Cyberpunk Bardo Books

An essential collection of cyberpunk books. These are the cyberpunk books you must have! What is cyberpunk? Do we really need definitions? Well... A sci fi literary movement, born in the 1980's that seeks to completely integrate the realms of high tech and of pop culture, both mainstream and underground and break down the separation between the organic and the artificial. You've tasted it before, probably many times: "in rock video, in the hacker underground, in the jarring street tech of hip-hop and scratch music, in the synthesizer rock of London and Tokyo" (from Bruce Sterling's Intro to "Mirror Shades") Whatever it is, cyberpunk will break down your hidden mental barriers, your mind buffers, and confront you with a brand new twist on reality. Check it out!
Check out a small sample of an exciting new cyberpunk novel by our friend Chris Marshall: The Empathy Syndrome
Mirrorshades Edited by Bruce Sterling click here to order	This is possibly the best introduction to the cyberpunk genre, starting with an excellent essay by Bruce Sterling, in which he attempts to clarify and define what the genre is, a very tough task. The stories are an amazing combination of beautiful writing and mind bending ideas. If you are curious about cyberpunk, but don't know where to begin, this is it!
Software by Rudy Rucker click here to order	To put it bluntly: this is the funniest, wildest, weirdest tract on the nature of consciousness and the basic need to maintain ahold of your own brain... unless it happens to become obsolete!
Neuromancer by William Gibson click here to order	When in the course of conversation, the word "cyberpunk" comes up, "Neuromancer" is not too far behind! This is the cornerstone of the whole genre and still one of its most brilliantly realized manifestations. When a group of hackers is assigned to unlock the basic limitations of a huge computer system, the question that is in everyone's mind is: who would profit the most from such action? The answer is one you will never forget!
Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling click here to order	This one hits so close to our present reality, that is almost hard to realize how fantastic it sounded not too long ago. The goverments of the world are in decline, the corporations are taking over. Humanity is cleanly divided between the ones who are "in" and the ones who are "out". Even the rebels know that the machinery is so great that it is hopeless to fight it directly. What happens then when you go from being one of the protected members of a powerful corporation to a lost soul in the hands of great powers that can't even see you? Sound familiar?
Vurt by Jeff Noon click here to order	Anyone for a feather? A seemingly innocuous question, although it is a bit strange. In Jeff Noon's powerful hyperspeed rocket (in the form of this book) we travel to the place that is everywhere and everything. A place that is you and can only be conquered by you. Going into the Vurt alone is crazy. People have been known to get lost forever in there, even people you know, or knew, as the case might be. Yet it pulls you deeper and deeper in. There's a guide in there amongst the disturbing visions and shocking ambushes that wait around every corner. So I ask you again, anyone for a feather?