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Street by Ryan A. Span

Street is a fast-paced online/print cyberpunk thriller about a woman alone in a dystopian future, Gina, working to make ends meet like the rest of the new underclass — by taking a powerful drug that gives her telepathic abilities.  She skirts the edges of sanity when she takes a job she knows she really shouldn’t, and finds herself embroiled deeper . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system.  Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves . . .

A complete novel.
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Dominion by JL Bryan

In a near-future, totalitarian America, a TV “news” reporter begins to uncover how the regime uses propaganda and psychological operations to control the minds of the public. Note: Only the first five chapters are available on the website.  The complete novel is available as a PDF. . . .

A complete pdf novel.
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LITTLE BROTHER

Homeland Security and Terrorism

Editor: Linda Schoales
April 24, 2009

“Little Brother” is the story of Marcus Yallow, a high school geek who gets caught in the wrong place, at the wrong time.  He and his friends skip school to play an Alternate Reality Game but are picked up by Homeland Security in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on San Francisco.  When they are finally released, they find their [more . . .]

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STREET

Escape the Street; Find the Sky

Member: Kyt Dotson
August 4, 2008

I have read so-far up to chapter 16 and am still reading. I just wanted to get a review to date because I am really enjoying this story.

Street: Empathy is an elemental cyberpunk in the vein that Gibson has carved for it and others have followed. Expect both the wires [more . . .]

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