Virtual Reality
-- Fiction Books --
*note: This listing is alphabetical by author.
A
B
- Crashcourse by Wilhelmina Baird
(1993, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk... recommended)
- Clipjoint by Wilhelmina Baird
(1994, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk... recommended)
- Psykosis by Wilhelmina Baird
(1995, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk... recommended)
- RIM: A Novel of Virtual Reality by Alexander Besher
(1994, novel, science fiction... uploaded consciousness, virtual reality)
- Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex World Reader by Susie Bright
(1992, short stories... perhaps not truly VR, but somehow relevant anyway)
C
- Mindplayers by Pat Cadigan
(1987, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk... her 1st book... highly recommended)
- Patterns by Pat Cadigan
(1989, short stories, science fiction... highly recommended)
- Synners by Pat Cadigan
(1991, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk... cyberpunk par excellance... highly recommended)
- Fools by Pat Cadigan
(1992, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk... multi-layered reality, identity... highly recommended)
D
- Circuit of Heaven by Dennis Danvers
(February 1998, novel, science fiction...Avon / Eos, New York, US, hbk, ISBN 0-380-97447-9... virtual reality, uploaded personalities)
- The Plague Saint by Rita Donovan
(November 1997, novel, science fiction...Tesseract, Canada, hbk, ISBN 1-895836-29-8... 21st century, canada, post-plague, virtual reality as means to explore history)
E
- Silicon Karma by Thomas A.Easton
(April 1995, novel, science fiction...originally published on disk by Serendipity Systems, San Simeon, California, US ... 1997, Borealis / White Wolf, Clarkston, Georgia, US, pbk, ISBN 1-56504-818-0... virtual reality)
- Permutation City by Greg Egan
(1995, novel, science fiction... uploaded personality, virtual reality)
F
- The Shift by George Foy
(July 1996, novel, cyberthriller... virtual reality)
G
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
(1984, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk... cyberspace, virtual reality... highly recommended)
- Count Zero by William Gibson
(1986, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk... cyberspace, virtual reality, uploaded consciousness... possibly his best book... highly recommended)
- Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
(1988, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk... cyberspace, virtual reality... highly recommended)
- Virtual Light by William Gibson
(1993, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk... near future)
H
I
J
- Simulations: 15 Tales of Virtual Reality edited by Karie Jacobson
(1993, anthology, science fiction...Citadel Twilight, New York, US, pbk, ISBN 0-8065-1406-X... includes a bibliography of virtual reality in fiction)
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L
M
N
O
- Lethal Interface by Mel Odum
(1992, novel, science fiction, technothriller... serial killer stalking cyberspace)
P
Q
R
- Chimera by Mary Rosenblum
(1993, novel, science fiction... virtual art, virtual reality)
- Synthesis and Other Virtual Realities by Mary Rosenblum
(15 July 1996, short stories, science fiction, fantasy)
- The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker
(1994, novel, science fiction, wry humor... computer virus)
- Destroying Angel by Richard Paul Russo
(1992, novel, science fiction, thriller... serial killer, murder in virtual reality)
S
- Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott
(1994, novel, science fiction... hackers, virtual reality)
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
(1991, novel, science fiction, black humor, cyberpunk, cyberspace, virtual reality... highly recommended)
- Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
(1988, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk... cybernetics, utopia)
T
- One Mind's Eye by Kathy Tyers
(May 1996, novel, science fiction)
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*note: This listing grows by steady accretion. New additions are welcome.
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