FIT 2B READ | Origins of Cyberpunk | Cyberpunk Week - Episode Two | Several Books Discussed @FIT2BREAD | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Episode Two of Cyberpunk week. I discuss the origins of the genre as well as some great cyberpunk novels, including:
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Nova by Samuel R. Delany
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

Alfred Bester and his novels The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, and John Brunner’s The Shockwave Rider

Bruce Sterling (short story Mozart in Mirrorshades 1984, novel Schismatrix 1985)
Pat Cadigan (Mindplayers 1987, Synners in 1991)
Software, written by Rudy Rucker and published in 1982
City Come a Walkin by John Shirley published in 1980
Lewis Shiner’s “Frontera” published in 1984
True Names (1981) by Vernor Vinge
Katsuhiro Otomo’s Japanese manga series Akira

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