Books like 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.
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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.
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.
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.
Anathem
Monks in a parallel world devoted to pure mathematics are forced open by an alien threat that demands they engage with the chaotic outside world.
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.
The Quantum Thief
Jean le Flambeur, a legendary thief, is broken out of the Dilemma Prison, where copies of him play endless rounds of the prisoner's dilemma, by Mieli, a warrior from the Oort cloud whose employer wants a job done in the Oubliette, a moving city on Mars.
The Three-Body Problem
During the Cultural Revolution, astrophysicist Ye Wenjie answers a signal from space, and decades later nanomaterials researcher Wang Miao, investigating a wave of scientists' suicides, is drawn into a strange virtual-reality game and the secret behind it.
Neuromancer
A washed-up hacker jacks into cyberspace for one last heist in the neon-lit urban sprawl that launched the cyberpunk genre.
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.
Excession
An artefact older than the universe appears at the edge of the galaxy, and the Culture's ship Minds, a rival empire and a pair of estranged lovers are caught up in what to do about it.
Lord of Light
A man who is also a god wages war on heaven using the stolen technology of the gods against them, in a far-future Hindu-Buddhist mythology.
The Dreaming Void
In the far future, a man begins dreaming of a perfect world inside the Void at the centre of the galaxy, and when millions decide to follow him there, the galaxy's powers fear that the pilgrimage will trigger the Void's expansion and destroy them all.