25 of the Best Scifi Cyberpunk Books

Neuromancer

By William Gibson

At one moment he was the best data-thief in all of the matrix, the next moment he found himself being banished from the cyberspace and had a destroyed nervous system. Cases new employer has asked for his to do a last-chance mission and run at an extremely powerful artificial intelligence. 

Altered Carbon

By Richard K. Morgan

It's in the twenty-fifth century and humankind is spreading throughout the galaxy. However they are being carefully watched by the U.N. As the advancements in technology continue to grown divisions in race, class and religion still exist. 

Assuming that one has enough money to afford the procedure, one's consciousness can be completely restored and downloaded into a new body.

Snow Crash

By Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash reveals to us a new world that gives us a different take on society. Brining in virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and everything in between. Neal Stephenson brings up a hip new cyberpunk story of the information age. 

Mirrorshades

By Bruce Sterling

Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Full hard-edged, street-wise prose of high-tech communities. 

Hardwired

By Walter Jon Williams

As Earth lies prostrate beneath the last of the Orbital powers it has no choice but to allow the Orbitals to plunder their remaining wealth. Deep below the Orbital control hustlers, dirtgirls, and buttonheads search for their way out of the gravity well. 

A join between the two forces, the criminal underworld and the guerilla underground, has a chance to balance the power. 

The Glass Hammer

By K.W. Jeter

A sprinter, Schuyler, outruns the government's particle beam satellites in order to deliver computer chips to the European black market. In his attempts Schuyler become a media celebrity and the icon of a religious cult. 

Vurt is an innovative and highly entertaining story from a literary pioneer. 

Take an adventurous trip into a complete stranger's head. Travel along rain-shot street with a hip malcontents gang all hooked on drugs. But don't be fooled, Vurt feathers are not for the weak. 

Vurt

By Jeff Noon

Vurt is an innovative and highly entertaining story from a literary pioneer. 

Take an adventurous trip into a complete stranger's head. Travel along rain-shot street with a hip malcontents gang all hooked on drugs. But don't be fooled, Vurt feathers are not for the weak. 

Burning Chrome

By William Gibson

Burning Chrome takes you through a story of two freelance hackers. Automatic Jack, who is the narrator and is a hardware specialist. Bobby Quine is a software expert and falls in love with a girl named Rikki. In his hopes to impress her Bobby is determine that all he needs to do is become wealthy. 

Jack acquires a Russian "icebreaker" program that is capable of penetrating any corporate security system. Bobby then suggest that they use it to break into a vicious criminal called Chrome. Reluctantly Jack agrees. 

Based in 1942 Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, a mathematical genius and Captain in the U.S. Navy, is assigned to detachment 2702. A mission so secret only a few know that it even exists. The mission, commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe, is to keep Nazis unaware that the Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's Enigma code. 

Cryptonomicon

By Neal Stephenson

Based in 1942 Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, a mathematical genius and Captain in the U.S. Navy, is assigned to detachment 2702. A mission so secret only a few know that it even exists. The mission, commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe, is to keep Nazis unaware that the Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's Enigma code. 

Schismatrix

By Bruce Sterling

The Mechanists, ancient aristocrats, have their lives prosthetically expanded with the use of advance technology. The Shapers are genetically altered revolutionaries and their one skill is psychotechnic trainings and artificial conditioning. 

Both fighting in hopes to gain complete control of the Schismatrix of humankind. 

Ghost in the Shell

By Masamune Shirow

Late in the twenty-first century,  there is a blurred line between man and machine. In all of this mess cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is commanded to hunt down that most craftiest and dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals out there. These include "ghost hackers" who are enhanced with technology capable of reprograming humans to become their puppets. 

Trouble and Her Friends

By Melissa Scott

Being set in the United States of America Melissa Scott tells us a story of India Carless and her ex-lover Cerise. India goes by the name of "Trouble" and has a second life as a criminal. Three years earlier they discovered a double, someone impersonating Trouble online. With the extensive use of virtual reality they set out in order to reunite and confront him. 

Daemon

By Daniel Suarez

Upon the publishing of Matthew A. Sobol's obituary a computer programmer and CTO of Cyberstorm Entertainment, a Daemon has been activated. Sobol, who was dying of brain cancer, was afraid of humanity becoming envisioned in a new world order. With the help of the Daemon that world become acquirable. The Daemon's first mission is to kill two former workers of CyberStorm Entertainment Joseph Pavlos and Chopra Singh. 

Noir

By K.W. Jeter

As the rest of the planet sinks farther into an economic and social disaster the Pacific Rim stands firm. The cities on the coasts have become these high-tech paradises. The chief among them all is Los Angeles, a metropolis attracting lost souls from across the continent that have no where to go. 

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 

By Philip K. Dick

Set in a post-apocalyptic scene in San Francisco Earth has been damaged by a nuclear global war. Human kind and most species are endangered and are going extinct from the extreme radiation poisoning. 

This story follow a bounty hunter by the name of Rick Deckard. Rick is tasked with "retiring" six escaped Nexus-6 model androids. While another plot follows a man with a sub-par IQ, John Isidore, that aids fugitive androids. 

Boneshaker

By Cherie Priest

In the early days of the Civil War talk about the frozen Klondike brought numerous newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. In hopes to compete Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to invent a machine that was capable of mining through Alaska's ice. Thus giving birth the Dr. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine. 

The Windup Girl

By Paolo Bacigalupi

A company man that goes by the name of Anderson Lake lives in Thailand. Lake is an undercover factory manager searching for foodstuffs that were once thought to be extinct. In his searchings he encounters Emiko. Emiko is by no means human but is instead a Windup Girl, a strange yet beautiful creature. 

Otherland

By Tad Williams

Set on Earth in the twenty-first century a world exists where advancements in technology is far beyond what is currently present. The most popular advancement is the public ability to immerse into virtual reality. Which allows people worldwide to communicate and interact in what is known as the Net. 

Chasm City

By Alastair Renolds

A city overrun by a deadly virus is attacking both man and machines. As an agent attempts to pursues a lowlife he is ambushed by a centuries-old atrocity that history would feel better if forgotten.