ITT: Writing so cringe in the first 10 pages you want to put it down

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Expand.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      And waiting. The Deliverator honks his horn. This is not a nominal outcome. Window slides open. That should never happen . You can look at the three-ring binder from CosaNostra Pizza University, cross-reference the citation for window, chute, dispatcher's , and it will give you all the procedures for that window -- and it should never be opened. Unless something has gone wrong.

      The window slides open and -- you sitting down? -- smoke comes out of it. The Deliverator hears a discordant beetling over the metal hurricane of his sound system and realizes that it is a smoke alarm, coming from inside the franchise.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What am I reading?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I actually don't understand why people here like Stephenson, he seems to me like *the* Reddit sci-fi writer. I tried reading Snow Crash and it's not funny or clever with it's satire, reading his prose makes me wanna shove him in a locker and call him a dork.

          Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a roll model. This is America. People do whatever the frick they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fricking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it -- talking trade balances here -- once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they 're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here -- once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel -- once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity -- y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else

          music
          movies
          microcode (software)
          high-speed pizza delivery

          The Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes. But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator ' s report card would say: "Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills."

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Are you making this up this is fricking terrible.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I’m not making it up. This is chapter 1 of Snow Crash.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Gotta realize it was first written as a graphic novel and then he changed it. Makes it make way more sense

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            So that's why we've got a highly sexualised 15 year old being raped by a massive eastern european.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            So in one paragraph Stephenson explicates on how the technological equipment of a futuristic pizza delivery boy is sociologically determined by American individualism, and, in extension, elaborates on how America has also been economically outcompeted and defanged (intellectually & resource-wise) by globalism with several real-world-synchronous concrete examples, terminating in an intriguing metaphor of inequities 'smeared out', with a final nod to the various markets the country has, historically, enjoyed dominance in (media, tech, fast-food) -- displaying, in other words, a marvel of lexical condensation and scholarly rigour -- expressed in a streamlined Post-Gibsonian rat-a-tat-tat style that replaces techno-romanticism with a sort of expository-casual twang characteristic of thrillerspeak satirically-bent......and the only 'critique' you can muster is a lazy excerption of the text, which does little other than prove how much you, and other dimwits in this thread, have been, ahem, Filtered, naturally, as is characteristic IQfy-frequenting braindead hogscum turdbaths with little to bring to the table other than proofs of your own illiteracy and, perhaps, all of you might want to slow down, scan those alphabetic symbols which coagulate together into things called 'words', since, maybe, y'all might actually imprint something of value upon the smooth palimpsest that is housed in the sconce, fricking morons.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I just don’t like the writing style and I don’t like the sentence structures. Just because the paragraph holds meaning doesn’t mean I didn’t have a visceral reaction of cringe. I feel what I feel.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Indeed, 'feel' is the correct word. What you possess will only be, and forever be, feeling, since you lack the linguistic expertise to elaborate upon what constitutes your distaste to picoscopic levels of precision. That, really, is the greater sin than 'disliking' a book. To dislike something vaguely, without knowing the contours of that dislike, without being able to communicate it to others except in vague intersections of bluster and memery, without being able to, thus, enact one's own creative correction of those dislikes in the form of a counter-work. To be forever obliviated; all words, all legacies lost. Alas, such is the fate of the mass of men.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            How do you not pass out from sniffing your own farts?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            KWAB

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Imagine writing all that to justify this garbage

            [...]
            Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a roll model. This is America. People do whatever the frick they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fricking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it -- talking trade balances here -- once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they 're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here -- once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel -- once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity -- y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else

            music
            movies
            microcode (software)
            high-speed pizza delivery

            The Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes. But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator ' s report card would say: "Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills."

            . Lmao seethe, pseud homosexual.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            And waiting. The Deliverator honks his horn. This is not a nominal outcome. Window slides open. That should never happen . You can look at the three-ring binder from CosaNostra Pizza University, cross-reference the citation for window, chute, dispatcher's , and it will give you all the procedures for that window -- and it should never be opened. Unless something has gone wrong.

            The window slides open and -- you sitting down? -- smoke comes out of it. The Deliverator hears a discordant beetling over the metal hurricane of his sound system and realizes that it is a smoke alarm, coming from inside the franchise.

            So in one paragraph Stephenson explicates on how the technological equipment of a futuristic pizza delivery boy is sociologically determined by American individualism, and, in extension, elaborates on how America has also been economically outcompeted and defanged (intellectually & resource-wise) by globalism with several real-world-synchronous concrete examples, terminating in an intriguing metaphor of inequities 'smeared out', with a final nod to the various markets the country has, historically, enjoyed dominance in (media, tech, fast-food) -- displaying, in other words, a marvel of lexical condensation and scholarly rigour -- expressed in a streamlined Post-Gibsonian rat-a-tat-tat style that replaces techno-romanticism with a sort of expository-casual twang characteristic of thrillerspeak satirically-bent......and the only 'critique' you can muster is a lazy excerption of the text, which does little other than prove how much you, and other dimwits in this thread, have been, ahem, Filtered, naturally, as is characteristic IQfy-frequenting braindead hogscum turdbaths with little to bring to the table other than proofs of your own illiteracy and, perhaps, all of you might want to slow down, scan those alphabetic symbols which coagulate together into things called 'words', since, maybe, y'all might actually imprint something of value upon the smooth palimpsest that is housed in the sconce, fricking morons.

            TLDR: lolberts realy thought that after the final Ancapocalypse cheese pizza will be delivered to their gated communities by leather wearing, katana equipped, lamborghini driving, pod living half-japanese warrior-poet cyberhackers amusing themselves with saving the world between doing microjobs to pay for the rent and goyslop in gig oriented economy.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Uh, it's fiction sweetie. People tend to write about cool things that they don't necessarily believe is actually going to happen (like the name Hiro Protagonist should have tipped you off?). And it's made very clear that the mafia-run pizza place is not, in fact, an ideal way to do a business.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It’s satire. The same people have difficulty finding this entertaining are of the same ilk as those who were horrified and clutching pearls at the prospect of eating babies. Protein is protein

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Anon Snowcrash is a highly comedic parody.

            It’s satire. The same people have difficulty finding this entertaining are of the same ilk as those who were horrified and clutching pearls at the prospect of eating babies. Protein is protein

            >It’s satire.
            It can hardly count as satire even, due to how utterly flippant and in your face it is.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >due to how utterly flippant and in your face it is
            Anon, you had to be there. Sorry you missed it

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Did you not catch my eating babies reference (fedora tip to Swift’s A Modest Proposal)? Satire can be pretty bold my guy

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Who wrote this wtf LMAO

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            some dweeb trying to make fun of cyberpunk and now all the YA fans treat it as the epitome of cyberpunk

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >The window slides open and -- you sitting down? -- smoke comes out of it.
        Gayest sentence

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Expand.
      Enhance 224 to 176.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You win.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I’ve actually really wanted to read this one as an intro to cyberpunk after playing Cyberpunk 2077.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It’s a fun read. Better than Neuromancer

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        NTA but I've had Neuromancer in my hands like 3 times saying "I'm going to read it this time" but never did. Am I missing out? I spent $9 for it at an airport bookshop

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Nah, it's quite dated. You've probably come across all the tropes. The space jamaicans are ok but its a boring read

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It’s good but I suggest treating it as an expressionist work. Basically don’t try to understand anything, just cruise through it.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Jesus christ it can be read in like a day or two. Just read it you dumb frick.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Just read it you dumb frick.
            B-but this is IQfy. We don't read.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Even 300 pages can feel like a slog when I know the author is an ass blasting homosexual every page

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Blitzed the whole Sprawl trilogy after watching the show. Loved it, highly recommend. It’s more focused on intertwining narratives that lead up to these big heists, and the cyberpunk world building is sort of done in the background. It really comes together by the end. You don’t HAVE to read them in order but it’s pretty cool when the collective background information builds up.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Dude it’s sucks. I appreciate the ideas and stuff for their time but his prose are like untangling nots and not n a good way. Just janky writing. Ide say it’s worth reading just so you can see how things have progressed within scifi.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            You have not internalized enough styles to see how good Gibson is as a prose writer. Take any paragraph in Neuromancer and deconstruct what skills you need to hone to write in such a manner and you will realize how singular Gibson' s style is.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >and you will realize how singular Gibson' s style is.
            Yeah, most LA Noir detective novel writers could write.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            It's not exactly noirish but a sublimation of it, and Gibson was more inspired by Ballard. And the descriptions of data structures and architectures are beyond noir:

            "A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he’d taken and the corners he’d cut in Night City, and still he’d see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void…;The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, and he’d cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands clawed into the bedslab, temperfoam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the console that wasn’t there."

            And his style in The Peripheral is further evolved into leanness.

            Heard it described somewhere that Gibson is like Don Delillo but better the same way McCarthy is like Faulkner but better and I agree with that take

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            That’s straight noir heroin mate.

            Also JG Ballard understands alienation as the inversion of Eros. Gibson doesn’t understand Eros to invert it: see Fokker vs spad for this failing.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Idk man I’ve read some great writers. McCarthy, Hesse, Melville, Dostoyevsky, Gaddis, Tolkien, Herbert, Huxley, Plato, Homer…who else should I read to appreciate Gibson? Not like he’s some sort of writing genius or anything the book is a slog with horrible prose. If we are talking about sciFi even Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles is better. Gibson is terrible.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            De gustibus. Quit being a baby

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Neuromancer is a novel that should come with a glossary, like: https://old.reddit.com/r/Neuromancer/comments/pn7l5w/neuromancer_terms_and_definitions/

        Shakesphere was also said to have made up words we know use commonly. I guess people of his day might've had the same response to his works.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          * we now use commonly

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Most of it's pretty self explanatory. I remember being confused about what ICE was when I first read it, but then I realised it's basically a firewall, and it all fell together.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          If you need a glossary for neuromancer you are stupid.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I think his writing is just not very clear. He has bad prose

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Ahh nice, I still wonder about neuromancer. Does it tie in with Cyberpunk 2077 neatly in the way Witcher does with W3? Does it have swords? That’s what’s drawing me to snow crash, cyberpunk+swords, that’s a combo I’m really into.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The video game is based on the Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop game, which was pretty unambiguously inspired by Gibson's work, but isn't officially attached to it in any way.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It is. Neuromancer is straight garbo

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        kys Black person

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i got you bro
      Bruce Sterling
      The Artificial Kid
      Schismatrix
      Islands in the Net
      Heavy Weather
      Holy Fire
      Distraction
      Zeitgeist
      The Zenith Angle
      The Caryatids
      Crystal Express (Short Stories)
      Globalhead (Short Stories)
      A Good Old Fashioned Future (Short Stories)
      Visionary in Residence (Short Stories)
      Gothic High Tech (Short Stories)
      Transreal Cyberpunk (Short Stories, written with Rudy Rucker)
      Rudy Rucker
      Rudy Rucker
      Software
      Wetware
      Freeware
      Realware
      The Hacker and the Ants
      Complete Short Stories
      Transreal Cyberpunk (Short Stories, written with Bruce Sterling)
      John Shirley
      The only really actual "punk" guy of the original group.

      City Come A' Walkin'
      Black Glass
      Eclipse
      Eclipse Penumbra
      Eclipse Corona
      Heatseeker (short stories)
      Lewis Shiner
      Frontera
      Deserted Cities of the Heart
      Slam
      Walter Jon Williams
      Hardwired
      Solip:System
      The Voice of the Whirlwind
      Angel Station
      Metropolitan
      City on Fire
      This is Not a Game
      Deep State
      George Alec Effinger
      When Gravity Fails
      A Fire in the Sun
      The Exile Kiss
      Budayeen Nights (Short stories)
      Richard Kadrey
      Metrophage
      Kamikaze L'Amour
      Angel Scene
      Pat Cadigan
      Dervish is Digital
      Fools
      Mindplayers
      Synners
      Tea from an Empty Cup
      Patterns (short stories)
      Jack Womack
      Ambient
      Elvissey
      Going, Going, Gone
      Heathern
      Let's Put the Future Behind Us
      Random Acts of Senseless Violence
      Terraplane
      Steven Barnes
      Street Lethal
      Gorgon Child
      Firedance
      Richard Paul Russo
      Destroying Angel
      Carlucci's Edge
      Carlucci's Heart
      Subterranean Gallery
      Melissa Scott
      Trouble & Her Friends
      Night Sky Mine
      Dreaming Metal
      The Jazz
      Wilhelmina Baird
      Crash Course
      Clip Joint
      Psykosis by Wilhelmina Baird
      Shariann Lewitt
      Memento Mori
      Interface Mask

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i got you bro
      Bruce Sterling
      The Artificial Kid
      Schismatrix
      Islands in the Net
      Heavy Weather
      Holy Fire
      Distraction
      Zeitgeist
      The Zenith Angle
      The Caryatids
      Crystal Express (Short Stories)
      Globalhead (Short Stories)
      A Good Old Fashioned Future (Short Stories)
      Visionary in Residence (Short Stories)
      Gothic High Tech (Short Stories)
      Transreal Cyberpunk (Short Stories, written with Rudy Rucker)
      Rudy Rucker
      Rudy Rucker
      Software
      Wetware
      Freeware
      Realware
      The Hacker and the Ants
      Complete Short Stories
      Transreal Cyberpunk (Short Stories, written with Bruce Sterling)
      John Shirley
      The only really actual "punk" guy of the original group.

      City Come A' Walkin'
      Black Glass
      Eclipse
      Eclipse Penumbra
      Eclipse Corona
      Heatseeker (short stories)
      Lewis Shiner
      Frontera
      Deserted Cities of the Heart
      Slam
      Walter Jon Williams
      Hardwired
      Solip:System
      The Voice of the Whirlwind
      Angel Station
      Metropolitan
      City on Fire
      This is Not a Game
      Deep State
      George Alec Effinger
      When Gravity Fails
      A Fire in the Sun
      The Exile Kiss
      Budayeen Nights (Short stories)
      Richard Kadrey
      Metrophage
      Kamikaze L'Amour
      Angel Scene
      Pat Cadigan
      Dervish is Digital
      Fools
      Mindplayers
      Synners
      Tea from an Empty Cup
      Patterns (short stories)
      Jack Womack
      Ambient
      Elvissey
      Going, Going, Gone
      Heathern
      Let's Put the Future Behind Us
      Random Acts of Senseless Violence
      Terraplane
      Steven Barnes
      Street Lethal
      Gorgon Child
      Firedance
      Richard Paul Russo
      Destroying Angel
      Carlucci's Edge
      Carlucci's Heart
      Subterranean Gallery
      Melissa Scott
      Trouble & Her Friends
      Night Sky Mine
      Dreaming Metal
      The Jazz
      Wilhelmina Baird
      Crash Course
      Clip Joint
      Psykosis by Wilhelmina Baird
      Shariann Lewitt
      Memento Mori
      Interface Mask

      Short Story Anthologies
      Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology ed. Bruce Sterling
      The Ultimate Cyberpunk ed. Pat Cadigan
      Semiotext SF ed. Rudy Rucker, Peter Lamborn Wilson
      Hackers by Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois
      Storming the Reality Studio ed. Larry McCaffrey

      Miscellaneous Cyberpunk Fiction
      Blood Music by Greg Bear
      Halo by Tom Maddox
      In the Drift by Michael Swanwick
      Little Heroes by Norman Spinrad
      Dad's Nuke by Mark Laidlaw
      Green Eyes by Lucius Shepard
      Life during Wartime by Lucius Shepard
      Dome City Blues by Jeff Edwards
      Slow River by Nicola Griffith
      Cypulchre by Joseph MacKinnon
      Archetypal (Cypulchre Vol. II) by Joseph MacKinnon
      The Petrovitch Trilogy by Simon Morden

      Proto-Cyberpunk Fiction
      Works of fiction written before cyberpunk was a thing, but have stylistic similarities and heavily influenced the genre.

      Philip K. Dick
      Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
      Dr. Bloodmoney
      Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
      A Maze of Death
      Martian Time-Slip
      Now Wait for Last Year
      A Scanner Darkly
      The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
      The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
      Ubik
      VALIS
      William S. Burroughs
      Exterminator!
      Interzone
      Naked Lunch
      The Nova Trilogy:

      Nova Express
      The Soft Machine
      The Ticket that Exploded
      J.G. Ballard
      The Atrocity Exhibition
      Concrete Island
      Crash
      High Rise
      Complete Short Stories
      RE/Search: J.G. Ballard
      Alfred Bester
      The Demolished Man
      The Stars my Destination
      Virtual Unrealities (short stories)

      Michael Moorwiener
      The Jerry Cornelius Chronicles:

      The Final Programme
      A Cure for Cancer
      The English Assassin
      The Condition of Muzak

      Others

      The Cold Cash War by Robert Asprin
      The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner
      Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
      Altered States by Paddy Chayefsky
      Triton by Samuel Delaney
      Dahlgren by Samuel Delaney
      Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye
      Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
      Dr. Adder by K.W. Jeter
      Noir by K.W. Jeter
      Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad
      The Girl who was Plugged in by James Triptree Jr.
      True Names by Vernor Vinge
      The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
      The Schrodringer's cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
      The Dream Master by Roger Zelazn

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Post-Cyberpunk Fiction
        Works written after the initial cyberpunk boom of the 1980s, a lot of them specifically address issues raised by critics of the original cyberpunk movement and deal with a different kind of future

        Madeline Ashby
        Company Town
        vN (The Machine Dynasty 1)
        iD (The Machine Dynasty 2)
        reV (The Machine Dynasty 3)
        Paolo Bacigalupi
        The Windup Girl
        Ship Breaker
        The Drowned Cities
        Pump Six and Other Stories (short stories)
        Lauren Beukes
        Broken Monsters
        Moxyland
        The Shining Girls
        Zoo City
        Christopher Brown
        Tropic of Kansas
        Rule of Capture
        Richard Calder
        Dead Girls
        Dead Boys
        Dead Things
        Cythera
        Cory Doctorow
        Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
        Eastern Standard Tribe
        Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
        Little Brother
        Makers
        For The Win
        The Rapture of the Nerds
        Pirate Cinema
        Homeland
        Radicalized
        A Place So Foreign and Eight More (short stories)
        Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (short stories)
        Greg Egan
        Diaspora
        Permutation City
        Quarantine
        Distress
        Warren Hammond
        KOP
        Ex KOP
        KOP Killer
        William Hertling
        Avogadro Corp (Singularity 1)
        A.I. Apocalypse (Singularity 2)
        The Last Firewall (Singularity 3)
        The Turing Exception (Singularity 4)
        Kill Process
        Sean Kennedy
        Immersion 2086
        Ambient Reports 2087
        Hardwired Faith (The Exoskeleton Codex Book 1)
        Kaizen Sanctuary (The Exoskeleton Codex Book 2)
        Rhiannon Lassiter
        Hex
        Hex (Shadows)
        Hex (Ghosts)
        Tim Maughan
        Paintwork (short stories)
        Infinite Detail
        Ian McDonald
        Brasyl
        River of Gods
        Cyberabad Days
        The Dervish House
        Richard Morgan
        Altered Carbon
        Broken Angels
        Woken Furies
        Black Man (aka Thirteen)
        Market Forces
        Thin Air
        Ramez Naam
        Nexus
        Cruz
        Apex

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Jeff Noon
          Vurt
          Pollen
          Automated Alice
          Nymphomation
          Pixel Juice (short stories)
          Needle in the Groove
          Falling out of Cars
          Cobralingus
          Channel SK1N
          Malka Older
          Infomocracy
          Null States
          State Tectonics
          Eliot Peper
          Cumulus
          Neon Fever Dream
          Bandwidth (Analog 1)
          Borderless (Analog 2)
          Hannu Rajaniemi
          The Quantum Thief
          The Fractal Prince
          The Causal Angel
          Collected Fiction (short stories)
          Karl Schroeder
          Stealing Worlds
          Jeff Somers
          The Electric Church
          The Digital Plague
          The Eternal Prison
          The Terminal State
          The Final Evolution
          Kieran Shea
          Koko Takes a Holiday
          Koko the Mighty
          Koko Uncaged
          Charles Stross
          Accelerando
          Singularity Sky
          Glasshouse
          Halting State
          Rule 34
          The Rapture of the Nerds (co-written with Cory Doctorow)
          Toast: And Other Rusted Futures (short stories)
          Wireless: The Essential Charles Stross (short stories)
          Daniel Suarez
          Daemon
          Freedom

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      ignore the guy who gave you the long list
      read Neuromancer by William Gibson and you're halfway there
      Watch Blade Runner for the other half

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Test

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What's your complaint?
    Are you too young to remember when your pizza had to be delivered in 30 minutes or it was free?
    That totally cracked me up.
    The rest of the book is awesome too.
    I also really enjoyed "The Diamond Age".
    Although Stephenson never really learned how to write an ending.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      have a nice day homosexual.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i remember reading it a few times when i was young and liking it

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >filtered
    The Diamond Age is also pretty ok

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      He's a genre fiction writer and Luther Blisset destroys him anally.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Never heard of him but I’ll read him. Give me your best rec

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          _Q_. It is Anathem versus Name of the Rose done correctly.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Added to my list, but my frick do I have a backlog. Cheers anon.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The original redditor book

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I read this like two months ago. I thought it was a fun read, for kids. I was surprised at how people talk about this book. I didn't think it was really that funny, or insightful, but I have the series that I haven't got to yet. I'm reading Shelby Foote's Civil War series now along with meme Gravity's Rainbow, so maybe I'll get it to soon. I dunno. I've read influential and important books which I understood why, but I didn't really get the hype behind this one, even though it was still good for an eight year old.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you'd like to read the original, proto-cyberpunk novel, check out "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick.
    One of its 4 plot lines was used for the movie "Blade Runner".

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Dick isn't really very cyberpunk at all, despite Blade Runner. Burroughs is proto-cyberpunk.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        WS Burroughs believes in a lib com revolution as immanently possible through sufficiently gay sex. Transforming rot into the future is the opposite of cyberpunk.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Writing so good in the first 10 pages you don't want to put it down
    Kino

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You hate it cause it hits too close to home

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I actually don't understand why people here like Stephenson, he seems to me like *the* Reddit sci-fi writer. I tried reading Snow Crash and it's not funny or clever with it's satire, reading his prose makes me wanna shove him in a locker and call him a dork.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Let me guess...you got bullied horribly in middle school, and now you try to talk like one of them, because it makes you feel like a big man.
      Give it up, phony. You're fooling no one.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I actually don't understand why people here like Stephenson, he seems to me like *the* Reddit sci-fi writer.
      He's the Silicon Valley sci-fi writer. They love him. He has meetings with Mark Zuckerburg and shit.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It seems to me that they like him for the Cryptonomicon and System of the World more than Snow Crash - which has been Seinfeld’d to hell and isn’t particularly worth reading at this point.

        Stevenson isn’t the world’s best mechanical writer but he has pretty incredible breadth of style and a lot of good ideas. Even Homer’s hand wanders.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I liked it but I didn’t laugh once and didn’t realize it was supposed to be funny.

      Ahh nice, I still wonder about neuromancer. Does it tie in with Cyberpunk 2077 neatly in the way Witcher does with W3? Does it have swords? That’s what’s drawing me to snow crash, cyberpunk+swords, that’s a combo I’m really into.

      If you like cyberpunk (as did I) you will probably did SnowCrash.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Metaverse

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pic related was mixed; some good humour and excitement but also some giga-cringe segments like when he's screaming on the rooftop after shooting some guy. He describes it as a "bestial warcry"

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I tried reading this but it has the problem alot of 90s liberal shit has now that the libs have become authoritarian. Yes I'm a chud

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If you choose to view it through that lens of course you’re going to hate it. Try and temporarily let that shit go, equivalent to suspending disbelief, and just have fun with it
      t. fellow chud

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The Expanse

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Moby Dick
    every Shakespeare play

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Moby Dick
      I'm not into Maōri/black bdsm.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What did you expect when the main character is named Hiro Portagonist? It's supposed to be a fun book, which is it. Worth reading.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Cyberpunk started and ended with nueromancer

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Cyberpunk is too close to reality to be fun anymore.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Infinite Jest

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Funnily enough, the first book (just titled Yukikaze) is one of my favorites even if the English translation was a bit rough at times, but the translation in this one is so bad that I didn't even last five pages. It was apparently done by the same guy who translated the first book so I have no idea what happened

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Neuromancer is one hundred times worse

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Hey Billy at least you're eating pig shit not dog shit.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >try to "read" The Martian by Andy Weir, an ostensible "book"
    >300 pages of a scientist's internal monologue as imagined by a dumb guy
    >ZERO description of ANYTHING ELSE
    >begin to lose my grip on reality and go insane like a redditor

    >open up Lord of the Rings
    >so many comfy description of the environment
    >reads like a travel guide to Middle Earth, like the world itself is its own character
    >characters feel emotions to the world itself
    >i start to feel sane and healthy again

    Thank you J.R.R.R.R. Tolkien

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      +
      That's PROFESSOR Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien to you

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >2023
    >Still b***hing about YA novels on IQfy

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