Metrophage
10 best books like Metrophage (Richard Kadrey): Trouble and Her Friends, Star Dragon, The Fortunate Fall, The Shockwave Rider, Eclipse, Infoquake, Software, Frontera, The Glass Hammer, The Artificial Kid
| Author | Melissa Scott |
| ISBN | 0812522133 |
Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the computer nets. The hip, noir adventurers who get by on wit, bravado, and drugs, and haunt the virtual worlds of the Shadows of cyberspace, are up against the encroachments of civilization. It's time to adapt or...
The SS Cygni probe sent back hours of video, captured by the Biolathe AI, but only a few minutes mattered--the four minutes that showed a creature made of fire, living, moving, dancing in the plasma fire of the double star's accretion disk. A dragon made of star stuff, so alien that only a human expedition...
| Author | Raphael Carter |
| ISBN | 0312863276 |
I don't believe it.
I just realized that I haven't updated my top ten book list in my own mind for almost a decade. I certainly haven't modified my top three in over 25 years.
What I have just read has just supplanted number three. Perhaps even number two.
For the moment, I feel...
| Author | John Brunner |
| ISBN | 0345467175 |
One man has made it his mission to liberate the mental prisoners. to restore their freedom in a world run mad.
Nickie Halflinger, the only person to escape from Tarnover- where they raise hyper-intelligent children to maintain the political dominance of the USA in the 21st century – is on...
| Author | John Shirley |
| ISBN | 1930235003 |
Book one of John Shirley's pre-holocaust series, A Song Called Like many works defining the wild cyberpunk fringe in the 1980s, this depiction of a near-future dystopia, here revised and updated since its 1985 debut, seems almost acceptably mainstream today. But Shirley's spiky prose and edgy attitudes,...
| Author | David Louis Edelman |
| ISBN | 1591024420 |
How far should you go to make a profit?
Infoquake, the debut novel by David Louis Edelman, takes speculative fiction into alien territory: the corporate boardroom of the far future. It's a stunning trip through the trenches of a technological war fought with product demos, press releases,...
| Author | Rudy Rucker |
| ISBN | 0380701774 |
Cobb Anderson created the "boppers," sentient robots that overthrew their human overlords. But now Cobb is just an aging alcoholic waiting to die, and the big boppers are threatening to absorb all of the little boppers--and eventually every human--into a giant, melded consciousness. Some of the...
| Author | Lewis Shiner |
| ISBN | 0671558994 |
Ten years ago the world's governments collapsed, and now the corporations are in control. Houston's Pulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera to search for survivors. Reese, aging hero of the US space program, knows better. The colonists are not only alive, they have...
| Author | K.W. Jeter |
| ISBN | 0451147669 |
"The world we perceive is the result of what we analyze of what we perceive; what then did we perceive in the first place, and what did we analyze?" (p. 130)
This is about the strongest tie that I've seen between Philip K Dick and the modern expressions of cyberpunk. The narrative darts between the original...
-El Derek Zoolander de los gladiadores futuristas-.
Género. Ciencia-Ficción.
Lo que nos cuenta. Hace ya bastantes años, Rominuald Tanglin, Primer Secretario de Gobierno de Niwlind, emigró al planeta Reveria y traslado parte de su conciencia a un nuevo cuerpo, el Chico Artificial,...
| Author | Larry McCaffery |
| ISBN | 0822311682 |
The term “cyberpunk” entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson’s pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture...
| Author | Pat Cadigan |
| ISBN | 0812541979 |
When I read Trouble and Her Friends, I was forcibly reminded of what Helen Merrick says about it in The Secret Feminist Cabal (while thinking for a moment that it was my own brilliant insight), something along the lines that women made cyberpunk very much about bodies (sorry, Helen, for badly paraphrasing)....
| Author | David J. Williams |
| ISBN | 0553385410 |
In this thrilling debut, David J. Williams delivers a hard-hitting blend of military SF and dystopian cyberpunk, set in a futuristic landscape where hostilities rage from the Eastern and Western hemispheres to the outer ranges of space.
In the 22nd century, the first wonder of a brave...
The three basic human needs are food, water…and shelter. But in the late 21st century, compassion is a crime. You can get your memories wiped just for trying to help.
Papa Preston Walford's world doesn't allow for coincidences. Accidents. Secrets in the backs of closets. Or the needs...
| Author | Jeffrey A. Carver |
| ISBN | 0812535162 |
The first of this series did a cool thing by having alien contact take place in a nearly familiar setting of Triton. In this one, the setting is out of the Milky Way and aliens abound. Not only is the intergalactic hard to conceive, the interconnected synthetic system invented for the current episode (or...
| Author | James Tiptree Jr. |
| ISBN | 0812545540 |
6/5
It's a pity I cannot rate it higher than the maximum allowed - it is astonishing that Tiptree, in this short story achieves so much. I liken her to Vonnegut, who could pull your guts out in a matter of minutes with stories that take usually barely half-an-hour to read.
The present story...
| Author | James Patrick Kelly |
| ISBN | 1892391279 |
“Burn is James Patrick Kelly at his best, and there’s nothing better.”
—Connie Willis, author of Doomsday Book
The tiny planet Morobe’s Pea has been sold and renamed Walden. The new owner has some interesting ideas. Voluntary simplicity will rule in the Transcendent State;...
| Author | Delphine Dryden |
| ISBN | 0425265781 |
DRIVEN TO WIN.
DRAWN TO LOVE.
Fresh from university, Eliza Hardison is determined to crusade for workers’ rights until her cousin Dexter, the Makesmith Baron, prevails on her to represent Hardison House in the American Dominion Sky and Steam Rally.
The competition is...
