Anyone who hasn't, should do themselves a favour and read John Shirley's Eclipse Trilogy. The revised editions from the Babbage Press are quite nice.

1. Kem Nunn's THE DOGS OF WINTER. A surfing murder mystery set on California's north coast. Possessed of much stylistic attitude and a few brief digressions into semi-supernatural terrain. Nunn's UNASSIGNED TERRITORY (inexplicably out of print) and POMONA QUEEN are also worth investigation.

2. Charles Stross' short story collection TOAST, containing his much-anthologized Lovecraftian pastiche, "A Colder War," featuring Steven J. Gould, Ollie North, a subterranian Antarctic lake concealing a portal to the other side of the universe, and assorted shambling polysyllabic nasties.

3. Denis Johnson's recent nonfiction collection, SEEK.

4. ISLAND THOUGHT #1.

5. ARC of Don DeLillo's COSMOPOLIS, coming soon to a bookstore near you.

6. Maureen McHugh's entire bibliography. Like vintage LeGuin, Tiptree, or mid-career Delaney? Grab MISSION CHILD ASAP.

Best regards,

Christopher Brayshaw
Pulpfiction Books
Vancouver, CANADA
www.pulpfictionbooks.com

Mike Davis - City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear
Los Angeles as dystopia.

Read how a city profiles, segregates, punishes and rewards it's citizens. Classic studies in architecture, urban geography and civic politics.

Nice pictures too.

Last words are for fools who haven't said enough [while alive].

If you like Gibsons work try T Pynchon's The Cryng of Lot 49; JG Ballard's Running Wild
and R Zelazny's Damnation Alley and Home is the Hangman.
In 1978 Hollywood made a terrible movie adaptation of Damnation Alley ,ignore it and give the book a chance, its got the ultimate proto cpunk character on it: Hell Tanner.

I haven't read this whole thread, but I've seen at least a mention of Michael Marshall Smith. I started with "The Straw Men" (which I realize isn't sci-fi) and absolutely loved it, but thought the ending was a little derivative. Anyway, an inventive, very brisk read.

A couple days ago, I got his "Only Forward," and I'm just 1/4 through now, but it's got me by the throat. I'm by no means a sci-fi reader, not because I don't like it, but because I'm just not. I was stuck in Russian literature last year, for instance, and I sort of swap between horror and "the classics," but I hardly ever get to sci-fi. I really like the dystopian literatures like Huxley's "Brave New World," of course, and even his non-fiction "revisitation."

Anyway, I recommend "Only Forward" already, and I'm anxious to get to "Spares."

"I think that if the devil does not exist,
and man has therefore created him,
he has created him in his own image and likeness."
from Fyodor Dostoevsky's THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

quote:

---

Anyway, I recommend "Only Forward" already, and I'm anxious to get to "Spares."

---

Also look for One of Us, and his short story collection What You Make It (which is mainly horror).

I've read over other suggestions and will follow up on them. Thank you. My personal favourite is Jon Courtney Grimwood. His first book "NeoAddix" has a horror edge. I found "Lucifer's Dragon", "reMix", and "redRobe" real cyberpunk. His latest is a trilogy "Pashazade", "Effendi" and soon to be released "Felaheen". Look for the books and reviews on Amazon uk. He has his own website as well.

Jon Courtney Grimwood.Good author. Lucifer's Dragon, reMix, redRobe. New trilogy Pashazade, Effendi, Fellahin.

He has been mentioned here, but here's some personal favorites:

J.G. Ballard's The Voices of Time (short stories)

J.G. Ballard's High-Rise (novel)

I'm on a mission to make Christendom by Neil Cross less obscure. An extremely well written book about a conspiracy in a future Christian state. Probably has enough rage even for you. It also contains the best fight ever.


Oh, and is Altered Carbon really post-cyberpunk? I was suprised at how old school it was.

Sirius by Olaf Stapledon

Sirius is a super-intelligent dog who falls in love with a girl (who falls in love with him, too)
Then she grows up and starts to like boys and their relationship changes.

Found it in a flea market. It's satire sharing themes with Gulliver's Travels.

And also,

The Tyranny of Words, non-fiction by Stuart Chase, about language. A must read.

Anyone else tried the Latin American authors? Adolfo Bioy Casares has a good book in La invención de morel, not to mention any of Jorge Borges' works. If you prefer a wild and whimsical read, go for Argentine Oliverio Girondo's Scarecrow and Other Anomalies, which is now available in a bilingual edition. Just thought I'd mention something beyond the usual Anglo-centric fare

La vida no es la que uno vivió, sino la que uno recuerda y cómo la recuerda para contarla (Life isn't what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it to tell it) - Gabriel García Márquez, Vivir para contarla

quote:

---

Originally posted by gabe chouinard:
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...

---

I don't know if it's worth soiling your trousers over, but Syne Mitchell has three good books: Murphy's Gambit, Technogenesis, and the very recent Changeling Plague. http://www.sff.net/people/syne/

The first is set in one of the more realistic space colonization settings that I've read in a long time. The second is another exploration into omniscient AI but it's upbeat and ingenious enough to keep you turning the page. Her latest offering is about a retrovirus that gets turned into a tool for genetic enhancement by a bunch of hackers.

. . . my fave from J.G. Ballard.

For cyberspunk, among newer writers, Scott Westerfield's quite good. And Nicola Griffith's Slow River is a great novel.

Wow, so there's a new DeLillo novel coming out. Cosmopolis? Probably a must-read, though I never did get through The Body Artist. My favorites are The Names and Mao II.

Yes, and what about Nicholson Baker? Quite possibly out-does Gibson when it comes to product minutiae, yet it would be hard to imagine a less cyberpunk writer. His new book, A Box of Matches, sounds wonderful. Fermata is hilarious.

Oh. John Crowley just finished writing the AEgypt Quartet, after 25 years of work.

Ron Drummond

http://www.littlebig25.com

[This message was edited by Ron Drummond on February 21, 2003 at 03:07 AM.]

. . . is in the other thread.

Ron Drummond

http://www.oz.net/~jhawk/wtc/gardensteps/cityscape.html