Are there any sci-fi/cyberpunk novels that are not action/crime/conspiracy/mystery focused, but show life in a society like that?
>>24688145In a society like what?
Heinlein's The Rolling Stones.
>>24688156A futuristic society with cyberpunk elements and stuff like that. I guess I’m looking for genre-fiction without the genre-part, if that makes sense.
The Player of Games, there's still action and a conspiracy but a lot of the books is basically world-building and description of what life is like in the Culture (at least in the first half, then they move to a new world)
>>24688145China Mountain Zhang
>>24688268no.
>>24688145I haven't read them, but probably some of Kim Stanley Robinson (KSR) nearish future novels.There are also several speculative fiction novels that are near future without minimal to no genre elements. Cyberpunk is an aesthetic more than anything else and is quickly becoming retrofuturism because of how the world developed. It's a future that never was, so finding exactly what you want would be difficult. Not so much though if the cyberpunk aesthetic is dropped.
>>24688268This looks interesting, thanks.
>>24688290To be fair, I’m not looking for some niche aesthetic apart from the narrative. I just said cyberpunk the give a general direction. I’m not interested in typical sci-fi-tropes, like in pure genre-fiction.
>>24688324In that case, I recommend this. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6432009692I would link where I posted it here, but it's multiple posts. I also wrote about China Mountain.
Nick Land? Idk
>>24688290>Cyberpunk is an aesthetic more than anything else and is quickly becoming retrofuturism because of how the world developed. It's a future that never was, so finding exactly what you want would be difficult. Not so much though if the cyberpunk aesthetic is dropped.Retarded take. It's happening just like it was said. The issue is that being radical and punk post-2016 means that any cyberpunk novel with "real" topical critique would be unpublishable.
>>24688358>any cyberpunk novel with "real" topical critique would be unpublishable.bullshit
>>24688358You don't understand cyberpunk.
Personally I prefer post-cyberpunk.
>>24688358How so? There have been cyberpunk stories published about torturing Elon Musk, assassinating Trump, killing all tech bros, destroying all AI, and all other sorts of things. Maybe you mean the other way? Surely there has been some of that as well..
What We Can Know, by Ian McEwan
>>24688380>There have been cyberpunk stories published about torturing Elon Musk, assassinating Trump, killing all tech bros, destroying all AI,Really?
>>24689178Yes, I read them and wrote about them. Obviously they're not literally named that. It's extremely thinly veiled though. Outside of cyberpunk there's a good bit as well. I don't seek any of it out. It just happens to be in the anthologies I've read.
>>24688145Pastoral cyberpunk?
>>24689199Not OPThe closest I know to that is solarpunk.
>>24689202Is there any good solarpunk fiction? 99% of the solarpunk content I see on l'eddit is just internet communist fantasy
>>24689206This is the closest that I've read to it.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4641439330 I would link the /lit/ post, but I later added on to it.
>>24689198So what books are they? I'm curious.
>>24689223I didn't say they were books. They're works of short fiction. Here's two.Minister Faust – “Somatosensory Cortex Dog Mess You Up Big Time, You Sick Sack of S**T” (2021)This is a wish-fulfillment revenge fantasy against a specific public figure who has their name slightly changed.BlahRudy Rucker – “Juicy Ghost” (2019)A not-Trump assassination story where the protagonist does a suicide attack on not-Trump in a particularly stupid way. This story was so utterly absurd that I wondered for a bit if Poe's Law had come into play. The author's afterword clarified that it was all serious. What an absolute mess of self-sacrificing wish fulfillment power fantasy.Blah
>>24688196I think Gibson's bridge trilogy is exactly what you're looking for
