Books like 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.
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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.
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.
Neuromancer
A washed-up hacker jacks into cyberspace for one last heist in the neon-lit urban sprawl that launched the cyberpunk genre.
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.
The Diamond Age
In a neo-Victorian future, a young girl from the streets receives a stolen interactive book that educates her to overthrow the social order.
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.
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.
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.
Perfect State
Kairominas, god-emperor of a world built for him alone, as every person's is in the simulations that keep human brains alive, is told by the machines that run it that he must go on a date with another real person.
Venomous Lumpsucker
In a near future where companies buy extinction credits to wipe out the species that get in their way, Karin Resaint, a scientist who studies animal intelligence, and Mark Halyard, a mining company's fixer, go looking for the last venomous lumpsucker, a fish that may be clever enough to matter.