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by techer 3473 days ago
Thanks for that. Can you suggest some additional reading?
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Not sure if manga qualifies as reading but for manga/anime cyberpunk I can recommend Ghost In The Shell. It deeply touches these subjects, from multiple angles.

Then, since you specifically said read, there's Philip K. Dick, who wrote loads of books on this genre. When people think of Blade Runner they don't even know its based on a novel by him [1]

If you're referring to a book which studies cyberpunk as a genre from a documentary PoV then I wouldn't know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_...

+1000 for "Ghost in the Shell", I am ashamed to have forgotten to mention this absolute masterpiece which remains unbeaten in this genre to this day.
Apologies, not yet (correction: see my edit in the parent comment). It's a newfound "love" of mine only for 2-3 months now (and I am a busy guy). I am just getting immersed in the art and short comics aspect for now. I haven't gone to reading the Blade Runner fanfics just yet. ;)

FWIW, Tumblr and DeviantArt have a lot of art and fanfic work in the cyberpunk genre. Pinterest too, to a lesser extent. You should start there.

Funny that I saw Ghost in the Shell when it was originally released in the cinema but for some reason didn't think of it as cyberpunk!

Time to dive into it again it seems!

I've finally just started reading Snow Crash since I told myself I would one day roughly 15 years ago.

It's excellent.