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1) Neuromancer
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Series
Language
English
Description
Case, a nerve-damaged data thief, is recruited by a new employer for a last-chance run against a powerful artificial intelligence.
Case, a burned out computer whiz, is asked to steal a security code that is locked in the most heavily guarded databank in the solar system
2) Zero history
Author
Series
Blue Ant trilogy volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
While an ex-singer-turned-journalist unsuccessfully struggles to avoid notice by twisted marketing genius Hubertus Bigend, a talented Russian linguist emerges from rehabilitation amid Bigend's discovery of an anonymous rival on the global market.
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Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Colin Laney, sensitive to patterns of information like no one else on earth, currently resides in a cardboard box in Tokyo. His body shakes with fever dreams, but his mind roams free as always, and he knows something is about to happen. Not in Tokyo; he will not see this thing himself. Something is about to happen in San Francisco…
4) Agency
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Language
English
Description
"Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up, becoming the beta tester for their latest product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. "Eunice," the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, soon manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and an unnervingly...
Author
Series
Peripheral volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"William Gibson returns with his first novel since 2010's New York Times-bestselling Zero History. Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran's benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC's elite Haptic Recon force. Then one night Burton has to go out, but there's a job he's supposed to do-a job Flynne didn't know he had. Beta-testing...
Author
Series
Blue Ant trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
American design consultant Cayce Pollard is hired by a London advertiser to find the creator of an Internet montage of video snippets that is gaining cult popularity--Cayce herself one of its hooked viewers--and her search turns up unexpected clues about her father's disappearance during the September 11 attacks.
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Language
English
Description
The year is 1855. The Industrial Revolution, supercharged by the development of steam-driven cybernetic Engines, is in full and drastic swing. The computer age has arrived a century ahead of time with Charles Babbage's perfection of his Analytical Engine. The scientists and industrialists are in charge, and history has been permanently and irrevocably altered. Not so human nature: conspiracy, intrigue, and treachery thrive. Against the brilliantly...
11) Spook country
Author
Series
Blue Ant trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Multilingual Tito engages in sensitive information transfers from his single-room apartment, while journalist Hollis frets over her start-up magazine's censure of its own promotions, and prescription drug addict Milgrim wonders about the military connections of an enigmatic benefactor.
16) Count Zero
Author
Series
Sprawl trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Steampunk started as a subgenre of science fiction fascinated with steam-powered machinery and alternative histories frequently set in Victorian England. VINTAGE TOMORROWS examines steampunk’s transformation from those sci-fi beginnings into a global cultural movement that influences art, fashion, design and music.. Through in-depth interviews with the writers and artists who galvanized the movement, VINTAGE TOMORROWS asks what steampunk can tell...