Books like Bandwidth by Eliot Peper

In 2044, teenager Wade Watts lives for the virtual utopia OASIS, where he hunts legendary puzzles from old pop culture for a hidden prize that could change the world.

Neal Stephenson’s cyberpunk classic follows hacker Hiro as he confronts a deadly digital drug in a slick, future Metaverse full of hackers, virtual reality, and ancient Sumerian intrigue.

William Gibson’s debut Sprawl novel, *Neuromancer*, blends cyberpunk with a visionary digital future, following a hacker’s final job against a powerful AI. It earned Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards.

Four‑year‑old physics professor Jason Dessen is abducted and drugged, waking in a dystopian world where his family and reality are altered, forcing him to confront a formidable foe and the darkest parts of himself.

Reamde follows a high‑stakes hostage crisis intertwined with online gaming, money laundering, and global crime, as a diverse cast mobilizes to rescue a captive caught between Russian Mafia, Islamic terrorists, and virtual intrigue.

When a legendary game designer dies, a dormant computer daemon awakens, threatening to dismantle society. An unlikely team must unravel its secrets before the world is lost to an unseen, autonomous threat.

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A tech‑savvy employee’s journey into a powerful internet company spirals from ambition to obsession, revealing the dark side of data privacy, social media, and a future where surveillance and corporate control blur boundaries.

Kevin Mitnick reveals practical tactics for protecting personal privacy in the digital age, teaching readers how to guard themselves from surveillance and data misuse.

Kim Stanley Robinson’s debut novel in the "Forty Signs of Rain" trilogy follows Senate staffer Charlie Quibler and his wife Anna as they confront a deep‑summer heat wave in Washington, D.C., while racing to secure a revolutionary climate‑change technology amid political brinkmanship.

In a polluted future where gas masks are compulsory, infant mortality rises and the poor drink toxic water, a corporate‑driven government fights an environmental insurgency led by a run‑away activist.

Ghost in the Wires chronicles Kevin D. Mitnick’s legendary hacking career, detailing the tactics he used to infiltrate major corporations and the cat‑and‑mouse pursuit by the FBI that reshaped computer security practices.

Presidential crisis and climate catastrophe collide as President-elect Phil Chase organizes a last‑ditch scientific defense to halt global warming, with his advisers facing personal battles amid escalating danger.

Bruce Schneier warns that the Internet of Things turns everyday devices into weapons, urging sensible security policies and government oversight to protect cars, pacemakers, homes and the broader physical world from cyberattacks.

In a world where Arctic ice has melted, the Gaia Corporation races to terraform Earth while threatening to unleash a devastating superweapon. UN polar pilot Anika Duncan must decide the planet’s fate.

When a Texas oil tycoon hires a Dallas-based information specialist to locate his missing daughter in Central Africa, former mercenary Vanessa “Michael” Munroe is drawn back into a jungle of secrets, betrayal, and buried trauma.

"An Independent and New Statesman Book of the Year Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit--a world of Google, Facebook, and Twitter--lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities, and cultures where freedom is pushed to its limits, and where people can be anyone, or do anything, they want. This is the world of Bitcoin and Silk Road, of radicalism and pornography. This is the Dark Net. In this important and revealing book, Jamie Bartlett takes us deep into the digital underworld and presents an extraordinary look at the internet we don't know. Beginning with the rise of the internet and the conflicts and battles that defined its early years, Bartlett reports on trolls, pornographers, drug dealers, hackers, political extremists, Bitcoin programmers, and vigilantes--and puts a human face on those who have many reasons to stay anonymous. Rich with historical research and revelatory reporting, The Dark Net is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at a world that doesn't want to be known"--