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8259978 No.8259978 [Reply] [Original]

Just finished reading this.

Any other books with a cyberpunk thematic worth a read?

>> No.8260045

you should read A Scanner Darkly. (Also by Dick.) its an amazing book.

>> No.8260057

Neuromancer.

Sadly there aren't that many cyberpunk books worth reading.

>> No.8260087

Burroughs' Nova Trilogy was an important precursor to the cyberpunk scene

>> No.8260579

>>8260057

What about the other Sprawl books?

>> No.8260591

>>8259978
Snow Crash, after you're done with Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy.

>> No.8261398

Correct me if I'm wrong. But didn't the cyberpunk trademark thematic neon lights and industrial look in a not so far future start with Ridley Scott's adaptation of do androids dream of electric sheep? I don't remember the author ever describing the aesthetic in the book.

>> No.8261524

>>8261398
PK Dick was not really cyberpunk. He was one of the first of the sci-fi New Wave of the late 60s-early 70s, which included Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazney, Norman Spinrad, et al.
"Cyberpunk" was a term coined to describe , mostly, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's work in the 80s.
Ridley Scott was using the aesthetics of '4Os noir movies and extrapolating it into an imagined future. His look on Blade Runber has retroactively been lumped into the cyberpunk category.

>> No.8261545

>>8260579
Both Sprawl and Bridge are quite decent.

>> No.8262283

Transmetropolitan