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xenotron /r/Cyberpunk
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1970-01-20 00:37:34.147 +0000 UTC

I know responding to a reddit post that's over 24 hours old is basically a waste of time but I can give you some recommendations beyond what Amazon thinks is cyberpunk. And I totally agree, the "cyberpunk" genre in Amazon is all lit-rpg and harem junk. I've been stuck reading the pulp stuff like Behind Blue Eyes, Code Flicker, Entropy Angels, and Into Neon. They're fine I guess.

As for actual recommendations, The Nexus Trilogy by Ramez Naam is really interesting. A guy creates a drug that can install programs into your brain and gets chased by various organizations. At one point the guy takes refuge in a Buddhist monastery and they discuss how his invention affects consciousness and human connectivity.

Another near-future light-cyberpunk I enjoyed was The Analog Trilogy by Eliot Peper. It's about how "the feed" can be used to manipulate a person's opinions and thought processes. The author intentionally never describes what "the feed" looks like because in this day and age we all have our own version of the "the feed". It's actually a very optimistic series and compared to the typical pulp crap I end up reading, this author's writing style almost feels like actual literature.

I guess I'll throw in one "pulp" series I found on Amazon that was pretty good. The Neon Horizon series is about a cyberpunk city where most people are monitored and tracked while living their corpo lives. But there's one district called The Blind Spot which offers full anonymity. There is no tracking whatsoever and people even wear face-concealing masks so no identities are ever revealed. This series is more full-on cyberpunk with high-tech low-lives struggling against the corpo lifestyle but it's rare to find a series that's actually about data privacy and anonymity.

Oh, I'll throw in one more book. Xenoform by Mike Berry was pretty surprising. Typical cyberpunk world... until Lovecraftian monsters start appearing. You don't typically see cyberpunk mixed with cosmic horror.