 | Neuromancer by William Gibson
Buy new: $15.75 / Used from: $13.25 Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" in his debut novel and expanded on the concept first developed in "True Names" (1981) and the film "Tron" (1982).
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 | True Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier by Vernor Vinge
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.01 Vinge's "True Names" (1981) was the first depiction of a cyberspace-like virtual reality in fiction.
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 | The Big God Network by J.C. McGowan
Buy new: $20.69 / Used from: $11.99 This wildly imaginative science-fiction work immerses us in colorful virtual worlds ranging from virtual evangelical churches (hence the title) to a Tantric Cybersex world (the Yabyum Palace), with witty sendups along the way of everything from cyberpunk literature to Wired-magazine technofetishism to the excesses of the Christian Right.
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 | Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book) by Neal Stephenson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.68 Snow Crash popularized VR terms such as avatars and the metaverse in his wacky 1992 novel, which was highly infuential (which is why I include it here). Personally, I found this novel rather annoying and often boring.
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 | Permutation City by Greg Egan
Buy used from: $13.06 Minds on a chip! Lots of minds!
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 | Halting State by Charles Stross
Buy new: $19.96 / Used from: $0.69 |
 | Idoru by William Gibson
Buy used from: $1.03 |
 | Virtual Light by William Gibson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Looking Glass by James R. Strickland
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.48 |
 | City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, Volume 1) by Tad Williams
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of The 1960s / The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik (Library of America No. 173) by Philip K. Dick
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $17.98 The half life of cryogenically preserved dead is a disembodied consciousness that was one of our first imagined "virtual realities."
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 | Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Count Zero by William Gibson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.49 |
 | Burning Chrome by William Gibson
Buy new: $11.19 / Used from: $3.50 |
 | All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.02 |
 | Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Buy used from: $47.60 |
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