What are the essential cyberpunk works besides Neuromancer, Snow

Ghost in the Shell

Akira

>>50679741
Mirrorshades

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>>50679741
According to Bruce Sterling circa 1998 they are:

CYBERPUNK NOVELS
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester (source of Wired Reflexes, natch)
The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
Hardwired, Walter Jon Williams
When Gravity Fails, George Alec Effinger
Fairyland, Paul McAuley
Synners, Pat Cadigan
Islands in the Net, Bruce Sterling
Schismatrix, Bruce Sterling

"Core Readings"
William Gibson (Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties)
Bruce Sterling (The Artificial Kid, Schismatrix Plus)
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"The Cyberpunk Movement"
Greg Bear (Blood Music)
Pat Cadigan (Mindplayers, Synners, Fools, Tea From an Empty Cup)
Marc Laidlaw (Dad's Nuke)
Tom Maddox (Halo)
Rudy Rucker (Software, Wetware, Freeware, Realware)
Lewis Shiner (Frontera)
John Shirley (City Come A-Walkin')
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"Post-Cyberpunk"
Wilhelmina Baird (CrashCourse, ClipJoint, PsyKosis)
Bruce Bethke (Cyberpunk - where the term came from, Headcrash)
Simon Ings (Hot Head, Hotwire, Headlong)
Richard Kadrey (Metrophage)
Kim Newman (The Night Mayor)
Marge Piercy (He, She, and It/Body of Glass)
Justina Robson (Silver Screen)
Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash, Interface, The Diamond Age)
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"Cyberpunk Flavoured"
Jeff Noon (Vurt, Pollen, Nymphomation)
Greg Egan (Quarantine, Permutation City)
Jon Courtenay Grimwood (neoAddix, Lucifer's Dragon, reMix, redRobe)
Gwyneth Jones (Escape Plans, Kairos)
Shariann Lewitt (Memento Mori)
Tricia Sullivan (Someone To Watch Over Me, Dreaming In Smoke)
Jack Womack (Dryco)

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>>50679858

This is a good list. Lacks Vernor Vinge's True Names, but otherwise full of good stuff.

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>Matrix
>Cyberpunk

Also Diamond Age is post-cyberpunk and Blade Runner is a pretty loose cyberpunk.

Either way, read Hardwired because that shit is the mad notes.

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>>50679741
Jeff Somers and "The Electric Church" is pretty good. Dunno if it's "essential".

I'd also note Dues Ex. The original mostly, as an essential cyberpunk work.

The Human Revolution remake is alright. Fun, but not groundbreaking.

Uplink is a classic hacker game. Vaguely cyberpunk.

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>>50679741
>>the Matrix
>>cyberpunk

>>50679741
>Neuromancer
Cyberpunk
>Snow Crash, The Diamond Age
Postcyberpunk
>Blade Runner
Sci-fi
>The Matrix
Cypherpunk at first, but turned into generic hollywood sci-fi.

>>50681227
>Jeff Somers and "The Electric Church" is pretty good.
No, it's utterly awful. Guy writes like a 14-year-old on meth. The Electric Church series is garbage.

>>50681729
>Cypherpunk at first, but turned into generic hollywood sci-fi.
What do you mean? it's not like they made any sequels or anything.

>>50681863
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>>50680145
Also The Glass Hammer and The Girl Who Was Plugged In.

And I added the first nine, Sterling's a bit of a tosser when it comes to some of his competitors.

>>50681859
Really? I loved the Avery Cates series. It gets the atmosphere and cynicism just right. It's not High Art but it's a decent read.

>>50685918
Read something better: see list above. If you haven't read Bester then you owe it to yourself to unfuck your poor taste.

>>50679741
Deus Ex.

>>50679741
robocop

Not directly related to the premise of this thread, but I reckon y'all are as likely to know as anyone else

What ever happened to Cyberpunk 2077?

>>50686438
Deep in development. CD Projekt RED hired a lot of people and they're building it. Presumably with money from The Witcher 3.

They sure take their sweet time, don't they?

>>50681729
Bladerunner is totally cyberpunk, get your head out of your ass.

>>50686573

Its aesthetics inspired a lot of cyberpunk aesthetics, but it's got very little else to do with the science fiction sub-genre. Its resemblance to cyberpunk is superficial, it doesn't really fit in the category deep down in its thematic level, there its just a straight science fiction detective story pondering what it means to be human.

>>50685918
>It's not High Art but it's a decent read.
Yeah, I'd say that's about right.

Snowcrash, on the other hand, is complete 13 year old wanking a ludicrous piece of garbage over the top.

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>>50687789

>he didn't understand Snowcrash

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>No mention of Johnny Mnemonic

>>50679858
Good list. I'd add these to post-cyberpunk:

Roo'd by Joshua Klein
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Corey Doctorow
Harmonica and Gig by RJ Astruc

Serial experiments Lain

>>50686528
>They sure take their sweet time, don't they?
I have absolutely zero problem with this, considering they know their shit.

>>50688447
>no mention of Strange Days

>>50679741
Johnny Mnemonic

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Fanged Noumena by Nick Land if you want to see what happens when cyberpunk meets Deleuze and Guattari meets Lovecraft in the amphetaminized mind of a philosopher. His writings are the kind of harsh, semi-delusional stuff that I expected Serial Experiments Lain to be. He later wrote a horror novella about the singularity. If you want to give an anti-human AI a voice, imitate Land.

P.S.: Anyone else having problems posting right now?

>>50679741
>no mention of Tek War


plebs

>>50679858
Good list, but I can't find the source. Where did you get it?

>>50679858
>Marc Laidlaw
Oh hey, it's the guy who worked for Value.

>>50679858
The whole Takeshi Kovacs serie is pretty cyberpunk although it's set further in the future than classic cyberpunk.

>>50679741
>Blade Runner
>not When androids dream of electric sheep

It's like you only know film.

>>50686641
What?
-Punk is about humans becoming superficial parts in the industrial/societal machine.

When androids become indistinguihable from humans then even the human body and soul becomes obsolete.

But I suppose the protagonist needs to blow up factories to count?