Cyberpunk Apocalypse

The CIA became the CIA, the Library of Congress became the CIA database; as for Congress, few people knew what it was. The land of the United States is full of franchise states, which are quasi-state entities that are franchise organizations, an institution similar to the McDonald's chain. What about the US government? This thing only exists in a few federal buildings, guarded by federal agents with guns, ready to resist attacks from the streets. This is the United States of the future, a place where bustling traffic coexists with decadence and desolation, where cutting-edge technology mixes with brutality and vulgarity. But above this hustle and bustle, there is another extremely vast and extremely free country: cyberspace, a virtual space composed of computers and networks. In real life, the protagonist of this book is just an insignificant pizza courier, but in the virtual space, he is a leading hacker and a master of double swords. Such a person has the power to destroy the world - or save it...

Within 24 hours, the bounty hunter Deckard has to make these choices: 1. Continue to stay on the earth after the nuclear war and endure the radiation, or go to colonize the planet and start a new life? 2. Do you want to buy a real sheep to replace the electronic sheep on the roof? There is a certain respectability associated with owning an expensive animal, but it is indeed a significant expense. 3. Do you want to kill that beautiful android? She had a face that he liked. What was important was that the constant killings made him tired and shaken. 4. Is he really a "human"? Can humans kill androids without restraint? Doing wrong things, things you shouldn't do, things that betray your identity - this is the curse of life, the shortcomings of creation, and the inescapable law of the universe. Fortunately, you can still choose what to do and who to be.

This novel gave birth to "The Matrix"! Cyberpunk Bible! Unprecedented record of winning awards: including Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Philip K. Dick Award! A genius hacker, a female killer, a special forces officer, and an expert in mind manipulation. They are hired to do two things: steal a key and obtain a password. They are career criminals and hopeless misanthropes; they are in self-imposed exile while subconsciously searching for a way home. And their employer is the most powerful opponent that mankind has ever encountered since the beginning of civilization...

"Real Names" was completed in 1979 and published in 1981. With a rare influence in the history of science fiction, it connected the science fiction and technology circles in one fell swoop: it was selected for the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award. It brought dawn to the computer field at that time and became a classic that science fiction enthusiasts and "programmers" rushed to read. In fact, many contemporary Internet "big influencers" have bluntly stated the profound impact "Real Name" has had on them. As a result, Verno Vinci became a popular figure in the fields of science fiction and technology. In the following decades, he won the Hugo Award for many science fiction works such as "Fire on the Abyss" and "The Abyss". Looking back at "Real Names" 40 years later, it accurately predicted the ubiquity of the Internet and continues to influence the development of artificial intelligence and the Internet. In terms of foresight and imagination, Verno Vinci is unmatched.

In the not-too-distant future, a technology company with advanced technology established the virtual world "Fantasy World-3" to provide marketing strategies for commercial companies by collecting public opinion data in it. However, Douglas Hall, a core member of the "Fantasy World-3" project, discovered that as the program ran, many strange things happened around him: first, the technical director died mysteriously and colleagues disappeared; then the virtual characters in "Fantasy World-3" broke into the world; and later, even the authenticity of the world he lived in became in jeopardy... A science fiction classic that transcends the times has a profound influence on the cyberpunk genre of subsequent science fiction novels and movies such as "The Matrix", and was adapted into a movie in 1999.

Digital immortality is simply impossible to achieve, because numbers are far easier to destroy than physical bodies! Greg Egan, author of "Consciousness Uploading," is introduced for the first time! "What I'm asking for is two million euros, and what I'm going to offer you is eternal life." Crazy salesman Durham promised. Gathering astonishing financial resources, intelligence, computing power and madness, mankind finally achieved digital immortality, but found that this path to immortality was extremely dangerous! Being shut down, being reset, being modified, being deleted with one click... It turns out that numbers are far more fragile than the body! Panic, regret, analysis, acceptance... Are the expected processes of digitalization. Feeling buried alive, shouting curses, complaining about the predicament, and committing suicide... Are the reactions of most people after digital immortality. Why can't we get the life we ​​really want even if we become digital beings? Why is it that even if you escape into the digital world, you still can't make up for the regrets left by your physical body? Why can't we get rid of the attachment to secular life even if we achieve digital immortality? When the digital world is easily subverted, human beings who lose their physical bodies are vulnerable and displaced...

After the death of his wife, astrobiologist Theo Byrne raised his son Robin, who was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, on his own, trying to establish order in the lives of father and son. Robin is warm and kind but sensitive and restless. He was labeled as "special care" by the school because of behavioral problems. Only the virtual planet and the outdoors modeled by Theo can calm him. Hoping to save Robin from the psychotropic drugs that ruined his childhood, Theo learns that an experimental neurofeedback therapy might improve Robin's emotional control. After receiving treatment, Robin was radiant with unprecedented vitality, but this beauty hid a mystery - it turned out that his wife's previously recorded brain nerve activity was guiding Robin. At the same time, the entire human world is crumbling: Frequent extreme climates, a wanton system, media that fan the flames, society and ecology are in a mess, and no one can survive alone. As a result, Theo lost his scientific research funding, and Robin could no longer receive treatment. The initial hope even became a boomerang that finally flew towards the father and son...

A science fiction classic with no reading threshold. I live in a world where humans are surviving under the rule of robots. I am a storyteller who makes a career out of telling stories and travels around the world. These days, literate humans like me are a rare species, so storytellers are popular everywhere. Although I have read many books, my favorite is the story of the "last hundred years" - from the birth of the first computer in the 1940s to the surpassing of humans by computers in the 2040s. What happened after 2039? There is no such content in the stories I have collected, but the story of the humanoid robot Abbys has just begun here.

In 2380, at the far edge of the Interstellar Federation, astronomer Dudley Boss observed something that was impossible: more than a thousand light-years away, a star... Disappeared out of thin air. In order to find out, the super-light starship "Second Spring" was built. Retired space pilot Wilson Keim returned to battle and led the starship to the uninhabited land. However, carrying out this task is fraught with difficulties. In addition to the intervention of various political forces in the Interstellar Federation, the exploration plan has also been obstructed by hostile organizations headed by Bradley Johnson. In the battles between overt and covert battles, the deadly threats hidden deep in the universe gradually surfaced. It will likely destroy the Interstellar Federation and even subvert the entire human civilization...

The science fiction novel "Human Extinction" swept across Japan and won 4 championships! The future of mankind is a proposition that none of us can escape. We are the ones who destroy the world, and we are also the ones who protect the world. Famous media person Tsai Kang-yong, Japanese mystery literature queen Miyuki Miyabe, and famous Japanese actor Kimura Takuya enthusiastically recommend it. In the 1970s, an American think tank proposed the "Heisman Report", which listed five possibilities for human extinction. In addition to nuclear war, super viruses, asteroid impacts, and the reversal of the earth's magnetic field, there is also the emergence of a new species with intelligence superior to humans. Now new species have actually appeared. The battle between new species and humans is about to break out. For a long time, human beings, who thought they could dominate everything like God, finally encountered an opponent who could destroy themselves. Faced with this life-and-death crisis, what chance does humanity have of winning?