Suitable sf&f references required

[anthanum]

I need to reference some utopian and dystopian speculative fiction dealing with issues of identity, humanity, cyborging and so on. I'd like to limit them to cyber-punk type sub-genre, but anything which deals with man-machine interface and notions of what it means to be human is good. Perfect would be anything that deals with all that AND sport

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[catbiscuit]

for example, that Neal Stephenson one about the guy with the bomb in his motorcycle...

Snow Crash. :)

When F gets home and has napped, I'll ask him and we'll make a list.

[anthanum]

Excellent, Thanks. I really have read a lot over the years, it's just that I forget which is what and so on.

If i keep this up I'm going to be the epitome of the absent minded professor, but hey :)

[catbiscuit]

Same goes for F.. he vaguely remembers plots/titles/authors and I sit there with wikipedia and amazon and try and pinpoint what he's talking about. :)

Hope that some of the below is helpful, at least. :)

[catbiscuit]

William Gibson - Neuromancer, All Tomorrow's Parties

Neil Stephenson - Snow Crash, Diamond Age

H G Wells - The Time Machine, The Shape of Things to Come

Pierre Boulle - (anything by)

Michael Marshall Smith - Only Forwards

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

Ian M Banks - The Culture Novels

Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Series

Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

Ursula Le Guinn - The Dispossessed

2000AD comics..!

The Australian government's WorkChoices legislation and propaganda - dystopian and utopian respectively. :D

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A friend has dropped by and the three of us are getting a little silly, so I'll try for more later. :)

[catbiscuit]

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451, The Silver Locusts

Michael Morecock - Dances at the End of Time

Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagus, The Sirens of Titan

[punkrocker1991]

Pat Cadigan, pretty much everything but would recommend Tea From an Empty Cup

[tcpip]

It took a bit of memory digging and google searching but I have the perfect book for you.

Limbo 90 by Bernard Wolfe. Penguin, 1961.

Lots of cyborbs. Sport replaces war.

http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/~pnijjar/ritual/limbo.html

Now, if only I could find my copy...

[anthanum]

it's interlibrary loan time :)
University of Sydney and the National Library both have a copy.