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- Iain M. Banks' Culture series
- Post-scarcity
- Neural Lace
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- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Corrections Department: Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Iain M. Banks' Culture series
- Post-scarcity
- Neural Lace
- Neuralink
- The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
- Humans
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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