/lit/ - Literature

whats some cyberpunk literature to cheer up people disappointed in the game?

So I just finished Neuromancer.

Should I continue reading Cyberpunk or is it a dead end beyond Neuromancer?

Is it just me or is Neuromancer a REALLY tough read?

I'm about 1/4th into it and I feel like I can hardly tell what's even going on half the time. Something about the way he writes is... erratic.

Does cyberpunk have to be dystopian or can it be antiutopian?

How good is this actually? I've been thinking of reading it

When does it gets good?

Actually bros this is the best science fiction

What are some essential 'nerd-core' titles

Stuff like the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, hyperion saga, and more recently ready player one

/lit/, are we headed for a Cyber-Dystopia ruled by Megacorporations?

Or will it be a Cyber-Utopia?

does neuromancer still hold up? I just bought it for 3 dollars after not having a copy since I was 6

Was stuff supposed to be vague or am I retarded?

What are the essential cyberpunk works besides Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Blade Runner, and The Matrix?

Is this worth reading or is it too old to be of interest?

Is there better modern cyberpunk out there?

>just finished rerreading pic related for the sixth time
wtf is wrong with me

What are the best Cyberpunk books?

>Pic unrelated

No OP.

I read Neuromancer and liked it but thought cyberpunk could do something more.

On the recommendation of many sites, as well as /lit/, I read Snow Crash. It's the worst book that I've ever completed.

It's the book version of the band Korn or Insane Clown Posse.

There are some people that will say "you just had to be alive in that time to get it"

guess what, white dreadlocked faggots, a book that is shit 30 years after it was written was never good in the first place.

I haven't read a single cyber punk book since. I have no desire to.

Fuck Neal Stephenson and his pre-9gag books

>Three megabytes of hot RAM

Is this the greatest fail in literature?

I love old school sci-fi, already read almost all Nebula award novels, and finally got to this.

I have never read a book more annoying to read than this one, holy fucking shit.

One sentence the MC is talking to some cyborg Asian chick the next hes running away from who knows what and by the end of the paragraph hes in a completely different place fantasizing about cocaine. The author dedicates most of the text to the aesthetic of the setting but does very little with it.

I'm 60 pages in, does it get better? I really want to like it but the way its written is just horrible.

Michael Mann
Johansson as Molly

>>8087573

if we're going by bad books we've finished, snow crash. I read neuromancer and got excited by the possibilities of cyber punk.

i picked up snow crash because it's on many cyber punk lists. it's a book for juggalos. i've not read any cyber punk since.

>>7987623

His greatest crime is doing all of the above and speaking plainly and clearly. People want a wacky guy who's either a lovable kook (Zizek) or an easily dismissed crazy. They need some way to diminish him.

But Sam "meditation master" Harris steps up in the pocket and never loses his cool.

>>7766479

Neuromancer

similar themes and pacing

both felt dream-like when i read them