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Message: [QUOTE="Spyrone, post: 209811, member: 535917"] Hmm... last thing I finished was probably Stephen King's The Running Man. It's way better than the movie (don't get me wrong, the movie's great, but it has barely anything to do with the book) and it beat out Neuromancer for being the first cyberpunk novel by two years. It has digital currency, apocalyptic climate change, an oppressive government that works hand in hand with sinister megacorporations in crushing people's spirit, brutal civil strife, etc, etc. All the tropes that are essential to cyberpunk (no it has no internet equivelent, but neither do Blade Runner, Akira, Burst City, Children of Men or a host of other works I could mention) two years before Neuromancer codified it. Currently reading a combo of Sandra Newman's Julia and David Moody's Choke Hold. I'm almost finished with the latter, it's the sixth entry in David Moody's Final War series, an excellent deconstruction of the zombie genre, and it's just as bleak as Them Or Us, it's counterpart novel. In fact, Choke Hold and Them Or Us are almost as bleak as Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which is hard to beat in terms of depressing apocalyptic bleakness. Think 28 Days Later meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers, with a pandemic of mass murderers instead of zombies or alien bodysnatchers and you've got the basic plot of David Moody's Final War series. Julia is also really good. It's the officially sanctioned sequel to Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty Four. I'm only about a third of the way through it but I'm really liking it thus far. It's already confirmed a lot of my headcanon for Orwell's classic dystopia, like how the Thought Police are more well-armed than any of the Minipax military forces. [/QUOTE]

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