noirin:
hey this thread is an excellent idea! hm i once read a cyberpunk novel called Mercedes Nights, i forget who by it was in the staffroom at one place i worked. not amazing really either. gibson is, after all, the true king. idoru is probably my favourite which is a generally unpopular choice but has a lot of sentimental value.

anime wise i could suggest .hack//sign has various cyberpunk elements and is currently being released on dvd for the first time in america. that is excellent and i would highly recommend it! even though it's not really literature...ahem...
saruman:
I'd be interested in any cyberpunk mangas, with english or french translations.
tretiak:
http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/index.html

for files

http://www.well.com/conf/mirrorshades/cpunk.html

for historic mish mash
paradoxia:
Try VURT, Pixel Juice, and Nymphomation by Jeff Noon.

Anything by Steve Aylett is cool as fuck.
tretiak:
John Barnes "Mother of Storms" is along the lines of Snow Crash.
galvagin:
In terms of manga... Shirow's _Appleseed_ is also good, though a bit less thoroughly cyberpunk than Ghost in the Shell. And in other comics, not manga, but I'm surpised Warren Ellis' _Transmetropolitan_ hasn't come up yet...

draciav:
If you've only read some of Gibson's stuff, be sure to grab all of them at some point. I've enjoyed all of them... and unlike some other authors, I think he's just getting better with each book.

Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, and Pattern Recognition were really fun.

I think people have mentioned most everything I can see sitting here at a glance, but I have a few others you may want to try (not guaranteeing quality, it's been years since I read them):

Mel Odom - "Lethal Interface"
Richard Paul Russo - "Carlucci's Edge"
Melissa Scott - "Touble and Her Friends"
Pat Cadigan - "Tea from an Empty Cup"

If you don't mind the high fantasy mix, you may want to try one of the billion ShadowRun novels that are out there.

skull
aneurotypical:

galvagin said:
And in other comics, not manga, but I'm surpised Warren Ellis' _Transmetropolitan_ hasn't come up yet...



No kidding. Ellis is number 1 in terms of graghic fiction, Sterling (read Artificial Kid) in just written form IMO. Also suggest Global Frequency, and pretty much everything else Ellis has done. He keeps track of all kinds of weird happenings from around the world at His Blog.
GitS: Stand Alone Complex won't be available in the states for a while yet, but you can find it on eBay.
mirror:
You can't go wrong with John Shirley's "City Come A Walkin'
" or anything by Rudy Rucker. They were the wildmen of the cyberpunks.
x5:
Read Alastair Reynolds. Deceptive. Seems more like space opera but it's not really. Are you an Ultra?
velvetone_fusion:

paradoxia said:
Try VURT, Pixel Juice, and Nymphomation by Jeff Noon.

Anything by Steve Aylett is cool as fuck.


Vurt was awesome

Also, not as cyberish, but the bleek, grimey, not-too-distant future streets are there in "The City: Wild Kids of New City" by Dale Taylor. that was a good one.
tinyblob:
michael marshall smith - only forward
worth a read smile
sigma:
I recommend 'The Light of Other Days'; it should be consider CyberPunk.

Uh, also: 'Stand on Zanzibar' has a CyberPunk feel without being very CyberPunkish conceptually.

Other than that I'd have to say check out Dan Simmon's works - very CyberPunky.
kitsunenoir:
Anyone ever read "Brand New Cherry Flavor" by Todd Grimson? It's not EXACTLY cyberpunk...but it has all the elements that I love about the genre. Plus Grimson wrote a great Vampire novel called "Stainless" both are amazing reads. biggrin
r_mutt:

paradoxia Anything by Steve Aylett is cool as fuck.



Too right.

I really like Jon Courtenay Grimwood as well.

If you ask me the Gibson holier than thou hegemony needs to be broken.

a2_stud:
I also like the three "Eclipse" books by Shirley. they aren't cyber, but certainly science fiction/punk.
blackflame:
No one has mentioned the Anime seris Serial Experiment Lane yet, so I'll toss that in there.

Also, there's a PNP Roleplaying game that's all about it. If you're into PNP roleplay, it's well worth it.

BlackFlame
joespod:
There's a few of the Mellissa Scott books are worth looking at ("Trouble and her friends" has already been mentioned, and she has a couple of other cyberpunk type books).

Walter John Williams has a couple of books that "kind of" fall under the cyberpunk arena - "hardwired" is probably the most overtly CP, but "voice of the whirlwind" has some SF / CP themes, and "Days of atonement" is an interesting rendition of life on the outskirts of a CP world.

If you can find it, and don't mind it being factual, Clifford Stohls, "the cuckoo's egg" is definately worth a look as well.
digipunk:
Rudy Ruckers "wares" series is pretty good.

-Software
-Wetware
-Freeware
-Realware

jamiemh:
Try
Altered Carbon
Broken Angels
Woken Furies
all by Richard Morgan.
lorq:
"Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand"
by Samuel Delany. Literate, far future and yet so close. Cyberpunk before Gibson.
A teaser, to get you interested:
Main character is depressed, maladjusted. Becomes a RAT. Which means he has gone through a government subsidized procedure called "Radical Anxiety Termination". The cost of the procedure? You become a slave.
futurist:
Well, if you do like Gibson (which I don't do particularily), I think you should check out Philip K Dick, who has a somewhat similar style though I find him immensely superior. His best work is Ubik, imho. Since Gibson is known as a high-concept author, I think reading other high-concept science fiction would be the right move. Try Stanislaw Lem's Solaris and Fiasco (Fiasco is much better in my view, but also a lot heavier).
violenthalo:
someone mentioned jon courteney grimwood, hes awsome if u can get a hold of a book called REMIX by him its someone who has a soundtrack in there head as they go about life and whatever else its an excellent book highly reccommended

and for pure cyberpunk trash 1 day read jobbies nylon angel and code noir by marrianne de pierres
unfinished:
While I would not consider it Cyberpunk in the strictest form, RIM by Alexander Besher was a great read.
deadrat:

R_Mutt said:

paradoxia Anything by Steve Aylett is cool as fuck.



Too right.

I really like Jon Courtenay Grimwood as well.

If you ask me the Gibson holier than thou hegemony needs to be broken.



Jon Courtenay Grimwood is one excellent post-cyberpunk writer.
rEmix is very cyberpunkish while RedRobe strays a little further from Gibson-inspired cyberpunk (but it still has AIs and amphetamine)

His last two novels Stamping Butterfly and 9Tail Fox are not cyberpunk, but beautifully constructed, very well written and incredibly weird.