Voice of the Whirlwind
10 best books like Voice of the Whirlwind (Walter Jon Williams): Mindplayers, Little Heroes, Islands in the Net, The Exile Kiss, Finity, Vacuum Flowers, Freeware, Eclipse Penumbra, The Digital Plague, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
| Author | Pat Cadigan |
| ISBN | 0575042427 |
Ok, I'll start by saying that it's not the best book in the world or anything. But I love it. Taking place in a slightly futuristic Earth where people have learned to control and manipulate their minds for fun and profit (mostly for fun), the main character is a Mind Player, sort of like a psychiatrist who...
| Author | Norman Spinrad |
| ISBN | 0586203621 |
An over-the-hill rock star, a Puerto Rican street kid, and two children of the electronic age discover strength in numbers when they take on the power of Musik, Inc., in a war of nerves, passion, and rock 'n' roll. Spinrad uses the violent, sexually explicit language of new wave sf to communicate an ultimately...
| Author | Bruce Sterling |
| ISBN | 0441374239 |
Laura Webster's on the fast track to success. A bright young star in a multinational conglomerate, she's living well in a post-millennial age of peace, prosperity, and profit.
In an age of advanced technology, information is the world's most precious commodity. Information is power. Data is...
| Author | George Alec Effinger |
Marîd Audran has risen from hustling on the streets of the decadent Budayeen ghetto to being the right-hand man of one of the Maghreb's most feared men. As an enforcer for the powerful Friedlander Bey, Marîd is just beginning to enjoy his newfound wealth and privilege, when he and Bey are betrayed by...
| Author | John Barnes |
| ISBN | 0812571452 |
Lyle Peripart is reasonably content with his quiet life as an expatriate American academic in New Zealand, a pleasant backwater in a world ruled by the Twelve Reichs. Until he accepts a plum job offer from a billionaire industrialist -- and he's roughed up by the Gestapo in Surabaya, shot at in Saigon,...
| Author | Michael Swanwick |
| ISBN | 0441858767 |
Vacuum Flowers is a grand tour of the inhabited Solar System, set in a medium-term future. The book opens in Eros Kluster, one of many asteroid-based settlements that form the bulk of Human space, after all of humanity on Earth was absorbed into the Comprise, a world-wide AI- and net-mediated group-mind....
Rudy Rucker has seen the future. . .and it is extreme.The Godfather of cyberpunk--a mad scientist bravely meddling in the outrageous and heretical--Rucker created Bopper Robots, who rebelled against human society in his award-winning classic "Software.
Now, in 2053, "moldies" are the...
| Author | John Shirley |
| ISBN | 1930235011 |
THE SA HAD BEEN HIRED TO MAKE ORDER.
AND THEY PLANNED TO KEEP IT…FOREVER.
From the beginning, thwarting the Second Alliance had been the first priority of the New Resistance; now the SA had decided it was time to return the favor. Resistance could not be allowed to interfere with the progress...
| Author | Jeff Somers |
| ISBN | 0316022101 |
I'm so sad by this.... Its such a great world... but good god... get into the damn story. . .Avery Cates talks and talks and talks... And even worse, he talks in third person!
"Avery Cates is mad I'm gonna have to kill somebody."
"Avery Cates is the blah blah killer. I'm gonna have...
| Author | James Patrick Kelly |
| ISBN | 1892391538 |
Following the rapid evolution of cyberpunk from Bruce Sterling and William Gibson into the current millennium, this vivid anthology welcomes a new generation of exciting writers to take the genre in new and unexpected directions. Cyberpunk freewheels with punk rock energy, careening between...
| Author | K.W. Jeter |
| ISBN | 0451151976 |
Set in a future where the United States has largely broken down into reluctantly cooperating enclaves run by a wide variety of strongmen and warlords, with a veneer of government control that seems largely interested in controlling technology. Dr. Adder is an artist-surgeon, who modifies sexual...
