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CyberPunk and CyberCulture

If you want a good read then sink your teeth into something from a cyberpunk or cyber culture novelist.

William Gibson is famous for Neuromancer (ISBN 0-586-06645-4) and the basis for the screen play for Johnny Mneumonic (from Burning Chrome) ISBN 0-00-648043-8), Gibson writes an intricate novel that is not for the light hearted.

• William Gibson Bibliography / Mediagraphy
• A fragment from Neuromancer

Douglas Coupland has written novels that focus on Generation X, but Microserfs which is about a group of programmers that work at Microsoft (read Papert, Mindstorms before you read this one) is especially relevant.

• Offical Douglas Coupland Homepage
• The Coupland File
• A fragment from Microserfs

Clifford Stoll is the author of The Cuckoo's Egg (ISBN 0-330-31742-3), a book about someone who tries to unravel the mysery of a hacker in his computer system. His followup novel to this was Silicon Snake Oil (ISBN 0-333-64787-4).

• The High Tech Heretic (Interview with Clifford Stoll)
• Clifford Stoll Page
• Blurb on Silicon Snake Oil

Neal Stephenson has been called one of cyberpunk's best known novelists. Look out for Snow Crash, Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon. He has also penned an amusing history of operating systems called In the Beginning... .

• Stephenson's personal website.
  Not very interesting. He asks that people should not contact him because he concentrates on the business of writing novels, not answering emails.
• Mother Earth Mother Board.
  An article by Stephenson published in Wired in Dec 1996.
• Extract from Cryptonomicon.
  Also check out www.cryptonomicon.com for more info including a transcript of a talk with the author.

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