Cyberpunk 101

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List by Richard Kadrey and Larry McCaffery, from the book Storming the Reality Studios

"A quick list of the cultural artifacts that helped to shape cyberpunk ideology and aesthetics, along with books by the cyberpunks themselves, in roughly chronological order."

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  1. 1.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  2. 2.
    Red Harvest
    by Dashiell Hammett

  3. 3.
    Last and First Men
    by Olaf Stapledon

  4. 4.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

  5. 5.
    ?
    "Coming Attraction"
    by Fritz Leiber

  6. 6.
    Limbo
    by Bernard Wolfe

  7. 7.
    The Stars My Destination
    by Alfred Bester

  8. 8.
    Naked Lunch
    by William S. Burroughs

  9. 9.
    The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
    by Marshall McLuhan

  10. 10.
    Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
    by Marshall McLuhan

  11. 11.
    The Medium is the Message
    by Marshall McLuhan

  12. 12.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  13. 13.
    The Soft Machine
    by William S. Burroughs

  14. 14.
    The Ticket That Exploded (Burroughs, William S.)
    by William S. Burroughs

  15. 15.
    Nova Express
    by William S. Burroughs

  16. 16.
    The Crying of Lot 49 [CRYING OF LOT 49 PERENNIAL]
    by Thomas(Author) Pynchon

  17. 17.
    Velvet Underground & Nico (Eco) (Rpkg)
    by Velvet Underground

  18. 18.
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
    by Philip K. Dick

  19. 19.
    Nova
    by Samuel R. Delany

  20. 20.
    Society of the Spectacle
    by Guy Debord

  21. 24.
    The Atrocity Exhibition (Flamingo Modern Classics)
    by J. G. Ballard

  22. 25.
    Future Shock
    by Alvin Toffler

  23. 26.
    Dog Soldiers
    by Robert Stone

  24. 27.
    ?
    "The Girl Who Was Plugged In"
    by James Tiptree, Jr.

  25. 28.
    Crash: A Novel
    by J. G. Ballard

  26. 29.
    Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Thomas Pynchon

  27. 30.
    Soon Over Babaluma
    by Can

  28. 31.
    Horses
    by Patti Smith

  29. 32.
    The Shockwave Rider
    by John Brunner

  30. 33.
    ?
    Galaxies
    by Barry N. Malzberg

  31. 34.
    Plus
    by Joseph McElroy

  32. 35.

  33. 36.
    2nd Annual Report
    by Throbbing Gristle

  34. 37.
    Low
    by David Bowie

  35. 38.
    ?
    The Ophiuci Hotline
    by John Varley

  36. 39.
    Dawn of the Dead (Special Divimax Edition)
    by George A. Romero

  37. 40.
    Blood and Guts in High School: A Novel
    by Kathy Acker

  38. 42.
    Easy Travel to Other Planets
    by Ted Mooney

  39. 43.
    ?
    Big Science
    by Laurie Anderson

  40. 44.
    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

  41. 45.
    Simulations (Foreign Agents Series)
    by Jean Baudrillard

  42. 46.
    Videodrome (The Criterion Collection)
    by David Cronenberg

  43. 47.
    ?
    Frontera
    by Lewis Shiner

  44. 48.
    The Terminator
    by James Cameron

  45. 49.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

  46. 50.
    Count Zero
    by William Gibson

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Untitled — 2 years ago

Pretty cool list. Thx!




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