just ordered a physical copy from 1994, excited to read the stories :)

what are y'alls recommendations for cyberpunk-y books?

mine are,

• Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash

• Daniel Suarez - Daemon

• Daniel Suarez - Delta-V

• Shamus Young - Free Radical

niche tip for german-understanding people is 'Reda El Arbi - [empfindungsfæhig]'.

didn't finish Neuromancer yet, but i gotta start over because it's been too long.

The first cyberpunk novel I read was True Names by Rudy Rucker. John Shirley has been called 'patient zero of cyberpunk' for his novel Eclipse. (I published a collection of Cyberpunk stories called Error Message Eyes Release 3.0 and it will be a free download on Kindle on August 24th. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5CCRRSB I apologize for the blatant self promotion.)

I didn't particularly enjoy neuromancer. I love the world building and the subject but I realized after a few books I just don't like Gibson's style, I struggle to get through the reading.

But! If you like it, the rest of the sprawl trilogy is just as good, and the bridge trilogy is probably better.

* alec effinger: when gravity fails

* pat cadigan: synners

* neal stephenson: the diamond age

and two books that bring cyberpunk elements into a larger sphere

* greg egan: zendegi. a dying engineer wants to make an AI version of himself to raise his son

* c s friedman: this alien shore (beautiful meld of far future space based sf and cyberpunk)