Any sugestions for books cyberpunk or no would be great!
Phillip K. Dick (do androids dream, a scanner darkly)
Neal Stephenson (Interface)
Bruce Bethke (Cyberpunk
Bruce Sterling (Junk DNA, We See Things Differently)
then some others that i loved that are not necessarily cyberpunk:
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
The Seas of Glass, Barry B. Longyear
Earth Abides, George R. Stewart
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein (or anything by him. he's a wonderful sci-fi author)
Atlas Shrugged & The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand (Atlas shrugged has a 30 page monologue by D'Anconia that i had to skipp, but other than that, its a great read. Fountainhead is about architecture, and is really great. she has her own cult.)
so, there's a good start for you. good luck and let us know what you chose!!
Dune is good but can go on and on and on so just get that later.
happy birthday in a couple weeks!
Quote: from Lena on 2:44 am on July 1, 2006[br]I am 100% with SoulExistence on this, except that Snow Crash is a CP basic and the only thing of Neal Stephenson's I've read that I would recommend.
What!? His shit is awesome! Though Diamond Age is post-cyberpunk.. and pretty much nothing else is… its still all good.. :P
Ender's Game
Ender's Shadow (enrichment to Ender's Game)
Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow Puppets
Shadow of the Giant
Definitely some good reads there.
Both very well done CP novels following the same protagonist, last I checked. I especially liked Slant.
Altered Carbon is another recent addition to the CP repertoire.
Search the BgBB for 'books' and 'novels', though. It's a great place to start, since the definitive must-read list is as long as my arm and older than God, and has been made redundant, actually, by the number of posts and reposts on the subject.
2CH,
Grim
(Edited by Grim at 2:41 am on July 5, 2006)
Quote: from InsaneRadical on 5:16 pm on July 2, 2006[br]If you're into Sci-Fi, you should definitely give the Ender series a lookEnder's Game
Ender's Shadow (enrichment to Ender's Game)
Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow Puppets
Shadow of the GiantDefinitely some good reads there.
Ender's Game actually has three sequals:
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow is about one of his generals from Ender's Game. I bought them all and will be reading them next.
Just finished Virtual Light and Idoru. (they're kinda sequalish, so read them in that order to understand Idoru's references) Both excellent.
My friend gave me Neuromancer and Burning Chrome for my wedding :D isnt that fantastic?
We have Cryptonomicon and SnowCrash which I still need to read.
Right now I'm reading.. Revelation Space by Alastair Renoylds right now. I'm only 6 pages in but it comes with good recomendations.
Atlas Shrugged and Fountianhead.. I tried reading one of those in highschool and I couldn't get through it. I should give them another try.
Thanks everyone :) I'm super excited to go buy some new books. ANYBOOKSIWANT!
Atlas Shrugged and Fountianhead.. I tried reading one of those in highschool and I couldn't get through it. I should give them another try.
I can understand why it would be difficult to get into, but it was pos def worth the read.
and ebay is a great resource for picking up books.
I just got back from my lovely spending spree. I got:
Earth Abides by George Stewart
Do Androids Dream by Philip K. Dick
Dune
And Eon by Greg Bear
And Mike got The Illuminatus by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
That was so much fun. It was hard to decide. I had an armfull of books at one point.
Just two chyen,
Grim
Quote: from Nemisis on 1:19 am on July 8, 2006[br]Are the Dune books good? �I haven't read any of them.
my dad keeps tellin me to read them, and i honestly tried. but the first book, the introduction of the harkonen warlord, was so cheesy and over dramatic that i couldnt do it.
i absolutely loved the two sci-fi remakes, of dune and children of dune. they rocked. maybe i'll try reading them again… i dunno.
*starts reading*
2CH,
Grim
Quote: from Lillith on 6:56 pm on July 7, 2006[br]WoO!I just got back from my lovely spending spree. I got:
Earth Abides by George Stewart
excellent choice.
Cryptonomicon is an excellent book. Unlike Gibson, stephenson can actually program, he's actually a geek, so he explores the roots of crypotography and it's implications, total digital currency etc, it should really get you interested in cryptography, err well it did me :S
Both Gibson and Stephenson seem to write fiction which isn't sci-fi, which isn't cp, and which isn't 'proper' literature, but Stephenson moved into that unchartered space first.
I'm reading some Gibson at the moment because there wasn't any Philip K. Dick in the library.
Ubik by Philip K. will blow you away. Infact, all his books are excellent. High on concept, and written fast in an amphetamine fuiled frenzy. People call it sci-fi, but to me, at least for the books of his I've read it's no more sci-fi than Gibson et all.
His short stories are great too.
Sure, he doesn't introduce the matrix etc, but to me that's superfitial. Surely to be CP is to cover themes like paranoia, the squandaring of human rights, privacy, and personal control by mega corporations bent on treating humans like ants for comercial gain, and to question the nature of reality and existence through the effects of drugs and technology?
