Dick, the book that inspired Blade Runner Masamune Shirow’s seminal manga Ghost in the Shell and others. For the purposes of this list, we’ve eschewed a few of the classics, such as William Gibson’s Neuromancer Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Vacuum Flowers was serialized in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine. It isn’t really science fiction’s job to predict the future – most sci-fi is more concerned with using futuristic conceits to comment on the present – but if it were, few subsets of the genre would be as successful as cyberpunk.īefore email and texting and smartphones, cyberpunk was already positing a world full of "high tech and low life," in which humans were all connected, for good or for ill.Ĭyberpunk has exploded into movies and games, but it got its start in good old books, back before we had the option of reading them on tablets.Īs such, there are plenty of great cyberpunk books out there. Michael Swanwicks third novel, Stations of the Tide, was honored with a.
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