Adam piontek wrote:
quoted 3 lines ...or "cyberpunk" in general. Always seemed too faddish, more style> ...or "cyberpunk" in general. Always seemed too faddish, more style
> than substance - I mean, it always seemed too disconnected from possible
> reality, more tech-fantasy than sci-fi.
You should try Neal Stephenson's Snowcrash, possibly very prescient stuff.
Its successor, The Diamond Age focuses on nanotechnology, also pretty
fascinating and perhaps better aligned to your predilection for steampunk. I
found Cryptonomicon a bit disappointing.
Bob Humid wrote:
quoted 3 lines if you want to dig deep into the soul of scifi and its substance you´ll> if you want to dig deep into the soul of scifi and its substance you´ll
> have to read late american 50ies / 60ies scifi and the things that came
> afterwards...
I'd suggest going back to HG Wells, Mary Shelley, Gustav Meyrink and Jules
Verne in terms of precedent. And Wiliam S. Burroughs and J.G. Ballard of
course.
Tim Walters wrote:
quoted 2 lines Bruce Sterling's SCHISMATRIX isn't on there, and probably should be. It's> Bruce Sterling's SCHISMATRIX isn't on there, and probably should be. It's
> certainly my favorite cyberpunk novel.
I've always found Sterling disappointing though I haven't read Schismatrix.
My own recommendations:
Jorge Luis Borges - anything, but particularly the collection called
Labyrinths, not sci-fi, but what the heck, deals with the infinite
Thomas Pynchon - has to be Gravity's Rainbow really.
Samuel R. Delaney - dhalgren, don't know where to start, just read it.
Jeff Noon - the earlier ones, particularly Vurt and Pollen.
Donald Barthelme - again not really sci-fi, but freaky enough to include.
Cheers, Colin.
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