From: ab45@prism.gatech.edu (Anne M. Balsamo)
Subject: CULTURE: Favorite Cyberpunk Fiction
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 01:06:48 -0500



One of the few women writing cyberpunk is Pat Cadigan. Check out her
two novels: *Mindplayers* and especially *Synners*  A "synner" is 
a human video-music synthesizer, in this case, a cool, techno-hip
black chick named Gina.  Visual Mark (gina's beau) strokes out when
connected to the "system" and unleashes a virus that shuts down the
network.

If you want to start with short stories, there are three anthologies
that offer a selection from the major cyberpunk writers:

Mirrorshades: The cyberpunk anthology, by Bruce Sterling
Burning Chrome, by William Gibson
Future on Fire, by Orson Scott Card

Other titles and authors that are widely read and liked:

Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
Dhalgren, and Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand, Samual Delany
The Silicon Man, Charles Platt
Pacific Edge (part of a trilogy), Kim Stanley Robinson
Software, and Wetware, Rudy Rucker
Frontera, Lewis Shiner
Thousand Light Years from Home, James Tiptree, Jr.
The Ophiuchi Hotline, Titan, Wizard, Demon, by John Varley

Other names of science fiction writers who either greatly influenced cyber-
punk writers, or are writing about similar issues (but who may not be
primarily identified as cyberpunk):

Brian Aldiss, J.G. Ballard, Octavia Butler, Karel Capek, D.G. Compton,
Philip K. Dick, Thomas Disch, K.W. Jeter, Ursula LeGuin, Stanislaw Lem,
Rebecca Ore, Kim Stanley Robinson, Joanna Russ, John Shirley, Joan Slonczewski
Gene Wolfe

These suggestions come from a list I've compiled from science fiction 
reviews and interviews with writers and readers.

Enjoy!

Anne Balsamo
School of Literature, Communication, & Culture
Georgia Institute of Technology
ab45@prism.gatech.edu