/lit/ - Literature

>>12102586
Neuromancer by William Gibson

>>12102586
snowcrash is pretty good

>>12102586
Neuromancer, William Gibson

>>12102586
Neuromancer. I believe it was written by William Gibson.

READy player one

>>12102586
I'd recommend William Gibson's 'Neuromancer'

>>12102586
There’s this book by William Gibson you might like. I can’t quite recall the name...

This thread is embarrassing and cyberpunk is gay

>>12102698
Neuromancer

>>12102698
William Gibson

>>12102698
This thread is Neuromancer and William Gibson is gay.

>>12102586
The Artificial Kid
Schismatrix
Islands in the Net
Holy Fire
HeadCrash
Ware Tetralogy
A Song Called Youth/The Eclipse Trilogy
Hardwired
When Gravity Fails
Synners
Metrophage
Mirrorshades (An anthology)
The Shockwave Rider
The Cold Cash War
Dr. Adder
Snow Crash
The Diamond Age
Cryptonomicon
City Come A' Walkin'
Angel Station (A Cyberpunk Space Opera,it's as Autistic as it sounds)
Also, >>12102698 is right,cyberpunk is pretty gay

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>>12102586
Mona Lisa Overdrive by Big Gay Bill Gibson

Altered carbon (the first book)

Not quite cyberpunk, but We by Yevgeny Zamiatin is kino

>>12102586
First opus of the Sprawl Trilogy by Billy G.

>>12102586

Neuromancer by William Gibson is my favorite.

>>12102739
>cyberpunk is pretty gay


there was one scene in "The Artificial Kid" where an openly bi character expressed his love for the protagonist, Rominuald Tanglin. he was killed off shortly after, though, so nobody had to deal with the consequences of his declaration.

i can't recall a lot of gay characters above the level of wallpaper in any of Gibson's books. or John Shirley's. or Neal Stephenson's. i hear Pat Cadigan was a founding cyberpunk, but i haven't read much of her work.

>>12102870
> shadowrun

>>12102870
Tell me about River of Gods.

>>12102880
Can we talk about this book for an instant? I get that Angie, also in Count Zero, is practically Lain in how she can affect cyberspace without jacking in, and a simstim idol. The whole point of Mona was for the crooks to fake Angie's death with someone who looks like her so they can abduct Angie and dissect and study her father's advanced technology. But I don't remember Kumiko having any higher significance other than being a Yakuza's daughter, and later on hacking her twink hologram AI boyfriend.

Moreover, do you guess what the Count was trying to achieve with sequestering himself in a mainframe? The entitie made in NM broke into several beings, making deals with mortals voodou fashion, but I simply do not get how Bobby would be at all instrumental in connecting the AI(s) to another of its kind.

>>12102870
the only place I've ever seen River of Gods had this cover which I refused to buy

>>12102586
Is there any Cyberpunk stuff from the Corporation's perspective? I'm thinking some American Psycho type stuff

is there cyberpunk non-fiction?

>>12103595
Sure, open the news app on your wireless smart phone

>>12102586
Monalisa Overdrive by Neurocancer

>>12102586
My diary desu

>>12103595
take a look around you anon

>>12102586
Neuromancer by William Gibson

>>12102698
definitely neuromancer by william gibson

>>12102586

have read Daemon and Freedom from Suarez this weekend. pretty good. i like the idea that the current consumerism based culture could be superseeded not from the bottom up like a revolution or top down like a reform but through a change of paradigm. he don't explain in detail the economy of that new world but it seems it's centered on a certain transparency of information, reputation, self-sufficency and a certain insularism. i think there is a certain distribution of ressources according to your level of skills and your needs. corporations externalizing their costs on society or nature to maximize profits get corrected back so there is no deal in importing shit from third world countries. i will have to listen to it again, was in a daze at some point but there is good shit in there even if there is a few sort of corny action scenes.

>>12103627
>Case whips out his cellular comms device and pulls up the applications matrix. 2 full megabytes of storage with a whopping 512 kilobytes of RAM he traded a Soviet escapee a couple of blowjobs for. Using the capacitive hapto-visual touch LED panel he jacks into the CNN Global Net.
>He selects local news, and the stories cascade down the illuminated screen.
>The screen is suddenly covered by a pop-up advertisement: SPONSORED BY THE KOBAYASHI HEAVY MACHINERY CORPORATION OF SOVIET JAPAN. WE MAKE THE BEST NEURAL INTERFACES-
>Disgusting. He shuts the device off and injects more heroin into his dick.

>>12102586
Neurogibson by William Mancer

>>12105872
you made me laugh. You have my respect mister.

>>12103595
Read about China's social monitoring or the corporate dominance of Silicon Valley

>>12103478
Kumiko's plot was severely underdeveloped and went nowhere. I think her perspective served only to provide low-level contrast to the high-level machinations of the AIs, she was also an accessory to introduce known characters and make them stand out.

I don't think Bobby was instrumental, or rather everyone and everything is an instrument of the AIs but while Bobby's role was more involved he ultimately was dispenseable.
Seemed to me, he simply wanted to enter the aleph - ascend to another state.
My memory is fuzzy in the details though and the Neuromancer sequels, while enjoyable, aren't as good as the original.

>>12103595
Books on the dark web

>>12102586
Fanged Noumena

>>12102586
The real good cyberpunk books are the friends we make along the way!

negromancer by bill gibs

>>12108052
And it's sequel,Count Negroid

>>12102888
Does the first stand alone or is it gonna drag me into a series against my will?

my grokking wetware desu

>>12102586
probably neuro be mancing

>>12103595
fiction is already becoming reality

>>12102586
Neural Mantis by Billy Gibbons

>>12102586
Niggamancer - Williamsonius Shaquan Gibson

>>12103595
yea just read up on china

>>12102586
Niggamangoose by William Gayson

>>12108547
fuck I get claustrophobia by looking at that

>>12102739
Anon who made this can you please choose your two favorites please.

>>12108582
Hmm,ShockWave Rider and SnowCrash,also City Come a' Walkin'

>>12108562
Tbh that looks very nice and comfy to me.

any good books with characters like the autistic game devs in reamde?

>>12102870
>altered carbon
Pile of hot garbage.

The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

start with this

>>12102586
Does anyone else feel that Neuromancer sucked? Currently I'm trying to give "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" a spin

>>12109289
Yeah, and then I read Snow Crash and realized that Negromancer wasn't that bad

Necromancer by Stephen King

>>12109289
yep struggled through it, but I think it's because all of the ideas in it, which were once fresh and exciting, are now tired and cliched.

On the other hand, I enjoyed DADOES more than I did Blade Runner

>>12102586
I literally just finished reading this for the first time today and came here to talk about it. I was glad Case was eventually able to let go of his past and get a new start but I also hoped he and Molly would discover some kind of deep connection as a result of Case being in her head.

>>12103595
Tech news: the smartphone, attack drones, Silk Road, Bitcoin, fake videos made with neural networks, virtual youtubers. Neo-China arriving from the future.

>>12105866
My memory is hazy, but I don't think Gibson got storage capacity that wrong.
>>12102870
If you're going to have PKD, add Tiger! Tiger! too. Add Blame in comics. Drop Shadowrun.

>>12102586
google

>>12110057
He didn't get it wrong, it was just that the computer specs(which was super powerful at the time) didn't age well

>>12105866
This is well written, anon

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>>12108547
a e s t h e t i c

>>12110324
I was talking about the specs.

>>12110039
the story goes like this...

>>12103047
My favorite William Gibson is Neuromancer.

>>12112126
Honestly, Burning Chrome is a better William Gibson.

>>12108787
fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

>>12102586
I hear William Gibson by Neuromancer is pretty good

bump

>>12112130
Is that a good fuuuuuuck or a bad?

>>12103569
But your not supposed to judge books like that.

>>12102655
>snowcrash is pretty good
Snowcrash sucks. It has a couple interesting concepts,and I give it credit for being written in the '90s but other than that it's about as good a Ready Player One.

So bottom line, while the general cyberpunk aesthetic is cool, the literary genre is shit, yes? Stick to visual arts and music, yes?

>>12102586
Will Gibbs by Nancy Nerrow

>>12108547
You sure that's China? That bag in the left is incredibly popular here in my lationamerican shithole.

>>12102978
Zamyatin was so far ahead of his time with that book. Its unbelievable. Wouldn’t say that I loved the book, but its a quick read, and probably worth it.

Snow Crash is absolute trite. Stephenson wrote a terrible satire because he hated cyberpunk and somehow it became recommended next to Neuromancer as peak cyberpunk. I am furious.

>>12113891
Not really,80s cyberpunk is great but everything goes downhill in the nineties and modern cyberpunk is trash

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>>12102586
A Song Called Youth trilogy

>>12110057
his gf stole 3K of ram out of his computer and sold it to buy a plane ticket. when was that ever possible?

>>12114698
The Gig Economy is a good current year story, though it's more postcyberpunk.

>>12102655
This book was absolute garbage and if you like it you're an absolute retard

>>12102586
Also, go the fuck back to your containment thread

>>12116188
>Containment thread

>>12116188
Based

>>12102586
Sadly, there are none.

>>12116188
The first 2-3 pages are actually a pretty good comical description of an anarcho-capitalist society, for the rest of the novel i agree, it's garbage.

>>12102586
Tiger, tiger or The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester if we can consider that as cyberpunk

>>12102586
Hardwired
A heavily underrated Cyberpunk book. Pondsmith created Cyberpunk 2013 from this influence, he hadn't read neuromancer few years afterwards.

Neuromancer is fucking awful.

>>12113617
Yea well I did so what are youuuuu gonna do about it

The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester. So good.

>>12116315
fucking hell I miss demotivationals

>>12114258
That speaks to how bad the genre is, when Snowcrash is far better than actual works in the genre even when the satirical elements are stripped away

>>12119643
>Snowcrash is far better than actual works
But it's not. It's only praised because people don't read so they don't know how bad it is in comparison to anything else. People who laud Snow Crash are people who read the popular book of the year and nothing else.

>>12119347
Stars is an excellent novel but the cyberpunk elements are fairly sparse

>>12118978
The sci-fi 'Count of Monte Cristo.'

>>12102586
Neuroing The Mance by William B. Gibson