RARA-AVIS: Cyberpunk Recomendation Summary

From: bsandyman@att.net
Date: 08 Oct 2005


I thought I would capture the many recomendations in one list for any that might be interested and for my own reference.

These are in no particular order. Thanks again for all the references.

Author
    title

Pat Cadigan
    Patterns Kim Newman
    The Night Mayor Neal Stephenson
    Snow Crash
    Zodiac Paul Park
    Sugar Rain Samuel R Delany
    Dahlgren George Alec Effinger
    Schrodinger's Kitten
    Budayeen Nights
    When Gravity Fails Thomas Pynchon
    Gravity's Rainbow An anthology edited by Bruce Sterling
    Mirrorshades Will Christopher Baer
    Penny Dreadful
    Kiss Me, Judas K. W. Jeter
    Noir Vernon Vinge
    True Names
    DEEPNESS IN THE SKY Richard Morgan
    ALTERED CARBON
    BROKEN ANGELS
    Woken Furies China Mieville
    PERDIDO STREET STATION
    KING RAT (although this one is described as pretty mediocre)
    The Scar Jonathon Lethem
    Gun, With Occassional Music Philip K. Dick
    A Scanner Darkly
    Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep Jeff VanderMeer
    Veniss Underground John Shirley
    New Noir M. John Harrison
    Viriconium

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Clendon

-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Steve Novak <Cinefrog@comcast.net> > Strongly recommend: Patterns of Pat Cadigan ­ The Night Mayor of Kim Newman > ­ Snow Crash of Neal Stephenson and Sugar Rain of Paul Park > > Good readings... > > Montois cyberspaced > > > On 10/4/05 6:12 PM, "bsandyman@att.net" <bsandyman@att.net> wrote: > > > I was reading the description of the cyberpunk genre on wikipedia > > (www.wikipedia.org) and it said that it grew out of noir and hard boiled > > fiction. One of the examples given was William Gibson's Neuromancer. On > > reflection, though it has been a long time, I can see the book as noirish. > > > > In any case I wanted to tap the collective on this list and get authors or > > titles of other cyberpunk/noir works. > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > Clendon > > > > > > RARA-AVIS home page: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > > * Visit your group "rara-avis-l <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rara-avis-l> " > > on the web. > > * > > * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > * rara-avis-l-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > <mailto:rara-avis-l-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com?subject=Unsubscribe> > > * > > * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service > > <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> . > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > RARA-AVIS home page: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >



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