/lit/ - Literature

>>11094899
Philip K. Dick explores a lot of themes and ideas that are staples of cyberpunk fiction. Although he predates cyberpunk.

The Quantum Theif is awesome, I found it thematically and aestetically similar

>>11094899
someone pass to this man the Neonpill

>>11094899
Try ‘Snow Crash’, by Neal Stephenson. And I also recommend Phillip K. Dick, he has a number of great technologically based dystopian works and many of them have served as the foundation to the cyberpunk genre.

>>11094899
read the first chapter a few days ago and wanted to kill myself, why is science fiction so boring

>>11094916
Here my friend.

>>11095037
I just finished 'The Diamond Age' by Stephenson. Pretty far out, but I love the message of information technology serving as the ultimate boon, tool, and equalizer for the natural autodidact. Wish I had the net growing up, but at least I had a library card.

>>11095390
>information technology serving as the ultimate boon, tool, and equalizer for the natural autodidact
Yeah, I'm very thankful for the internet. I've learned so much about Pepe and Wojak during all these years, I could write a master's thesis in Memeology

>>11095194
>Includes video games
>Doesn't include greatest cyberpunk video game
Anon please

>>11096793
those are tabletop rpgs, not video games, buckaroo

>>11095194
Can we get this but in a more legible font

>>11095390
Unless you have a parent to actively challenge you and curate content, the deepest you'll go is Wikipedia while a majority of your time online will be spent masturbating and gaming

T. Millenial

the sprawl trilogy is worth finishing. the pace of the other 2 books is refreshing compared to nueromancer

Gibson's short story book has his best cyberpunk in it. From Neuromancer the rest of his Sprawl trilogy is a let-down. There are a few nice scenes phased through them, but altogether not worth $. (You can steal it, you'll still be let down.) I thought Virtual Light and particularly ATP were better.

Dick's largest problem fitting into the punk is that his settings are not sexy enough, which is 98% of the substance of "cyberpunk". He didn't live to be as cool as Gibson, or have the same kind of neon sentences, but he wrote better science fiction, better paranoia, and had a better substance, which is why the movies made from Dick's work so plainly do better.

>>11095037
I didn't like Snow Crash; the plot was just so weird. The prologue is incredible and gets me excited, but it fails to live throughout the novel. I did like cyber and real world, and were very interesting, but the characters were really boring.

>>11097829
same poster; I also really enjoyed reading the part with the ai the girl gave him that talks about all that religion and viruses; when I read this book I had recently read viruses of the mind and was really cool seeing that relationship.

>>11094899
The Eclipse trilogy by John Shirley
Metrophage by Richard Kadrey
Crashcourse by Wilhelmina Baird
Dead Girls by Richard Calder

>>11095194
is transmetropolitan realllllly cyberpunk?

>>11095050
I like cyberpunk theoretically but all cyberpunk works I've tried to read have been absolute dogshit. Neuromancer is fucking terrible. It reminds me of fanfiction, thematically and plot-wise it's all over the place. With lots of retarded 'coolness' such as cringe-worthy swearing- things that seem to be there just because they can be shoved in, rather than because they contribute value. It probably wouldn't be that bad if I'd read it in its time, though.

>>11094913
it is not, it's a shit novel

>>11095037
snow crash is shit

>>11094899
pkd, mid-jg ballard, early rudy rucker, early bruce sterling, esp. video kid, john shirley's city come a-walkin, james tiptree's the girl who was plugged in and of course gibson, everything else is shit written with the sole purpose of cashing in on the hype, esp. shadowrun, christ, what a trainwreck of a setting