Feminist/Outside Cyberpunk resource list

From a Twitter chat I co-moderated last week. Thought folks out here might be interested.

Cyberpunkish works that seem to fit the bill, either read by me or recommended by others:
"Trouble and Her Friends" by Melissa Scott - lesbian hackers in a near future setting. Well done and recommended.
"Arachne" by Lisa Mason (also Cyberweb, which I haven't gotten to yet) - female lawyer/hacker forms alliance with a female AI.
"Midnight Robber" by Nalo Hopkinson - Afro-Caribbean protag becomes a female Robin Hood. Nanotech rather than the usual cyberpunk emphasis on the Web and virtual reality
Samuel Delany - "Nova," "Aye and Gomorrah," "Dhalgren" - are often described as cyberpunk precursors or influences (see http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/gibso... for example)
"Nearly Roadkill" by Caitlin Sullivan and Kate Bornstein - gender-neutral internet and email based novel
"Synners," "Mindplayer" and "Fools," all by Pat Cadigan - figure there's a reason that she's the only female cyberpunk writer most fen can name.
"Sllver Screen" by Justina Robson - AIs. robotics, cyborgs, female protagonist wrestling with tech-based issues.
"The Silent City" by Elizabeth Vonarburg - possibly more of a precursor - dystopian future, technology-driven setting, female protagonist dealing tech and gender.
"Maul" by Tricia Sullivan - near future, virtual reality, female protagonist, gender analysis.
"He, She and It" by Marge Piercy - dystopian future, cyborgs, Jewish female protagonist dealing with the question of what is human/what is machine.
"Proxies" by Laura Mixon - cybertech, vr, female protagonist as scientist
"The Fortunate Fall" by Raphael Carter - tackles mechanized media and homophobia, strong female protagonist.
"Moxyland" and "Zooland" by Lauren Beukes - tackles corporate control via cellphone, pop culture, social change, set in South Africa with strong female protagonists.
AngelLINK series: "Archangel Protocol," "Fallen Host," etc. by Lyda Morehouse - computer implants, religion, angels, a strong female protagonist.
"Futureland" by Walter Mosley - series of stories in a near, dystopian future dealing primarily with race and class issues in the U.S.
"Red Spider, White Web" by Misha - tackles race, technology and art in dystopian near future.
"Beatrix Gates" and "Angel Baby" by Rachel Pollack - two tech-based short stories by Pollack.
"Queerpunk" edited by Cecilia Tan and Kelly Kinkaid - anthology of queer erotic cyberpunk stories.
"Bachelor Machine" by M. Christian - single author erotica collection, some cyberpunk stories


Related texts:
Jonathan Gotse's blog/website Afrocyberpunk
Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia edited by Robin Anne Reid
Pretty much anything by Donna Haraway, particularly "A Cyborg Manifesto"
Article on feminism and cyberpunk - http://www.academiceditingcanada.ca/b...
SF crit list, related to academic reading on cyberpunk - Kathryn Allen's blog
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Published on October 13, 2011 17:55 Tags: book-list, cyberpunk
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