The list includes 84 books dealing with virtual reality (in alphabetical order). If you’re looking for books on VR, then you will find here something for yourself. I will try to add my private assessments and reviews to each of them and I hope that this way I will create a fairly reliable guide to VR in literature.
A small comment:
This is not a complete list, it is not a ranking (so there are potentially very good and bad titles), it definitely favors books that can be read in English. Over time, I will also add titles that I know from my domestic market (one of them is really good, and currently being translated into English). If you know any titles that are not on this list, let me know in the comments.
I have an ambitious goal to read and review them all on the blog (even if I have read the title in the past).
1.Accelerando (2005) – Charles Stross
2. AlterWorld (2013) – D. Rus
3. A Maze of Death (1970) – Philip K. Dick
4. A Point of Honor (1998) – Dorothy J. Heydt
5. A Song for a New Day (2019) – Sarah Pinsker
6. Best Game Ever: A Virtuella Novel (2019) – by R.R. Angell
7. Better than Life (1990) – Grant Naylor
8. Brasyl (2007)- Ian McDonald
9. Catharsis (2016) – Travis Bagwell
10. City of Golden Shadow (1996) – Tad Williams
11. Critical Failures (2012) – Robert Bevan
12. Daemon (2006) – Daniel Suarez
13. Dance For the Ivory Madonna (2002) – Don Sakers
14. Different Sides (2018) – Andrey Vasilyev
15. Disclosure (1994) – Michael Crichton
16. Donnerjack (1997)- Roger Zelazny
17. Elusion (2014) – Claudia Gabel
18. End of an Era (2018) – John Gold
19. Epic (2004) – Conor Kostick
20. Erebos (2010) – Ursula Poznanski
21. Eternal Voyager (2015) – Conor Kostick
22. Eye in the Sky (1957) – Philip K. Dick
23. Everywhere But No Place (2011) – Mark Foster
24. False Idols (2015) – Alexis Grove
25. Fantasy in Death (2010) – J.D. Robb
26. Freedom™ (2010) – Daniel Suarez
27. Feersum Endjinn (1994) – Iain M. Banks
28. Game Over (2016) – Derek Edgington
29. Gestation (2018) – John Gold
30. Ghosts of ARCADIA (2013) – Ramsey Isler
31. Gong and Chalice (2017) – Andrey Vasilyev
32. Halting State (2007) – Charles Stross
33. Headcrash (1995) – Bruce Bethke
34. Heir Apparent (2002) – Vivian Vande Velde
35. Human Plus (2013) – David Simpson
36. Infoquake (2006) – David Louis Edelman
37. Killobyte (1993) – Piers Anthony
38. Log Horizon, Vol. 1 (2013) – Mamare Touno
39. Log Horizon – The Beginning of a Different World (2011) – Mamare Touno
40. More Than a Game (2014) – Andrey Vasilyev
41. Neuromancer (1984) – William Gibson
42. Not Lives (2012) – Wataru Karasuma
43. Overlord, Vol. 1: The Undead King (2012) – Kugane Maruyama
44. Rainbows End (2006) – Vernor Vinge
45. Reamde (2011) – Neal Stephenson
46. Ready Player One (2011) – Ernest Cline
47. Restricted Fantasies (2018) – Kevin Kneupper
48. RIM (1994) – Alexander Besher
49. Schismatrix (1985) – Bruce Sterling
50.Sicilian Defense (2014) – Andrey Vasilyev
51. Simulacron 3 (1964) – Daniel F. Galouye
52. Sleeping Player (2018) – John Gold
53. Snow Crash (1992) – Neal Stephenson
54. Solarversia (2015) – Toby Downton
55. Surface Detail (2010) – Iain M. Banks
56. Sword Art Online: Aincrad Omnibus (2009) – Reki Kawahara
57. Tea from an Empty Cup (1998) – Pat Cadigan
58. Technogenesis (2002) – Syne Mitchell
59. The Church of Virtual Saints (2016) – Michael Brookes
60. The Complete Atopia Chronicles (2012) – Matthew Mather
61. The Crown and the Key (2018) – Andrey Vasilyev
62. The Dueling Machine (1963) – Ben Bova
63. The Eye of Minds (2013) – James Dashner
64. The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy (1971) – Stanisław Lem
65. The Hacker and the Ants (1994) – Rudy Rucker
66. The Matrix: The Shooting Script (2001) – Lana Wachowski
67. The Reality Bug (2003) – by D.J. MacHale
68. The Right to Choose (2018) – Andrey Vasilyev
69. The Rising of the Shield Hero, Volume 1 (2013) – by Aneko Yusagi
70. The Road East (2014) – Andrey Vasilyev
71. The Terminal Connection (2014) – Dan Needles
72. The Three-Body Problem (2008) – Liu Cixin
73. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) – Philip K. Dick
74. Trading Reality (1996) – Michael Ridpath
75. True Name (1984) – Vernor Vinge
76. Ubik (1969) – Philip K. Dick
77. Under the Black Flag (2017) – Andrey Vasilyev
78. Vurt (1993) – Jeff Noon
79. Virtual Light (1993) – William Gibson
80. We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1966) – Philip K. Dick
81. Warlords of Llantatis (2014) – Dominic Green
82. Winds of Fate (2014) – Andrey Vasilyev
83. Winter (2011) – Rod Rees
84. Word and Steel (2018) – Andrey Vasilyev
