Bruce Sterling
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Literary Freeware --- Not For Commercial Use
Bruce Sterling's Idea of What Every Well-Appointed "Cyberpunk SF" Library
Collection Should Possess (circa August 1996)
The Canon:
BURNING CHROME William Gibson
Gibson's short stories.
NEUROMANCER, COUNT ZERO, MONA LISA OVERDRIVE William
Gibson
The "Cyberspace Trilogy."
MIRRORSHADES THE CYBERPUNK ANTHOLOGY Bruce Sterling ed.
Useful pointer to actual no-kidding Movement Cyberpunks.
MINDPLAYERS Pat Cadigan
Her best novel. An absolute must-have.
HEATSEEKER John Shirley
Shirley's short-stories. His most significant and influential work.
DESERTED CITIES OF THE HEART Lewis Shiner
Shiner's best SF novel.
SLAM Lewis Shiner
Intriguing cyberpunk mainstream non-genre novel.
SOFTWARE and WETWARE Rudy Rucker
Best-known novels of deranged math-professor/hacker/cyberpunk.
TRANSREAL Rudy Rucker
Every short piece Rucker ever wrote. Enormous. Like being hit
in the head with a bowling ball.
BLOOD MUSIC Greg Bear
Bear's most c-wordish book.
CRYSTAL EXPRESS Bruce Sterling
Sterling's short work.
SCHISMATRIX Bruce Sterling
Posthuman space opera.
ISLANDS IN THE NET Bruce Sterling
21st-century global information politics.
THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
19th-century cyberpunk by subgenre's foremost critics'-darlings.
Other Useful Fiction:
VIRTUAL LIGHT William Gibson
A new, more intimate view of the future by the gomi-no-sensei.
IDORU William Gibson
Light, graceful and brilliantly inventive.
HALO Tom Maddox
Remarkable SF treatment of robots and artificial intelligence.
