This page last updated May 1st, 2002. Workers of the World Unite!The first novel I read that is considered to belong to this genre was Neuromancer, by, William Gibson, a Vancouver author. I have seen him on TV on Prisoner's of Gravity discussing how he came up with the word Cyberspace. He observed kids and teens playing computer games in an arcade. This gave him the idea that these players were believing in a space inside the video games. This became his concept of the word Cyberspace. He didn't write this book on a computer. He was only familiar with computers he had seen on television. In particular he had seen an add on TV for the APPLE computer.
Because a punk is sometimes regarded as a dangerous felon in police lingo, it's common to say punk is dead. Even punk rock music has been called dead. But William Gibson is still writing books.
His novel, Mona Lisa Overdrive is also a novel I have bought for later reading. It took me a long time to read Neuromancer. Gibson's use of the English language is bit strange.
I am presently reading two Cyberpunk books. One is by Bruce Sterling and is called Heavy Weather. This novel is in a style I can read with more ease. Also my local book seller Collected Works has a bonus program. This allowed me to pick up a collection of short stories mixing the mystery genre with the Cyberpunk genre in a book called Cyber-Killers.
So I am a fan and I think there are more Cyberpunk books I will buy and read.
Links
Anachron City library keyword *Cyberpunk*
This site has a short review of the significance of Cyberpunk fiction and some information about various authors.
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