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Re:Mirrorshades, the Cyberpunk Anthology by 4ggr0 on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:10PM (#44965191)
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.

Re:Mirrorshades, the Cyberpunk Anthology by riffraff on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:59PM (#44965797)
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.

Re:Mirrorshades, the Cyberpunk Anthology by vessenes on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @08:09PM (#44967794)
And Blue Ant is required reading for modern marketing. Also its awesome
Re:Mirrorshades, the Cyberpunk Anthology by kpgraham on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:30PM (#44965441)
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.)
Re:Mirrorshades, the Cyberpunk Anthology by KineticLensman on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @04:02PM (#44965825)
The True Names I remember was by Vernor Vinge [0]. Cory Doctorow riffed on it in 2008. But not Rudy R, as far as I know.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Names

Re:Mirrorshades, the Cyberpunk Anthology by zem on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @06:28PM (#44967199)
* 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)