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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Staff Pick Snow Crash is one of my favorites. It's an epic cyber-punk tale that contains elements that are both fantastical and very realistic. The characters are richly imagined, even the villains. It is fast paced and well embellished, containing elements of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick Publisher Comments Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Accelerando by Charles Stross Publisher Comments Expanding on his award-winning short story cycle from "Asimov's Science Fiction" magazine, the Hugo Award-winning author of "Glasshouse" delivers a novel destined to change the genre.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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Glasshouse by Charles Stross Publisher Comments In the 27th century, interstellar travel is by teleport gates, and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities. On the run from an unknown enemy, the memory-less Robin volunteers to participate in a unique experimental civil... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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A Song Called Youth: Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona by John Shirley Publisher Comments In a near-future dystopia, a limited nuclear strike has destroyed portions of Europe, bringing the remaining nation-cities under control of the Second Alliance, a frighteningly fundamentalist international security corporation with designs on world... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan Staff Pick Thirteen is a futuristic techno-thriller and a sci-fi masterpiece. I was reminded of Dan Simmons's Hyperion — the world and its people are that richly drawn. At once gripping and thoughtful, this is a novel worthy of the top awards. It's got my vote.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Jennifer Government by Max Barry Publisher Comments Taxation has been abolished, the government has been privatized, and employees take the surname of the company they work for. It's a brave new corporate world, but you don't want to be caught without a platinum credit card--as lowly Merchandising Officer... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chaos & cyber culture by Timothy Leary Staff Pick Most modern philosophers wail on about the horrors of living today. Reading Leary, I find myself overwhelmed with the glittering optimism he has for the possibilities of modern society. Published just as the Internet explosion was happening in the early... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Altered Carbon by Richard K Morgan Publisher Comments Prologue Two hours before dawn I sat in the peeling kitchen and smoked one of Sarah's cigarettes, listening to the maelstrom and waiting. Millsport had long since put itself to bed, but out in the Reach currents were still snagging on the shoals, and the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier by Vernor Vinge Publisher Comments Once in a great while a science fiction story is so visionary, yet so close to impending scientific developments that it becomes not only an accurate predictor, but itself the locus for new discoveries and development. True Names by Vernor Vinge, first... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Daemon by Daniel Suarez Publisher Comments When a designer of computer games dies, he leaves behind a program that unravels the Internet's interconnected world. It corrupts, kills, and runs independent of human control. It's up to Detective Peter Sebeck to wrest the world from the malevolent... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott Publisher Comments India Carless, alias Trouble, managed to stay one step ahead of the feds until she retired from life as a hacker and settled down to run a small network for an artists co-op. Now someone has stolen her pseudonym and begun to use it for criminal hacking... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Samuil Petrovitch #1: Equations of Life by Simon Morden Synopsis Samuil Petrovitch is a survivor. He survived the nuclear fallout in St. Petersburg and hid in the London Metrozone - the last city in England. He's lived this long because he's a man of rules and logic. For example, getting involved = a bad idea. But... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Cyberpunks by Timothy Leary Synopsis This timely book, Timothy Leary's "cyberpunk manifesto," is his future-vision of the emergence of a new humanism with an emphasis on questioning authority, independent thinking, individual creativity, and empowerment via computers and brain technologies.... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Catspaw by Joan D Vinge Publisher Comments CAT: Street Punk, Psion, Telepath, Survivor. . . Kidnapped by an interstellar corporation and dragged to Earth, Cat is forced to use his skills to protect those he most hates, those who most hate him . . . . The taMings. A cyber-augmented, DNA-incestuous... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rewired: Post-cyberpunk Anthology (07 Edition) by Kelly Publisher Comments Following the rapid evolution of cyberpunk from Bruce Sterling and William Gibson into the current millennium, this vivid anthology welcomes a new generation of exciting writers to take the genre in new and unexpected directions. Cyberpunk... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Machine Man (10 Edition) by Max Barry Publisher Comments Scientist Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. It's not a tragedy. It's an opportunity. Charlie always thought his body could be better. He begins to explore a few ideas. To build parts. Better parts. Prosthetist Lola Shanks loves a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Headcrash by Bruce Bethke Publisher Comments When Jack Burroughs, a brilliant young computer programmer, is given his pink slip, he is offered the opportunity to use his skills for a little industrial espionage. Donning the guise of his online alter ego, Max Kool, Burroughs transforms himself into... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Infinity & the Mind by Rudy Rucker Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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