Books like 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.
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The Dream Hotel
Coming home from a conference, Sara Hussein, a mother of twins, is detained at Los Angeles airport because an algorithm reading her dreams has judged that she is likely to commit a crime, and she is sent to a retention centre for observation.
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.
The Compound
Lily, bored and beautiful and in no hurry to return to a world that is falling apart, wakes in a remote desert compound as one of twenty contestants on a hit reality show, where the last one left wins and every task earns another luxury, or a necessity like food or a front door.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Black Buck
Darren Vender, a twenty-two-year-old barista in a Manhattan Starbucks, is talked into joining a tech startup's sales team by its chief executive, and becomes the only Black salesman in the building.
Whisper Network
Four women who work at Truviv, a sportswear company in Dallas, learn that the boss they have whispered about for years is about to be made chief executive, just as an anonymous list of men to avoid starts to circulate.
Air
Mae, the fashion expert of Kizuldah, a remote farming village in Central Asia, is caught in the test run of Air, a technology that puts the internet straight into people's minds, and comes out of it knowing her village will have to change.