just ordered a physical copy from 1994, excited to read the stories :)
what are y'alls recommendations for cyberpunk-y books?
mine are,
• Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
• Daniel Suarez - Daemon
• Daniel Suarez - Delta-V
• Shamus Young - Free Radical
niche tip for german-understanding people is 'Reda El Arbi - [empfindungsfæhig]'.
didn't finish Neuromancer yet, but i gotta start over because it's been too long.
The True Names I remember was by Vernor Vinge [0]. Cory Doctorow riffed on it in 2008. But not Rudy R, as far as I know.
I didn't particularly enjoy neuromancer. I love the world building and the subject but I realized after a few books I just don't like Gibson's style, I struggle to get through the reading.
But! If you like it, the rest of the sprawl trilogy is just as good, and the bridge trilogy is probably better.
* alec effinger: when gravity fails
* pat cadigan: synners
* neal stephenson: the diamond age
and two books that bring cyberpunk elements into a larger sphere
* greg egan: zendegi. a dying engineer wants to make an AI version of himself to raise his son
* c s friedman: this alien shore (beautiful meld of far future space based sf and cyberpunk)
The first cyberpunk novel I read was True Names by Rudy Rucker. John Shirley has been called 'patient zero of cyberpunk' for his novel Eclipse. (I published a collection of Cyberpunk stories called Error Message Eyes Release 3.0 and it will be a free download on Kindle on August 24th. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5CCRRSB I apologize for the blatant self promotion.)