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Finished Neuromancer. Loved it.
Any suggestions on what to read next?
Also, Neurogeneral.

>> No.1320453

Count Zero
Mona Lisa Overdrive

>> No.1320456

>>1320453
Been really wanting to read those, too, but I've gotten nothing on /lit/ for them. I take it they're good?

>> No.1320461

Read the rest of the Sprawl Trilogy (Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive).

Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix is also pretty good.

>> No.1320462

>>1320453
These. Snow Crash as well.

>> No.1320464
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1320464

If you're okay with comics, "BLAME!"

>> No.1320468

>>1320462
>>1320461
>>1320453

Damn. Apparently they ARE good.
Will do, anons :D
Keep 'em coming, too; I'm liking this genre.

>> No.1320473

>>1320464
wat

>> No.1320483

>>1320464

I love comics.

>> No.1320494

How is the bridge trilogy, is it worth reading? Oh and op you should pick up the burning chrome short story collection. Actually the burning chrome story is my favourite thing that gibson has written.

>> No.1320505

Are there any cyberpunk online-fiction projects? The idea would be quite obvious.

>> No.1320535

>>1320505
That's actually a damn good question.

>> No.1321779

>>1320494
The Bridge Trilogy is very good too. Except for the last book, that one sucked a bit.

>> No.1321783

I have no mouth and I must scream

>> No.1321809

man, I am trying really hard to get through neuromancer but it seems like I'm missing fucking everything, like the entire book is references to things I haven't read yet.

>>1320462
hopefully snowcrash is a little different/better?

anybody got one of those jpg/rars? Do people even do those anymore?

>> No.1321811

>>1320464
20th Century Boys too, if you're ok with comics.

>> No.1321820

>>1321809
http://www.nautilus-solar.net/SandyGunfox/books/G/Gibson,%20William/

>> No.1321822

>>1321809
>like the entire book is references to things I haven't read yet.

It's supposed to feel like that. It's not that you're missing something, it's that Gibson likes disorienting the reader.

>> No.1321848

Was Neuromancer meant to be a standalone novel?

>> No.1321859

>>1321848
felt like it when i read the other two. i also thought it to be the best of the three, but opinions... assholes... you get the drift

>> No.1321861

>>1321848

Yes. The "trilogy" is only really such because they take place in the same setting and reference each other somewhat. A few characters reappear but it isn't a continuation of the same story.

>> No.1321889
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1321889

This, especially since Gibson is such a massive fanboy of it

>> No.1321908

>>1320494
This. Burning Chrome is by far my favorite. The short story about the back room where vets control holographic biplanes with their minds and dogfight is fucking great.

>> No.1321926

>>1321889
Gully Foyle is my name,
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
The stars, my destination.

>> No.1321927

>>1321926
He was a hundred and seventy days dying, and not yet dead...

>> No.1321944

>>1321889
>>1321926
>>1321927
Fuck yes, I nominate this yet a fourth time! Do it, OP. It contains everything you will ever need to know about generating a story from the grain of a deeply flawed protagonist. As a writer's manual alone it's worth the price to buy a copy. And since it's a great and timeless yarn (and since being timeless is a very difficult thing for science fiction to achieve), you'll like it even if you don't write. Gully Foyle is one of the greatest and most believable antihero characters of 20th century writing.

>> No.1321965

The Takeshi Kovacs series by Richard K. Morgan is worth checking out, starting with Altered Carbon.

>> No.1322104

In which order should I read Gibson's sprawl trilogy, including short stories.

>> No.1322125

>>1321848
That's the thing with Gibson, his universe is intertwined. He's always referencing his other novels. Then again Stephen King does the same, especially with anything written post-Dark Tower.