Best Modern Cyberpunk Novels - April 2024

Ready Player One

• ASIN: B004J4WKUQ
• ASIN: B004J4WKUQ
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

The Infinite Future: A Novel

An exhilarating, original novel, set in Brazil, Idaho, and outer space, about an obsessive librarian, a down-at-heel author, and a disgraced historian who go on the hunt for a mystical, life-changing book--and find it. The Infinite Future is a mindbending novel that melds two page-turning tales in one. In the first, we meet three broken people, joined by an obsession with a forgotten Brazilian science-fiction author named Salgado-MacKenzie. There's Danny, a writer who's been scammed by a shady literary award committee; Sergio, journalist turned sub-librarian in São Paulo; and Harriet, an exc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0735224323
• ASIN: 0735224323
• ISBN: 0735224323
• Manufacturer: Penguin Press

Kurt Vonnegut: Novels 1987-1997 (LOA #273): Bluebeard / Hocus Pocus / Timequake (Library of America Kurt Vonnegut Edition)

The definitive edition of Kurt Vonnegut’s fiction concludes with three brilliantly satirical novels of the 1980s and ’90s collected in one volume for the first time. Here are the final three novels of the visionary master who defined a generation. Bluebeard (1987) is the colorful history of a phenomenally gifted realist painter who, in the 1950s, betrayed his artistic vision for commercial success. now, at seventy-one, he writes his memoirs and plots his revenge on the worldly forces that conspired to corrupt his talent. In Hocus Pocus (1990), a freewheeling prison memoir by a Viet... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598534645
• ASIN: 1598534645
• ISBN: 1598534645
• Brand: LIBRARY OF AMER
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Alien: River of Pain (Novel #3)

When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426—now called Acheron—has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph—the killing machine known as the Alien.Protected by the Colonial Marines, the colonists seek to terraform the storm-swept planet. Two such residents are Anne and Russell Jorden, seeking a fortune that eluded them on Earth. On Acheron, Anne gives birth to the colony’s first newborn. Rebecca Jordan, also known as Newt.The wildcatters discover a vast, decaying spaceship. The horseshoe-sha... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1781162727
• ASIN: 1781162727
• ISBN: 1781162727
• Manufacturer: Titan Books

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick—that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia. One beautiful autumn da... [Read More]

• ASIN: B071X3ZWDN
• ASIN: B071X3ZWDN
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

LoveStar: A Novel

2013 Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation of Excellence"Orwell, Vonnegut, and Douglas Adams are felt on every page, though Magnason is never derivative. His satire and insightful social commentary sweeten the pot and the sheer wackiness of Magnason’s oversized imagination is invigorating."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewLoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves, thus freeing mankind from wires and devices, and allowing consumerism, technology, and science to run rampant over all aspects ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1609804260
• ASIN: 1609804260
• ISBN: 1609804260
• Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press

Classic Cyborg: Liquid Cool: The Cyberpunk Detective Series (From the Crazy Maniac Files Book 1)

The Storm of the Century is coming. But will it be enough to wash away all the blood.LIQUID COOL is Sci-Fi Meets the Detective Crime Thriller! In the action-packed (and funny) cyberpunk detective series, tag along with Cruz, our sci-fi detective (and unlikely hero) with attitude in the fifty-million-plus, future supercity of Metropolis.What are the Crazy Maniac Files? Cruz has dealt with all kinds of criminal crazies—humans, cyborgs, robots—and even crazier clients. The supercity has a million victims and perpetrators but the LIQUID COOL Mini-Series features one “crazy maniac.”As you d... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07J2DCQ6Y
• ASIN: B07J2DCQ6Y
• Manufacturer: Well-Tailored Books

Destiny (Experimental Heart Book 1)

Most people could never kill without regret.I don't have that luxury. I'm an artificial creation who exists solely to follow the orders of a tyrannical maniac. Death is the only constant I know.I want more, so I'm running.What lies beyond the realm of my former master, presents a whole new set of problems, including a mistake that lands me at death's door. I accept that. Welcome it, really. For a relic of war, death is my inevitable release.But fate is a fickle creature.When a dragon saves me⁠—a creature said to be long extinct⁠—then offers me a chance at revenge, I don't know what to ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07BTFD2VK
• ASIN: B07BTFD2VK

Modern Classics Hothouse (Penguin Modern Classics)

The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright side of Earth is covered with carnivorous forest. This is the Age of vegetables. Gren and his lady - not to mention the tummybelly men - journey to the even more terrifying Dark side. One of Aldiss' most famous and long-enduring novels, fast moving, packed with brilliant imagery.

• ASIN: 014118955X
• ASIN: 014118955X
• ISBN: 9780141189550
• Brand: Penguin Classic
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classic

Metrophage: A Novel

New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey’s first novel—the cult classic dystopian cyberpunk tale—now back in print after twenty years in a special signed, collectible edition.Welcome to the near future: Los Angeles in the late 21st century—a segregated city of haves and have nots, where morality is dead and technology rules. Here, a small group of wealthy seclude themselves in gilded cages. Beyond their high security compounds, far from their pretty comforts, lies a lawless wasteland where the angry masses battle hunger, rampant disease, and their own despair to survive.Jonny w... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00ICN300O
• ASIN: B00ICN300O
• Manufacturer: Harper Voyager

Reamde: A Novel

• ASIN: B004XVN0WW
• ASIN: B004XVN0WW
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

Breakfast of Champions: A Novel

• ASIN: B000SEH1R8
• ASIN: B000SEH1R8
• Manufacturer: The Dial Press

Lock In: A Novel of the Near Future

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 late... [Read More]

• ASIN: 076538132X
• ASIN: 076538132X
• ISBN: 076538132X
• Manufacturer: Tor Science Fiction

Slow River: A Novel

• ASIN: B000FBJD98
• ASIN: B000FBJD98
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Anathem

• ASIN: B0015DPXKI
• ASIN: B0015DPXKI
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

Slaughterhouse-Five : A Novel

Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal

• UPC: 460729
• Rating: 3.934

Best Short Stories of the Modern Age

Stylistic and thematic trends in the development of the short story are demonstrated in major works by twenty outstanding writers from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Sargeant

• UPC: 441345
• Rating: 4.0

American Short Story Masterpieces : A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

This collection of thirty-six classic short stories from the fifties to the eighties features works by authors such as James Baldwin, Barry Hannah, Bernard Halamud, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, Anne Beattie, and Tobias

• UPC: 446464
• Rating: 5.0

Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels - eBook

Pringle presents his selections in chronological order and includes a synopsis of the story, a discussion of the author's overall contribution to fantasy literature, critical commentary on the title's significance, and a brief publishing history.

• UPC: 955163680

Slaughterhouse-Five : A Novel

Billy Pilgrim, a chaplain's assistant during the Second World War, returns home only to be kidnapped by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore, who teach him that time is an eternal

• UPC: 461182
• Rating: 3.934

Midnight's Children : A Novel

9780812976533

• UPC: 4542032
• Rating: 4.103

The Best Short Stories of Mark Twain - eBook

This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories and semiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vast imagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted

• UPC: 466072779
• Rating: 3.0

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 - eBook

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. very historian of the Valois period is indebted to Brantôme for preserving the atmosphere and detail of the brilliant life in which he moved as a dashing courtier,

• UPC: 731736078

The Field Book: Sports and Pastimes of the United Kingdom Compiled from the Best Authorities Ancient and Modern - eBook

An enthusiastic admirer of rural sports from boyhood, the Compiler sought with avidity after any book connected with his favourite recreations, from which either amusement or information might be obtained. The older authors, with the

• UPC: 805477059

A Modern Utopia (Best Navigation, Active TOC) (A to Z Classics) - eBook

**With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature.Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML)**In A Modern Utopia, two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth

• UPC: 307753715