Novels

In this final installment of Hannu Rajaniemi’s dazzling trilogy, master thief Jean le Flambeur faces the ultimate chapter of his many lives. Alongside Mieli and the sentient ship Perhonen, he navigates a fractured humanity scattered across the solar system, where science and imagination collide in breathtaking ways.

Blending caper, philosophy, and cutting-edge speculation, Rajaniemi crafts a story that is as much about identity and storytelling as it is about cosmic heists. The fate of Jean and his companions unfolds against visions of wild futures and the lingering question of what reality itself truly means.

The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson. It is to some extent a science fiction coming-of-age story, focused on a young girl named Nell, and set in a future world in which nanotechnology affects all aspects of life. The novel deals with themes of education, social class, ethnicity, and the nature of artificial intelligence.

Avery Cates is a very rich man. He's probably the richest criminal in New York City. But right now, Avery Cates is pissed. Because everyone around him has just started to die - in a particularly gruesome way. With every moment bringing the human race closer to extinction, Cates finds himself in the role of both executioner and savior of the entire world.

In the near future, the only thing growing faster than the criminal population is the Electric Church, a new religion founded by a mysterious man named Dennis Squalor. The Church preaches that life is too brief to contemplate the mysteries of the universe: eternity is required. In order to achieve this, the converted become Monks -- cyborgs with human brains, enhanced robotic bodies, and virtually unlimited life spans.

Enter Avery Cates, a dangerous criminal known as the best killer-for-hire around. The authorities have a special mission in mind for Cates: assassinate Dennis Squalor. But for Cates, the assignment will be the most dangerous job he's ever undertaken -- and it may well be his last.

The Cyberpunk Detective Series Goes to London! But in The Electric Sheep Massacre does our detective come back? And, is that before or after someone tries to kill him in the world of virtual reality?!

Liquid Cool is Blade Runner meets the Maltese Falcon. In the next installment of the sci-fi/cyberpunk detective series, author Austin Dragon takes our private detective from the wild, concrete wastelands outside the supercity Metropolis across the Great Ocean to London Prime (that’s what they call it in the future) to the most dangerous place in the world—virtual reality, where all of a sudden people are killing and dying.

Avery Cates is a wanted man. After surviving the worst bioengineered disaster in history, Cates finds himself incarcerated - in Chengara Penitentiary. As Chengara has a survival rate of exactly zero, the system's most famous gunner must do some serious plotting. And a betrayal or so later, he achieves his goal. At a price.

All he has to do now is defeat some new personal demons, forge some unlikely alliances, and figure out why the people he's killed lately just won't stay dead.

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 a rival and accused of murder.

Sentenced to exile and abandoned to die in the vast Arabian desert, Marîd and Bey must somehow survive the searing sands and make their way back to the now-hostile Budayeen—and, then, take their vengeance.

The world is dying. With avatars replacing humans and the birth rate non-existent, the human race is almost extinct. In the end, it comes down to Canny Orel; Avery's long sought after nemesis -- transformed now into something other than human.

Orel might hold the secret to humanity's salvation, if he can be convinced -- or forced -- to relinquish it. And when Cates chances on a way to trick his old master, he suddenly has a choice to get his long-delayed revenge, or save the world.

“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.
And on the edges of reality a thief, helped by a sardonic ship, is trying to break into a Schrödinger box for his patron. In the box is his freedom. Or not.

Jean de Flambeur is back. And he’s running out of time.
In Hannu Rajaniemi’s sparkling follow-up to the critically acclaimed international sensation The Quantum Thief, he returns to his awe-inspiring vision of the universe…and we discover what the future held for Earth.

“Cruz, you’re under arrest for murder!”

In The Moon Is A Good Place to Die (Liquid Cool, Book 8) the Sci-Fi Detective Series leaves Earth behind. Cruz has been framed for murder and Metro PD is after him. The victim wasn’t just a client. He’s the heir of a wealthy off-world dynasty and they want revenge—against him.

In a near-future America hollowed by poverty and corporate dominance, Flynne Fisher takes a job operating a drone for what she thinks is a game. Instead, she witnesses a shocking murder, pulling her into a tangled web of conspiracies that stretch far beyond her world.

Gibson blends small-town decay with high-tech intrigue, exploring time manipulation, surveillance, and social collapse. The Peripheral stands out as a sharp reflection on technology’s power to reshape reality and amplify inequality, marking another milestone in cyberpunk literature.

Jean le Flambeur, master thief and trickster, is broken out of the Dilemma Prison by the enigmatic Mieli and her living spacecraft. Brought to the Moving City of Mars, where time itself is currency and memories are commodities, he must confront both his past crimes and the ultimate heist he never finished.

Hannu Rajaniemi crafts a dazzling vision of posthuman society filled with marching cities, shared memories, and hyper-advanced beings. The Quantum Thief blends hard science fiction with noir intrigue, delivering a fast-paced tale of identity, betrayal, and the art of the perfect theft.

In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hitmen—and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive.

The Stars My Destination is a classic of technological prophecy and timeless narrative enchantment by an acknowledged master of science fiction.

Avery Cates is an army man. Between the army's new dental plan and a set of first class augments, he's been given a second chance - albeit a quick one.

When a corrupt officer decides to make some money on the side by selling new recruits, Cates finds himself in uncharted territory. Sold to the highest bidder, his visions of escape and revenge quickly come to an end when he realizes who's bought him - and for what. Because the high bidder is Canny Orel himself. And he wants Cates to do one last job as the System slides into chaos. Cates will have one shot at getting back at Canny - but this time, Canny is holding all the cards.

In a future Bangkok ravaged by bio-engineered plagues and dominated by calorie monopolies, Anderson Lake hunts for extinct crops that could restore power to his company. There he meets Emiko, a genetically engineered “New Person,” discarded and forced to survive in a city where survival is fragile and corruption thrives.

Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl imagines a chilling biopunk world where calories are currency and genetic engineering reshapes humanity itself. Mixing corporate greed, ecological collapse, and questions of identity, the novel stands as a landmark in 21st-century science fiction.

Step into the year 2077, a world dotted with dystopian metropoles where violence, oppression, and cyberware implants aren't just common-they're necessary tools to get ahead. Delve into incisive lore to discover how the economic decline of the United States created a crippling dependence on devious corporations and birthed the Free State of California. Explore the various districts, gangs, and history of Night City. Learn all there is to know about the technology of tomorrow and research the cybernetics, weapons, and vehicles of Cyberpunk 2077.

Cal Sounder is a detective called to investigate the murder of Roddy Tebbit, a seemingly ordinary man who turns out to be a Titan—genetically engineered and over ninety years old despite his youthful appearance. Titans are rare, near-immortal elites created by the controversial T7 therapy, living lives of wealth and excess far beyond ordinary humans.

As Cal follows the case, he is pulled into the orbit of the powerful Tonfamecasca family, creators of the therapy and rulers of Titan society. With ties to his ex-girlfriend Athena, a Titan heiress, the investigation uncovers a conspiracy rooted deep in corruption, privilege, and the dangerous cost of humanity’s pursuit of perfection.

Nine wild, weird and wondrous stories, written together by Rucker and Sterling. What do you get if two cyberpunk masters spend thirty years writing tales about transreally warped versions of themselves? A unique perspective on giant ants, flying jellyfish, Soviet rocketeers, runaway genomics, Silicon Valley, and the death of the Universe. With notes by the authors and an introduction by Rob Latham.

Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the computer nets. The hip, noir adventurers who get by on wit, bravado, and drugs, and haunt the virtual worlds of the Shadows of cyberspace, are up against the encroachments of civilization. It's time to adapt or die.

India Carless, alias Trouble, got out ahead of the feds and settled down to run a small network for an artist's co-op.

Now someone has taken her name and begun to use it for criminal hacking. So Trouble returns. Once the fastest gun on the electronic frontier, she had tried to retire-but has been called out for one last fight. And it's a killer.