Science Fiction Aficionados discussion

Our them for June is Cyberpunk!

Please make your nominations here!

I want to nominate Ian McDonald's The Dervish House

Cryptonomicon

How about The Takeshi Kovacs novels by Richard K. Morgan, starting with Altered Carbon? Fitting, since it is still relatively new on Netflix.

I will nominate Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. but I also want to read Dervish House!

Spook Country and Zero History combine with Pattern Recognition to form a loose trilogy, same universe, some same characters.

Can it be read on its own? i.e. it doesn't end on a cliffhanger? hopefully not. if it does, I will withdraw that nomination.

WE read Pattern Recognition in 2015. Sorry, Mark!

*sad trombone*

It looks like we read Altered Carbon in 2013, but I think since its been 5 years, I will allow it. We have to draw the line somewhere!

Mona Lisa Overdrive

mark wrote: "I will nominate Pattern Recognition by William Gibson. but I also want to read Dervish House!"

mark wrote: "Can it be read on its own? i.e. it doesn't end on a cliffhanger? hopefully not. if it does, I will withdraw that nomination."

It can be read on its own, but it's definitely not cyberpunk, not even close. It might not even be SF.

and now it's not even a nomination! :)

I'll nominate one of the classic Cyberpunk novels - Synners by Pat Cadigan


As it happens, I've just read an excellent anthology called Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Evolution, and Revolution which had a short story in the same sequence as the novel

Oooh, I've had Synners on my to read list for a year now, i could be up for that

How about one of the progenitors of cyberpunk, published long before the term was invented.
The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner the British award winning author.

Comic books can be suggested? I would suggest Watchmen

Rafael wrote: "Comic books can be suggested? I would suggest Watchmen"

I’ve not read the Watchmen comics, only seen the movie, but from that I can’t see much of a cyberpunk connection.
Of course happy to be shown the error in my ways. 😊

Yeah, Watchmen would not be cyberpunk.

A few people shelved it as cyberpunk, but I'm ok if it is not.

ok-poll going up now!

Would you link the poll please. I can’t seem to find it under Polls 🙁

I'll nominate Rudy Rucker's Software, winner of the very first Philip K. Dick award (1983).

Rucker's really isn't as well known as I think he should be. I've always found his work way more inventive and entertaining (and weird) than Gibson's, though they come out of the same ethos.

sorry Micah-the poll is already up!