List of techno-thriller novels

This is a list of techno-thriller novels, novel series, and collections of linked short stories.

Significant techno-thriller authors and works

• Larry Bond
  • Red Phoenix — a speculative military fiction novel about a second war in Korea, as told from the differing points of view of various American servicemen.
  • Vortex — a South African war that spreads to neighboring nations and ultimately involves Cuba and the United States.
  • Cauldron — a French and German led European Confederation go to war with the US, Great Britain and several Eastern European countries over the Polish, Czech and others refusal to join the European Confederation - satellite weapons, military aircraft and nuclear weapons.

• Dale Brown
  • Flight of the Old Dog — laser technology
  • Day of the Cheetah — fighter aircraft technology, espionage
  • The Tin Man — body armor technology

• Dan Brown
  • Deception Point — about a discovery of a meteorite with "proof" of extraterrestrial life, microbotics, weapons technologies
  • Digital Fortress — computer technologies

• Joe Buff
  • Deep Sound Channel
  • Thunder in the Deep
  • Crush Depth
  • Tidal Rip
  • Straits of Power
  • Seas of Crisis — all of the above novels feature advanced, ceramic-hulled submarine battles including nuclear-tipped torpedoes and cruise missiles

• Caleb Carr
  • Killing Time — disinformation society

• Richard Condon
  • The Manchurian Candidate — mind control

• Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
  • Relic — genetic manipulation, museum
  • The Ice Limit — meteorite
  • Mount Dragon
  • Brimstone
  • Dance of Death
  • The Book of the Dead

• Tom Clancy
  • The Hunt for Red October — submarine technology, espionage
  • Red Storm Rising (co-authored with aforementioned Larry Bond) — a (mostly conventional) third world war fought in Europe between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces, military technology
  • Rainbow Six — modern counter-terrorism operations

• Stephen Coonts
  • Flight of the Intruder

• Harold Coyle
  • Team Yankee

• Michael Crichton
  • The Andromeda Strain — alien micro-organisms, microbiology, medicine
  • Jurassic Park, The Lost World — cloning, dinosaurs, chaos theory
  • Airframe — aerospace
  • Prey (2002) — nanotechnology
  • State of Fear — eco-terrorism
  • Next — genetic research, criticism of patents
  • Micro

• Clive Cussler

• Len Deighton
  • The Ipcress File — mind control

• Bill DeSmedt
  • Singularity

• Cory Doctorow
  • Little Brother — mass surveillance, hacking and government conspiracies, terrorism

• Jeff Edwards
  • Sea of Shadows (formerly published as Torpedo) — Anti-submarine warfare technology, Naval warfare, Torpedo technology
  • The Seventh Angel — Anti-submarine warfare technology, Naval warfare, National missile defense
  • Sword of Shiva (Scheduled for release in late 2011)

• Richard Ferguson
  • Oiorpata — mind control technology creating female super agents

• John Gardner';
  • Golgotha — mind control, nuclear warfare

• David Hagberg

• Eric L. Harry
  • Arc Light — a third world war including a large-scale nuclear exchange and the limited use of chemical and biological weapons.
  • Invasion — a conventional Chinese invasion of the United States, infantry warfare.
  • Protect and Defend (1999 Novel) World war 3 novel

• Ben Kay
  • Instinct — Insects bred for warfare genetic research, entomology

• Brian Schan
  • The Loyal Traveler
  • Goliath's Footprint

• Philip Kerr
  • Gridiron — architecture, smart-building technology, feng shui
  • A Philosophical Investigation — speculative neuropathology, philosophy, gender and criminal investigation
  • The Second Angel

• Robert Ludlum
  • The Arctic Event — bioweapons
  • The Jason Bourne novels — mind control, memory erasure and conditioning

• Jonathan Maberry
  • Patient Zero — military, terrorists, zombies, pathogens
  • The Dragon Factory
  • The King of Plagues

• Alistair MacLean
  • The Satan Bug (1962) — bioweapons

• Eric Nylund
  • Signal to Noise
  • A Signal Shattered

• Stel Pavlou
  • Decipher — nanotechnology, solar physics
  • Gene — genetic engineering

• Ralph Peters
  • Red Army
  • The War in 2020

• James Clancy Phelan
  • Fox Hunt
  • Patriot Act
  • Blood Oil
  • Liquid Gold
  • Red Ice

• Matthew Reilly
  • Ice Station
  • Area 7
  • Scarecrow
  • Temple
  • Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves

• Patrick Robinson
  • Nimitz Class — submarine technology
  • Kilo Class — submarine technology, U.S. Navy SEALs
  • H.M.S. Unseen
  • U.S.S. Seawolf — submarine technology, espionage, U.S. Navy SEALs
  • The Shark Mutiny
  • Barracuda 945
  • Scimitar SL-2 — submarine technology, terrorism
  • Hunter Killer

• Clark Prasad
  • Baramulla Bomber

• James Rollins
  • The Judas Strain
  • Black Order
  • Map of Bones
  • Sandstorm
  • Ice Hunt
  • Amazonia
  • Deep Fathom
  • Excavation
  • Subterranean

• Neal Stephenson
  • Cryptonomicon — encryption
  • Reamde — hacking, MMORPG, encryption, Terrorism

• Daniel Suarez
  • Daemon (2006) — hacking, MMORPG, mixed & augmented reality, sensor systems, autonomous vehicles, Internet.
  • Freedom ^TM — followup to Daemon
  • Kill Decision — robots, war, drone technology

• Walter Wager
  • Telefon — mind control, nuclear warfare

• Peter F. Hamilton
  • Fallen Dragon — armor technology, warfare, bioengineering, economics, AI, hacking

• Alvin Ziegler
  • Gridlock — hacking, medicine, genomics, Cyberwarfare.

References

External links

• ‘Techno-thriller’ Novels and Recent American Intellectual History
• Popular Techno Thriller Books on Goodreads