By Rudy Rucker. Wetware is an award winning novel that explores the merging of humans and biocybernetic technology.

By Michael Swanwick. This novel is one of the earliest uses of wetware. The protagonist is a personality, recorded from a dead woman, who has escaped by taking over someone else's body.

By Michael Swanwick. This novel is one of the earliest uses of wetware. The protagonist is a personality, recorded from a dead woman, who has escaped by taking over someone else's body.

By Masamune Shirow. A manga series that features a 21st century culture where humans are commonly upgraded with mechanical implants.

By William Gibson. The first novel in the Sprawl series defines the Cyberpunk genre and is a pretty good introduction to wetware. Cyberspace is "a graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data."

By Richard K. Morgan. Your consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of your brain, which allows you to download into a new body, effectively making immortality possible.

By Walter Jon Williams The protagonist of this series has skull sockets that allow him to connect directly with lethal, electronic hardware.

By William S. Burroughs. The term "soft machine" refers to the human body, and the theme of this novel is how control mechanisms invade the soft machine.

By Pat Cadigan. The future's psychoanalysts can link directly into the minds of patients.

By Tad Williams. In this series an infant's brain is jacked into a computer and serves as its operating system, while other fetuses increase its capacity--people who connect to this network cannot disconnect and return to their bodies.