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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Every genre will have more bad books than good ones. It will also depend on the person.
There is still new books that are more recent than the '80s that qualify as Cyberpunk (??) with Virtual Reality / Cyberspace / Biotech. Here is some that I really enjoyed:
- Inferno by Dan Brown (maybe this is less biotech and more a simple virus?)
- As The Mirror Cracks by Steven Lyle Jordan
- Breakthrough with sequel Leap by Michael C. Grumley
- Wired with sequel Amped by Douglas E. Richards
- Mind's Eye also by Douglas E. Richards
- Silo Saga (Wool, Shift, Dust) by Hugh Howey (great nanobots)
- last not least: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Maybe the mistake is to stick to a certain genre too much. The more you look for specific genres, the easier you will find the bad ones. Of my list there is only two books (that are not in a series by same author) that are somewhat similar, but still have a totally different feel to them - and that is As The Mirror Cracks and Ready Player One. Both even use very similar technology and equipment. Of course the online experience is different ... |
Hmmm...to start off, in the last 3 or 4 years Steven Lyle Jordan has visited and posted in this thread 8 to 10 times and I've planned to do so, but never actually read any of his books.
...ok, I've read pretty much all of Hugh Howey's stuff (except for I, Zombie) as well as privately emailed back and forth with him. I also just recently (this past August) read and enjoyed immensely,
Ready Player One. Though both the Silo series and
Ready Player One take place in fairly grim futures, I didn't think of them as any sub-genre of SciFi, but just as SciFi novels set in a grim future. Of the other stuff mentioned I've no specific knowledge.
I see no point in creating all of these sub-genres?!
