When Gravity Fails
10 best books like When Gravity Fails (George Alec Effinger): The Windup Girl, Hardwired, Broken Angels, Woken Furies, Gridlinked, Idoru, Walking to Aldebaran, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light
| Author | Paolo Bacigalupi |
| ISBN | 1597801577 |
Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history's lost calories. There, he encounters Emiko...
Emiko is the Windup...
| Author | Walter Jon Williams |
| ISBN | 1597800627 |
Hardwired features high-tech thrills and unforgettable heroes in the great tradition of William Gibson's Neuromancer. According to Locus, Hardwired is Walter Jon Williams's "best book to date".
Ex-fighter pilot Cowboy, "hardwired" via skull sockets directly to his lethal electronic...
| Author | Richard K. Morgan |
| ISBN | 0345457714 |
Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn’t just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another.
Cynical,...
| Author | Richard K. Morgan |
| ISBN | 0345479718 |
This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance.
Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan's World. An ocean planet with only 5 percent of its landmass poking above the dangerous and unpredictable...
| Author | Neal Asher |
| ISBN | 0765349051 |
Gridlinked is a science fiction adventure in the classic, fast-paced, action-packed tradition of Harry Harrison and Poul Anderson, with a dash of cyberpunk and a splash of Ian Fleming added to spice the mix.
Cormac is a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future...
| Author | William Gibson |
| ISBN | 0425190455 |
If you're into stuff like this, you can read the full review.
Techno-Dystopia: "Idoru" by William Gibson
I think it's very telling - and promising, that this guy who thinks he can predict an apocalyptic future for Earth where 80% of people are killed has had at least the...
| Author | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| ISBN | 1781087067 |
Chilling story of a lost astronaut on an alien artefact from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Adrian Tchaikovsky
My name is Gary Rendell. I’m an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, “astronaut, please!” I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut,...
| Author | William Gibson |
| ISBN | 0441013678 |
The coolest thing about reading Gibson is jacking in to his urbane and hip way of descriptive narration.
William Gibson, as prophet of cyber punk and also as the herald of his later Blue Ant works, returns to The Sprawl for a continuation of the setting he began in his masterwork, Neuromancer.
But...
| Author | William Gibson |
| ISBN | 0553281747 |
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations...
| Author | William Gibson |
| ISBN | 0140157727 |
William Gibson begins his Bridge trilogy with this 1993 publication that was nominated for both the Hugo and the Locus awards.
In the air of great protagonist names won hands down by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 cyberpunkapalooza Snow Crash with Hiro Protagonist, Gibson introduces us to Chevette...
| Author | William Gibson |
| ISBN | 0060539828 |
Ten tales, from the computer-enhanced hustlers of Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of Burning Chrome.
Johnny Mnemonic (1981)
The Gernsback Continuum (1981)
Fragments of a Hologram Rose (1977)
The Belonging Kind (1981) with John Shirley
Hinterlands (1981)
Red...
| Author | Bruce Sterling |
| ISBN | 0441374239 |
Laura Webster's on the fast track to success. A bright young star in a multinational conglomerate, she's living well in a post-millennial age of peace, prosperity, and profit.
In an age of advanced technology, information is the world's most precious commodity. Information is power. Data is...
| Author | Pat Murphy |
| ISBN | 0312854064 |
Elizabeth Waters, an archaeologist who abandoned her husband and daughter years ago to pursue her career, can see the shadows of the past. It's a gift she keeps secret from her colleagues and students, one that often leads her to incredible archaeological discoveries and the realization that she might...
| Author | John Brunner |
| ISBN | 0345467175 |
One man has made it his mission to liberate the mental prisoners. to restore their freedom in a world run mad.
Nickie Halflinger, the only person to escape from Tarnover- where they raise hyper-intelligent children to maintain the political dominance of the USA in the 21st century – is on...
| Author | John Shirley |
| ISBN | 1930235003 |
Book one of John Shirley's pre-holocaust series, A Song Called Like many works defining the wild cyberpunk fringe in the 1980s, this depiction of a near-future dystopia, here revised and updated since its 1985 debut, seems almost acceptably mainstream today. But Shirley's spiky prose and edgy attitudes,...
