CYBERPUNK
I've been trying to find some interesting cyberpunk novels, but most of what I've found were just pulpy stories that relied on technological gimmicks.
What are the must-reads of the genre?
I'm especially looking for novels about virtual/artificial reality and transhumanism.
Doesn't have to be strictly cyberpunk though.
I've already read Gibson and Dick.
>but most of what I've found were just pulpy stories that relied on technological gimmicks.
what did you expect?
>CYBERPUNK
>technological gimmicks
Choose both, or it's just fucking sci-fi
read this?
try this
Where is the right-wing cyberpunk?
Reactionary politics and a technocratic dystopia seem a perfect fit, yet every cyberpunk writer I know of is a basic bitch liberal who reads the New York Times and huffs Obama's farts
Technological gimmicks are fine when they actually play an important part in the narrative without overshadowing it.
But many of the novels I've started to read were just cliché stories "BUT WITH X".
Gonna give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion.
The premise reminds me a bit of Hideaki Sena's Parasite Eve.
You're probably better off with military sci-fi like Starship Troopers.
>just pulpy stories that relied on technological gimmicks
yep