Books like 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rainbows End
Robert Gu, a famous poet lost to dementia, is cured in 2025 and has to go back to high school to learn a world of wearable computers and overlaid realities, and is drawn into a conspiracy.
Autonomous
A biotech pirate, a military robot, and a runaway slave converge in a near-future thriller about pharmaceutical freedom and corporate control.