5 must read cyberpunk science fiction

Hi everyone - in this video I look at five must read science fiction books in the science fiction subgenre of cyberpunk.
#cyberpunk #sciencefiction #booktube
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MY SCI-FI NOVELS

DELPHINE DESCENDS
After her family is killed and her homeworld occupied, young Kathreen Martin is sent to the distant world of Furoris for re-education. She will live the rest of her life as a serf – to be bought and sold as a commodity of the Imperial Network.

When her only chance of escape is ruined, a chance mistaken identity offers her a new life as the orphaned daughter of a First-Citizen Senator and heiress to a vast fortune.

She vows to claw her way into power to sit among the worlds’ elite. Then, with her own hands, she will reap bloody vengeance on them all.

But to beat them, she must play their game. And she must play it better than them all.

BLACK MILK
Prometheus has the chance to bring his wife back from the dead, but doing so will mean the destruction of Earth.

Spanning time, planets and dimensions, Black Milk draws to a climactic point in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity, stranded with no planet to call home, fights to survive against a post-human digital entity that pursues them through the depths of space.

Five lives separated by aeons are inextricably linked by Prometheus’s actions:

Ystil.3 is an AI unit sent back in time from the distant future to investigate Prometheus’s discovery...

The mysterious Lydia has devoted her life to finding a planet that the last remaining humans can call home…

Tom Jones (he’s a HUGE fan!) is an AI trapped inside a digital subspace, lost and desperate to find his way back to his beloved in real-time…
Dr Norma Stanwyck is a neuroscientist from 24th Century Earth whose personal choices ripple throughout time...

Prometheus must learn the necessity of death or the entire universe will be swallowed by his grief.
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[GR-ktle]

0:30 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, 2:45 Necromancer, 4:35 Snowcrash, 6:55 Altered Carbon, 8:55 Akira

[johnneshcov]

I enjoyed dadoes...the others are on my rather large TBR stack. I never really realized just how hazardous reading can be...a large teetering stack of books, excessive tea drinking and the constant terror of being apprehended sneaking even more books into the house past my wife

[peterconway]

I always enjoy your videos. Your Must Reads are valuable guides of what to read next, if I haven't already.

[laughingwarlock]

Hi Darrel! I've got two more Cyberpunk novel suggestions for you.

The first is HARDWIRED, a 1986 Cyberpunk novel written by Walter Job Williams. Once you get used to the fact that it's written in the present tense, the novel tells a fantastic story about class warfare with themes of dehumanization and drug addiction.

The second is DYSTOPIA'S EDGE, a 2021 novel written by me! Yes, part of this comment is a shameless plug. Sorry for the deception, but I think you might like it. :) It's a Cyberpunk road-trip novel about a mercenary who takes what's supposed to be a simple smuggling job... but everything ends up going wrong when a bioengineered super-soldier and his band of bloodthirsty highwaymen begin chasing him down.

Darrel, I don't know your policy on accepting free review copies of books for your channel. But if that's something you'd be into, just let me know.

[gordonburroughs]

Stephenson’s Reamde has some cyberpunk elements and I find it far more enjoyable than Snowcrash. One of the villains was such a joy to read, which is odd to say. Overall, a solid list.

[FITBREAD]

Great list. On board with all of these. Some of my favorite reads. Id have Neuromancer as my number 1 cyperpunk.

[andreasxanthros]

I have yet to read Altered Carbon but have read the others on this list. I suppose it's possible to add authors like Pat Cadigan and Bruce Sterling into the mix as they were at the forefront of the sub-genre's inception. Still, I would add the rest of Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy and his following Bridge trilogy, especially Virtual Light as must reads. I really like Gibson's prose style; terse, concise; perhaps too clipped at times, but it fit wells with the worlds he creates.

[skippyeights]

I have read everything on the list except Akira (loved the Anime) and enjoyed them all.

I would add Tad Williams’ Otherland novels to the list. They are not as gritty as most cyberpunk, but the way the series explores world building and the genre-crossing potential of a virtual existence is really compelling. It’s almost a cross between Neuromancer and Stephen King’s Dark Tower series.

[nishthagupta]

Loved all the recommendations! You have great taste! ❤

[jeawe]

Love your voice. I could listen to you all day long. Thank you for these kinds of videos - I am just getting started with Sci-fi - and this helps a lot. Not only with regard of your book recommendations, but also because you manage very well to introduce these sub-genres of Sci-fi. Thanks for this overview. 👍🙏💙

[adamharris-batt]

I love small book channels so much man

[ripwolfe]

Agree with all of the choices, Neuromancer being my favorite out of the list. Also agree with Altered Carbon being traumatizing -- brilliantly traumatizing!

[waynecampeau]

I think "Shockwave Rider" by John Brunner in 1975 predates all of the ones you listed. The technology was more primitive, but its was the first that I remember introducing the idea of a super-hacker in a dystopian state future.

[Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber]

Snowcrash was very exciting to read! What a ride!

[briangoubeaux]

They are all very cool and Snow Crash was my entryway novel into the genre. As a suggestion, if you want to have some comedy with your cyberpunk, I would like to suggest the Liquid Cool novels where the main protagonist has to solve a mystery while having to maneuver through his social life with his girlfriend, China Girl, and her parents who hate him. The series is authored by Austin Dragon.

[FairyWeatherMan]

This channel deserves way more subscribers

[tishardnatthaniel]

Man I always look forward to this guy videos. I never knew how much I was missing out with these novels

[Phractal]

Great list. 👍 Ive read all of them except for Altered Carbon.

[reclaimer]

I personally thought the Netflix show of Altered Carbon was better than the book. I LOVED the Akira anime as a teenager. Then I watched it again a few years back while high and my mind was blown at the true depth of the themes that I could not comprehend as a teenager.

[paz]

You all really need to read Neon Leviathan, a series of short stories set in a cyberpunk future, jumping across different years. Its harrowing but a straight up masterpiece