The Digital Plague
10 best books like The Digital Plague (Jeff Somers): The Exile Kiss, Voice of the Whirlwind, Freeware, Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar and Grill, Fractions: The First Half of The Fall Revolution, Redlaw, Ex-KOP, Edge, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction, The Secret of Spring
| Author | George Alec Effinger |
Marîd Audran has risen from hustling on the streets of the decadent Budayeen ghetto to being the right-hand man of one of the Maghreb's most feared men. As an enforcer for the powerful Friedlander Bey, Marîd is just beginning to enjoy his newfound wealth and privilege, when he and Bey are betrayed by...
| Author | Walter Jon Williams |
| ISBN | 0812519248 |
The clone of a mercenary named Steward wakes up and is tasked with finding out who killed the original. The only problem is his memories are fifteen years out of date. The Beta Steward wanders through his Alpha's former life, piecing together the last fifteen years in an effort to solve his murder. His...
Rudy Rucker has seen the future. . .and it is extreme.The Godfather of cyberpunk--a mad scientist bravely meddling in the outrageous and heretical--Rucker created Bopper Robots, who rebelled against human society in his award-winning classic "Software.
Now, in 2053, "moldies" are the...
| Author | N.M. Kelby |
| ISBN | 0307382079 |
Take a slasher-movie actress, a Scottish circus clown, an FBI school dropout, a blind heiress, a junk-food-loving millionaire developer, and a Buddha-quoting bluesman, add a couple of murders in a normally sedate retirement community in south Florida, and you get an irresistible tale that’s...
| Author | Ken MacLeod |
| ISBN | 0765320681 |
In a balkanized future of dizzying possibilities, mercenaries contend with guns as smart as they are, nuclear deterrence is a commodity traded on the open market, teenagers deal in "theologically correct" software for fundamentalists, and anarchists have colonized a planet circling another star....
| Author | James Lovegrove |
| ISBN | 1907992057 |
They live among us, abhorred, marginalised, despised. They are vampires, known politely as Sunless. The job of policing their community falls to the men and women of the Sunless Housing and Disclosure Executive – SHADE. Captain John Redlaw is London’s most feared and respected SHADE officer.
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| Author | Warren Hammond |
| ISBN | 0765312743 |
In this hardboiled science fiction thriller, Juno, having been booted off the police force, is barely getting by as a low-level bagman and photographer for the scandal rags. But it gets worse: his wife is in critical condition at the hospital and Juno doesn’t have the money to pay her bills. Desperate...
| Author | Thomas Blackthorne |
| ISBN | 0007349718 |
This disappointed. I've heard others' excitement about this publisher (Angry Robot) and the blurb for this sounded fantastic, a blurb that caused me to lay down a Don LaFontaine voice as I read it with certain words and phrases punching out - knives!, duel!, blood!, hell!, legalised (because we're...
Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction
| Author | Michael A. Arnzen |
| ISBN | 0938467085 |
In Many Genres, One Craft, award-winning author Michael A. Arnzen and Heidi Ruby Miller gather the voices of today's top genre writers and writing instructors alongside their published students. It fosters the writing process in a way that focuses almost exclusively on writing the novel. Using a...
| Author | Piers Anthony |
| ISBN | 0812564871 |
Herb Moss is a nice young man. He's a Vegan. It's a good life, really; he's engaged to his childhood sweetheart Lily, has a job with his father's firm, and can look forward to a solid if unexciting future. And if he's bored and wistful every time he thinks about it--well, that's normal, isn't it? Surely,...
| Author | David J. Williams |
| ISBN | 0553385429 |
In his electrifying debut, The Mirrored Heavens, David J. Williams created a dark futuristic world grounded in the military rivalries, terror tactics, and political wrangling of our own time. Now he takes his masterful blend of military SF, espionage thriller, and dystopian cyberpunk one step further--to...
| Author | Philip Palmer |
| ISBN | 0316018945 |
The Exodus Universe.
Your odds of surviving quantum teleportation are, more or less, fifty/fifty. The only ones crazy enough to try it are the desperate, the insane, and those sentenced to exile for their crimes.
Belladonna is home to the survivors of the fifty/fifty-- and is therefore...
| Author | Simon Morden |
| ISBN | 0316125156 |
Winner of the 2012 Philip K. Dick Award
Theorem: Petrovitch has a lot of secrets.
Proof: Secrets like how to make anti-gravity for one. For another, he's keeping a sentient computer program on a secret server farm - the same program that nearly destroyed the Metrozone a few months back.
Theorem:...
| Author | David Louis Edelman |
| ISBN | 1591026474 |
Natch has just won his first battle with the Defense and Wellness Council for control of MultiReal technology. But now the Council has unleashed the ruthless cunning of Lieutenant Executive Magan Kai Lee. Lee decides that if Natch's company can't be destroyed from without, it must be destroyed from...
| Author | Dani Kollin |
| ISBN | 0765319004 |
The Kollin brothers introduced their future world, and central character Justin Cord, in "The Unincorporated Man." Justin created a revolution in that book, and is now exiled from Earth to the outer planets, where he is an heroic figure.
The corporate society which is headquartered on Earth and...
| Author | Gardner Dozois |
| ISBN | 0312378602 |
In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science...
| Author | Edward Castronova |
| ISBN | 0226096270 |
From EverQuest to World of Warcraft, online games have evolved from the exclusive domain of computer geeks into an extraordinarily lucrative staple of the entertainment industry. People of all ages and from all walks of life now spend thousands of hours—and dollars—partaking in this popular...
I quite liked this idea, and the focus on dolls. This is the first in the series I've come across, and as with many cozy mystery series, you don't really need to read them in order to get the general idea. It did take me a little longer to fall in with this one, but I think it's because there are many central characters...
