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i read william gibson last year and enjoyed it, but i don't know of many other cyberpunk authors. The first two sprawl books were bretty good.

>>20253913
Should I start with Neuromancer? How much Gibson did you read? I hear mixed things about his later work.

>>20253865
I believe this was written before cyberpunk became a thing.

>>20253919
How do you think something becomes "a thing"

>>20253923
It became a thing after necromancer

>>20253919
Come on, man I JUST made this thread do you have to be stupid in it already. Please go be stupid somewhere else.

>>20253918
Start with Neuromancer. I read Burning Chrome and the first two Sprawl books. Couldn't get into the third.

>>20253865
Has anyone read Altered Carbon?

Cyberpunk is a threat to our democracy since it portrays billionares and corporations (stewards of our democracy, as the NYT has informed me) as evil influences that will lead us to a dystopia. It is also latently transhumanistphobic, androids are Othered hard.

>>20253865
>you now realizes the title is partially an analogy to the Anti-Christ

This book is not cyberpunk.

>>20254343
Not OP. It’s one of the books that invented the genre it definitely counts. Saying it’s not cyberpunk is just being very autistic.

Greg Egan

>>20254247
???

Dead Girls

>>20253865
Neuromancer is a must and then read Snow Crash becsuse it’s better.

>>20254510
Snow Crash is Reddit

>>20253918
Go ahead, read it. But Philip K. Dick's cyberpunk is very far from Gibson's. If you like Androids but don't like Neuromancer, then just read more PKD. He has other good ones like Ubik and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

>>20254510
Yeah and while we're on it why don't you throw in Ready Player One and Sword Art Online into the list

Not cyberpunk

Lot49

>>20253865
You are already reading the absolute best :D. Just love that book so damn much

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Cyberpunk Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)12:30:21 No.20253865▶>>20253919 >>20254186 >>20254247 >>20254510 >>20254794
Currently reading pic related and I want to read all of the best cyberpunk scifi. What are the can't miss cyberpunk books?
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)12:38:49 No.20253913▶>>20253918
i read william gibson last year and enjoyed it, but i don't know of many other cyberpunk authors. The first two sprawl books were bretty good.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)12:39:55 No.20253918▶>>20253968 >>20254542
>>20253913
Should I start with Neuromancer? How much Gibson did you read? I hear mixed things about his later work.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)12:39:56 No.20253919▶>>20253923 >>20253950
>>20253865 (OP)
I believe this was written before cyberpunk became a thing.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)12:41:03 No.20253923▶>>20253947
>>20253919
How do you think something becomes "a thing"
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)12:44:12 No.20253947▶
>>20253923
It became a thing after necromancer
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)12:45:01 No.20253950▶
>>20253919
Come on, man I JUST made this thread do you have to be stupid in it already. Please go be stupid somewhere else.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)12:48:14 No.20253968▶
>>20253918
Start with Neuromancer. I read Burning Chrome and the first two Sprawl books. Couldn't get into the third.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)13:37:14 No.20254186▶
>>20253865 (OP)
Has anyone read Altered Carbon?
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)13:41:08 No.20254202▶
Cyberpunk is a threat to our democracy since it portrays billionares and corporations (stewards of our democracy, as the NYT has informed me) as evil influences that will lead us to a dystopia. It is also latently transhumanistphobic, androids are Othered hard.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)13:52:14 No.20254247▶>>20254408
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>>20253865 (OP)
>you now realizes the title is partially an analogy to the Anti-Christ
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)14:27:24 No.20254343▶>>20254375
This book is not cyberpunk.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)14:41:30 No.20254375▶
>>20254343
Not OP. It’s one of the books that invented the genre it definitely counts. Saying it’s not cyberpunk is just being very autistic.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)14:47:53 No.20254401▶
Greg Egan
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)14:50:21 No.20254408▶
>>20254247
???
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)14:56:12 No.20254422▶
Dead Girls
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)15:23:52 No.20254510▶>>20254522 >>20254549
>>20253865 (OP)
Neuromancer is a must and then read Snow Crash becsuse it’s better.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)15:27:11 No.20254522▶
>>20254510
Snow Crash is Reddit

>>20254796
Rangeban when?

>>20253919
>>20254343
It's more proto-cyberpunk. If you go looking for mirrorshades or whatever you won't find them, but it influenced what came later, and as it's the basis for Blade Runner it needs to be covered even though it's a very loose adaptation.

>>20254807
Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)16:44:22 No.20254747▶>>20254752 >>20254790 >>20254810
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All three of my romance novels flopped Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)08:22:09 No.20252862▶>>20252871 >>20252912 >>20252961 >>20253180 >>20253185 >>20253203 >>20253219 >>20254711 >>20254724 >>20254731 >>20254740 >>20254742
>friend is a romance author
>made $100,000 last year
>decide to become a romance author myself
>challenging and time consuming
>work 3 months straight
>my books totally flop.

I am currently trying to do a fourth but it is seeming very futile at this stage. How do I write romance in a way that middle aged normie women, and gays appreciate?
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)08:23:51 No.20252871▶
>>20252862 (OP) (OP)
>How do I write romance in a way that middle aged normie women, and gays appreciate?
You have to pick one, it's impossible to appeal to both in significant numbers
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)08:24:46 No.20252877▶
Write a book about a handsome gay man who gets seduced by an aged hagraven.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)08:31:06 No.20252899▶
What's your friend's name? I'm genuinely curious to read their work now kek.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)08:32:54 No.20252912▶
>>20252862 (OP) (OP)
Women love rape and someone to take care of them. Also pirates

Gay men are like men and they like physical things
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)08:40:11 No.20252944▶
Just get the bestsellers, distill their formula and archetypes and just fill the rest for your books. Don't tell me you're actually trying to make up shit.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)08:43:42 No.20252961▶
>>20252862 (OP) (OP)
It's all about marketing and not how you write.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)09:45:18 No.20253180▶>>20253220 >>20254726
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>>20252862 (OP) (OP)
>How do I write romance in a way that middle aged normie women, and gays appreciate?
Write abusive smut. That's what holes like. Arrogant bullies who are also tall, muscular, rich, and for some reason obsessed with them even though they're mediocre females.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)09:46:40 No.20253185▶
>>20252862 (OP) (OP)
are you using a female pseudonym? if not, use it.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)09:51:26 No.20253203▶
>>20252862 (OP) (OP)
Maybe you're a shit writer.
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)09:54:36 No.20253219▶
>>20252862 (OP) (OP)
Why did you post a picture of a convicted child molester. What kind of romances are you writing?
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Anonymous 04/21/22(Thu)09:55:15 No.20253220▶

>>20253950
lmao

>>20254522
Is any sci fi not Reddit?

>>20256564
no

>>20256564

>>20257203
lol

>>20253865
neuromancer is kino

>>20257254
no, it's a book

>>20254401
>Greg Egan
Seconded. Greg Egan is very good, and doesn’t get mentioned here enough. His short story collections are excellent.

>>20253865
Good overview full of excerpts and essays about cyberpunk.