[prepend]

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino, a great companion to the movie and expands on characters in really unique ways that make me think about them.

Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson, a near future book about climate change and trying to fix it with an interesting geopolitical look of China acting like the US. I also liked Ministry of the Future but it was less fun of a read.

Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt, a reasoned look at how social media and devices are negatively impacting society and children.

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer, a weird near future declinepunk with bioengineering and evil corporations.

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, very short book with a glimpse into post colonial colonialism in remote locations. Wanted to read a book about Congo.

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, a portrait of a character in a time I didn’t experience.

[bwoodward]

Tarantino's novelization was fantastic. He just released a piece of nonfiction with 'Cinema Speculation', which is definitely worth a read if you're into film and especially his films.

[ycombinete]

If you like audio books Kenneth Branagh’s reading of Heart of Darkness is incredible. I listen to it all the time. He really brings out the dark humour in Marlow’s narration.

Also, Apocalypse Now was based on Heart of Darkness; so it’s definitely worth rewatching after having read HoD.

[rocketbop]

> Borne by Jeff VanderMeer, a weird near future declinepunk with bioengineering and evil corporations.

I loved Shriek: An Afterword, and have wanted to read more VanderMeer for a while. Did you just coin the term 'declinepunk'? I've never heard it before.

[prepend]

I don’t know what the right term is but the world is worse than today and on the way down. It’s not apocalyptic, but it’s decaying and declining with loss of services, crime, chaos. But there’s still tech and big companies and stuff.

Similar would be Battle Angle Alita and the last section from Bone Clocks.

[rocketbop]

Nice. The end of that book was pretty depressing. I suppose cyberpunk is usually dystopian anyway.

Came across this nice wiki when googling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives