So you've been waiting for PATTERN RECOGNITION. You've read all of Gibson, all of Sterling, all of everyone else that's been lumped in with Gibson as a writer.

What else is there to read?

I have a few recommendations for you, of course.

Simon Logan has a kickass collection of short stories out from prime books called i-o (Input-Output). Industrial fiction; like a Nine Inch Nails song in story form. Excellent stuff.

Four Walls, Eight Windows has produced a lot of stuff that should be read. Everything from Steve Aylett to Paul Di Filippo. Order now! You can't go wrong.

Jim Munroe has a stellar novel out now entitled everyone in silico that is stylish, satirical, and hilarious.

E T Ellison has a groovy, humorous SF novel out that everyone should read. Clones. Celebrities. Smart-ass backpacks. Good stuff.

Speaking of Paul Di Filippo, too many people have passed over his first novel, Ciphers, which is a dense meta novel in the best postmodern style. An intense experience.

What else have you got for me?

--gabe chouinard
http://hypermode.blogspot.com
http://sfsite.com/singularity

Don't forget Jack Womack, a writer of great emotional range & stylistic flair. (Gibson dedicated PR to him.)

Though her later work is mostly outside of SF, I think Nicola Griffith has a keen Gibsonian edge to her writing. "The Blue Place" and "Stay" are her most recent books.



[QUOTE]Originally posted by gabe chouinard:

What else is there to read?

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Eileen Gunn

The Infinite Matrix
http://www.infinitematrix.net/

I've just finished Michael Marshall Smith's Spares, and have read a couple of his other books. I highly recommend those.

the last science fiction i read was 'light' by m. john harrison, which is nothing like gibson, and not much like any other sci-fi i have read, except maybe that weird 50s stuff by sturgeon and bester. anyway, it is really very very good indeed and i highly recommend it. in fact i insist you read it. go on.

any novel featuring a planet named 'motel splendido' and lots of quantum strangeness is fine by me.

iain banks likes it:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/sciencefiction/0,6121,824156,00.html

Ian M. Banks
Bruce Sterling
Vernor Vinge (3/4 throu Deepness right now! WOW!)
Rudy Rucker
Greg Bear
Peter F. Hamilton

Liked the recent pre-Dune trilogy from Anderson and Herbert's son (Kevin J. rocks in the star wars books too -- my in-between "serious" reads)

Thought the pre-Foundation Trilogy by Brin, Bear, and Benford was very well written as well.

Like the new stuff from Austrailia - Shane Dix/ Sean Williams. Good trilogy with a new stand-alone novel just out.

Just finished Revelation Space -- Alistar Reynolds? Good, good read. WOW!

Like Macleod's stuff... Stone Canal

Pat Cadigan? Tea from an Empty Cup....

His 'Shadow of the Torturer' series is AWESOME. Kind of a mix of sci-fi and fantasy...really nothing at all like it out there...

cmoore.2003

His books were mind-benders...

/checking my Amazon Recommendations

"Cyberpunk Essentials" list on Amazon adds Neal Stephanson (whom I can't read, but recommend anyways) besides Gibson/Sterling/Nylund..

See Shirly, Shiner, and Maddox on another list.

Ok folks, lets flesh out this list and post the DEFINITIVE list on Amazon!!! Almost there....

I've been remiss in mentioning some others.

Richard Morgan has a stellar post-cyberpunk, Raymond Chandler-esque SF novel out called Altered Carbon that is an absolute *must* read.

Richard Kadrey's nanotales at Infinite Matrix showcase web fiction at its finest. (Hi Eileen!)

Then there's Richard Calder's latest, Frenzetta. All I can say is "Read it".

--gabe chouinard
http://hypermode.blogspot.com
http://sfsite.com/singularity

<G> Hi, Gabe!

Thanks for citing Kadrey's work. He's been setting off tiny explosions every week now for more than a year: http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shortshorts/kadrey.html

Eileen Gunn

The Infinite Matrix
http://www.infinitematrix.net/

...my fifth post will be referred to as "The Richards Post".

Yes, Kadrey's tales are excellent. I won't even mention anything about a print collection...

--gabe chouinard
http://hypermode.blogspot.com
http://sfsite.com/singularity

I tracked down Metrophage on Warren Ellis's recommendation and enjoyed it immensely, and then got the first chapter of Kamikaze Amour online, and decided to hunt it down. Then I found out he put the whole book online, but reading things onscreen doesn't have the same romance or sensation as paper, well, at least long-form work like novels. Shorts are ok.

I'm currently reading Dave McKean's Cages for a review I'm writing. Big bastard.

Ah, let's see:

M.John Harrison - Gibsonites would probably dig Light and I keep coming across various rot about The Centauri Device being some sort of precursor to cyberpunk, or something.

Simon Ings - Hot Head, Hotwire, etc - and keep going.

Hermann Hesse - Just re-read Steppenwolf, twisty turning Jungian psychedelic fantasy. Step this way for the Magic Theatre.

John Brunner - The Shockwave Rider and The Squares of the City seemed particularly proto-cyberpunk when I read them years ago.

Commodore 64 Users Manual - Absolute classic. Altogether now: "A synergistic marriage of state of the art technologies" - Golly!

Oh and on a less Gibsonian tip go out and buy everything you can find by Jack Vance, Clark Ashton Smith, Lawrence Durrell, E.C.Tubb, St Augustine of Hippo, Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, H.P.Lovecraft and Russell Hoban. You don't have to read all of it but you'll have an amazing looking coffee table even if there's no room left for coffee cups.

IOTACISM 03:
http://iotar.8m.net ++ http://www.mjohnharrison.com ++ http://www.fisheye.demon.co.uk

Lord Dunsany. (although dodge the longer works - Dunsany works best in short bursts.)

(Hic) Ex Machina Libertas (Duh)

I need to add Ken MacLeod to the list of "Other Stuff to Read". The sequence which began with "The Start Fraction" is the best anarchocommunist cyberpunk satire ever written. He does a similar thing to Gibson, but totally different and from a scots perspective. Well worth it.

Jack Womack , of course.
Back when "Neuromancer" and
Jack's "Ambient" came out ,
NYC had those subcultures (ck Jack's LES groups) and
originals were originals

'My rights or I bite', indeed .

Vinge ,
Varley's "Press Enter" and others
Bear's "Blood Music"
Others

Cheers all

There's a local author here in Seattle who'd written a fantastic book that's just been picked up by one of the bigger publishers and will be hitting store shelves in March. It's called ((Frequencies)) and he was publishing it independently here in Seattle for awhile. It really took off and became somewhat of a cult hit and got nothing but rave reviews. It's got the same breakthrough feel that "Neuromancer" had when I first read it. Ortega says it's the first of trilogy so we can definitely expect more. You can read the first chapter Here. It's just a fast, fun book that definitely owes a lot to Gibson and PKD as far as influences go. And as far fetched as a lot of it sounds (thought police, etc.) there's real technology behind it all to make the future look just a little scarier.
Here's a couple reviews from barnesnoble.com

quote:

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At the turn of the century, a technology was created which allowed people's thoughts to be monitored as electromagnetic wavelengths and frequencies. In 2012, the Frequency Emissions Act was passed, creating a special division of the FBI, the Freemon, or Frequency Emissions Monitors, to isolate and detain individuals who infected others with their illegal frequencies. After a wave of mass arrests, a world of convenience and security materializes...

It is now 2051.
The place, Seattle.
An ordered world is about to get shaken up.


Publishers Weekly
In Joshua Ortega's first novel, ((Frequencies)), the citizens of the technologized nations of A.D. 2051 can have bio-"gengineered" body parts and modems in their brains, but jaded Agent McCready, whose job is to investigate frequency emissions violations, prefers 20th-century sensibilities. When he signs on to protect the family of a wealthy tech-magnate, he gets more than he bargained for: skeletons (or clones) in the closet, the magnate's beautiful daughter, potentially lethal informational infections, life-threatening danger and a cherry 1957 Chevy. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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I would definitely say look for this one in March when it comes out. Ortega's one to watch!!

If your not outraged, you're not paying attention!

MAD PROPS to throwing down for lawrence durell.

massively important stuff:

-cordwainer smith. go look.

-heinlein, clearly.

-peter f. hamilton

-stephenson, i'd guess...

and there are always others.

-david brin's startide rising.

-larry niven's short stories... impeccable.

look wider.

poocat.


"Not wealthy, not weeping."
-R. A. Heinlein, the moon is a harsh mistress

i'd also like to throw down for a second on david mitchell's ghostwritten, which is an incredibly diverse book. i highly recommend it. yes, he lives in japan, and of course i'm impressed by his characterization. i'm also impressed by the flexibility of his voice.

check it.

poocat.

C'mon, can't someone give me something that I haven't heard of yet? Dig deep, find me something obscure that'll make me piss my pants with excitement...

--gabe chouinard
http://hypermode.blogspot.com
http://sfsite.com/singularity

You've probably seen this already too but...

http://www.hyperreal.org/wsb/elect-rev.html