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33 past books matching Cyberpunk
A sharp fit for readers who enjoy space opera, interstellar bounty hunters, military intrigue, and alien conflict.
Galactic Bounty
Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk · Galactic Empire
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Bounty hunter Sam McCade must stop a traitorous navy captain from selling military secrets to the alien Il Ronn. Betrayed by friends and pursued by enemies, he is the Terran Empire’s remaining defense against a devastating alien threat, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 100 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers who enjoy space opera, interstellar bounty hunters, military intrigue, and alien conflict.
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First in the action-packed series from the New York Times–bestselling author "known for the complex political and social layout of his future worlds" (Publishers Weekly).
A traitor is on the loose. A treacherous navy captain plans to sell military secrets to the alien Il Ronn. The only man who can stop him is Sam McCade. Betrayed by his friends, stalked by his enemies, McCade is the only one standing between a terrifying alien threat--and the unimaginable devastation of the Terran Empire?
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Best for readers who like space opera with reckless pilots, alien mysteries, ancient threats, and high-stakes survival.
Crucible
Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk
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Crucible follows Kaiden Jericho and his EI partner, Chief, as an ancient alien signal leads them to a graveyard of destroyed civilizations and a predator waiting at the galaxy’s edge. Best for readers who like space opera with reckless pilots, alien mysteries, ancient threats, and high-stakes survival.
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Kaiden Jericho has made a career out of bad decisions. This one might be his last.
Flying into the part of space the cartographers literally labeled "suicide" wasn't Kaiden Jericho's worst call. It cracked the top five, though.
An ancient alien signal said something was waiting at the galaxy's edge, so naturally Kaiden pointed the Resolute straight at it. What's waiting turns out to be a graveyard—eighty civilizations smarter, older, and far better armed than humanity, every one of them reduced to ash by something that hunts along a scar through the void and has never once needed to hurry.
His EI partner, Chief, calls it the Harvester. Kaiden calls it a very good reason to turn around. Except the Trinity fleet is shadowing them as expendable bait, the dead zone keeps whispering, and the thing in the dark has noticed someone is finally listening.
A street kid and a damaged orb against the predator that ended worlds. Those are the odds. They've survived worse on less.
Does the bond no one thought possible hold the one weapon that works—or just buy the galaxy one more name to forget?
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Heavy Weather follows a crew of storm chasers in a climate-damaged near future where extreme weather has become both obsession and existential threat.
Heavy Weather
Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk · Hard Sci-Fi · Techno-Thriller
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Heavy Weather follows a crew of storm chasers in a climate-damaged near future where extreme weather has become both obsession and existential threat. The Storm Troupers use virtual reality, robotics, and raw nerve to track violent systems across Texas and Oklahoma, but one new arrival pushes them toward a tornado beyond prediction. This is eco-thriller science fiction with cyberpunk technology, environmental collapse, and disaster-scale tension.
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A near-future eco-thriller from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus and The Difference Engine.
The Storm Troupers are a group of weather hackers who roam the plains of Texas and Oklahoma, hopped up on adrenaline and technology. Utilizing virtual reality, flying robots, and all-terrain vehicles, they collect data on the extreme storms ravaging an America decimated by climate change. But even their visionary leader can't predict the danger on the horizon when a volatile new member joins their ranks and faces a trial by fire: a massive tornado unlike any the world has seen before.
"A remarkable and individual sharpness of vision . . . Sterling hacks the future, and an elegant hack it is." —Locus
"Lucid and tremendously entertaining. Sterling shows once more his skills in storytelling and technospeak. A cyberpunk winner." —Kirkus Reviews
"So believable are the speculations that . . . one becomes convinced that the world must and will develop into what Sterling has predicted." —Science Fiction Age
"A very exciting coming-of-age story in a wild future America . . . What's it got? Cyberpunk attitude, genuine humor, nanotechnology, minimal sex but some cool medications and very big weather systems." —SFReviews.net
"Brilliant . . . Fascinating . . . Exciting . . . A full complement of thrills." —The New York Review of Science Fiction
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It fits sci-fi readers who want mech warfare, high-stakes first contact, and countdown-driven tension.
Strike Range
Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk
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A looming alien arrival cuts humanity’s timeline in half and forces one pilot into a brutal first-contact decision with millions of lives at stake. In Strike Range, David Wayne must weigh defense, political pressure, and a dying intelligence reaching out through a neural link before Valis becomes the center of catastrophe. It fits sci-fi readers who want mech warfare, high-stakes first contact, and countdown-driven tension.
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Eight months. That's all the warning they got.
David Wayne thought the math was wrong when Sigma-9 flagged two hundred forty-seven massive contacts inbound to Valis. The sensors don't lie—something vast and alien is coming, broadcasting a signal into the void that's been unanswered for years.
Dr. Freedman has a theoretical weapon. Corporate titan Ionis Vael wants to weaponize the entity itself. Xenobiologist Elias Thorne has two million followers convinced humanity is about to start an interstellar war with a species that just wants to talk.
Through his mech's neural interface, David makes contact with the entity's failing consciousness.
It's desperate. Dying.
When it accelerates, cutting their preparation time in half, David faces an impossible choice: finish the defensive array with thirty units instead of forty, or launch a strike mission to intercept the entity before it reaches Valis.
One neural link. One dying alien intelligence. And four weeks to get it right.
Can David bridge the gap between species before time runs out? Or will the wrong answer condemn thirty million people?
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As the city fractures, a twelve-year-old begins to see the world without illusions.
Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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As the city fractures, a twelve-year-old begins to see the world without illusions. In Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Lola Hart records her family’s descent from comfort to survival as riots, disease, and unrest unravel New York around them. Told through her diary, this dystopian novel captures the quiet erosion of innocence against a backdrop of social collapse.
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: In a dystopian future New York, a girl's diary chronicles her life as society begins to crumble around her.
Until recently, Lola Hart's biggest problem was her annoying little sister. Now the twelve-year-old girl's once comfortable life is slowly falling apart. Her mother is a teacher, but she's lost her job. Her father is a writer, but no one is buying his scripts. It's gotten so bad that they can no longer afford their Manhattan apartment or the tuition for Lola's exclusive private school.
They move to a small apartment near Harlem, and Lola enrolls in public school—but the Harts aren't alone in their troubles. Riots, fires, TB outbreaks, roaming gangs, and civil unrest have become commonplace, threatening the very fabric of life in New York. In the pages of her diary, Lola documents her family's attempts to adjust as the city and the country spin out of control
Jack Womack, a winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut for his vivid prose and unbridled imagination. In this novel, "Womack's stark vision of the United States's decline is an uncompromising satire that, perhaps even more than it did in the mid-1990s, forces us to confront a world instantly recognizable as our own" (Los Angeles Review of Books).
"A heartrending coming-of-age story. Flecked with black humor, this is speculative fiction at its eerie best." —Entertainment Weekly
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Islands in the Net begins in a world where corporations eclipse nations and information serves as the ultimate currency.
Islands in the Net
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Thriller · Cyberpunk · Political Dystopia · Political Thriller · Suspense
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Islands in the Net begins in a world where corporations eclipse nations and information serves as the ultimate currency. When a corporate conference turns deadly, rising public relations executive Laura Webster becomes entangled in a widening conflict of data piracy, electronic warfare, and geopolitical unrest. This cyberpunk thriller examines power, technology, and global instability through a sharp, near-future lens.
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Good for readers who like sci-fi about virtual reality, identity, and hidden systems.
Veneer
Sci-Fi · Dystopian · Cyberpunk
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In 22nd-century Easton, Deron Bishop struggles to master the augmented-reality veneer that shapes life around him, until a violent incident leaves him seeing the world as it truly exists. Veneer follows his choice between abandoning Easton or fighting back toward the fantasy he once wanted, with a 3.8-star rating from more than 50 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like sci-fi about virtual reality, identity, and hidden systems.
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In the 22nd century, augmented reality is no longer a novelty, but rather a way of life for citizens of Easton. Children are taught at a young age to control the ubiquitous layer of reality known as veneer through a process called reconciliation. Those who learn to reconcile live in a constant state of redefinition, of the world and of themselves. Those who struggle are forced to stand by and watch the world change without them.
For this skill, there are no shortcuts, no special glasses or handheld devices. The power to change comes from within.
Deron Bishop wants to live in the augmented world, to perform the magic of reconciliation like his peers, but controlling the veneer has always been a problem for him. Already resentful of the one thing he could never master, Deron doesn't realize how much he needs the veneer until a violent run-in with a childhood rival puts him in the hospital and robs him of his virtual sight.
Now able to see the world as it truly exists, Deron must choose to abandon Easton or fight his way back to the veneered fantasy of his previous life--a fight not everyone wants him to win.
Join Deron, his friends, and his enemies as they discover the truths that will be revealed when the virtual veil finally drops.
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Lock In is set in a near future reshaped by a virus that leaves millions fully conscious but unable to move.
Lock In
Sci-Fi · Thriller · Cyberpunk · Medical Thriller
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Lock In is set in a near future reshaped by a virus that leaves millions fully conscious but unable to move. Rookie FBI agent Chris Shane investigates a murder tied to this new reality, uncovering political, corporate, and technological forces exploiting a transformed human culture. What begins as a single crime reveals a much larger and unsettling truth.
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A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi.
Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.
A quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by what's now known as "Haden's syndrome," rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an "integrator" - someone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated.
But "complicated" doesn't begin to describe it. As Shane and Vann began to unravel the threads of the murder, it becomes clear that the real mystery - and the real crime - is bigger than anyone could have imagined. The world of the locked in is changing, and with the change comes opportunities that the ambitious will seize at any cost. The investigation that began as a murder case takes Shane and Vann from the halls of corporate power to the virtual spaces of the locked in, and to the very heart of an emerging, surprising new human culture. It's nothing you could have expected.
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Telekinetic secret agent Teagan Frost wants a normal life.
The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind
Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk
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Telekinetic secret agent Teagan Frost wants a normal life. Instead, she is framed for a murder only she could commit. With twenty-four hours to clear her name, she races through Los Angeles to stop a citywide disaster. The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind by Jackson Ford is a sharp, explosive blend of sci-fi and action.
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Teagan Frost can move things with her mind. Unfortunately, that means trouble.
As part of a secret government team in Los Angeles, Teagan uses her telekinetic powers to break into places no one else can reach. What she really wants is a normal life with beer, sunshine, and no missions that end in explosions.
Then a body turns up at the scene of her last job, murdered in a way that only she could have done. Framed and on the run, Teagan has twenty-four hours to prove her innocence before the city becomes ground zero for a war she never asked to fight.
The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind by Jackson Ford is a wild, fast-paced, and wickedly inventive urban sci-fi thriller.
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In a future Paris where wrong thoughts mean death, a loyal Peacekeeper goes undercover to destroy a rebellion.
Resistance
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk · Post-Apocalyptic
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In a future Paris where wrong thoughts mean death, a loyal Peacekeeper goes undercover to destroy a rebellion. Forced into a new identity, she begins to question the system she was raised to protect. This award-winning dystopian novel explores loyalty, control, and the cost of engineered perfection, earning 4.1 stars on Amazon and praise for its originality.
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Winner of a OneBookTwo Standout Award and Semi-finalist in Hugh Howey's inaugural SPSFC
A unique story of a divided population in a false utopia, 'Resistance' is the first book in the completed dystopian trilogy, 'Divided Elements'.
From the moment you are born, you are conditioned to know this truth: Unorthodoxy is wrong action, Heterodoxy is wrong thought. The first will lead to your Detention. The second to your Execution.
A century from now, the walled city-state of a future Paris is enjoying its Golden Age. The horrors of the Singularity forgotten, citizens revel in an intoxicating mix of abandon and apathy made possible by the Orthodoxy—a new world order where everything is engineered for maximum efficiency, including identities. Dividing the population into four neuro-social classes has allowed the government to maintain control and ensure its citizens exist in complete equality, fraternity, and liberty. But, not everyone is satisfied with the status quo.
Anaiya, a Peacekeeper aligned to the single-minded Fire class, has dedicated her life to enforcing the rules. Unlike other citizens, she has extra motivation to prove herself loyal: she’s still tarnished by the legacy of her Heterodox mentor, the infamous Kane 148. So, when forbidden murals start appearing on crumbling walls calling for citizens to rebel, Anaiya will do anything to bring down the growing resistance movement—even if it means sacrificing her identity.
Realigned from her proud Fire identity to an irrational and unpredictable Air, Anaiya goes deep undercover in search of the growing rebellion. But, with her dual nature pulling her in opposite directions and her mind fracturing under the pressure, her convictions waver and her hold on the truth starts to slip. As the city descends into chaos, Anaiya is left with a fatal choice: stay loyal to her mission, or risk it all for her new identity and the resistance that has shown her a different truth.
Utopia comes at a cost. Not everyone is willing to pay the pay the price.
Resistance is the award-winning first book in the dark and subversive dystopian trilogy, Divided Elements.
Perfect for fans of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Pierce Brown’s Red Rising, and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, this stunning debut explores themes of loyalty, identity, betrayal, and resistance against the carnival atmosphere of a dystopian Paris.
If you’re ready to graduate from YA dystopian classics like Divergent and The Gender Game, or are looking for a contemporary tale in the classic style of Zamaytin’s We or Orwell’s 1984, you’ll love Kopievsky’s Resistance.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to near-future science fiction, time-spanning mysteries, and technologically complex worlds.
The Peripheral
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk · Hard Sci-Fi · Techno-Thriller
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Flynne Fisher, a struggling worker in rural America, witnesses a murder while filling in for her brother on a mysterious virtual security job and becomes connected to Wilf Netherton, a publicist living more than seventy years in the future. Their meeting draws both worlds into a fast-paced science fiction thriller about technology, class, and power, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 11,700 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to near-future science fiction, time-spanning mysteries, and technologically complex worlds.
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The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future.
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Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she’s trying to avoid. Her brother Burton lives on money from the Veterans Administration, for neurological damage suffered in the Marines’ elite Haptic Recon unit. Flynne earns what she can by assembling product at the local 3D printshop. She made more as a combat scout in an online game, playing for a rich man, but she’s had to let the shooter games go.
Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Things are pretty good now, for the haves, and there aren’t many have-nots left. Wilf, a high-powered publicist and celebrity-minder, fancies himself a romantic misfit, in a society where reaching into the past is just another hobby.
Burton’s been moonlighting online, secretly working security in some game prototype, a virtual world that looks vaguely like London, but a lot weirder. He’s got Flynne taking over shifts, promised her the game’s not a shooter. Still, the crime she witnesses there is plenty bad.
Flynne and Wilf are about to meet one another. Her world will be altered utterly, irrevocably, and Wilf’s, for all its decadence and power, will learn that some of these third-world types from the past can be badass.
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Identity fractures long before the system admits anything is wrong.
A Scanner Darkly
Sci-Fi · Literary Fiction · Cyberpunk · Psychological Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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Identity fractures long before the system admits anything is wrong. In A Scanner Darkly, an undercover agent hunts a drug dealer without realizing they are the same man, as Substance D erodes memory, loyalty, and any stable sense of self. The novel blends dystopian surveillance, psychological collapse, and drug-fueled paranoia into a sci-fi classic that feels disorienting, intimate, and devastating.
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Winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel, Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly is a semi-autobiographical novel of drug addiction set in a future American dystopia — and the basis for the Hugo Award finalist film starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, and Robert Downey, Jr.
"A Scanner Darkly is about a descent into the deep fears of our 24-hour consumer society: the twilight of intellectual and emotional collapse...A fascinating portrait of 70s Californian counter-culture."—The Guardian
Bob Arctor is a junkie and a drug dealer, both using and selling the mind-altering Substance D. Fred is an undercover agent, tasked with bringing Bob down. It sounds like a standard case. The only problem is that Bob and Fred are the same person. Substance D doesn’t just alter the mind, it splits it in two, and neither side knows what the other is doing or that it even exists. Now, both sides are growing increasingly paranoid as Bob tries to evade Fred while Fred tries to evade his suspicious bosses. In this dystopian future, friends can become enemies, good trips can turn terrifying, and cops and criminals are two sides of the same coin. Caustically funny and somberly contemplative, Dick fashions a psychological thriller that is as unnerving as it is enthralling.
"Dick is Thoreau plus the death of the American dream."—Roberto Bolaño
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