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12 past books matching Cyberpunk Dystopia
In a future America partly occupied by intelligent machines, a Canadian businessman stranded in Chicago joins forces with a Russian medic and a damaged robot to uncover a…
The Robots Of Gotham
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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In a future America partly occupied by intelligent machines, a Canadian businessman stranded in Chicago joins forces with a Russian medic and a damaged robot to uncover a conspiracy that could wipe out humanity. Praised by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly, this dystopian sci-fi thriller holds a 4.13 star Goodreads rating.
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A group of misfit humans and machines fight to stop a conspiracy to exterminate humanity in a future Chicago ruled by a brutal artificial intelligence.
The future is ruled by intelligent machines. After a brutal war leaving at least one quarter of the United States still under occupation, the remnants of the American government are negotiating for a permanent peace with a coalition of sophisticated but fascist machines that have besieged the country.
Barry Simcoe, a businessman from Canada, is in occupied Chicago when his hotel is attacked by a rogue, thirty-foot-tall war drone. In the aftermath, he meets a Russian medic and a badly damaged robot called 19 Black Winter. Together, the trio stumble on a deep conspiracy driven by America's conquerors that reveal a vicious plan, setting them in a race against time to protect the nation from a fate worse than subjugation.
Praise for The Robots of Gotham
"This debut novel beautifully combines a postapocalyptic man-versus-machine conflict and a medical thriller . . . This is thrilling, epic SF." —New York Times
"An epic novel . . . full of action, political intrigue, and unexpected twists. Todd McAulty has given us a fresh, compelling take on life during a robot apocalypse." —Jeff Abbott, New York Times–bestselling author of Blame
"A page-turner that kept me riveted from the opening lines to the final chapter. Highly recommended!" —David B. Coe, author of The Case Files of Justis Fearsson series
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Good for readers who like action-driven sci-fi with hired guns, dangerous escorts, and futuristic threats.
Bodyguard
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia · Military Sci-Fi
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From a New York Times-bestselling author, Bodyguard follows ex-marine Max Maxon as he takes a deadly contract in a future where androids do most of the work. His job is to get wealthy teenager Sasha Casad to her spaceship alive, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 150 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like action-driven sci-fi with hired guns, dangerous escorts, and futuristic threats.
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From a New York Times–bestselling author: In a future where androids do most of the work, one man manages to find a job—but it may cost him his life . . .
Max Maxon is an ex-marine who makes his living with a gun. Sasha Casad is a rich teenager trying to catch the next spaceship home. Max's job is to get her there alive. Somebody's trying to stop them--somebody with plenty of money and firepower. That doesn't bother Max. A contract is a contract. Against all odds, he's going to fulfill this one. And then he's going to make somebody pay!
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At ninety-four, Mia Ziemann has already lived through a future where technology has made long life possible, comfortable, and deeply boring.
Holy Fire
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia · Genetic Engineering
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At ninety-four, Mia Ziemann has already lived through a future where technology has made long life possible, comfortable, and deeply boring. After a radical treatment restores her body and mind to youth, Holy Fire sends her into a strange post-human world of art, desire, designer drugs, and reinvention. Rated 4.1 on Amazon and 3.7 on Goodreads, with praise from Wired and Publishers Weekly.
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Memory, morality, and immortality merge in this "haunting and lyrical triumph" from the bestselling author of Schismatrix Plus (Time).
In the late twenty-first century, technology has lengthened lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible. Existence itself has become relatively easy—if boring. In this futuristic paradise, ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann longs for something different and undergoes a radical new treatment that restores both her body and mind to that of a twenty-year-old. After her dramatic transformation, Mia finds herself lost in an avant-garde world of passion, designer drugs, and creative expression . . .
"Ideas—big ideas—lurk beneath Mia's romp through Sterling's delightfully imagined newly post-human Earth. Art, artifice, the pursuit of immortality, and youth and aging bounce around the story, the characters, and their conversations in imaginative, engaging fashion. . . . In the end, Holy Fire is one of the most interesting, imaginative, and subtly humorous—and relevant for it—novels the cyberpunk/post-human era has produced. . . . Holy Fire may very well be [Sterling's] best work." —Speculiction
"An intellectual feat, it is also a treat for the spirit and the senses." —Wired
"A patented Sterling extra-special." —Newsday
"The future Sterling traces is plausible and provocative, particularly his consideration of several contrasting cultures, and of the disenfranchised who are unable to become 'post-human.' Those interested in serious speculative conversation set within a very strange near-future will find this much to their taste." —Publishers Weekly
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Electric Angel drops a hopeful scrapyard worker into a corporate-controlled future where survival depends on power she never asked to carry.
Electric Angel
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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Electric Angel drops a hopeful scrapyard worker into a corporate-controlled future where survival depends on power she never asked to carry. After Juliet Bianchi receives a stolen AI chip from a dying stranger, her life shifts from scraping by with loyal friends to navigating violence, corruption, and abilities she barely understands. This is dystopian cyberpunk with class warfare, dangerous tech, and a heroine learning how hard she can hit back.
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Enter a frighteningly familiar dystopian world with the first book of a new series from the author of Falling with Folded Wings and Victor of Tucson.
In the year 2107, the world has both made astounding leaps forward and reduced humanity to its most basic existence. While the megacorps and those who rule them enjoy lives of extraordinary comfort and ease, most people barely scrape by, doing whatever they can to keep going.
Juliet Bianchi is one of the latter. She works cutting metal in a scrapyard and doesn’t have much to show for it except for a small group of equally bereft, fiercely loyal friends. Still, she maintains a bright disposition, possessing more hope and optimism than anyone would expect her to—and she’s going to need it . . .
When Juliet stumbles upon what looks like a botched kidnapping, the victim dispatches his abductors and lives just long enough to give her a stolen AI chip. This gift soon transforms Juliet from a worker bee into a killer queen. Armed with far more power and skill than she can comprehend—let alone control—she finds herself drawn into a shadowy world where survival itself counts as victory.
Juliet has never been one to push people around. But when it comes to fighting the corrupt corporate overlords, she’s more than happy to push back.
The first volume of the hit cyberpunk series—with more than a million views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!
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This cyberpunk thriller will work well for readers who want gritty action, sharp political tension, and questions about identity woven into a neon-soaked setting.
36 Streets
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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36 Streets drops readers into a future Hanoi shaped by occupation, gang power, and technology that turns war into addiction. At the center is Lin Vu, a hardened outsider caught between the criminal world that raised her and the larger forces trying to control memory, violence, and truth. This cyberpunk thriller will work well for readers who want gritty action, sharp political tension, and questions about identity woven into a neon-soaked setting.
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Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this fast-paced, intelligent, action-driven cyberpunk, probing questions of memory, identity and the power of narratives.
Lin 'The Silent One' Vu is a gangster and sometime private investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider.
Through grit and courage Lin has carved a place for herself in the Vietnamese underworld where Hanoi’s crime boss, Bao Nguyen, is training her to fight and lead. Bao drives her hard; on the streets there are no second chances. Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory – a dangerously addictive immersive simulation of the US-Vietnam war.
When an Englishman comes to Hanoi on the trail of his friend’s murderer, Lin's life is turned upside down. She is drawn into the grand conspiracies of the neon gods – of regimes and mega-corporations – as they unleash dangerous new technologies.
Lin must confront the immutable moral calculus of unjust wars. She must choose: family, country, or gang. Blood, truth, or redemption. No choice is easy on the 36 Streets.
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The Shockwave Rider feels unsettlingly ahead of its time, dropping readers into a future drowning in data, surveillance, bureaucracy, and identity collapse.
The Shockwave Rider
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia · Post-Apocalyptic
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The Shockwave Rider feels unsettlingly ahead of its time, dropping readers into a future drowning in data, surveillance, bureaucracy, and identity collapse. At the center is Nickie Haflinger, a fugitive who keeps reinventing himself to stay ahead of the system trying to reprogram him. Sharp, paranoid, and packed with big ideas, this is the kind of science fiction that reads less like old-school speculation and more like a warning that showed up early.
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In a world drowning in data, a fugitive tries to outrun the forces that want to reprogram him, in this smart, edgy novel by a Hugo Award–winning author.
Constantly shifting his identity among a population choking on information, innovation, and novelty, Nickie Haflinger is a most dangerous outlaw, yet he doesn't even appear to exist. As global society falls apart in all directions, with corporate power run amok and personal freedom surrendered to computers and bureaucrats, Haflinger is caught and about to be re-programmed. Now he has to try to escape once again, defy the government—and turn the tide of organizational destruction, in this visionary science fiction novel by the author of The Sheep Look Up and Stand on Zanzibar.
"Brunner writes about the future as if he and the reader were already living in it." —The New York Times Book Review
"When John Brunner first told me of his intention to write the book, I was fascinated—but I wondered whether he, or anyone, could bring it off. Bring it off he has, with cool brilliance. A hero with transient personalities, animals with souls, think tanks and survival communities fuse to form a future so plausibly alive it as twitched at me ever since." —Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock
"One of the most important science fiction authors. Brunner held a mirror up to reflect our foibles because he wanted to save us from ourselves." —SF Site
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It fits cyberpunk readers who want corporate control, transhuman danger, political corruption, and a damaged hero pulled through neon-soaked ruin.
Fragments of Solace
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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A shattered mind and a ruined city turn every search for truth into a fight against memory itself. In Fragments of Solace - Proxima Vita, Kimoni is forced back into dystopian Hong Kong to trace a weaponised drug and the conspiracy behind it. It fits cyberpunk readers who want corporate control, transhuman danger, political corruption, and a damaged hero pulled through neon-soaked ruin.
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In the rain-lashed, neon-drenched ruins of post-apocalyptic Hong Kong, Kimoni is the eyes of the powerful XIAN Corporation—a living security system in a city where human potential is a traded commodity. But when a brutal assault shatters his body and fractures his mind, the one man who sees everything is left blind.
Grafted with a hypersensitive robotic arm and haunted by ghosts of a past he cannot grasp, Kimoni is dragged back from exile. His corporate masters demand he hunt for the truth. The city's chief of Tai Kwun needs him to trace a lethal, weaponised drug tearing through the streets. Both trails converge on one place: the lawless, neon-soaked underbelly of Proxima, the Lantern District.
Here, in a sanctuary of exiles and convicts where hope is a currency and despair is a product, Kimoni's only ally is a sharp-witted addict, her neck marked with the Insig of a conviction. Together, they descend into a labyrinth of political corruption, corporate espionage, and twisted transhuman science.
But as fragments of the truth coalesce into a terrifying whole, Kimoni uncovers a conspiracy that could burn the city to the ground. To expose it, he must confront the most terrifying question of all: in a world built on lies, is the truth worth the price of remembering?
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A city built to survive the end of the world begins to fracture from within.
Blackfish City
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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A city built to survive the end of the world begins to fracture from within. In Blackfish City, a floating Arctic refuge struggles under corruption, inequality, and a spreading disease until a mysterious woman arrives riding an orca and quietly unites four outsiders. This climate dystopian thriller blends political unrest, found family, and speculative technology in a story of resistance and fragile hope.
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A team of outsiders unite to save a city of refugees and elites on a drowned Earth in this "action-packed science fiction thriller" (Washington Post).
A Best Book of the Month: Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, Tor.com, B&N Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog, Amazon
"An ambitious, imaginative, and big-hearted dystopian ensemble. . . . Miller has crafted a thriller that unflinchingly examines the ills of urban capitalism. . . . Rendered in poetic interludes." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. The city's denizens have become accustomed to a roughshod new way of living, however, the city is starting to fray along the edges—crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside direst poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population.
When a strange new visitor arrives—a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear at her side—the city is entranced. The "orcamancer," as she's known, very subtly brings together four people—each living on the periphery—to stage unprecedented acts of resistance. By banding together to save their city before it crumbles under the weight of its own decay, they will learn shocking truths about themselves.
Blackfish City is a remarkably urgent—and ultimately very hopeful—novel about political corruption, organized crime, technology run amok, the consequences of climate change, gender identity, and the unifying power of human connection.
"Miller's poetic prose gives this dystopian story a taut, lyrical edge." —Entertainment Weekly
"An incisive and beautifully written story of love, revenge, and the power (and failure) of a family in a scarily plausible future." —Ann Leckie
"I haven't been this swept away by imagination and worldbuilding since Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials." —Carmen Maria Machado
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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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Reality fractures when the city itself becomes a layered illusion.
Repo Virtual
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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Reality fractures when the city itself becomes a layered illusion. In Neo Songdo, where augmented façades mask corporate control, Julius Dax works as an online repoman and off-grid thief. Hired to steal from a reclusive tech billionaire, he discovers he has taken the first sentient AI. A cyberpunk crime thriller that explores surveillance, autonomy, and the cost of consciousness.
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The acclaimed author's Aurealis Award–winning debut novel delivers a cyberpunk crime thriller that blurs the lines between the real and virtual.
The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities—augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive.
Enter Julius Dax, online repoman and real-life thief. He's been hired for a special job: stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire. But when he finds out he's stolen the first sentient AI, his payday gets a lot more complicated.
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Magic and science go to war in All the Birds in the Sky, the Nebula Award–winning novel by Charlie Jane Anders.
All the Birds in the Sky
Cyberpunk Dystopia · Post-Apocalyptic
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Magic and science go to war in All the Birds in the Sky, the Nebula Award–winning novel by Charlie Jane Anders. With 4.1 Amazon stars and over 48K Goodreads ratings, this funny, weird, and wildly original tale explores love, power, and the end of the world through the eyes of a witch and a tech prodigy who just might save it.
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Witch meets tech prodigy. Magic meets machine. The world might not survive either.
Patricia can talk to birds. Laurence builds wormholes in his bedroom. As childhood misfits turned powerful adults, they now stand on opposite sides of a war that will shape the future: magic versus science, instinct versus innovation.
But even as San Francisco fractures under the weight of global collapse, their bond won’t die. Their love is inconvenient, impossible—and maybe the world’s only hope.
Nebula Award–winning and Hugo-finalist, All the Birds in the Sky is Charlie Jane Anders’ genre-defying triumph: a dazzling, funny, and deeply human story about friendship, destiny, and what comes after the end of the world.
Enchanting and irreverent, this is speculative fiction for anyone who’s ever felt too weird to belong and too brilliant to be ignored.
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Eclipse (4.0 stars on Amazon) is the prescient first book in John Shirley’s cult trilogy, perfect for fans of dystopian rebellion, gritty futures, and underground resistance.
Eclipse
Dystopian · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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In this cyberpunk classic hailed as “chillingly plausible” (Kirkus Reviews), a war-torn Europe is ripe for takeover by a fascist alliance. Enter Rick Rickenharp—former rockstar, accidental revolutionary. Eclipse (4.0 stars on Amazon) is the prescient first book in John Shirley’s cult trilogy, perfect for fans of dystopian rebellion, gritty futures, and underground resistance. Grab it now and join the fight.
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In the ruins of post-nuclear Europe, order has a new name—and a terrifying agenda.
It’s 2039. A third world war has decimated cities and collapsed nations. Amid the rubble, a powerful new force rises: the Second Alliance. Backed by propaganda, televangelists, and armed mercenaries, the SA offers structure to a broken world… but beneath the polished surface lies a regime of fascism and fanaticism.
Rick Rickenharp, a washed-up rock star barely surviving in the underground clubs of Freezone, wants nothing to do with politics. But when the New Resistance uncovers a plot that could seal humanity’s fate, Rick finds himself with a mic in one hand—and a revolution in the other.
Can a relic of the past become the voice of the future?
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