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Originally Posted by j. d. worthington  I'm not sure I'd include either Bester or Vinge in there. Bester came long before Cyberpunk was even around; though he might be said to have influenced it. The same could well be said for Dick. Another good one to look for is Bruce Sterling. There's also Rudy Rucker. If you've not read it before, you might want to take a look at Mirrorshades, ed. by Sterling: Mirrorshades, edited by Bruce Sterling
Cyberpunk isn't my speciality, I'll admit... though I liked a fair amount of what I've read there, I just never explored that far into it.
Definitely (even though it has become somewhat dated) go for Neuromancer, it's one of the classics of the genre. So is the "Ware Tetralogy" by Rucker: Sofware, Wetware, Freeware, Realware... the first two of which are the most notable, I'd say. |
Before Gibson jacked us into the cyber wonderland I would say Bester's
Golem 100 was laying the foundations. I don't think there were too many years between the two books, though a lifetime between the authors. I haven't read Neuromancer since it was released (it is on my classics to revisit list), but I recently tried to read Golem 100 and immediately thought of Gibson.
However, I didn't finish
Golem 100, I stopped caring about the characters.
Is there a thread on great books to stop reading?