Thursday, March 09, 2006

Cyberpunk...

Suggested media list that I wish to wade through in the next two or three years, for a backtground in "cyberpunk":

Movies:
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler 1939

Music:
Soon Over Babaluna - Holger Czukay - 1974
Low - David Bowie

Books:
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett - 1929
Last and First Man - Olaf Stapledon - 1937
Coming Attraction - Fritz Lieber - 1950
The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester - 1956
Nova - Samuel Delany - 1968
Future Shock - Alvin Toffler - 1970
The Girl Who Was Plugged In - James Tiptree - 1973
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon - 1973
Shockwave Rider - John Brudder - 1975
Galaxies - Barry Malzberg - 1975
Plus - Joseph McElroy - 1976
Easy Travel to Other Planets - Ted Mooney - 1981
White Noise - Don DeLillo - 1985
The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction - David Porash - 1985
Blood Music - Greg Bear - 1985
Mirrorshades - (anthology) - 1986
Post-Modern Scene, Excremental Culture & Hyperaesthetics - Kroker & Cook - 1986
You Bright and Risen Angels - William Vollman - 1987
Metrophage - Richard Kadrey - 1988
My Cousin My Gastroenterologist - Mark Leyner - 1990
Empire of the Senseless - Kathy Acker - 1988

Essays
La Société du Spectacle - Guy Debord - 1967
Simulations - Jean Baudrillard - 1983
Postmodern Condition - Jean Francois Lyotard - 1984
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - Frederick Jameson - 1984

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