From: bogus@mail.com   
      
   On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 18:36:10 -0600, 3ngine    
   wrote:   
   > Can anybody come up with any influential   
   >books/short stories to the genre either before 1980 or after '92?   
      
   CM Kornbluth & Fredrick Pohl   
   The Space Merchants -- 1953   
   A look at Madison Avenue / MegaCorps running the world   
      
   Sequel by Fredrick Pohl -- The Merchant's War 1984   
      
   CM Kornbluth & Fredrick Pohl   
   Gladiator at Law -- 1955   
   dystopian look at the Stock Market in a Sprawl-like environment   
      
   Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. Galouye 1964   
   the matrix before "the Matrix"...  made into a bad movie "the 13th   
   Floor" gave me the creeps when i first read it in 1969 or so   
      
   Most of Phillip Dick's odd stuff... but I'm not really into dick (as   
   others are)[i will keep a straight face... i will keep a straight   
   face... i will keep a straight face...].   
      
   Headcrash -- 1995 Bruce Bethke   
   Another go at CP satire. Not as fun as Snow Crash though it does have   
   its moments   
      
   Honorable Mentions but not cyberpunk:   
      
   Metropolitan -- 1995   
   City on Fire -- 1997   
   Both by Walter Jon Williams   
   MagePunk without Elves. Both have the dark feel of CP 1930ish tech   
   mixed with geomancy and mana mixed with future tech and geneered   
   species (my guess is he was playing the fung shui RPG)   
      
   Perdido Street Station -- 2000   
   China Mieville   
   More MagePunk this time strongly influenced by Chaos Magick and the   
   Diabolical side of Aleister Crowley's Thelema   
      
   Thee is another book by the same author set in the same milieu. Have   
   not read it cannot recommend it.   
      
   the ded one   
      
   'i was dystopian before dystopian was cool'   
      
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