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I notice we don't have a literature/books sub-forum (I think?)! I'm a very avid reader; lately, I've been really into 70s and 80s science fiction. Been getting excited about early Cyberpunk stuff such as 'Neuromancer' and the 'Sprawl series'.

I'd love to hear some recommendations!
 
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One of my favorite sci-fi books is Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke. It’s from 1953. They recently made it into a show I believe, though I haven’t watched it yet!
 
I thought I had hit enter on a response here the other day. I'm no longer the avid reader I used to be, but I was very much into cyberpunk about a billion years ago. I think if you look up a list of cyberpunk authors it's going to be fairly definitive, because it was a smallish genre that burnt out quickly. Personally, I'd read the stuff on those lists, and then add someone like Greg Egan. He's more hard sci-fi than a lot of cyberpunk tends to be, but from creepily observing your other posts here, it might be up your alley?

My name is sci-fi related, but if you're into Douglas Adams my next suggestion is PG Wodehouse. So.
 
I'm a big fan of Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, particularly Neuromancer, and also the Sprawl set short stories in the Burning Chrome anthology (Jonny Mnemonic is a blistering short story which makes the fact it was turned into a turgid and dull film all the more depressing).

If you want to try some really early cyberpunk, from before the word was coined for the genre, then I'd suggest 'The Shockwave Rider' by John Brunner, which is possibly the very first cyberpunk novel. Like any near future novel involving technology, certain parts haven't aged well - for example computer hacking by phone is certainly possible now, but not in the way Brunner envisaged it, and he foresaw neither the proliferation nor minaturization of computers that we now have - but it introduced ideas that were genuinely radical in 1975, like the self replicating "worm" computer program.

Also sci-fi, but not at all cyberpunk, I'd suggest Excession by Ian M. Banks, which is one of several novels set in a society that is spread among the stars, which features (amongst other things) benign sentient AIs. It's space opera, in a utopian society so very different from the cyberpunk dystopian view.
 
I love David Wong. John Dies at the End, This Book is Full of Spiders, and What the Hell Did I Just Read are a great place to start if you want a series.
He also wrote Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits which is absolutely charming as a chubby girl to relate to(ok, not really, but how many times he brings up her ass and thickness will make you really start thinking the author has a thing for chubby girls by the end of the book. Like Tarantino and feet).
 
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