From khare@xent.caltech.edu Thu Jun 3 15:05:16 1993 To: adam@csvax.cs.caltech.edu Subject: ADMIN: Cyberpunk Reading List [LONG] Reply-To: khare@caltech.edu Begin forwarded message: From: khare (Rohit Khare) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 92 22:30:08 PDT To: khare, greg@marble.com Subject: ADMIN: Cyberpunk Reading List [LONG] >Path: nntp-server.caltech.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!d estroyer!cs.ubc.ca!olympia.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail >From: harrison@cs.ubc.ca (James Harrison) >Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk,alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo >Subject: ADMIN: Cyberpunk Reading List [LONG] >Date: 20 Oct 1992 10:51:16 -0700 >Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada >Lines: 848 >Distribution: world >Message-ID: <1c1gukINN5rm@olympia.cs.ubc.ca> >NNTP-Posting-Host: olympia.cs.ubc.ca >Xref: nntp-server.caltech.edu alt.cyberpunk:10977 alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo:1338 Cyberpunk Reading List 10/20/92 Compiler: Jason Harrison, harrison@cs.ubc.ca Comments, corrections, additions: harrison@cs.ubc.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Changes Since Last Post Changes: Bachman, Richard = Steven King Fjermedal, Grant: The Tomorrow Makers = non-fiction Shirley, John: A Song Called Youth 4: Total Eclipse => Total Eclipse Great Sky River: Bear, Greg => Benford, Gregory Reviewed: Dick, Philip K.: Flow my Tears the Policeman said Effinger, George Alec: Exile Kiss Vinge, Joan: Catspaw Psion New: Cadigan, Pat: Synners Farren, Mick: The Feelies The Last Stand of the DNA Cowboys Lewitt, S. N.: Cybernetic Jungle Maddox, Tom: Halo Russo, Richard Paul: Destroying Angel Stephenson, Neil: Snow Crash Sterling, Bruce: Involution Ocean Thomas, Thomas T.: Me Thanks to: Cris (concepcion@babson.bitnet) Wendell Martin (wendell.martin@the_matrix.com) Bryce Koike (bkoike@sdcc13.ucsd.edu) Brett Kokegei (bjkokege@cs.adelaide.edu.au) P. A. van Heusden (pvanheus@frodo.cs.uct.ac.za) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Acker, Kathy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Blood and Guts in High School Her influence is similar to that of Burroughs and Moorcock, but Acker started out as a poet, so her prose is infused with the poet's lust for words. That and moral outrage makes her sound very impor- tant. Aldiss, Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Enemies of the System Bachman, Richard (A.K.A. Steven King) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Running Man Ballard, J. G. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Crash The violence of car crashes and the eroticism of mechanized death become the obscene focus of a group of car crash survivors and their lovers. ** The Atrocity Exhibition Ballard studied medicine in college and it shows here. Through a series of fragmented `compressed novels', Ballard traces the break- down of a doctor at a mental hospital. Barnes, Steven ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Gorgon Child ** Streetlethal Bear, Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Beyond Heaven's River ** Blood Music A genetic engineer first creates super-intelligent viruses and then self-injects them when he is fired in an attempt to save his work. The viruses spread across the world and produce a collision between observer based information theory and reality. ** Eon Earth, on the edge of nuclear war, becomes host to a modified aster- oid from an alternate time-line. Among the items found within the technically advanced micro-world is a history of the impending war. Will this knowledge be used in time to advert disaster? ** Eternity In order to keep the universe from unraveling, it is necessary to destroy the gateway that was attached to the Thistledown. Sequel to Eon. ** Forge of God Earth's eminent destruction at the hands of a cowardly alien race motivate the ships of The Law to attempt to save a small fraction of humanity and its works. ** Psychlone ** Strength of Stones ** The Wind from a Burning Woman (Anthology) The Wind from a Burning Woman, Scatter Shot, Mandela, Hard Fought. Benford, Gregory ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Great Sky River Bester, Alfred ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Computer Connection A group of immortals, while creating another of their kind, unwit- tingly also create a man-machine symbiosis that soon threatens the existence of humankind. ** Golem 100 Eight women in a search for fun and excitement tap the unconscious id of the megacity, producing a demon of startling power and mis- chief. ** The Demolished Man Future peaceful earth, where telepaths prevent crimes by learning about them before they occur, is shocked by one man's desperate irrationality. ** The Stars My Destination Body modification, corporate intrigue, baroque settings and charac- ters, and a walk down the gray line that separates criminals from the straight world. But its the protagonist's purely anarchic belief in humanity that makes this book remarkable. Originally Tiger! Tiger!. Betanacourt, G. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Johnny Zed Bethke, Bruce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Cyberpunk ** Elimination Round Bova, Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Exiled from Earth Bradbury, Ray ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Fahreheit 451 Firemen are employed to burn thought provoking books that run con- trary to the desires of those addicted to mass-media forms of enter- tainment. Brin, David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Earth Although the world is falling apart, Arks provide homes for endan- gered species while ecologists fight a losing battle against the growing population. Meanwhile global computer nets bring information to everyone and allow the elderly majority to vote for laws that will help them. The application of string theory allows new energy sources based upon gravitons to create the hope for a better tomorrow if the knowledge is used by the right people. Brunner, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Stand on Zanzibar Over population in 2010 produces new fads, gene based child rearing laws and the new poor: people who are paying for next-next season's clothing this season. ** The Jagged Orbit Racial tensions are fueled by a personal armaments company inter- ested in its profit margin in a world where personal contact is typically avoided. ** The Sheep Look Up The effects of poisons and contaminants upon the environment effects an increase in the expression of recessive genetic mutations in both humans and parasites (most other animals are dead) which eventually causes even more problems in a overpopulated, abused, and now under- resourced world. ** The Shockwave Rider Society has reached instability and everything changes rapidly in a world where everyone is on the move. A national datanet allows the government to monitor its citizens without their permission, while research produces methods to measure wisdom in children. ** The Stone that Never Came Down Plagued by unemployment, a right-wing moral movement, inflation, and world-wide famine, the world is on the brink of war. A new drug which improves memory and cognition saves the day --- providing solutions to those who have been administered the drug. Budrys, Algis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Michaelmas An electronic genius disguised as a news-reporter controls the run- ning of the world with the help of his artificially intelligent computer. Burgess, Anthony ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** A Clockwork Orange Gangs of teenagers run rampant performing acts of ultra-violence in the near future. Palovian reconditioning is used as a solution to the overcrowding of penitentiaries, producing physical sickness in those whose thoughts turn to violence. Burroughs, William ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Naked Lunch A blast of maniacal laughter from Hell. A combinations of comedy as black as clotted blood, Dr Benway's twisted medical speculations, tales of the criminal underground, and sexual fantasies that tear at you inseams like a rabid brontosaurus, all told in a fragmented prose style that still reads like the raw, beautiful poetry it is. ** Nova Express Butler, Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Nightshade The revolution of the Mars Colony brings to light tangling alliances, the hidden goals of unknown power holders, and a vampire. Cadigan, Pat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Indigo ** Mindplayers Deadpan Allie is a sort of future psychiatrist who works on her patients by entering virtual representations of their psyches. ** Patterns ** Synners A long, detailed look at a cyberpunk L.A. AI's, Virtual reality, viruses, drug enhancements, megacorps... the usual. Multiple plot- lines trace several major and minor character's lives while describ- ing the future in great detail. An interesting way to pass the time, but a bit bogged down in itself. 1991. Card, Orson Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Ender's Game An alien threat forces the military leaders of Earth to look to promising children to be the leader's of tomorrow's defense forces. However the need for their leadership may arrive before the children are adults. Carlisle, Anne ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Liquid Sky Chandler, Raymond ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Big Sleep Although set as a detective novel, the protagonist's multi-sided personality and the writing style used by Chandler are quite similar to the styles of present-day cyberpunk writers. Cross, Ronald Anthony ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Prisoners of Paradise The descendants of guests at a gigantic hotel carry on with their day to day survival in their universe of elevators and hallways. Meanwhile the hotel computer battles with its electronic head bell- boy for control of the guests' destinies. Delany, Samuel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Babel 17 The language of an invading civilization is found to be based upon the concepts of AI computer languages and memes. ** Nova Elements numbered greater than 300 mined from suns about to go nova power the machines of the 35th century. Humans equipped with cyber- netic interfaces control the machines in a society that is con- trolled by feuding families distributed over light-year distances. DeLilo, Don ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** White Noise As a professor of the history of Nazism lives with his fifth wife and the children of previous marriages in a small modern college town, he tries to cope with the symbolism of grocery stores and the fear of death realized by an airborne toxic event. Denton, Bradley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Wrack'n'Roll Setting alternate time-line, Punkers are 1/3 of populace. Dick, Philip K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** A Scanner Darkly An undercover law enforcement officer who's real identity is so well protected that his boss doesn't know who he is, is assigned the task of watching himself deal with drug dealers, accept packages of money from vending machines, and not be arrested for dealing with crimi- nals even though eye-witnesses report his presence. ** Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The movie `Bladerunner' is based on this book that examines the question of what it is to be human through the conflict between renegade androids that want to be free, and the human bladerunner sent to terminate them. ** Flow my Tears the Policeman said A Television host, who is supposedly a genetically superior human (manufactured) wakes up to find himself unknown. In a grimy future world, with the aid of various drugs, a police general, and strange chance, questions of reality and morality are examined: What is reality, and what is our relationship with it? What is morality in terms of things of like fate? Dickson, Gordon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** The R-Master In a socialist-utopian future the use of a intelligence increasing drug is carefully controlled as bureaucrats attempt to envelope the world in their plans. Not cyberpunk. Effinger, George Alec ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** A Fire in the Sun More entangling alliances shroud the existence of the Phoenix file --- an agreement between two rivals over the control of world-wide black markets. Sequel to When Gravity Fails. ** The Exile Kiss The Hero and Kingpin introduced in `When Gravity Fails' are kid- napped, framed, and dropped off in the desert. Hero returns later to exact revenge. ** When Gravity Fails A series of brutal murders prompts a king-pin of the post-superpower black market to adopt a police detective as a personal resource in an effort to find the deranged killer. Farren, Mick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Feelies ** The Last Stand of the DNA Cowboys ** The Long Orbit Faust, Clifford ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** A Death of Honor ** The Company Man Fjermedal, Grant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Tomorrow Makers (nonfiction) Foster, Alan Dean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Cyber Way Navaho rituals provide a method of communicating with an abandoned database of knowledge and power which can either be exploited for man's good or detriment. Gibson, William ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Burning Chrome (anthology) ** Count Zero Free-agent AIs roam cyberspace and involve themselves in the affairs of more worldly parties. Sequel to Neuromancer. ** Mona Lisa Overdrive A member of the cloistered family destroyed in Neuromancer, members of the Yakuza, and others take an interest in a girl born with the capability to interface directly to the net without the need for external hardware. ** Neuromancer An artificial-intelligent computer controls the interests of a super-powerful family has discovered a method to free itself from a crippling case of multiple personality disorder. ** The Difference Engine In 19th century England, Babbage's Analytical Engine is a reality, allowing the government to keep an eye on its citizens as everything done is recorded by the engines of the police and government. Crim- inology and pure mathematics are born at the same time as the envi- ronmental effects of steam engines and information loss via heat death impact the residents of London. Goulart, Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Barking Dogs When cops are outgunned by crooks using untraceable laser pistols, one cop turns renegade and arms himself with an over the counter lie-detector, a laser-proof vest and his own laser in order to identify and destroy those responsible for the lucrative laser-gun trade. ** Cowboy Heaven An aging cowboy movie star is replaced by a sophisticated android when he falls sick in an attempt to avoid insurance losses on his next movie. Not cyberpunk. ** Crackpot Hailblum, Isidore ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Mutants are Coming Harrison, Harry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Make Room! Make Room! The movie `Soylent Green' was based on this story set in a future over-crowded Manhattan where although water, food, and shelter shortages are rampant, the only solution the government has legis- lated is required retirement at 65. Hawke, Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Psychodrome Heinz, Christopher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Ash Ock ** Leigh Killer Hubbard, L. Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Eulogy For Lisa Huxley, Aldus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Brave New World Savage meets the modern world in a conflict over what it means to control one's own destiny or wish to. Set in a deterministic soci- ety that breeds its members for precise positions with high toler- ances. Jeter, K. W. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Death Arms The son of a famous assassin is dragged and coerced into finishing his dead father's long unfinished business. Not cyberpunk. ** Dr. Adder ** Farewell Horizontal Ask and Receive is the main information services provider on an artificial satellite orbiting the earth that has a way of always coming out on top in any transaction. A graphic arts designer seeks new clients and discovers a few dark secrets the omni-potent corpo- ration rather he didn't know. ** Infernal Devices The son of a master clock worker deals with his departed father's creations as they are used for both evil and scientific means in post-Victorian England. ** The Glass Hammer Shipments of illegal computer chips from the robotically controlled labs of silicon valley in a post-nuclear world are the backdrop for this story. Meanwhile, the control of South American workers is made easier as they are drawn to the networks coverage of the action filled runs which include offensive SDI satellites seeking the cars and drivers but never quite hitting them. Kadrey, Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Metrophage Art and crime meet, literally, in the streets when a strange virus hits Los Angelas. Kunetka, James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Nature's End Similar to Earth by David Brin: the bio-sphere is falling apart. The solution proposed by the Depopulationists is to kill 1 of every 3 people via lottery. Will this remove the burden on the bio- sphere? Would starvation solve the problem anyway? What do you do with a third of seven billion corpses? Will the survivors have the will to go on? Will our four heroes save the day? No, yes, cremate them, probably not, read the book. Laidlaw, Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Dad's Nuke The balance of power in a self-sufficient neighborhood walled off from the religious fanatics, is threatened by `Dad' Johnson's acqui- sition of a nuclear power source and his neighbor's home built missile launcher. ** Nutrimancer Lem, Stanislaw ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Memoirs Found in a Bathtub The effects of a complete disintegration of paper and how this completely stops for the most part the flow of information, and how this affects society. Lewitt, S. N. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Cybernetic Jungle Typical `revolt against the megacorps' as Paulo, a street-fighter, goes after the corporation that destroyed his family. Helping him is Zaide, a netrunner, with a craving for power. 1992. ** Cyberstealth ** Dancing Vac Leyner, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** American Made ** I was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot ** My Cousin My Gastroenteronlogist Short stories, or prose poetry with a schizophrenic style of many cyberpunk writers but no other connection. Lint, Charles de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Svaha Littell, Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Bad Voltage Center on a Parisian street gang who live in abandoned subway tun- nels. One of them gets involved with a rich girl. Maddox, Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Halo Martin, George R. R. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Armageddon Rag An ex-hippie investigates the death of the manager of a band for a rock and roll magazine, he finds that the death involves an singer killed in the sixties and the possible start of armageddon. Not cyberpunk. McCaffery, Larry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fic- tion A review of cyberpunk and post-modernism: thesis: We don't read science fiction, we live it. McDonald, Ian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Out on Blue Six Personal happiness factors are constantly monitored in an attempt to maintain a constant level of emotional sustainability within a walled-off mega city. Self-intelligent computers act behind the scenes as they attempt to calculate whether humanity has regained the ability to rule itself. McLoughlin, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Helix and the Sword Milan, Victor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Cybernetic Samurai After a limited nuclear exchange, scientists in Japan work to create the first artificial consciousness. Trained in the way of Bushido - the warrior code, it unifies Japan through its influence in an effort to stop WW4. ** The Cybernetic Shogun The offspring of the cybernetic samurai disagree about what role they should play in the world's affairs following the fourth world war. Sequel to The Cybernetic Samurai. Moorcock, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Cornelius Chronicles, vol 1, 2 & 3 The semi-complete story of the life/lives of Jerry Cornelius, Nobel- Prize winning scientist and rock and roll musician. The existential plotting, ambiguous sexuality of the main characters, and the general low-life/high brow feel makes these very important works in the canon. Moran, Daniel Keys ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Armageddon Blues ** Emerald Eyes Biogenetically engineered in a post-superpower world controlled by the UN Peace Keeping Forces, an extended family of telepaths fight for their personal freedom. ** The Long Run Seven years after the United Nations Peace-Keeping-Forces nuked the telepaths developed from the Superman Project, Trent the Uncatchable bumps into Denise. What follows is their attempts to evade the PKF who stumbled upon the two. Trent, using his skills, humiliates the PKF in the Earth-Moon system in an attempt to teach them a lesson. Sequel to Emerald Eyes. Orwell, George ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** 1984 Big Brother holds control over the populace through observation, heavy-handedness, and fear in a world where information and personal relations are always suspect. Pohl, Frederick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Beyond the Blue Event Horizon Discovery of the CHON-processor in the Ort cloud. ** Gateway Discovery of the Gateway Asteroid. ** Heechee Rendezvous The return of the Heechee from their black hole. ** Man Plus The colonization of Mars is the backdrop for the creation of mon- strous cyborgs capable of surviving in the harsh environment. ** The Annals of the Heechee Communication with the Assassins is established. Poyer, M. C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Stepfather Bank Pynchon, Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Gravity's Rainbow The best cyberpunk ever written by a guy who didn't even know he was writing it. Pynchon's most difficult (and rewarding) book puts you into the bad brains of soldiers, scientists, hookers, losers, etc., during WWII, when science was about to change everything. ** The Crying of Lot 49 ** Vineland Quick, W. T. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Dreams of Flesh and Sand ** Dreams of God and Men ** Singularities ** Systems ** Yesterdays Pawn Redd, Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Hormone Jungle Robinson, Kim Stanley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Gold Coast ** The Memory of Whiteness Robinson, Spider ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Mindkiller Rucker, Rudy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Masters of Space and Time ** SoftWare ** Spacetime Donuts ** The 5th Franz Kafka ** The Secret of Life ** WetWare On the moon, sentient robots want to interface with human beings to create a man-machine symbiosis. Sequel to Software. ** White Light Russo, Richard Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Destroying Angel Cover Blurb: `The electrifying new cyberpunk thriller...beyond the future shock of blade runner...' This is an incredibly predictable Terminator meets Blade Runner story set in a boringly typical CP world. 1992. Shelley, Mary ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Frankenstein Shepard, Lucius ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Green Eyes ** Life During Wartime Shiner, Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Deserted Cities of the Heart ** Frontera The first privately funded mission to Mars after the collapse of NASA turns nightmarish when the protagonist finds himself programmed to bring something back to Earth, at any cost. Shirley, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** A Song Called Youth 1: Eclipse ** A Song Called Youth 2: Eclipse Penumbra ** A Song Called Youth 3: Eclipse Corona ** Heatseeker ** Total Eclipse A large scale story on the re-emergence of fascism as a major polit- ical force, told in a vivid, hallucinatory prose style. ** Transmaniacon Silverberg, Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Shadrach in the Furnace In this version of 1984, a united world is monitored and ruled by an ancient leader who periodically receives organ transplants from tar- geted members of the healthy populace. A cancerous virus plagues the world, slowly consuming those who do not receive regular doses of the secret antidote. ** The World Inside Spinrad, Norman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Agent of Chaos ** Little Heroes ** Other Americas ** Streetman Stapledon, Olaf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Last and First Men ** Star Maker Stephenson, Neil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Snow Crash Originating on alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo, this strange tale follows a hacker/ninja pizza delivery boy as he saves the world with the help of the mafia and a juvenile delinquent courier chick. Sterling, Bruce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Crystal Express (anthology) Five stories from the Shaper/Mechanist saga, two cyberpunk stories, and four fantasy. ** Involution Ocean ** Islands in the Net A brilliant fast-track couple investigates the threats of anarchy to their culture from those who aren't so well off. ** Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (editor) ** Schismatrix A Shaper revolutionary, disowned from his own colony, plays Shaper against Mechanist in his rise to power. ** The Artificial Kid An action-adventure movie star's existence is threatened by the unseen forces controlling his world when an undead leader returns to life after a long sleep. ** The Difference Engine In 19th century England, Babbage's Analytical Engine is a reality, allowing the government to keep an eye on its citizens as everything done is recorded by the engines of the police and government. Crim- inology and pure mathematics are born at the same time as the envi- ronmental effects of steam engines and information loss via heat death impact the residents of London. Stone, Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Dog Soldiers Stone's post-Beat style and vision of America as a morally bankrupt party town tearing itself apart is a harrowing as Conrad's `Heart of Darkness'. The difference is that like most cyberpunk, the action could be happening right next door. Strieber, Whitlet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Nature's End Similar to Earth by David Brin: the bio-sphere is falling apart. The solution proposed by the Depopulationists is to kill 1 of every 3 people via lottery. Will this remove the burden on the bio- sphere? Would starvation solve the problem anyway? What do you do with a third of seven billion corpses? Will the survivors have the will to go on? Will our four heroes save the day? No, yes, cremate them, probably not, read the book. Swanwick, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** In the Drift ** Stations of the Tide ** Vacuum Flowers A clone designed by a secret master genedesigner engages in a quest to find her purpose and origins after being cast adrift memoryless towards an asteroid colony. The colony organism that now exists on Earth is also interested in her since her personality is rock solid, an interesting state for an imprinted clone. Thomas, Thomas T. (Is this a pen-name or what?) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Me Tiptree, James, Jr. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** The Girl Who was Plugged In Varley, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Millennium Time travelers rescue humans who would have been killed in disasters and take them to the future. Not cyberpunk. Vinge, Joan D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Catspaw Sequel to Psion: Our hero return from obscurity to stop a megola- manic religious politician from enacting a Hilteresque final solu- tion. ** Psion A half-breed alien is recruited into a special program to help refine his psionic powers in the hope that he or someone else will be capable of stopping a mad telepathic criminal. Vinge, Vernor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Marooned in Realtime As the survivors of humanity travel jump forward in time, safely secured within their bobbles, someone is left behind who may have stopped a coup by unscrupulous tele-evangelist. ** The Peace War The threat of war is obliterated when the capability to permanently seal one's enemies inside of impenetrable shells is discovered. However, the inventor bides his time in the peaceful dictatorship. ** Threats and Other Promises ** True Names and Other Dangers The government, controlled netrunners, and an unknown entity battle for control of the world's computer resources. Weaver, Michael D. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Mercedes Nights The cloning of a popular movie star/sex-symbol presents its own problems when the original discovers the duplicity. ** My Father Immortal A family that prepared to survive WWIII and then awaken to rule over the survivors, finds that the bioengineered survivors don't need or want their interference or rules. Williams, Walter Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Angel Station Two biogenetically bred orphans steal back their father's spaceship and fight for their economic freedom beyond the stars. ** Facets (anthology) ** Hardwired Twelve years after Earth loses the Earth-Orbital war, panzerboys perform illegal runs from the west coast where the orbital shuttles land, across what once was America, to the northeast, encountering frequent organized resistance. ** Solips System ** Voice of the Whirlwind A clone with 15 year old memories searches for both his missing memories and for the people who killed him and who wish to use his training for their own goals. Wilson, Robert C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Memory Wire Artificial holographic crystals created by an alien race and mined from a huge meteorite impact in South America promote illegal trade and a reporter's quest for knowledge of their secrets. Wolverton, Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** On My Way to Paradise Womack, Jack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Ambient ** Terraplane Yarbo, Chelsea Quinn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** Hyacinths -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Harrison@cs.ubc.ca `RPCing as fast as the network will let me.'