18 books like The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

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The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin · 1974 · ★ 4.3 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the planet, Anarres, to challenge… Shares: Science Fiction

Singularity sky Charles Stross · 2003 · ★ 3.8 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In a technologically suppressed future, information demands to be free in the debut novel from Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross.In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these… Shares: Twenty-first century, Space colonies

Terminal café Ian McDonald · 1994 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Ian MacDonald explores the gestalt of transhumanism in a radically unfamiliar dystopian future. Terminal Cafe projects the future of the United States if we stopped pretending Brazil doesn't exist and embraced the Afro-Carribbean elements of our memetic function. This book is a hideously detailed, grotesquely erogenous exploration of a future that, correct me if wrong but virtually nobody since… Shares: Immortalism, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction

Down and out in the Magic Kingdom Cory Doctorow · 2001 · ★ 3.6 · 62p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Read Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom online at the Internet Archive. From the Back Cover "He sparkles! He fizzes! He does backflips and breaks the furniture! Science fiction needs Cory Doctorow." --Bruce Sterling, author of The Hacker Crackdown and Distraction On The Skids In The Transhuman Future Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and… Shares: Immortalism, Science Fiction

Slant Greg Bear · 1997 · ★ 3.5 · 350p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Greg Bear is the acclaimed winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards. He has written many books and short stories that have been praised by readers and critics alike. Earth, in the sixth decade of the twenty-first century, is a planet transformed by rapid technological advances. Nanotechnology has been refined and perfected, allowing people the ability to transform their bodies and… Shares: Twenty-first century, Science Fiction

Blade Runner K. Perkins · 2022 · ★ 3.4 LOS ANGELES, 2009. Il detective del LAPD Cal Moreaux indaga sulla morte di una scienziata che stava lavorando a un nuovo tipo di replicante, un sospetto suicidio. Determinato a scoprire la verità su un caso apparentemente di routine, scopre una cospirazione letale all’interno della Tyrell Corporation. Ambientato dieci anni prima del celeberrimo film Blade Runner di Ridley Scott e della serie… Shares: Cyberpunk, Science Fiction

Trouble and her friends Melissa Scott · 1994 · ★ 3.8 · 379p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Gay cyberpunk, baby! Shares: Twenty-first century, Cyberpunk

The Lost Thorn Joshua P. Aguayo · 2015 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The Lost Thorn is a science fiction novel with a strong, and insane, female protagonist. It fuses the ideas of cyberpunk with dashes of urban fantasy. It's a heart pounding adventure told from the perspective of a highly unstable and chaotic girl who has lost everything she held dear, leaving her with just a powerful drug as a means to cope with the inescapable pain. Cyberpunk meets… Shares: Drugs, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction

The Takeshi Kovacs Collection Richard K. Morgan · 2017 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN EXCITING SERIES FROM NETFLIX • The shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning in this “tour de force of genre-bending, a brilliantly realized exercise in science fiction.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIn the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in… Shares: Cyberpunk, Science Fiction

Grey Sky Blues (An Inspector Thomas Sullivan Thriller) (Volume 3) K.C. Sivils · 2017 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Moderate xi, 308 pages ; 22 cm Shares: Cyberpunk, Science Fiction

The Red Light Princess James W. Bodden · 2014 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Everything goes on the Night of the Clean Hands. There are only three rules: Old debts are forgotten. Payback is forbidden. Killing is outlawed. But just for one night. Kai, born and raised in the No Go Zone, understands that even in a place forsaken by the rest of the world, order always creeps in. As a member of the 25’s, a local enforcement gang, Kai jumps from the rooftops and glides over… Shares: Drugs, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction

How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobucar Rich Larson · 2020 A dark, fast-moving novelette, Rich Larson's "How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobucar," is a Tor.com original short story about a high-tech heist in future Spain, planned by a professional thief who's interested in revenge more than money. The object in question is in the hands of a dangerous crime lord.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management… Shares: Cyberpunk, Science Fiction

The Door into Summer Robert A. Heinlein · 1957 · ★ 4.0 · 159p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and greedier fiancée trick him into taking the long sleep--suspended animation for thirty years. They never imagine that the future time in… Shares: Twenty-first century, Science Fiction

Stations of the Tide Michael Swanwick · 1991 · ★ 3.8 · 252p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The story of a nameless bureaucrat who is sent by the Office of Technology Transfer, charged with restricting the flow of dangerous technologies, to the planet Miranda to search for a fugitive in possession of forbidden technological knowledge. His search is complicated by his quarry's deep local knowledge and the imminence of the continent-inundating Jubilee tides, which have thrown the world… Shares: Cyberpunk, Science Fiction

Beyond the Empire (The Indranan War Book 3) K. B. Wagers · 2017 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The adrenaline-filled space opera trilogy concludes as a gun-smuggling royal fights to protect her empire from devastating enemies."The final installment of Wagers's Indranan War space adventure trilogy has all of the best qualities of the previous books: nerve-wracking action on the ground and in space, dark humor, and the characters' til-the-end loyalty to one another." —Publishers Weekly… Shares: Space colonies, Science Fiction

The Last Man Mary Shelley · 1826 · ★ 3.4 · 452p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Mary Shelley, the author of [Frankenstein][1], wrote the apocalyptic novel The Last Man in 1826. Its first person narrative tells the story of our world standing at the end of the twenty-first century and - after the devastating effects of a plague - at the end of humanity. In the book Shelley writes of weaving this story from a discovery of prophetic writings uncovered in a cave near Naples. The… Shares: Twenty-first century, Science Fiction

Mirrorshades - Una Antologia Ciberpunk Bruce Sterling · 1986 · ★ 4.4 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "The definitive cyberpunk short fiction collection." Shares: Cyberpunk, Science Fiction

Black Man Richard K. Morgan · 2007 · ★ 3.7 · 642p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Winner of the 2008 Arthur C. Clarke Award Published as Black Man in the UK and Thirteen in North America Carl Marsalis is a traitor, a bringer of death, a genetic freak and an unwelcome reminder of all that is dark in the human psyche – he in every sense of the word a Black Man. And right at the moment he’s beyond the UN’s jurisdiction, banged up in a Florida jail for financing an illegal… Shares: Cyberpunk, Science Fiction

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