Just wondering what 2020ish or later cyberpunk books/authors you’ve read and would recommend. Every list I find is either the same handful of admittedly quintessential 1970/80s stuff (Gibson, Stephenson, Dick, etc), mega compilations that aren’t deliniated by year/quality (and haven’t been updated in years), or wildly irrelevant bot slop.
Human authors only… nothing AI/LLM-generated, please.
I’ll add the rest of Sterling’s novels to my list because hey why not (I already had a “Schismatrix” and “The Artificial Kid” on there), but most are a bit too old for the ask at hand and would be missing the (potential) influences of the last 30ish years that I’m curious about.
Yeah, figured that might be the case but thought I’d mention it just in case. Not sure what “new” cyberpunk is out there - especially since 2020… unless you count non-fiction :)
On the plus side: never gonna say no to more books in my list! I’m not actually sure how I missed the rest of Sterling’s work, so it’s good you brought him up.
And non-fiction is what I’m trying to escape ;P Or at least by some bizarre sadomasochistic method cope with via the fiction that everything seems far too inspired (predicted?) by.
Totally get that! Probably explains why I played as much Cyberpunk 2077 as I did! Books-wise, haven’t been reading much cyberpunk lately other than some re-reads like Snow Crash and Diamond Age - mostly been escaping into Pratchett’s Discworld. Comfort food as it were.