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Everyone In Silico

Author: Jim Munroe

Sticking with cyberpunk, but moving beyond it, we come to Everyone in Silico. Written in 2002, it rose to fame because it's author invoiced the companies mentioned for product placement (which must take balls of steel, and dammit, you should read it just because of that!). It stuck around being famous, however, because it's just that good. It's those balls that made us place it at number 21 on our top 25 hard science fiction books. Everyone in Silico is the tale of a society where the cyberworld becomes more important than the real one. Once, that would've sounded stupid, but these days, where the image you present on facebook is the most important thing to people, not so much. That said, it's not as depressing as some of the other near-future works on this list - the characters are engaging and fully human. Often described as reminiscent of Philip K Dick, this is a work you don't want to miss. Also, you can get it for free! Legally! That's pretty awesome.

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