The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel






bruce's cyberpunk bookshelf


Greg Bear
  • / (Slant)
  • Eon
  • Eternity
  • Legacy
  • Darwin's Radio
  • Darwin's Children
    • John Brunner
  • Shockwave Rider
    • Pat Cadigan
  • Synners
  • Tea from an Empty Cup
    • Philip K. Dick
  • Do Andriods Dream of Electronic Sheep
  • Radio Free Albemuth
    • William Gibson
  • Neuromancer
  • Mona Lisa Overdrive
  • Count Zero
  • Burning Chrome
  • Virtual Light
  • Idoru
  • All Tomorrow's Parties
    • William Gibson
    and Bruce Sterling
  • The Difference Engine
    • Rudy Rucker
  • Software
  • Wetware
  • Freeware
  • White Light
  • Gnarl!
    • Verner Vinge
  • True Names
    • Neal Stephenson
  • Snow Crash
  • The Diamond Age
  • Cryptonomicon
    • Stephen Bury
  • Interface
    • Bruce Sterling
  • Islands in the Net
  • Heavy Weather
  • Islands in the Net
  • Globalhead
  • Holy Fire
  • Distraction
    • Rebecca Ore
  • Gaia's Toys
  • Outlaw School
    • Jack Womack
  • Ambient
    • Greg Egan
  • Permutation City
    • Neal Asher
  • Gridlinked
    • Dan Brown
  • Digital Fortress
    • Tad Williams
  • Otherland
    1. City of Golden Shadow
    2. River of Blue FIre
    3. Mountain of Black Glass
    4. Sea of Silver LIght
    • Bruce Bethke
  • HeadCrash
    • Mark Fabi
  • Wyrm
    • Jeff Noon
  • Vurt
    • Marge Piercy
  • He, She, and It
    • James P. Hogan
  • Outward Bound
    • Laura J. Nixon
  • Proxies
    • Alexander Besher
  • Rim
    • Dennis Danvers
  • Circuit of Heaven
  • End of Days
    • Caitlin Sullivan
    and Kate Bornstein
  • Nearly Roadkill
    • K.W. Jeter
  • Noir
    • Eric S Nylund
  • Signal to Noise


    • Not really cyberpunk, but worth attention:
    Orsen Scott Card

  • Ender's Game
  • Speaker for the Dead
  • Xenocide
  • Children of the Mind
    Computer games are important in the first book, and an AI is a character in the rest.

    Jonathan Lethem's As She Climbed Across the Table is Physics-punk.

    Links: Amazon.com
              CyperPunk Project Database
              The Mirrorshades Cyberpunk page
              The Well's Mirrorshades site

    www.wiu.edu/mfbhl/480/cyberpunk.htm
    update: 7.16.01