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Ok, what are some great cyberpunk literature? I'm very interested to see what books there are..

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Thankyou so much Tinfoiler! I was looking for something that'd tell me where to start in cyberpunk media. It never occurred to me that of course Wikipedia would have heaps of stuff...
Thanks! Man, I know what I want for Christmas~ mrgreen

actually, its a quote from bruce sterling wink . And yeah, there are alot of good starting points in the wiki. A couple movies I would like to point out that I didn't see in the wiki are:

Avalon [Link]: Which is an amazing movie directed by Mamoru Oshii, famed anime direct of GitS. Its hard to find, but you should be able to torrent it or look at best buy, if they don't have it in stock, they should be able to special order it for you. At least they were for me.

Lawnmower Man 2: Job's War: Quite frankly a low quality movie, it only shines in the fact that it depicts a great atmosphere of a cyberpunk world. Throughout the movie, you are treated to the root of the CP genre, from the beginning with the street gang of young kids that have advanced computer knowledge to the ending when Job creates a digital world and opens it to those who are sick of their real, boring lives.

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For those of you who cannot afford/find the books. There is a heap of good sci-fi and CP books in it including alot of gibson and niven, my two favourites.

The torrent was deleted when I went to look...so if this is a repeat, I appologize.

Neil Stephenson: Snowcrash and Diamond Age. If you want something along the lines of modern-day cryptography, Cryptonomicon. Eco-terrorism, Zodiac. Stephenson is great, but he really came in during the tail-end of the cyberpunk golden-age...so Snowcrash and Diamond Age are his "true" cyberpunk novels.

One in the pursuit of cyberpunk might also consider just browsing Amazon.com. Find Neuromancer and Schizmatrix, tell it you liked them (I'm assuming you did), and you'll be assaulted with other books they want you to buy (I'm not saying you should...just see what it comes up with). I'm sure everyone is familiar with the process.

This way I found loads of information and deals; I bought a copy of Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon for a penny, tons of science fiction theory books that I had no idea existed, a readers guide to William Gibson, a lot of futurist writing, and an original movie poster for Bladerunner from an off-site vendor.

Are those books based on the old NES game? Or the new Xbox260/Windows Vista one?


Anyways,
I recommend Signal to Noise, and the sequel A SIGNAL SHATTERED by Eric S. Nylund. he is an excellent Sci-Fi writer, and if your into gaming and have read the Halo books (the released ones) he wrote three of the five and wrote the outline for the newest ones.
His other books (not actually cyberpunk) are Dry Water, Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: First Strike, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx (the ones he didn't write were Halo: The Flood, and Halo: Contact Harvest) and another video game based book Crimson Skys. He'salso working on a new book but I can't remember what it's called.


Edit:
It's called Mortal Coils, not sure what it's about though.

Given it more thought, I'd edit my post about Stephenson...Diamond Age was more steampunk than anything else. His other works, though, are definitely cyberpunk and such.

I've been reading a lot of Neil Gaimon recently as well. He dwells a lot on myth-based stories, but the tone of his settings are wonderfully crafted...and he did write the short story Goliath that appeared on the Matrix website pre-Matrix (I think it's still there, actually...).

EDIT: Yep, it's still there. Check out http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/ , flip over to the comics section, and it's listed there in collection 1. There is some beautiful artwork there as well. Hell, check out a few of the other stories as well. They're all pretty good.