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  • Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

    Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 96 ratings
    Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereIN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS...
  • Neural Wraith 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Neural Wraith 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Finance isn't Nick Waite’s strong suit as a detective, but he’s learning fast as he investigates the cover-up of a murder inside Neo Babylon’s oldest bank. The winds of conspiracy whirl around him, and everyone from the police commissioner to gang lords warn him to step back.Taking the easy way out isn’t in his nature, however...
  • Vortex by S.J. Kincaid

    Vortex by S.J. Kincaid

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The impossible was just the beginning. Now in their second year as superhuman government weapons-in-training at the Pentagonal Spire, Tom Raines and his friends are mid-level cadets in the elite combat corps known as the Intrasolar Forces. But as training intensifies and a moment arrives that could make or break his entire career, Tom’s loyalties are again put to the test...
  • Daemon by Daniel Suarez

    Daemon by Daniel Suarez

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    A high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control—a daemon—designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world orderTechnology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire...
  • সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ১ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

    সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ১ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    বাংলাদেশ ও বাংলা ভাষার কিংবদন্তী বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী লেখক মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল- এর প্রথম ৮ টি প্রকাশিত গ্রন্থের সমগ্র।*কপোট্রনিক সুখদুঃখ*মহাকাশে মহাত্রাস*ক্রুগো*টাইট্রন একটি গ্রহের নাম*বিজ্ঞানী সফদর আলীর মহা মহা আবিষ্কার*ওমিক্রনিক রূপান্তর*টুকুনজিল*যারা...
  • Warcross by Marie Lu

    Warcross by Marie Lu

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t just a game—it’s a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally...
  • The Philip K. Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick

    The Philip K. Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K...
  • The Causal Angel by Hannu Rajaniemi

    The Causal Angel by Hannu Rajaniemi

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    With his infectious love of storytelling in all its forms, his rich characterisation and his unrivalled grasp of thrillingly bizarre cutting-edge science Hannu Rajaniemi has swiftly set a new benchmark for SF in the 21st century. And now with his third novel he completes the tale of his gentleman rogue, the many lives and minds of Jean de Flambeur...
  • Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards

    Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Los Angeles: 2065 A wealthy young woman vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim’s disappearance is recorded on any of the building’s many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment’s memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery...
  • সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ২ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

    সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ২ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    বাংলাদেশ ও বাংলা ভাষার কিংবদন্তী বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী লেখক মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল- এর পরবর্তী ৮ টি বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী গ্রন্থের সমগ্র।*নিঃসঙ্গ গ্রহচারী*ক্রোমিয়াম অরণ্য*ত্রিনিত্রি রাশিমালা*অনুরন গোলক*নয় নয় শূন্য তিন*পৃ*রবোনগরী*টুকি এবং ঝায়ের (প্রায়) দুঃসাহসিক...
  • The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto

    The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In a world where humans are a minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis. She tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity's fall. The story takes place centuries in the future, where the diminished populations of humans live uncultured lives in their own colonies...
  • Operation Sherlock by Bruce Coville

    Operation Sherlock by Bruce Coville

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When their scientist parents are assigned to a top secret project on a small, remote island, the five members of the A.I. Gang have to come along, and find themselves trying to stop a spy from destroying the project...
  • Borderless by Eliot Peper

    Borderless by Eliot Peper

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Information is power, and whoever controls the feed rules the world in this all-too-plausible follow-up to the science fiction thriller Bandwidth.Exiled from Washington after a covert operation gone wrong, Diana is building a new life as a freelance spy, though her obsessive secrecy is driving away the few friends and allies she can count on...
  • Summer Frost by Blake Crouch, N.K. Jemisin

    Summer Frost by Blake Crouch, N.K. Jemisin

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion.Maxine was made to do one thing: die...
  • Wildcard by Marie Lu

    Wildcard by Marie Lu

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Emika Chen barely made it out of the Warcross Championships alive. Now that she knows the truth behind Hideo's new NeuroLink algorithm, she can no longer trust the one person she's always looked up to, who she once thought was on her side.Determined to put a stop to Hideo's grim plans, Emika and the Phoenix Riders band together, only to find a new threat lurking on the neon-lit streets of Tokyo...
  • The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi

    The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “The good thing is, no one will ever die again. The bad thing is, everyone will want to.”A physicist receives a mysterious paper. The ideas in it are far, far ahead of current thinking and quite, quite terrifying. In a city of “fast ones,” shadow players, and jinni, two sisters contemplate a revolution...
  • A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger

    A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized future Earth. Back then, as often as not, he didn't have the money to buy himself a drink. But he had his independence.Now Marid works for Friedlander Bey, "godfather" of the Budayeen, a man whose power stretches across a shattered, crumbling world...
  • Counterfeit World by Daniel F. Galouye

    Counterfeit World by Daniel F. Galouye

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The world of the future built its policies on public-opinion samplings! But Rien Reactions, Inc. realized that old-fashioned public-opinion polls were too slow, inaccurate and unstable on which to base a conforming society...
  • Ones and Zeroes by Dan Wells

    Ones and Zeroes by Dan Wells

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the second book in a dark, pulse-pounding sci-fi-noir series set in 2050 Los Angeles.Overworld. It’s more than just the world’s most popular e-sport—for thousands of VR teams around the globe, Overworld is life. It means fame and fortune, or maybe it’s a ticket out of obscurity or poverty...
  • The Culling by Ramona Finn

    The Culling by Ramona Finn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What happens to a girl trained as a executioner, who finds out her life is a lie?In a solar system where The Authority decides who lives and who dies, only one of their own executioners can stop them.Glade Io is a trained killer...
  • Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

    Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel "Neuromancer," has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . .
  • Corpora Delicti by Manna Francis

    Corpora Delicti by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Wealth Is the Only RealityOn the surface, stability has returned to Europe. According to all the official metrics released to news feeds, the Administration and the corporations are stronger and more united than ever. Only in the most secret of government surveillance departments and corporate security divisions would anyone suggest otherwise...
  • Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Elena Nevares is on the run. She’s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She’s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations...
  • Dome City Blues by Jeff Edwards

    Dome City Blues by Jeff Edwards

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For fans of William Gibson, Phillip K. Dick, and Jak Koke…Los Angeles: 2063David Stalin was one of the best detectives in the business, running head-to-head with data-jackers, organ thieves, and the tech-enhanced gangs who ruled the shadowy streets of Los Angeles...
  • Warden by Alex Knight

    Warden by Alex Knight

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Imprisoned for a murder he didn’t commit, Kaiden’s only hope of early release is in serving as a Warden in the game-world of Nova Online. Playing as a unique class while surrounded by aliens, pirates and warring guilds, he and his squad are tasked with protecting new players and enforcing the rule of law. But Kaiden has other ideas; he is intent on proving his innocence...
  • Gamer Army by Trent Reedy

    Gamer Army by Trent Reedy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In this timely and thrilling novel, Ender's Game meets Ready Player One and several terabytes of fast-paced video game action as five gamers are recruited into a tech giant's secret program.After Rogan Webber levels up yet again on his favorite video game, Laser Viper, the world-famous creator of the game invites him to join the five best players in the country for an exclusive tournament...
  • A Song for Madame Choi by Anthony Ryan

    A Song for Madame Choi by Anthony Ryan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to the Slab. A vast orbiting slum where rats grow big and sweat falls in rain. In the sequel to Slab City Blues, an old enemy embroils recently widowed Inspector Alex McLeod in the hunt for a kidnapped girl. With no leads he finds himself reluctantly seeking help from drug dealer and fellow war veteran Madame Choi...
  • Rath's Trial by Piers Platt

    Rath's Trial by Piers Platt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rath thought that defeating the Janus Group and stealing back his hard-earned fortune might help ease his guilty conscience. But when he returns to the planet Scapa to find the woman he loves, his past crimes finally catch up to him. And the police aren't Rath's only concern: someone's put a price on his head. Rath will need to figure out who his new enemy is if he wants to stay alive...
  • The Initiation by Chris Babu

    The Initiation by Chris Babu

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As featured on CNN, The NY Post, and Bloomberg!Everyone is equal. But no one is safe.In a ruined world, Manhattan is now New America, a walled-in society based on equality. But the perfect facade hides a dark truth.A timid math geek, sixteen-year-old Drayden watches his life crumble when his beloved mother is exiled...
  • Genius: The Revolution by Leopoldo Gout

    Genius: The Revolution by Leopoldo Gout

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three teen geniuses from diverse backgrounds must take down an online terrorist ring, rescue an imprisoned father, and prepare for their final showdown with a misguided mastermind in this third and final book in the Genius YA trilogy by Leopoldo Gout.How do we stop him? We beat him at his own game. Painted Wolf: Mysterious activist blogger and strategist from China...
  • Мова by Віктар Марціновіч

    Мова by Віктар Марціновіч

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    «Мова» – другі беларускамоўны раман Марціновіча пасля «Сцюдзёнага выраю». «У “Мове” я паспрабаваў сабраць у незвычайным сюжэце маё разуменне багажу праблем, звязаных з нашай ідэнтычнасцю, з культурай, мовай і гісторыяй. З тутэйшасцю, з правінцыйнасцю, з гатоўнасцю адмовіцца ад свайго», – кажа аўтар...
  • Nexus by Suki Williams, Jarica James

    Nexus by Suki Williams, Jarica James

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life in the city of Lumen is filled with secrets, especially if you're a scavenging tinkerer from the Mids.Lumen was made to keep us safe from the world beyond our walls, but this oasis quickly turned into a totalitarian hellhole where the government monitors our every move...
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  • Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis

    Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This cozy debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery that spans the starsWelcome to the Grand Abeona home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the furthest reaches of the milky way...
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    lgbtq  dystopia  cyberpunk  sci-fi  mystery  fiction  cozy  space
  • The Ruby Code by Jessica Khoury

    The Ruby Code by Jessica Khoury

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From Jessica Khoury comes a high-action sci-fi adventure about a video game AI come to life. Warcross meets Ready Player One in this thriller set in a high-tech near future. Bullied at school and home, Ash finds respite from his unhappy life in virtual reality games...
  • The Curve of the Earth by Simon Morden

    The Curve of the Earth by Simon Morden

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome to the Metrozone -- post-apocalyptic London of the Future, full of homeless refugees, street gangs, crooked cops and mad cults. Enter Samuil Petrovitch: a Russian émigré with a smart mouth, a dodgy heart and a dodgier past. He's brilliant, selfish, cocky and might just be most unlikely champion a city has ever had...
  • Pollen by Jeff Noon

    Pollen by Jeff Noon

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The sweet death of Coyote, master taxi driver, was only the first. Soon people are sneezing and dying all over Manchester. Telekinetic cop Sybil Jones knows that, like Coyote, they died happy - but even a happy death can be a murder. As exotic blooms begin to flower all over the city, the pollen count is racing towards 2000 and Sybil is running out of time...
  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

    Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse...
  • Guardian by Alex London, C. Alexander London

    Guardian by Alex London, C. Alexander London

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The pulse-pounding sequel to Proxy! Inspired by The Whipping Boy and Feed, this adrenaline-fueled thriller will appeal to fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent.In the new world led by the Rebooters, former Proxy Syd is the figurehead of the Revolution, beloved by some and hated by others. Liam, a seventeen-year-old Rebooter, is Syd’s bodyguard and must protect him with his life...
  • Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots by Project Itoh

    Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots by Project Itoh

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Solid Snake is a soldier and part of a worldwide nanotechnology network known as the Sons of the Patriots. Time is running out for Snake though, as he will soon succumb to the FOXDIE virus, but not before spreading the disease to nearly everyone he encounters, in essence becoming a walking biological weapon...
  • The Rule of Thoughts by James Dashner

    The Rule of Thoughts by James Dashner

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series comes The Rule of Thoughts, the exciting sequel to The Eye of Minds. Fans of the Divergent series by Veronica Roth and The Hunger Games will love the new Mortality Doctrine series. Michael completed the Path. What he found at the end turned everything he’d ever known about his life—and the world—completely upside down...
  • The Whisper of Stars by Nick Jones

    The Whisper of Stars by Nick Jones

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The year is 2091. With accelerated warming and global population out of control, the survival of humanity hangs in the balance. On the brink of extinction, science delivers one last hope. Human hibernation.Jennifer Logan is a tough cop in the newly formed Duality Division, tasked with enforcing hibernation...
  • The Lost Puzzler by Eyal Kless

    The Lost Puzzler by Eyal Kless

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A brilliantly written, page-turning, post-dystopian debut from Eyal Kless, about a society hoping to salvage the technology of a lost generation, a mysterious missing boy who can open doors no one else can, and a scribe who must piece together the past to determine humanity’s future.More than a hundred years have passed since the Catastrophe brought humanity to the brink of extinction...
  • Zero Hour by Jordan Castillo Price

    Zero Hour by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a world where life is disposable, two men fight to escape oppression and find the truth…together. Ernest just turned thirty. It’s time for retirement, freedom from the tedious drudgery of his job as a data clerk. Time to emerge from his pod and explore parts of the city he’s never seen before—to meet some actual people. And at the end of the month? Time to die...
  • The Thousand Emperors by Gary Gibson

    The Thousand Emperors by Gary Gibson

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The second in a high octane space adventure series from a master storytellerArchivist Luc Gabion is dying, slowly, victim of a forced technology implant while on assignment. He brought down a powerful terrorist, but at great cost, and this new tech brings unexpected dangers. Luc must investigate the Thousand Emperors, rulers of the Tian Di's stellar empire...
  • Nymphomation by Jeff Noon

    Nymphomation by Jeff Noon

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Set both in a real and imaginary Manchester, Jeff Noon's story concerns a revolutionary lottery game that is engulfing the city in a tide of gambling fever. As a group of mathematics students look at the mind-numbing probabilities involved, they soon find more sinister realities...
  • Neat by Russell Zimmerman

    Neat by Russell Zimmerman

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Meanest StreetsJames Kincaid is the type of guy who might be described as down on his luck, if only he’d had some luck to begin with. Like so many people in the shadows of Seattle, he’s trying to get by with what he has...
  • House of the Sun by Nigel Findley

    House of the Sun by Nigel Findley

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The kingdom of Hawaii is a tropical playground with a sinister underside. Dirk Montgomery, former Lone Star cop turned shadowrunner, must stay one step ahead of the factions battling to control the islands--the megacorps, the government, the rebels and the yazuka, not to mention the dragons, elves, new friends and old enemies...
  • Android: Golem by Mel Odom

    Android: Golem by Mel Odom

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a talented New Angeles Detective wakes up in bed with a woman whose name he can't recall, this seemingly harmless mystery indicates a much larger problem. After all, as one of the few bioroids in the New Angeles Police Department, Drake 3GI2RC isn't accustomed to forgetting... or even sleeping...
  • Masque by F. Paul Wilson, Matthew Costello

    Masque by F. Paul Wilson, Matthew Costello

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tristan has no identity, no face, no family, no rights. He is a perfect spy: an artificially created human whose metamorphic DNA can be programmed with "masques"--genetic copies of anyone--over and over again. Until his body breaks down. But Tristan's masters offer him humanity, citizenship, and a permanent shape in exchange for one last mission...
  • A Witch's Sin by Daniel B. Greene

    A Witch's Sin by Daniel B. Greene

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What would you do to keep your dreams ad-free?Bruised, stoned, and still adjusting to her latest wear implants, apprentice enforcer Taya Mint plunges into the darkest depths of Megastructure Seven Zero Three, challenging everything she thought she knew about life within the walls she has never stepped beyond...
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