Cyberpunk

Neonverlichte megasteden en digitale grensgebieden vormen het decor voor verhalen over high-tech rebellie tegen bedrijfscontrole en kunstmatige intelligentie. In deze wereld van chroom en schaduwen onderzoeken hackers en filosofen wat het betekent om mens te zijn wanneer bewustzijn geprogrammeerd kan worden en de werkelijkheid evenzeer in de virtuele ruimte als in de fysieke wereld bestaat.

Cyberpunk Boeksamenvattingen

Altered Carbon

door Richard K. Morgan

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

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🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🔄 Body Swapping 🔒 Locked Room Mystery

Immersief

Altered Carbon

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

door Richard K. Morgan 2002 544 pagina's

4.03

100.000+ beoordelingen

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🔄 Body Swapping 🔒 Locked Room Mystery

Nexus

door 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.

door Ramez Naam 2012 460 pagina's

4.04

21.000+ beoordelingen

🧬 Biopunk 🔍 Techno-Thriller 🧠 Shared Consciousness

The Matrix and Philosophy

door 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

The Matrix and Philosophy

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

door William Irwin 2002 320 pagina's

3.90

2.000+ beoordelingen

🍿 Pop Philosophy 🖥️ Simulated Reality ❓ Skepticism

Neuromancer

door 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.

door William Gibson 1984 268 pagina's

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💻 Cyberpunk 🦾 Cybernetic Enhancements 🤖 Ai Manipulation

Snow Crash

door Neal Stephenson • 1992

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

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🖥️ 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.

door Neal Stephenson 1992 576 pagina's

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200.000+ beoordelingen

🖥️ Cyberpunk 🦠 Language As Virus 🌐 Virtual Reality

Cyberpunk 2077

door 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.

door Rafał Kosik 2023 416 pagina's

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4.000+ beoordelingen

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

Cryptonomicon

door 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.

door Neal Stephenson 1999 1152 pagina's

4.23

100.000+ beoordelingen

🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🔐 WWII Codebreaking 💰 Treasure Hunt

Dromen androïden van elektrische schapen?

door 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

Dromen androïden van elektrische schapen?

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

door Philip K. Dick 1968 258 pagina's

4.09

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

A Scanner Darkly

door 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.

door Philip K. Dick 1977 217 pagina's

4.02

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

Accelerando

door 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.

door Charles Stross 2005 415 pagina's

3.87

22.000+ beoordelingen

🤖 Singularity 🧠 Mind Uploading 🎭 Manipulative Ai

Freedom™

door Daniel Suarez • 2010

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

4.26

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💻 Techno-Thriller 🤖 Rogue AI 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy

Freedom™

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

door Daniel Suarez 2010 486 pagina's

4.26

30.000+ beoordelingen

💻 Techno-Thriller 🤖 Rogue AI 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1

door Philip K. Dick • 2011

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

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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.

door Philip K. Dick 2011 144 pagina's

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4.000+ beoordelingen

🏙️ Android Dystopia 🤖 Artificial Humanity 🌿 Artificial Nature

Flatline Constructs

door 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.

door Mark Fisher 2018 212 pagina's

4.13

345 beoordelingen

📖 Critical Theory 🧠 Continental Philosophy 🤖 Cybernetic Systems

Waste Tide

door 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.

door Chen Qiufan 2013 352 pagina's

3.32

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♻️ Eco-Cyberpunk 🧠 Networked Consciousness ✊ Class Uprising

Fanged Noumena

door Nick Land • 2011

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

3.85

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📈 Accelerationism 🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🔄 Deleuzian Philosophy

Fanged Noumena

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

door Nick Land 2011 666 pagina's

3.85

1.000+ beoordelingen

📈 Accelerationism 🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🔄 Deleuzian Philosophy

The Diamond Age

door 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.

door Neal Stephenson 1995 499 pagina's

4.16

93.000+ beoordelingen

📖 Sentient Book 🤱 Surrogate Mother 👑 Child Leader

The Peripheral

door William Gibson • 2014

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

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🔀 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.

door William Gibson 2014 485 pagina's

3.89

33.000+ beoordelingen

🔀 Parallel Timelines 🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 👁️ Witness To Murder

Company Town

door Madeline Ashby • 2016

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

3.50

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🖤 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.

door Madeline Ashby 2016 285 pagina's

3.50

5.000+ beoordelingen

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy 🔪 Serial Killer Hunt

The Hacker Crackdown

door Bruce Sterling • 1992

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

3.80

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💻 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

door Bruce Sterling 1992 336 pagina's

3.80

3.000+ beoordelingen

💻 Hacker Culture 🌐 Digital Subcultures ☎️ Telephone History

Phyl-Undhu

door 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.

door Nick Land 2014 71 pagina's

3.56

284 beoordelingen

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧠 Philosophical Horror 📖 Forbidden Knowledge

Animales difíciles

door 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.

door Rosa Montero 2025 283 pagina's

3.81

500+ beoordelingen

🤖 Cyberpunk Detective 🧠 Memory Transfer 🏢 Corporate Conspiracy

The Escher Man

door 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.

door T.R. Napper 2024 368 pagina's

3.83

434 beoordelingen

🖤 Near-Future Noir 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔫 Hitman Protagonist

Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits

door David Wong • 2015

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

3.98

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🤖 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.

door David Wong 2015 384 pagina's

3.98

23.000+ beoordelingen

🤖 Cyberpunk Satire 🌆 Near-Future Dystopia 👑 Reluctant Heir

Pattern Recognition

door 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.

door William Gibson 2003 367 pagina's

3.88

53.000+ beoordelingen

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

Agency

door William Gibson • 2020

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

3.81

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🕶️ 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.

door William Gibson 2020 413 pagina's

3.81

14.000+ beoordelingen

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

Void Star

door Zachary Mason • 2017

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

3.67

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🌃 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.

door Zachary Mason 2017 385 pagina's

3.67

2.000+ beoordelingen

🌃 Literary Cyberpunk 🌆 Near-Future Dystopia 💾 Commodified Memory

Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

door 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.

door Judd Trichter 2015 320 pagina's

3.51

500+ beoordelingen

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

Neural Wraith

door K.D. Robertson • 2022

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

4.42

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🖤 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.

door K.D. Robertson 2022 485 pagina's

4.42

1.000+ beoordelingen

🖤 Cyberpunk Noir 🤖 Android Harem 💕 Human AI Romance

Zed

door 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.

door Joanna Kavenna 2019 352 pagina's

3.12

1.000+ beoordelingen

🤖 Algorithmic Dystopia 👁️ Predictive Surveillance 💾 Hacker Resistance

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