What are the essential cyberpunk works besides Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Blade Runner, and The Matrix?
What are the essential cyberpunk works besides Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Blade Runner, and The Matrix?
Adrian Carter
Nathan Reed
those are literally all the essentials
Tyler Reyes
The matrix isn't cyberpunk
Liam Thomas
I. WANT. ROOM SERVICE!!!!!!!
Hunter Ross
It's sorta Post-Cyberpunk.
I mean, it's got the dystopian elements, the computer bullshit and the evil guys in suits.
Bad guy is basically SHODAN.
Only thing missing is the meaty human society; but this has been subsumed in the most punkiest of ways into the machine singularity - total enslavement as literal fodder, no longer does the system merely metaphorically eat people alive, but literally also.
Jacob Allen
Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling.
Mirrorshades, short stories anthology.
Slant by Greg Bear.
Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick.
Sebastian Clark
The shadowrun series of books
Anthony Richardson
severely underrated post
Michael James
yeah, but shadowrun had elves, trolls, wizards and magic. sort of shits it up.
also do not read anything by Tom Maddox, ever. Gibson credits him with the creation of ICE, but the guy writes the way Jerry Lewis dances.
Elijah Evans
the tetsuo films
Zachary Butler
Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
Count Zero - Gibson
Brasyl - Ian McDonald
Leo Morales
Neuromancer was pretty good, but it was honestly one of the most underwhelming sci-fi books that I have ever read.
Gibson should have done what Niven did with Ringworld and pick up the story with another book or two, until he could reach a satisfying end to the narrative.
Robert Carter
>Gibson should have done what Niven did with Ringworld
jesus christ, Niven was ANOTHER one of the old guard that the cyberpunks were rebelling against! your post is like saying the Sex Pistols should have been more like Roy Orbison.
Liam Bell
Ready Player One
Nathan Fisher
The Sex Pistols were an absolute farce who had no meaningful impact on the music scene. Sid Vicious and friends had no musical talent. Their sole purpose was to act as clowns for entertainment purposes.
Pick a better analogy.
>Niven was ANOTHER one of the old guard that the cyberpunks were rebelling against!
Explain
Evan Lopez
sid vicious was the only truly untalented member of the band, and he didn't perform on the record.
Nathan Hill
Burning Chrome by Gibson
Akira
Ghost in the shell (1995)
Cyber City Oedo 808
Jason Foster
There are about three stories in the whole of mirrorshades that come close to cyberpunk
Henry Bailey
>The rest of the Sprawl trilogy
>Texhnolyze
>Serial Experiments Lain
Jack Turner
to be specific:
"The Gernsback Continuum" by William Gibson
"Solstice" by James Patrick Kelly
"Freezone" by John Shirley
William Jones
Burning Chrome also by Gibson, I remember enjoying Johnny Mnemonic and skipping all the rest of the short stories.
Xavier Ward
Mozart in Mirrorshades and Red Star,Winter Orbit , for example, are not cyberpunk?
Also, what's up with all the cyberpunk threads?
Sebastian Morales
Cyberpunk rules
Sebastian Anderson
William Gibson came to my local bookstore in 2015 and explained how he and the other people credited with creating cyberpunk had no fucking idea about what they were doing but were eager to try something new. I got him to autograph an entire sprawl trilogy for my collection. Good times
Carter Martinez
The Girl Who Was Plugged In is a short proto-cyberpunk novella, I thought it was great.
Liam Mitchell
Came here to post Altered Carbon.
It's a fucking masterpiece.
Hunter Cook
God I envy you so much
At least I have the autograph of Bruce Sterling
Daniel Price
I agree that it does sort of shit it up but i think it's still a rather nice cyberpunk setting.
Colton Gutierrez
Angel Allen
Metal Gear Solid 1-2
Benjamin Baker
Reality is SHIT and cyberspace is GOD
Lucas Martinez
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