LanceHunter posted:

Reading the Cyberpunk 2020 history of what happens from 1990 to 2020 is...pretty weird.

SwitchbladeKult posted:

EP is one of my favorite tabletop settings. Too bad the mechanics are dog poo poo.

Skyscraper posted:

Well, it certainly is eventful. Francis Fukuyama was clearly wrong, but I kind of wonder if there was some merit to the general idea of an end of history.

vodkat posted:

never played a game and not enough of a dork to try but reading about the setting in all the source books was rad as hell

vodkat posted:

Francis Fukuyama being as wrong as possible about literally everything has been one of the highlights of the last 30 years

uncurable mlady posted:

"i missed a couple of things"

haveblue posted:

if your eyes freeze, blink once, then blink again two seconds later, then blink eight seconds later, then two seconds again, then

FMguru posted:

oh, word?

gonadic io posted:

Can't wait to have the company that manufactured my eyeballs go out of business and stop releasing software updates so my eyeballs start mining bitcoin

gonadic io posted:

Richard Morgan is still coming out with new stuff and it's....okay

A memory called empire by Arkady Martine is good, and maybe qualifies? It's like cyberpunk but not particularly grimey. maybe veers too into regular scifi? idk

Krankenstyle posted:

any good* cyberpunk books lately?

* entertaining is acceptable i guess

Captain Foo posted:

The new York times

NoneMoreNegative posted:

NoneMoreNegative posted:

yeah same I found a site with all the pdfs on a while back (a flashback in itself, remember when you could download pirated things directly off a website, often in multiple zips? lol) and they make for interesting browsing. Of course I can't put the link here in my post for legal reasons.

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

I listened to half a Richard Morgan audiobook and turned it off part way through a creepy sex scene

gonadic io posted:

isn't cstross's non-cthulu work series cyberpunk? I think there's parallel dimension hopping too but idk I've not actually read it

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They discover that they are being hosted in a Matrioshka brain, the builders of which seem to have disappeared (or been destroyed by their own creations), leaving an anarchy ruled by sentient, viral corporations and scavengers who attempt to use newcomers as currency. The crew finally escape by offering passage to a "rogue alien corporation" (a "pyramid scheme crossed with a 419 scam"), virtualised as a giant slug

gonadic io posted:

isn't cstross's non-cthulu work series cyberpunk? I think there's parallel dimension hopping too but idk I've not actually read it

Midjack posted:

accelerando and glasshouse are probably the most, but halting state and rule 34 are as well. just about all his non laundry files stuff is some form of cyberpunk.

Midjack posted:

NoneMoreNegative posted:

I wouldn’t call the Merchant Princes books (the dimension hopping ones) cpunk, but they are entertaining and build to a good, nuke-slinging finale. The ‘Empire Games’ books which are like ’Merchant Princes:TNG’ are also fun and are finally expanding on some weird parallel earth tech that’s been teased for like five books

I also don’t remember any sexy times in any of either series books so they are fine to read for the lights-off hole-in-sheet yospos

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

I listened to half a Richard Morgan audiobook and turned it off part way through a creepy sex scene

Agile Vector posted:

saaaaame. i think it was the third kovacs novel and the narrator kept doing a south tough lady voice and it was overwhelming when they started talking about their genitals

Agile Vector posted:

saaaaame. i think it was the third kovacs novel and the narrator kept doing a south tough lady voice and it was overwhelming when they started talking about their genitals

Agile Vector posted:

saaaaame. i think it was the third kovacs novel and the narrator kept doing a south tough lady voice and it was overwhelming when they started talking about their genitals

Jabor posted:

i've kind of wondered how that sort of thing works in audiobooks

is the narrator attempting to keep a neutral voice, but keeps cracking and showing audible revulsion at the creepy poo poo that happens to be in this book? or can you definitely hear them getting weirdly into it?

no i'm not gonna listen to an audiobook with creepy sex scenes to find out

infernal machines posted:

e: nm, wrong guy

TimWinter posted:

Accelerando is great cyberpunk mixed with futurism, and also happens to have the most absurd sex scenes in sci fi.

communism bitch posted:

Accelerando sounds pretty wild tbh:

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They discover that they are being hosted in a Matrioshka brain, the builders of which seem to have disappeared (or been destroyed by their own creations), leaving an anarchy ruled by sentient, viral corporations and scavengers who attempt to use newcomers as currency. The crew finally escape by offering passage to a "rogue alien corporation" (a "pyramid scheme crossed with a 419 scam"), virtualised as a giant slug

Midjack posted:

the orgynism in k.w. jeter’s Noir is gonna be hard to beat.

that and Dr. Adder are a couple of other good cyberpunk reads, as are his blade runner sequels.

“KW Jeter completely unironically” posted:

There’s a hardware solution to intellectual-property theft. It’s called a .357 magnum. No better way for taking pirates off-line. Permanently. Properly applied to the head of any copyright-infringing little bastard, this works.

Trimson Grondag 3 posted:

noir is such a weird book, I came across it as a teenager and it think it scarred me a little. combination of weird sex stuff and a very nineties view of copyright: