Cyberpunk Fiction Page

William Gibson, I personally think is the greatest author this time has ever had. If you really evaluate his work you will notice something that no one else has ever pulled off, and you don't even notice it because his writing is so smooth.

 

Neuromancer
WGs first book. This book was the birth of Cyberspace, if you know anything you know that you have to read this book to understand most peoples vision of cyberspace. It's like a holy grail.
 
Burning Chrome
WGs Collection of short stories, including what would later be re-wrote into Johnny Mnemonic: the screenplay
 
Virtual Light
One of my favorite WG books, I don't know why so many people discriminate it as being a bad book. It might not live up to neuromancer but what does. It's about two people who kinda of get stuck preventing the rebirth of SoCal. They just go through it.

Agrippia
A poem William Gibson wrote after the death of his father. Distributed on a disc, erased after viewing oncece.Here it is.

Alien 3 Script
Many people scripted this out, even WG. unfortunatly only the barcodes on people made it in the movie, but still. It is a very interesting piece. Alien 3 Script

 

 

 

From WG's Virtual Light:
Hepatic corona, Iperceptibly, Brownish Translucence.
Japanese vodka, Come Balk Salmon, it's name more irritating than it's lingering aftertaste.
Space behind his eyes, Fractal-based calligraphy. He drinks the vodka, he watches Television. Silver beaded jaws. Metal voices. Telephone beneath the pillow, it is all he knows of peace. Provide his own. Soft-focus digital approximation of both. Sleep of a different texture. The shell. Chrome. Armored Land Rover. Should've bought Israeli or at least Brazilian, who needed Ralph Lauren to design a tank anyway? Just chromed for looks, Always looked like he was about two nights short of sleep. You ought to get some rest. Mirrored contacts. Klan-assed nazi robot. Bright yellow plastic. Cameras under the rear bumper, made parking really easy. When'd they make that? 1980, I wasn't born yet. Well I was two. Many no doubt have, Milan. The kill fix. patches of tape on both cheeckbones. Silver contacts,his long white fingers moving the most matter-of-fact way imaginable. I'M NOT OK, YOU'RE NOT OK- BUT HEY, THAT'S OK. fadded orange trunks. high, very pure, and quite clinically empty; the doing of the thing, the not thinking. Bar-coded allied badges. Mirror polished ittalic zero. sticking up ok in back The spikes were still to long whispy sort of. Fractal knife. Coffee tables made out of tombstones, old ones. The brooding verbal polychromes of an almost unthinkably advanced decay. Dreams are made of hot metal. Wincing in the sudden light, scrubbing cold water into his numb face. Cold Tile. corrugated polished brass, mirrors, chrome gone dull. Coffee shop interior texture, ferry, dark dented varnish over plain heavy wood. Existential meaning. hyphons of aerosol silver. Modernity was ending.

 

 

 

Other GOOD books

 
Bruce Bethke's books
He's the one who created the term Cyberpunk in (I think) '83
 
Tekwar Series
William shatners series set in future california, the books are really good.
 
Bruce Sterling
Read Schismatrix and Islands in the net. Also the Difference Engine W/WG.
 
Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash
 
Rudy Rucker
Wetware
 
Phillip k Dick
Do andoids dream of electric sheep aka Blade Runner, A scanner Darkly.
 
Heinlein, Robert
He's got a book I love... Fear no Evil, It's pretty cool. He also wrote starship troopers
 
Mage: the Acsession.
A RPG by WW. It has a group of people called the Virtual Adepts.
 

 

 

 

 

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