Titres dans Cyberpunk

It’s 2112 and war between nations has become a spectator sport. Soldiers are now gamers who live and die based on the outcome of the match, and every four years a worldwide MegaDeath tournament gives countries a chance to air their grievances. This year, however, an enterprising company has made it possible for ordinary citizens to bet their lives on their country’s team. Winning players will become national heroes, but losers will be responsible for the deaths of millions of their fellow citizens.

Proteus Unbound foreshadows the possibilities of letting AIs into our lives and evolution. Cyber-criminals, hacker-spies, vengeful cyborgs, space mercenaries, and AI angels populate this trilogy. All cast against an Earth planetary system of humor, coffee, and a nun in an airlock.

The return to the city of goblins draws ever closer but Ivan Susanin's survival hangs in the balance. It is more than just the monsters. The capture of the Dungeon, creation of the Minor Altar and growth of the Cult of Heresy has attracted the attention of the Earth gods. The number of contenders for the grand prize is growing, hostile gods are joining the race, and the existence of an independent candidate is unacceptable. Nevertheless, the gods cannot sentence one of the Alliance leaders and the strongest player on Earth to death.

Spider King barely knows anything about the mysterious programmer known only as St. Jude, except that she pays well and keeps her cards well-hidden. That’s understandable, considering she’s hiding from Richard Newbridge, a cold-blooded industrialist bent on killing her for stealing priceless secrets.

Als Kai, einer der besten Gamer der Welt, in das Cyber Squad aufgenommen wird, glaubt er zunächst, seinen Traumjob ergattert zu haben. Spiele testen und dafür fürstlich belohnt werden, was kann es Besseres geben? Doch schon bald stellt er fest, dass das ein Irrtum war, der ihn sein Leben kosten könnte.

When Moss learns of an opportunity to influence politics and work against the mega-corporations on another front, he and the crew delve into a dangerous new high-risk, high-reward world. To change the system for good, they need the help of additional allies, but with new friends come with new threats. Hacks, attacks and betrayals threaten them at every turn.

I guess trying to catch the bus with your laces undone isn’t such a smart decision after all… One fatal collision later, and I’m facing my judgment. As it turns out, I’ve been a lazy sob, and my short, uneventful life of playing games and getting up late wasn’t worth much. And so I don’t qualify to move on to the afterlife. I try to argue to the goddess in front of me that I do have skills, that it was hard work playing those simulation and management games. But she will not concede. In the end, I manage to get the benefit of the doubt, and a wager is made.

In questa raccolta di racconti, tre narrazioni ad altissimo potenziale corrosivo, Nicoletta Vallorani, tra le migliori autrici di fantascienza italiana, ci riporta alle tipiche atmosfere del noir e cyberpunk, che fanno da sfondo e cornice alla nostra realtà contemporanea. Tra loschi suq milanesi e traffici illegali di organi e dati, ecco prendere forma un moderno “catalogo di orrori assortiti, […] signore rifatte, omologhi erotici e synthafreak a quintali.”

Before being conscripted to fight in the Total War, Private Hector Park had a shattered family, a collection of old video games, and a promising career as a motorcycle stuntman. Now, he is dying from a virus threatening humankind with extinction. He has three days to live. When Hector’s brother contacts him after years of hostile silence, Hector goes to try and make peace. But his brother offers him something even better: the chance to cheat death by joining him in Archemi, a full-immersion fantasy VR-RPG video game.

Mole awakens in a mortuary cold-chamber with no recollection of how she got there. Piecing together remnants of memories quickly uncovers events that have been set into motion long before--events that she is now at the very center of. She must navigate a world at war, caught between the two forces of Science and the Occult, forces that both have designs to use Mole for their own ends.

She'll carve out a place for herself in a world changed by a System, conquering zombies, dungeon bosses, and worse, all while fast-traveling on a yacht.

The Minerva Sierra Challenge is a grueling spectacle, the cyborg’s Tour de France. Rich thrill seekers with corporate sponsorships, extensive support teams, and top-of-the-line exoskeletal and internal augmentations pit themselves against the elements in a daylong race across the Sierra Nevadas. Marmeg Guinto doesn’t have funding, and she doesn’t have support. She cobbled her gear together from parts she found in rich people’s garbage and spent the money her mother wanted her to use for nursing school to enter the race.

America is waking up. People are standing up for each other and a future worth living in. But they can’t do it alone. Now, they don’t have to. The Democratic State Force is calling in favors across the nation. Members of Base 1407 and hundreds of other teams across the country are teaching the citizens how to fight back on their terms, with tactics that hit the Corporations right where it hurts–in the wallet and the pride.

Jovan has been helping the Unchipped rebels by recruiting soldiers to join their cause. His girlfriend Luna is a rebel herself, but she doesn’t trust him enough to share her secrets. He’s Chipped and she isn’t, and that’s all there is to it.

Martin loved his job, believing he truly changed the world for the better. As a researcher at Replica Imagination, he was a small cog in the goliath's wheel. The mega-corp helped reunite cloned pets with their loving families. He wished his talent could be used in the realm of human cloning, helping the terminally ill, but the legal and moralistic hurdles to such research seemed insurmountable.

Just three days into his stint minding the family shop and already there’s a jagged hole in the wall where the new smart-drugs vending machine used to be, courtesy of the local psychopathic heavy. But as the clock ticks down on his father’s return, hope appears in the guise of an enigmatic beauty, a girl stepped straight out of Dean’s dreams, proposing a wild and improbable plan that could just change all their lives–maybe even for the better.

Die eurasische Flotte ist im Darg-System angekommen und mit ihr unzählige nichtsahnende Spieler, die gespannt dem Abenteuer ihres Lebens entgegenfiebern. Für Zander dagegen ist aus dem Spiel bitterer Ernst geworden, als er sich für den alternativen Handlungsstrang entschieden hat. Das Mädchen, das er liebte, ist fort. Sein Nervensystem ist mit künstlichen Neuronen verwoben, die Fragmente einer uralten KI enthalten. Ohne die implantierten außerirdischen Artefakte kann Zander im tödlichen Cyberspace des Phantom-Servers nicht überleben. Immer wieder führt ihn seine Quest an den Rand des Abgrunds.

Join Chedderfield and his companions as they navigate a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with dark humor, horror, and heart-wrenching deaths. Get ready for twists, turns, and gut-wrenching losses as you follow the journey to uncover the truth behind Archimedes' death and the true meaning of survival in a world where anything can happen.

As Nicholas Winterhome builds his own city in the wilderness, he strives to make sense of a world full of foreign powers. His strength in battle might not be enough. It'll take wits and determination to survive; and if he wants to sleep at night, he'll need someone he can trust to watch his back. It's time to find some allies.

If waking up in a new world isn't bad enough, Hestia starts her new life as a small, newborn dragon in a hostile forest filled with vicious monsters. With status screens obscuring her vision, her first task is to escape two hungry kobolds wanting some grilled lizard for breakfast. Equipped with fragmented memories from her past life and the gamelike mechanics of her new reality, Hestia must face trials, beasts, bosses, and more as she grows in size and power.