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No.15734
Maybe we can even get one of those charts going, although I'm sure there's quite a few floating around. If you have one saved, please post it!
No.15742
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very basics.
No.15793
>>15734Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds
No.15799
post more guys
/cyber/ at risk of falling off top 25
No.15802
>>15799quality>quantity
being at the top 25 is not important.
No.15814
No.15829
Silly oyabun we already have lit threads.
No.15833
>>15734first pic has both sci-fi and fantasy, sue me.
the 2nd is "neon pill" books
>>15829The first few (and best) lit threads I saw on cyber went away after the board got fucked up or whatever.
The last one turned into some silliness.
No.15836
"Leviathan Wakes"
"By Schism Rent Asunder"
No.15837
>>15742What's permutation city like?
No.15872
>>15833Is that a glitched-out Le Feels Guy?
No.15893
>>15872Will NEVER unsee
>>15833I got like 20 issues into Transmetropolitan and its waaay to edgy for me.
Like juvenile as fuck angst.
Which is a shame cus the setting is ace.
No.15897
>>15893
>Juviline and angstI'd agree but near the end Spider Jerusalem develops into a more mature character. Still cuhraazy but has a sense of right and wrong.
No.15901
>>15833>The last one turned into some silliness.You have a point there. We certailnly need to emphatize that this board has also scifi and not just cyberpunk.
>>15872It is now.
>>15893Transmetropolitan gets better as it goes, since Spider grows as a character and you also get to learn why he is that way/glimpse how fucked up the world actually is.
No.16189
Rule 34 by Charles Stross
>special cyber crime squad
>monitors the internet for crimes
>Rule 34: If some imagines a crime, someone will try to commit it.
No.16191
Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez
>Genius MMO develop and millionaire dies
>A program called the Daemon activates
>Starts killing people involved in its own creation
No.16194
Everyone in Silico by Jim Munroe
>brain-uploading has been invented
>only people with brouzouf can afford it
>leaving the planet to the poor
No.16198
>>16189>Rule 34is that intentional or just an extremely unfortunate coincidence?
No.16204
>>16198According to wikipedia it is intentional reference.
No.16210
>>16198it's actually a core part of the book. it is the sequel to halting state. Not Stross's best work, but still worth reading.
No.16247
>>16210>>16204Disclaimer about Rule 34 and Halting State, the third book in the trilogy will never be written because Charles threw a hissy-fit when his finale twist was ruined by the Snowden leaks.
IMO this is excuse for not knowing where to go with the plot.
No.16254
>>16194fuck jim munroe, he's an sjw enabler. he trained zoe quinn to make shitty games.
No.16295
>>16254Yes, Munroe founded the project that incubated several indie developers incl. Zoe Quin. But, I had read the book before #gamergate happened.
No.16296
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
>Cayce Pollard is allergic to well known logos and brandnames
>She wears clothes that are black or shades of gray
>Works in a ad firm to invent new ad campaigns
>Gets tasked to hunt down the creator of a viral video
>This book made the term Cayce Pollard Unit semi-famous on the internet
>Cayce Pollard Unit: A outfit that is black and shades of gray with not logos or brandnames.
No.16297
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
>San Fransisco gets terror attacked
>Government goes full police state
>Kids fight for their freedom
>Good introduction to the basics cyberpunk paranoia
>1984 in the form of YA-lit
No.16325
>>15901>We certailnly need to emphatize that this board has also scifi and not just cyberpunk.It's funny because the board page is literally /cyber/ - Cyberpunk & Science Fiction
>>16247>Charles threw a hissy-fit when his finale twist was ruined by the Snowden leaks. topschway
I gotta look this up.
No.16354
>get most of your books out of torrents, IRC channels and libgen
>feel dirty about getting all that knowledge and entertainment for free
Welp, I'm a low life after all.
No.16366
>>16325He is the blogpost where he said that:
https://archive.today/9g2SV No.16636
Just read Do androids dream of electric sheep, and I fell in love with it. Does /cyber/ have any other book suggestions that feels somewhat fresh? I tried reading neuromancer but the language used felt really dated and it put me off. Should I continue reading anyway?
No.16643
>>16636>Should I continue reading anyway?Yea mayne.
Some of the language might be weird but it's a good story for sure. (at least imo, I enjoyed the shit out of it)
No.16666
>want to get into Cyberpunk literature
>read ReMix
>get to the last page
>shed a tear for the hours of my life wasted on this LAME ASS BOOK
Seriously, I appreciate the english language, and this was some of the poorest writing I've ever endured. Not sure why I read the whole thing.
I read Greg Egan's diaspora and it blew my mind. Best SF I've encountered so far. I preferred it to Asimov and Philip K Dick (not saying these are bad, just personal preference). I'm considering Neal Stephenson next, maybe Snow Crash, not sure if I will like it.
No.16670
>>16666I don't think Snow Crash will be your cup of tea, although it is pure /cyber/ and brushes p some philosophical topics, its pretty much a hacker adventure book, at least taking the book on its own merits and not the whole series into account. I'd still recommend it since its one of the must-reads due to the # of references it get and influence it has.
No.16671
>>16666Snow Crash is a fun and entertaining read but is pretty (really) cheesy at certain points.
No.16943
>>16636the language is a little dated but it is a great book
you should also read RIM by alexander besher
No.16949
>>16671There's literally nothing wrong with being a weeaboo (when it was written.)
there was a really great cyberpunk series I read in high school that I can't remember, the title was chinese and it was set in a world 200 years in the future where cybernetic chinamen rule the entire world. Does that ring any bells?
No.16950
>>16949found it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Kuo_%28novel_series%29Chung Kuo is primarily set 200 years in the future in mile-high, continent-spanning cities made of a super-plastic called 'ice'. Housing a global population of 40 billion, the cities are divided into 300 levels and success and prestige is measured by how far above the ground one lives. Some – in the Above – live in great comfort. Others – in the Lowers – live in squalor, whilst at the bottom of the pile is 'Below the Net', a place where the criminal element is exiled and left to rot. Beneath the cities lie the ruins of old Earth – the Clay – a lightless, stygian hell in which, astonishingly, humans still exist. These divisions are known as 'the world of levels'.
In addition to the world of levels, there are the great meat-animal pens and sprawling, vast plantations to feed the population. There is also activity beyond Earth. The ruling classes – who base their rule on the customs and fashions of imperial China – maintain traditional palaces and courts both on Earth and in geostationary orbit. There are also Martian research bases and the outer colonies, with their mining planets.
No.17117
Found one that might be good. Involves hacking, criminal shenanigans, and bioethics, but not so much chrome.
http://dopaminenovel.comThe scummy trope page:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/Dopamine No.18939
Has anyone read Bleeding Egde? I was going to look into it after I finish reading Virtual Light (and maybe the rest of the Bridge trilogy). That seemed like it would be pretty relevant in a /cyber/ way, and it would be nice to have something good in the genre written with modern tech in mind, regardless of Pynchon's tech savvy. Gibson didn't know much about tech and Neuromancer was bomb AF.
No.18940
>>16296I'm reading this right now. Boone Chu is husbando material, the entire book is fashion porn, and it's really entertaining reading the dated descriptions of laptops and phones.
No.18941
I have a book in my backlog called RX: A Tale of Electronegativity. Has anyone read it?
I'm surprised to see no mentions of A Scanner Darkly IIT. It's high-tech low-life, and the police state paranoia feels particularly salient under the watchful eye of expanded government surveillance.
No.18998
>>16296Read it, loved it. You got your CPU's yet, chummer?
No.19004
>>18998I'm not autistic enough to ask a smith to grind the emblems off of the rivets and buttons on my jeans. So, no, no CPU's for me.
No.19021
>>19004That's nice guide to core things.
>Still can't find translated versions of 4,5,8. No.19071
Is this book worth getting into?
No.19222
>>19004Here's a way to get it done for cheap.
http://tinyurl.com/pwb69u5 No.19224
I "read" one of Charles Stross' latest books called Neptune's Brood I think. It was so bad I couldn't for the life of me, finish it. Apart from a somewhat interesting take on interstellar currency, the writing was horrendous, the plot thin and the character development non-existent.
No.22156
Maybe a little too popular at this point, but the best cyber read I've had in years.
>inb4 I'm a shazbot hipster normie
No.22162
>>22156
Holy necro-bump, shazbot
No.22165
>>22162
There are no necrobumps here chummer.
Have a nice short story by Philip K Dick.
No.22180
>>22156
I got 2/3 of the way through this and quit. I thought it was garbage. Characters were shallow, archetypal and unbelievable, plot was the product of an obsessive 80s nerd who though nothing was cool after 1989, writing was generally poor.
3/10 would not recommend.
I don't think poorly of you because you like it, though. Your taste is your problem.
No.28976
>>16297
Read that and the sequel, Homeland.
Pretty interesting read, felt too "Young Adult" though, if you know what I mean.
No.28988
>>22156
I got a copy of this in a subscription box, looks okay I haven't had much of an attempt at reading it because there's another 5 things I'm trying to finish… Is it worth a read?
No.29254
>nobody recommending Peter Watts' books
pls.
rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
you should also read echopraxia, it just came out about a year ago, great book.
No.29294
>>29254
Seconding Watts.
Blindsight and Echopraxia are amazing. Read them now.
Also not really cyberpunk at all, but still supremely interesting is Stephenson's Anathem. I know people like his other works on here, Anathem is my favorite.
No.29300
>>28976
Read Little Brother when I was 17, enjoyed the hell out of it. So "young adult" is right.
No.29325
What's the big deal with Neuromancer? I found it to be just a futuristic heist story, Snow Crash was much more enjoyable.
No.29334
>>29325
It's the first novel of William Gibson, the "inventor" of cyberpunk.
No.33880
I'm new. Is there a science-fiction general, or is this it?
No.33929
I've got City Come a Walkin' by John Shirley coming in the mail soon. Anyone read it? What did you think about it?
No.33941
>>19224
Fuck off, the book was great.
A very good sci-fi book imo.
Here are the series if anyone is interested;
http://8ch.net/file/res/192.html
Another book I read way back now is called Altered Carbon which is pretty good.
No.36471
This image contains a book, written by Linus Walleij
COPYRIGHT DOES NOT EXIST
A book about information and power
For everyone and for no one
>This book is about currents of thought in literature, technology, music, film, law and ideology.
>It was written after I realized that if I didn't write it, somebody else would.
>It was also written because I wanted all of the nice hackers in Sweden to be
>aware of, and educated about, their historical and ideological heritage.
>Finally, the work has been written with an air of popular science, to
>make it somewhat easier to understand (although the last statement can
>probably be debated; some chapters are considerably more difficult and technical than others)
No.36707
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guess this belongs in this thread
from >>36691
I just stuck the pdf inside the jpg
No.37078
>>22156
I'm usually pretty tolerant to bad books but ready player one is terrible
No.37087
What are some good /cyber/ audiobooks? My OEM optics are drek and replacement hardware is a long way off.
No.37116
>>37087
I haven't listen to the whole thing but from what I've heard the BBC neuromancer audio drama is very good
No.37568
Reamde by Neal Stephenson.
More of a thriller really, but it's a really good one and there are some cyberpunk aspects. A major plot point involves hackers and a virtual world.
No.38531
The Illuminatus! trilogy is some good 70's stoner SF that borders on proto-cyberpunk.
Unfortunately, some acid casualties and aspies incapable of processing metaphor or understanding certain types of humour take the books at face value and completely tinfoilhat out on this stuff.
I would add to the Neon Pill list Hardwired, Market Forces, and Shatter.
And I'll longlist Richard Calder's "Dead Girls", Ghost Rider 2099, Bruce Sterling's "The Artificial Kid", Norman Spinrad's "Little Heroes", Paul McAuley's biopunk novel "Fairyland", Toren Smith's Dirty Pair comics (Adam Warren's are more post-human) and the abandoned webcomic Monica Furious.
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>>15893
I give Spider a pass on how he acts because he's pissed at the world and uses excessive amounts of drugs in order to cope
In all honesty, Spider is written like a lot Howard The Duck and I imagine transmetro to be what Gerber intended for Howard The Duck Max if it had gotten more than six issues
No.38584
I'd also like to suggest Rai by Valiant comics. It's a very interesting blend of Japanese Period Dramas and cyberpunk. While the original 90's run was good in it's own right, it got kind of sidetracked when it decided to become a secondary sister title to Magnus Robot Fighter
No.40045
So I'm just done reading a book that recenty got reedited, augmented/updated edition that was so great that I binged read it in two days.
Inner City by Jean-Marc Ligny
It's a french book so I don't know if it is translated/easy to find or anything, but if you can get your hands on it, I strongly advise it.
Deals mostly with virtual reality but all classic cyberpunk aspects are here in a pleasant way. A few things are predictable or a bit overdone, but it doesn't spoil anything, anyway I loved it.