon-lit urban sprawl that launched the cyberpunk genre.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
When Gravity Fails
Marîd Audran, a small-time hustler in the Budayeen, the walled quarter of a future Muslim city where people plug personality modules into their brains, is drawn into hunting a killer.
Vurt
In a future Manchester, Scribble and his gang take feathers that send them into the Vurt, a shared dream world, and Scribble's sister Desdemona has been lost inside it.
Ghost in the Shell
Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg officer of Public Security Section 9 in a future Japan, hunts a hacker known as the Puppet Master.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Black Man
Carl Marsalis is a thirteen, a genetically engineered soldier of a kind since banned and confined, and he earns his freedom hunting down others like him. When a ship from Mars crashes off the Pacific coast with its crew dead, he is hired to track the thirteen who did it.