Just wondering what 2020ish or later cyberpunk books/authors you've read and would recommend. Every list I find is either the same handful of admittedly quintessential 1970/80s stuff (Gibson, Stephenson, Dick, etc), mega compilations that aren't deliniated by year/quality (and haven't been updated in years), or wildly irrelevant bot slop.

Human authors only... nothing AI/LLM-generated, please.

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[–] lerky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I'll add the rest of Sterling's novels to my list because hey why not (I already had a "Schismatrix" and "The Artificial Kid" on there), but most are a bit too old for the ask at hand and would be missing the (potential) influences of the last 30ish years that I'm curious about.

[–] geekwithsoul@piefed.social 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, figured that might be the case but thought I'd mention it just in case. Not sure what "new" cyberpunk is out there - especially since 2020… unless you count non-fiction :)

[–] lerky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

On the plus side: never gonna say no to more books in my list! I'm not actually sure how I missed the rest of Sterling's work, so it's good you brought him up.

And non-fiction is what I'm trying to escape ;P Or at least by some bizarre sadomasochistic method cope with via the fiction that everything seems far too inspired (predicted?) by.

[–] geekwithsoul@piefed.social 3 points 22 hours ago

Totally get that! Probably explains why I played as much Cyberpunk 2077 as I did! Books-wise, haven't been reading much cyberpunk lately other than some re-reads like Snow Crash and Diamond Age - mostly been escaping into Pratchett's Discworld. Comfort food as it were.