Cyberpunk

Neonbeleuchtete Megastädte und digitale Grenzgebiete bilden die Kulisse für Geschichten über High-Tech-Rebellion gegen Konzernkontrolle und künstliche Intelligenz. In dieser Welt aus Chrom und Schatten erforschen Hacker und Philosophen, was es bedeutet, Mensch zu sein, wenn Bewusstsein programmiert werden kann und die Realität ebenso im virtuellen Raum wie in der physischen Welt existiert.

Cyberpunk Buchzusammenfassungen

Altered Carbon

von Richard K. Morgan

An immortal hires a soldier, revived in a stranger's body, to solve his own locked-room murder.

4.03

100.000+

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🔄 Body Swapping 🔒 Locked Room Mystery

Immersiv

Altered Carbon

An immortal hires a soldier, revived in a stranger's body, to solve his own locked-room murder.

von Richard K. Morgan 2002 544 Seiten

4.03

100.000+ Bewertungen

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🔄 Body Swapping 🔒 Locked Room Mystery

Nexus

von Ramez Naam • 2012

A neuroscientist's mind-linking drug plunges him into a spy war for the future of humanity.

4.04

21.000+

🧬 Biopunk 🔍 Techno-Thriller 🧠 Shared Consciousness

Nexus

A neuroscientist's mind-linking drug plunges him into a spy war for the future of humanity.

von Ramez Naam 2012 460 Seiten

4.04

21.000+ Bewertungen

🧬 Biopunk 🔍 Techno-Thriller 🧠 Shared Consciousness

Matrix und Philosophie

von William Irwin • 2002

Plato imagined the cave, Descartes the demon. The Matrix put both on screen and philosophy noticed.

3.90

2.000+

🍿 Pop Philosophy 🖥️ Simulated Reality ❓ Skepticism

Matrix und Philosophie

Plato imagined the cave, Descartes the demon. The Matrix put both on screen and philosophy noticed.

von William Irwin 2002 320 Seiten

3.90

2.000+ Bewertungen

🍿 Pop Philosophy 🖥️ Simulated Reality ❓ Skepticism

Neuromancer

von William Gibson • 1984

A broken hacker is hired to crack an AI, only to learn the AI hired him.

3.89

300.000+

💻 Cyberpunk 🦾 Cybernetic Enhancements 🤖 Ai Manipulation

Neuromancer

A broken hacker is hired to crack an AI, only to learn the AI hired him.

von William Gibson 1984 268 Seiten

3.89

300.000+ Bewertungen

💻 Cyberpunk 🦾 Cybernetic Enhancements 🤖 Ai Manipulation

Snow Crash

von Neal Stephenson • 1992

In a franchise-run America, a hacker discovers a brain-melting virus born from an ancient language.

4.01

200.000+

🖥️ Cyberpunk 🦠 Language As Virus 🌐 Virtual Reality

Snow Crash

In a franchise-run America, a hacker discovers a brain-melting virus born from an ancient language.

von Neal Stephenson 1992 576 Seiten

4.01

200.000+ Bewertungen

🖥️ Cyberpunk 🦠 Language As Virus 🌐 Virtual Reality

Cyberpunk 2077

von Rafał Kosik • 2023

In a city of corporate lies, a crew of outcasts steals a secret worth killing for.

3.51

4.000+

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 💻 High-Tech Heist 🫂 Found Family Crew

Cyberpunk 2077

In a city of corporate lies, a crew of outcasts steals a secret worth killing for.

von Rafał Kosik 2023 416 Seiten

3.51

4.000+ Bewertungen

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 💻 High-Tech Heist 🫂 Found Family Crew

Cryptonomicon

von Neal Stephenson • 1999

His grandfather's codebreaking saved the world. The treasure it protected could destroy his.

4.23

100.000+

🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🔐 WWII Codebreaking 💰 Treasure Hunt

Cryptonomicon

His grandfather's codebreaking saved the world. The treasure it protected could destroy his.

von Neal Stephenson 1999 1152 Seiten

4.23

100.000+ Bewertungen

🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🔐 WWII Codebreaking 💰 Treasure Hunt

Träumen Androiden von elektrischen Schafen?

von Philip K. Dick • 1968

A bounty hunter chasing six androids discovers his empathy test is failing him.

4.09

500.000+

🤖 Android Dystopia 💔 Empathy As Test 🕵️‍♂️ Bounty Hunter Noir

Träumen Androiden von elektrischen Schafen?

A bounty hunter chasing six androids discovers his empathy test is failing him.

von Philip K. Dick 1968 258 Seiten

4.09

500.000+ Bewertungen

🤖 Android Dystopia 💔 Empathy As Test 🕵️‍♂️ Bounty Hunter Noir

A Scanner Darkly

von Philip K. Dick • 1977

An undercover agent addicted to a brain-splitting drug is assigned the target: himself.

4.02

100.000+

🏙️ Near-Future Dystopia 📖 Literary Sci-Fi 🎭 Dual Identity Crisis

A Scanner Darkly

An undercover agent addicted to a brain-splitting drug is assigned the target: himself.

von Philip K. Dick 1977 217 Seiten

4.02

100.000+ Bewertungen

🏙️ Near-Future Dystopia 📖 Literary Sci-Fi 🎭 Dual Identity Crisis

Accelerando

von Charles Stross • 2005

He gives away ideas that trigger the singularity, while an AI cat engineers his family's fate.

3.87

22.000+

🤖 Singularity 🧠 Mind Uploading 🎭 Manipulative Ai

Accelerando

He gives away ideas that trigger the singularity, while an AI cat engineers his family's fate.

von Charles Stross 2005 415 Seiten

3.87

22.000+ Bewertungen

🤖 Singularity 🧠 Mind Uploading 🎭 Manipulative Ai

Freedom™

von Daniel Suarez • 2010

A rogue AI is dismantling global finance. One detective must prove humanity deserves to survive.

4.26

30.000+

💻 Techno-Thriller 🤖 Rogue AI 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy

Freedom™

A rogue AI is dismantling global finance. One detective must prove humanity deserves to survive.

von Daniel Suarez 2010 486 Seiten

4.26

30.000+ Bewertungen

💻 Techno-Thriller 🤖 Rogue AI 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1

von Philip K. Dick • 2011

A bounty hunter kills androids who pass as human, until the work starts feeling like murder.

4.04

4.000+

🏙️ Android Dystopia 🤖 Artificial Humanity 🌿 Artificial Nature

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1

A bounty hunter kills androids who pass as human, until the work starts feeling like murder.

von Philip K. Dick 2011 144 Seiten

4.04

4.000+ Bewertungen

🏙️ Android Dystopia 🤖 Artificial Humanity 🌿 Artificial Nature

Flatline Constructs

von Mark Fisher • 2018

Reality flatlined into the undead where cybernetics, gothic horror, and theory-as-fiction converge.

4.13

345

📖 Critical Theory 🧠 Continental Philosophy 🤖 Cybernetic Systems

Flatline Constructs

Reality flatlined into the undead where cybernetics, gothic horror, and theory-as-fiction converge.

von Mark Fisher 2018 212 Seiten

4.13

345 Bewertungen

📖 Critical Theory 🧠 Continental Philosophy 🤖 Cybernetic Systems

Waste Tide

von Chen Qiufan • 2013

On an island of Chinese e-waste, a virus turns a migrant worker into a living network.

3.32

2.000+

♻️ Eco-Cyberpunk 🧠 Networked Consciousness ✊ Class Uprising

Waste Tide

On an island of Chinese e-waste, a virus turns a migrant worker into a living network.

von Chen Qiufan 2013 352 Seiten

3.32

2.000+ Bewertungen

♻️ Eco-Cyberpunk 🧠 Networked Consciousness ✊ Class Uprising

Fanged Noumena

von Nick Land • 2011

The future is a virus that has already infected the present. The host will not survive.

3.85

1.000+

📈 Accelerationism 🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🔄 Deleuzian Philosophy

Fanged Noumena

The future is a virus that has already infected the present. The host will not survive.

von Nick Land 2011 666 Seiten

3.85

1.000+ Bewertungen

📈 Accelerationism 🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🔄 Deleuzian Philosophy

The Diamond Age

von Neal Stephenson • 1995

A stolen, sentient primer teaches a poor girl to read, then to lead an army.

4.16

93.000+

📖 Sentient Book 🤱 Surrogate Mother 👑 Child Leader

The Diamond Age

A stolen, sentient primer teaches a poor girl to read, then to lead an army.

von Neal Stephenson 1995 499 Seiten

4.16

93.000+ Bewertungen

📖 Sentient Book 🤱 Surrogate Mother 👑 Child Leader

The Peripheral

von William Gibson • 2014

Flynne Fisher pilots a drone sim, sees a murder in future London, and the killers know.

3.89

33.000+

🔀 Parallel Timelines 🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 👁️ Witness To Murder

The Peripheral

Flynne Fisher pilots a drone sim, sees a murder in future London, and the killers know.

von William Gibson 2014 485 Seiten

3.89

33.000+ Bewertungen

🔀 Parallel Timelines 🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 👁️ Witness To Murder

Company Town

von Madeline Ashby • 2016

An unaugmented bodyguard on an oil rig protects a teenage heir from a body-snatching killer.

3.50

5.000+

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy 🔪 Serial Killer Hunt

Company Town

An unaugmented bodyguard on an oil rig protects a teenage heir from a body-snatching killer.

von Madeline Ashby 2016 285 Seiten

3.50

5.000+ Bewertungen

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy 🔪 Serial Killer Hunt

The Hacker Crackdown

von Bruce Sterling • 1992

One AT&T crash, one Secret Service raid, and the accidental birth of digital civil liberties

3.80

3.000+

💻 Hacker Culture 🌐 Digital Subcultures ☎️ Telephone History

The Hacker Crackdown

One AT&T crash, one Secret Service raid, and the accidental birth of digital civil liberties

von Bruce Sterling 1992 336 Seiten

3.80

3.000+ Bewertungen

💻 Hacker Culture 🌐 Digital Subcultures ☎️ Telephone History

Phyl-Undhu

von Nick Land • 2014

A daughter's game is a doorway to cosmic extinction. Her parents enter to bring her back.

3.56

284

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧠 Philosophical Horror 📖 Forbidden Knowledge

Phyl-Undhu

A daughter's game is a doorway to cosmic extinction. Her parents enter to bring her back.

von Nick Land 2014 71 Seiten

3.56

284 Bewertungen

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧠 Philosophical Horror 📖 Forbidden Knowledge

Animales difíciles

von Rosa Montero • 2025

A fragile cloned detective probes a brain-bank bombing and a plot to build a superintelligence.

3.81

500+

🤖 Cyberpunk Detective 🧠 Memory Transfer 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy

Animales difíciles

A fragile cloned detective probes a brain-bank bombing and a plot to build a superintelligence.

von Rosa Montero 2025 283 Seiten

3.81

500+ Bewertungen

🤖 Cyberpunk Detective 🧠 Memory Transfer 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy

The Escher Man

von T.R. Napper • 2024

A Macau hitman's syndicate is erasing his memory. The family he lost may be a lie.

3.83

434

🖤 Near-Future Noir 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔫 Hitman Protagonist

The Escher Man

A Macau hitman's syndicate is erasing his memory. The family he lost may be a lie.

von T.R. Napper 2024 368 Seiten

3.83

434 Bewertungen

🖤 Near-Future Noir 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔫 Hitman Protagonist

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

von David Wong • 2015

A barista inherits a crime empire and becomes the star of a live murder show.

3.98

23.000+

🤖 Cyberpunk Satire 🌆 Near-Future Dystopia 👑 Reluctant Heir

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

A barista inherits a crime empire and becomes the star of a live murder show.

von David Wong 2015 384 Seiten

3.98

23.000+ Bewertungen

🤖 Cyberpunk Satire 🌆 Near-Future Dystopia 👑 Reluctant Heir

Pattern Recognition

von William Gibson • 2003

Allergic to logos, a consultant is hired to trace eerie film fragments, then the break-ins begin.

3.88

53.000+

🖥️ Internet Mystery 🕵️ Corporate Espionage 🏙️ Post-9/11 Grief

Pattern Recognition

Allergic to logos, a consultant is hired to trace eerie film fragments, then the break-ins begin.

von William Gibson 2003 367 Seiten

3.88

53.000+ Bewertungen

🖥️ Internet Mystery 🕵️ Corporate Espionage 🏙️ Post-9/11 Grief

Agency

von William Gibson • 2020

A beta tester learns her military AI is sentient, and now both of them are targets.

3.81

14.000+

🕶️ Near-Future Cyberpunk 🧠 Ai Consciousness 🔗 Human Ai Bond

Agency

A beta tester learns her military AI is sentient, and now both of them are targets.

von William Gibson 2020 413 Seiten

3.81

14.000+ Bewertungen

🕶️ Near-Future Cyberpunk 🧠 Ai Consciousness 🔗 Human Ai Bond

Void Star

von Zachary Mason • 2017

A translator's perfect memory makes her a target in a near-future city of favelas and rogue AI.

3.67

2.000+

🌃 Literary Cyberpunk 🌆 Near-Future Dystopia 💾 Commodified Memory

Void Star

A translator's perfect memory makes her a target in a near-future city of favelas and rogue AI.

von Zachary Mason 2017 385 Seiten

3.67

2.000+ Bewertungen

🌃 Literary Cyberpunk 🌆 Near-Future Dystopia 💾 Commodified Memory

Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

von Judd Trichter • 2015

A man scours broken LA for his android lover's scattered parts before her identity vanishes forever.

3.51

500+

🏙️ Near Future Dystopia 💔 Human Android Love 🕵️ Noir Detective Story

Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

A man scours broken LA for his android lover's scattered parts before her identity vanishes forever.

von Judd Trichter 2015 320 Seiten

3.51

500+ Bewertungen

🏙️ Near Future Dystopia 💔 Human Android Love 🕵️ Noir Detective Story

Neural Wraith

von K.D. Robertson • 2022

He has no neural implant. The city's AI police just made him their only hope.

4.42

1.000+

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🤖 Android Harem 💕 Human AI Romance

Neural Wraith

He has no neural implant. The city's AI police just made him their only hope.

von K.D. Robertson 2022 485 Seiten

4.42

1.000+ Bewertungen

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🤖 Android Harem 💕 Human AI Romance

Zed

von Joanna Kavenna • 2019

A murder the system failed to predict becomes a crack that brings the surveillance state down.

3.12

1.000+

🤖 Algorithmic Dystopia 👁️ Predictive Surveillance 💾 Hacker Resistance

Zed

A murder the system failed to predict becomes a crack that brings the surveillance state down.

von Joanna Kavenna 2019 352 Seiten

3.12

1.000+ Bewertungen

🤖 Algorithmic Dystopia 👁️ Predictive Surveillance 💾 Hacker Resistance

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