Virtual Reality
-- Fiction Books --

*note: This listing is alphabetical by author.

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)

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)

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)

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)

The Shift by George Foy
(July 1996, novel, cyberthriller... virtual reality)

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)

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)

The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod
(1995, novel, science fiction)
Halo by Tom Maddox
(1991, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk)
Red Dust by Paul J.McAuley
(1993, novel, science fiction... Mars, terraforming)

Lethal Interface by Mel Odum
(1992, novel, science fiction, technothriller... serial killer stalking cyberspace)

Terminal Games by Cole Perriman
(1994, novel, technothriller)
The Silicon Man by Charles Platt
(1991, novel, science fiction... personality upload, storing human minds in computer hardware, cryonics)

Dreams of Flesh and Sand by W.T Quick
(1988, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk)
Dreams of Gods and Men by W.T.Quick
(1989, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk)
Singularities by W.T.Quick
(1990, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk)

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)

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)

Aristoi by Walter Jon Williams
(1992, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk... far-future... highly recommended)

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*note: This listing grows by steady accretion. New additions are welcome.

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