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Originally Posted by Dazrin
I don't think that cyberpunk is my genre, I really want to enjoy it but I have not loved the two pillars of the genre that I have read (this and Snow Crash). These are supposed to be 2 of the best cyberpunk books* out there but neither one worked for me.
That said, I did really like Ready Player One, which shows up on some other lists and I think is a good fit, and I have liked many books by some of the top "cyberpunk" authors like Neal Stephenson ( Cryptonomicon/ Seven Eves), Charles Stross (Laundry books), and China Mieville ( Kraken), and I enjoyed Boneshaker but that is not cyberpunk so I am not sure why it is on this list.
Next up: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, book 2 in the Three-Body Problem/Remembrance of Earth's Past series.
*Source: http://bestsciencefictionbooks.com/b...ooks.php#crowd |
I haven't read
Ready Player One yet, but I hear it's good. I really did enjoy
Boneshaker, though that is Steampunk rather than Cyberpunk. If you want to read more Steampunk type literature, then try
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker, The Zelda Pryce series by Joseph Robert Lewis, and Viola Carr's Electric Empire books.
I have
Three Body Problem in my TBR, I should bump it up.
There is one cyberpunk novel I'd recommend, and that is
Fancy Free by Pam Uphoff. It is not nearly as dark as the genre usually ends up.