Books like The Windup Girl
In a future Bangkok threatened by rising seas and engineered plagues, a Western calorie-company agent, an abandoned genetically engineered woman, a Chinese refugee and an incorruptible environmental enforcer are caught up in a struggle over the kingdom's seedbank.
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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 Sea and Summer
In the Melbourne of the mid twenty-first century, with the seas rising and most people unemployed and crammed into the tower blocks of the Swill, two brothers try to keep a hold on the life above it. Centuries later, historians study what they left.
The Child Garden
In a future London where cancer has been cured at the cost of halving everyone's lifespan and children are taught by being given viruses, Milena, a young actress the viruses cannot reach, meets Rolfa, a genetically engineered woman writing an opera of Dante's Comedy.
Parable of the Sower
As civilisation collapses from climate change and inequality, a young woman with a dangerous gift of empathy leads survivors north towards a new beginning.
Oryx and Crake
In a ruined world, Snowman, who may be the last human, remembers his friend Crake, a brilliant geneticist who built a new species, and the woman they both loved, in the first book of the MaddAddam trilogy.
Autonomous
A biotech pirate, a military robot, and a runaway slave converge in a near-future thriller about pharmaceutical freedom and corporate control.
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.
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.
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.
Neuromancer
A washed-up hacker jacks into cyberspace for one last heist in the neon-lit urban sprawl that launched the cyberpunk genre.
The New Wilderness
A mother and her sickly daughter join twenty volunteers exiled from a dying city into the last protected American wilderness, where the rules are the weather and each other.
The Word for World Is Forest
Human colonists on the forest world of Athshe log its trees and enslave its small, peaceful people, until one of them, Selver, learns to kill, in Le Guin's novella shaped by the Vietnam War.