Post number #383390, ID: 398569
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Do you guys have any recommendations? It can be old or new, I just wanna have a track on where it's good to start.
Post number #383439, ID: 5b9199
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I only have a few in my book case. Altered Carbon, Snow Crash, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Neuromancer.
Post number #383560, ID: 398569
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If you're a fan of Ghost in the Shell at all, I'd highly recommend "After the Long Goodbye."
Post number #383649, ID: b2657b
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>>383439 Basically, this.
Post number #383742, ID: 40cb8d
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>>383390 The bridge trilogy
Post number #383785, ID: f986a0
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crashing heaven by al robertson walkaway by cory doctorow autonomous by annalee newitz trouble and her friends by melissa scott the windup girl/the water knife by paolo bacigalupi aren't straight cyberpunk by this entire board but they've got the same elements
getting a liiitle tired of seeing the same 3 books recommended on here lol
Post number #383786, ID: f986a0
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oh and if you liked electric sheep, philip k dick's other work (like ubik and a scanner darkly) has that same paranoid feel
Post number #383871, ID: 8e9cd4
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Mindplayers - Pat Cadigan Patterns - also Pat Cadigan A Fire in the Sun - George Alex Effinger Foundation series - Isaac Asimov After Atlas - Emma Newman Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Post number #383997, ID: ec6332
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Yeh, Neuromancer is a must in my opinion.
Post number #384044, ID: 897279
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Try reading Labyrinth of Reflections by Sergei Lukyanenko
Post number #384116, ID: ff7840
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>>383439 I heard about Altered Carbon but only the Netflix series. Is it worth watching or just the book is enough?
Post number #384122, ID: 642527
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Snow Crash is the best. I love dat book!
Post number #384260, ID: 1f9ee9
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>>384116 I haven't watched the series but the book is great if you dont mind the occasional cheese. But if you're into cyberpunk cheese probably shouldn't bother you anyway. It also won the Philip K. Dick Award the same year it got published.
>>384122 Snow Crash is unironically the best cyberpunk book out there despite the fact that it parodies the genre. It's just such a great ride.
Post number #384370, ID: ff7840
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OP here Thank you guys for the recommendations. I'll search for them and start reading it. I wanted to learn more about the genre, since I liked more sci-fi, and in the past I often got confused with both genres, when they're actually totally different. And bc I never read cyberpunk books before so yeah...
Post number #385032, ID: 4693c9
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>>383785 thank you this list is awesome
Post number #385165, ID: 481c4e
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snow crash is the most intense book one can read. the pizza delivery is so much fun to read
Post number #385567, ID: cee88a
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>>383871 Foundation is a great series, but not sure that it's cyberpunk
Post number #385608, ID: d7b377
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Do you guys have any idea on where I can download some of these? The classics I found easily but some like Labyrinth of Reflections and Crashing Heaven I couldn't. (don't give pdf file links bc it's hard to read them on any device bc of the format, and don't complain that I need to buy bc most of them weren't even published in my country, neither I have money to buy on amazon or ebay, etc.)
Post number #385885, ID: a6f2ab
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>>385608 https://www.e-reading.mobi/book.php?book=72051 Here you go. Btw, gotta warn ya, labyryth is not 100% cyberpunk, but it's heavily inspired by the matrix, so, i guess...
Post number #385893, ID: 77a955
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b-ok.org
Post number #386036, ID: 41945b
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>>385885>>385567 Thank you guys, I'm really grateful for the help
Post number #386899, ID: 88fe70
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>>385608 libgen.io of course
Post number #387797, ID: c2aedd
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I just ordered a copy almost of every book mentioned in this thread that I didn't already own. Two of them I couldn't find localy though. Thanks alot for the lists!!
Post number #388517, ID: ef9acd
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>>383560 Thanks, I'll check it out >>384116 I liked the show, but haven't read the book
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Post number #390673, ID: 5628b2
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reopened this thread and commenting so it doesn't get closed instantly again
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Post number #391370, ID: 578808
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>>383560 Just ordered it, thanks for the recommendation.
Post number #391422, ID: c9e324
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The Stars my Destination is a bit out there - like Dick with its telepaths etc - but it's basically proto-cyberpunk, as well as being a phenomenal sci-fi novel.
"He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead. He fought for survival with the passion of a beast in a trap."
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Post number #395389, ID: 85a252
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Guess what came in the mail today boys
http://0x0.st/stLC.jpg
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Post number #404054, ID: c05f78
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this is the new book thread
Post number #404138, ID: 29da0e
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>>391370 Damn look at that laptop. Is the the case aluminum? And that wear on the keyboard, oh my. Been using it for a while, haven't you. Oh, and uh, nice manga I guess.
>its not like im salty that i cant afford a 20$ manga or anything >manga is literature
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Post number #404444, ID: f7a555
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>>404138 The case is 100% plastic, it's actually kind of a cheap piece of shit, but it's been with me for 3 years now.
Also the book is not actually manga, it's a regular novel. And the wear on the keyboard is a funny story.
Basically it had started turning a darker grey (like 50% as bad the right side), and I assumed it was dirty. So I took a damp sponge and started scrubbing. Took about 5 seconds to realize what I was doing.
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Post number #404448, ID: f7a555
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As for a $20 manga, I actually got it for $6.30 lightly used on amazon (really $1.30 because I had a gift card). Here's the book: http://0x0.st/swYQ.jpg
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Post number #404451, ID: f7a555
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Oh I just realzied you were talking about the wear ok the keys themselves. I never noticed it. This was the sponge incident I was talking about: http://0x0.st/swYj.jpg
Post number #407565, ID: 8a0441
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Why is it blue?
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Post number #409376, ID: 290bda
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>>409142 it's also visible on the danger/u/ github...
Post number #412500, ID: 6f2320
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Surprised not to see Synners by Pat Cardigan mentioned here, it's usually the "other" novel mentioned alongside Snow Crash and Neuromancer. Also the short story The Machine Stops, proto-cyberpunk too, consider it was written in 1909 and be amazed at it. Also not a book but the manga Blame! is easily my favorite cyberpunk work.
Post number #418000, ID: 1c9474
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1984 by George Orwell is basically cyberpunk. While it doesn't feature a bunch of emo hackers running around with neon dicks, it is sci-fi, and the main focus is government control. Or, well, when it came out it was sci-fi. Now it (the technology) is extremely similar to reality. But still. It's about government control and oppression in a kind of sci-fi setting.
Post number #419120, ID: 4bf690
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Since no one has mentioned it yet, I highly recommend the Eclipse trilogy (Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, and Eclipse Corona) by John Shirley. Excellent gritty Cyberpunk at its best. There is a recent-ish omnibus print kicking around that you can find pretty cheap.
Post number #420165, ID: 389651
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>>4bf690 Would you recommend the updated versions over the originals?
Post number #421738, ID: 4bf690
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>>389651 It's a very light edit. I was hard pressed to notice the differences, although tbh the decades between readings may have cloaked some of that for me. Given how cheap you can get the updated version though, I'd say go for it.
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Paul Di Filippo Reviews Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan
Some existing discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/CoreCyberpunk/comments/9s3wrf/paul_di_fillipo_reviews_thin_air_by_richard_k/
Sounds like he really liked it
Post number #454069, ID: ee52fb
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If you want to be systematic about it, you should read all of the books on the Hugo Awards list. If you're only going to read one, then it's Neuromancer. Absolutely foundational to the cyberpunk genre.
Post number #460788, ID: 992412
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>>384122 fosho snow crash is the best. And Neuromancer is also amazing>>454069
Post number #461916, ID: a547ce
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Melancholy for Mechagirl
Post number #469693, ID: 2d304f
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Rx:A Tale of Electronegativity is pretty good. It's very soft on the science but has a decent take on the genre nonetheless.
Post number #477360, ID: 893020
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While it's often decribed as "space opera" it also contains lots of cyberpunkish elements: The Hyperion books by Dan Simmons. It's really cool.
Post number #496474, ID: 93fb27
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>>460788 Neuramancer literally created the genre, so of course it stands as a core of it.
Post number #496596, ID: 55a627
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>>496474 Wait, what? Did it really?
Post number #499482, ID: e6533e
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Cyberia is worth mentioning. There is something mesmerizing in its (debased, mostly) premise of Internet as a new era of humanity. It also was the inspiration for Serial Experiments Lain, and helps understand the series and its context.
I ordered the Neuromancer for myself today. I saw a bundle of Gibson's other books on sale, should I order it? I didn't notice other gurls mentioning them here.
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>>499482 It inspired Serial Experiments Lain? I might have to pick that up.
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| Do you guys have any recommendations?
It can be old or new, I just wanna have a track on where it's good to start.