deadrat:
ReMix by Jon Courtenay Grimwood

When LizAlec Fabio goes missing on her way to school, her mother knows just the person to get her back, Fixx Valmont - burned-out DJ and crystalMeth addict.

Only Fixx isn't just in jail facing statutory-rape charges relating to LizAlec - he's legless. Literally, since Lady Clare Fabio had Fixx's cyborg limbs chopped off at the hips to stop him doing a runner.

Meanwhile, aboard the Arc, Sister Aaron is collecting together two of every species to create a new Eden in deep space, while Brother Michael is even busier collecting handmaidens. Paris is under seige from the Fourth Reich and a virus is sweeping Europe, eating all the steel in its path.



That first book made me know this AWESOME british SF/cyberpunk author
evebringer:
this isn't new or anything
have you read altered carbon?
its by richard carbon
just barely cyberpunk
a little to far in the future to be considered cyber punk
its great though
what would the human race be like 300 years after the cyberpunk revolution?
acet:
William Gibson's new book Spook Country is supposed to be very good, but it's more for the Pattern Recognition fans than the Neuromancer fans and not really cyberpunk per se.
redheadedleague:
I dunno. I have to say, i think cyberpunk is sorta dead at this point. Post-cyberpunk, however,seems to be thriving.

You might like M. John Harrison's Light. I didn't, but I think that's a matter of personal taste; stylistically, the man is good.
haraggan:
I thought LIGHT was an incredible book. You might want to try Patricia Sullivan's MAUL, for something kinda cyberpunk. Have you read K.W. Jeter's NOIR?
samlonghorn:
Ian McDonald's "Brasyl" is getting rave reviews over here. I've not yet picked it up, but the premise sounds great:


Brasyl is a mesmerizing ensemble of three different tales. On takes place in Rio de Janeiro in 2006, as an ambitious reality tv producer finds herself in the middle of a conflict that could unravel reality itself. The second story takes place in Sao Paulo in 2032, as a man is thrust into the dangerous universe of quantum computing and he'll never be the same again. The third storyline occurs in Brazil in 1732, as a Jesuit Father is sent to bring back a rogue priest to face the justice of the religious order.



It'll be on my pile by the end of this month.
trinian:
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is good, also highly recommend his book Crytponomicon for you Math and cryptology geeks out there.
rxdxt:
Both great.. just red the new Bruce Sterling book and the William Gibson book (spooks)

I've decided to switch to spy fiction for a bit.

cherry:
You guys should check out Jon Courtenay Grimwood's new novel "End of The World Blues". It's still only in trade paperback, but I just finished reading it and it's enthralling. Not true cyperpunk ala older- Gibson or Effinger, but it's about as cyberpunk as things get nowadays. Set in the near future in Tokyo and England and some far off end-of-the-world-future mixed in.

Also, not recent, but as so many seem to overlook him and he's quite unheard of in most parts you should read Michael Marshall Smith's "Only Forward" and "Spares" if you haven't already smile
asl23:
Just realised this thread is a month old but nm.

Jon Courtenay Grimwood is awesome. Remix n redrobe.
Not such a fan of 9 tail fox.
Cherry; Is 'End of the world blues' back to the remix style? is it as good?

I read the book after altered carbon too, which is really good but i prefered altered carbon.

cherry:
I haven't read 9Tail Fox because the synopsis has never really appealed to me. However, it's not really like ReMix. The writing style is very similar, but ReMix is far more futuristic (save for some great Virtual Reality and cyber stuff). EotWB is mostly set in the (almost) present. It's not very futuristic and even the End of the World future that it skips between isn't Science related at all. It's difficult to describe. But the part of the book that is set in the near future is extremely cyberpunk in storyline and setting if not all that futuristic.

I am making a complete HASH of this description. In short, I think you should read it. I really don't think you'll be disappointed. It's a beautiful novel with a wonderful ending (and so many cyberpunk novels screw up the endings in my opinion).