/lit/ - Literature

Daemon

The Stars My Destination.

This one's pretty good.

Neuromancer

Ready Player One - You'll fucking love it.

Snow Crash

>>3138711
>>3138739
so the only cyberpunk you've read is in fact "Neuromancer"

>>3138828
ready player one is stylistically shit. it's basically written in YA style for 80s nostalgiacs to jerk off over. it addresses nothing interesting, the style is not interesting, the world does not make sense, and worst of all it is written terribly. gtfo

>>3139644
rage done with. here is the credited response

classic cyberpunk:
of course Neuromancer, but more importantly
BURNING CHROME, a short story anthology by Gibson, with contributions from Sterling and Swanwick

yuppie cyberpunk:
The Gold Coast - Kim Stanley Robinson

action/noir cyberpunk:
Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan

mind bending cyberpunk:
Ubik
Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said
Do Android Dream of Electric Sheep by PKD

proto-cyberpunk:
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

>>3139655
Thanks, that's more useful than the other posts. I don't know the genre but was recommended it and want to read the better books to see if it's something I'd enjoy.

>>3139644
Its a good story and a fun read. Get off your high fucking horse and stop expecting everything to be written 10/10 - I agree it's written poorly but I enjoy the references and the pace of the story so much that the rest doesn't matter.

>>3140002
>Get off your high fucking horse and stop expecting everything to be written 10/10

Seconding.

>>3139644
I have to agree with this, for the most part--and that comes from someone who genuinely liked the book, participated in the IRL contest related to it, recommends it to other people, and jacked off all over the 80s nostalgia aspects. It's not well written at all (perhaps not as terribly as suggested above), but as a "fun" YA-style SF novel, I'd say it's more enjoyable than most.

>>3139655
Quality list. Brunner doesn't work for me, though--his language is just inappropriately dense (what I've read, at least).

Once you've read everything suggested on this list already, I'd add Accelerando (Stross, so the writing is crap, but the ideas are huge), and the first two novels of Rudy Ruckers Ware tetralogy.

If you're interested in theory about cyberpunk, you should check out the anthology Storming the Reality Studio.

>>3139619
Gibson is pretty boss when it comes to Cyberpunk...from Neuromancer to All Tomorrow's Parties...the guy hasn't screwed up once (YMMV, however).

For Cyberpunk theory...I would recommend "Cyberpunk & Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the work of William Gibson"

>>3140042
le valiant defense of HIGH CULTURE face

When Gravity Fails is a very good one.

>>3140101
>Cyberpunk & Cyberculture: Science Fiction and the work of William Gibson

Had that in my hands once, seemed pretty boring middle-of-the-road pomo lit-crit approach.

As for Cyberpunk reads:

I like Islands in the Net by Sterling a lot, it's arguably the beginning of post-Cyberpunk (in that protagonists have jobs and families, it's not all edgy twenty-somethings).

Also, Ian McDonald's Cyberabad Days (short story collection) or River of Gods (long-ish novel).

This thread is on at least every week, someone should really just make a picture of all the book covers.

Isn't mirrorshades an anthology of short stories?

I think that in reality there are few quality cyberpunk novels. Which is startling for how much attention it receives. I guess movies play a big part in it too