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When Gravity Fails de George Alec Effinger

Citez dintr-o recenzie: "A rarity now, in the 1980s this book was a unicorn for dealing with Muslim culture in any way, and using near-future SF to highlight the way whites are colonizing the world was still cutting-edge stuff. Digging deeper into themes of identity with transgender characters, refugees from dying Europe, and pharmacological solutions that become terrible problems, the book prefigures the 21st century's obsessions. Readers of transgressive fiction need to rediscover what amazed us in the 1980s because it will amaze and delight you, too."
Daemon de Daniel Suarez

"If you were someone with more computer knowledge and money than Bill Gates, and you found out you were dying, would you:
A) Give all your money to charity just in case you can buy your way into heaven.
B) Indulge in an around the world drinking, drug and sex spree until going out in a blaze of glory by crashing your private jet into an erupting volcano live on CNN.
C) Pour all your money into a cryogenics program and freeze yourself like Walt Disney in the hope that they’ll finally figure out a way to bring back the human popsicles.
D) Devise an intricate high-tech web of infrastructure and computer programs that will carry out your will and launch an Internet scheme that will kill a whole lot of people when your obituary is published.
If you chose A, B or C, then you obviously weren’t cut out to be a crazy billionaire. "

Mai propun in paralel o aventura in lumea Shadowrun, care combina cyberpunk cu fantasy si pe langa all the fun Cyberpunk stuff avem dragoni si magie. Mi s-a parut fun read:
Never Deal with a Dragon

Interesantă combinația!

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Authors mentioned in this topic
Lavie Tidhar (other topics)George Alec Effinger (other topics)
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Tehnologii de vârf, realități virtuale, elemente împrumutate din jocurile video, societăți distopice, pline de extreme și inegalități, eroi veniți din medii defavorizate și triumfând în față corporațiilor gigantice... cam aceasta e semnătura cyberpunk, o combinație de futurist și decadent. Vă vine să credeți că au trecut deja mai bine de 35 de ani de la publicarea Neuromantului lui William Gibson (1984), cartea care a definit acest subgen SF pentru nenumărați cititori (și scriitori)?
Luați-vă consola, conectați-vă la domeniul Goodreads România, injectați două titluri cyberpunk și apoi votați cartea pe care vreți să o downloadați neuronal împreună cu noi. Ca întotdeauna, aveți la dispoziție două propuneri și două susțineri.
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1 x When Gravity Fails de George Alec Effinger
1 x Daemon de Daniel Suarez
1 x Neuromancer de William Gibson
1 x Never Deal with a Dragon de Robert N. Charrette
1 x Central Station de Lavie Tidhar