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24 alternatives to Spirit Hackers

A cyberpunk novel exploring the afterlife.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Spirit Hackers launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Spirit Hackers▲2
A cyberpunk novel exploring the afterlife.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hackers▲75
Heroes of the computer revolution
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
Ghost In The Wires▲65
Adventures as the world's most wanted hacker
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
4
Social Engineering▲62
The Art of Human Hacking
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Presence▲81
Science fiction novel about the future of Virtual Reality
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Neuromancer▲104
The novel that defined cyberpunk
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Cumulus▲70
New cyberpunk novel set in near-future Oakland
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Age of Spiritual Machines▲57
AI and achieving the singularity
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Design for Hackers▲78
Visual design, deconstructed
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker Fables – A satirical cyberpunk novel you can read as a man page▲7
The project is entirely open source. It takes a single Pandoc Markdown source file and produces HTML, EPUB, PDF, man pages, GNU Info, an audiobook, an HTML-integrated audio player that highlights the content as it plays, and an MP4 output for the "video audiobook." It's generic enough to be reusable. I plan to use the pipeline for my tech blog later on. The novella contains a lot of programming lore. It's an over-the-top love letter to the old-school Linux programmer and to the craft itself. Source code: https://github.com/sebastiancarlos/hacker-fables
Jul 2026 · sebastiancarlos.github.io · its alternatives →
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Chaos & Cyber Culture▲56
Timothy Leary's prescient cyberpunk manifesto from 1994
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hacking Growth [Kindle Edition]▲79
Untraditional marketing using the hacker mindset.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hackers and Painters▲15
The computer world and motivations of those who occupy it
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
Hamlet on the Holodeck▲67
The future of narrative in cyberspace
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Imaginary Cities▲70
Mapping cities of sound, melancholia and the afterlife
2016 · influxpress.com · its alternatives →
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The Misfit Economy▲68
Lessons in creativity from pirates & hackers
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age ▲79
Essays by Paul Graham
2015 · its alternatives →
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Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects▲60
Conceptual products & alternate narratives of gadget culture
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker Experience▲96
Online hacking simulation game
2014 · hackerexperience.com · its alternatives →
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Natural-Born Cyborgs▲57
Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Curious Minds - Stuxnet: a 3-Parts Series▲55
In-depth exploration of the first cyber-weapon
2016 · cmpod.net · its alternatives →
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Secrets for Scaling: Ghost founder John O'Nolan▲68
Building a profitable business w/ a counterculture approach
2017 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Breached!▲60
A Cautionary Tale of Cybersecurity and Intrigue
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
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Future Crimes▲64
Inside the Digital Underground
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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