I'm in the mood for gloves...

[synabetic]

...in order to handle The Post-Apocalyptic Awesome!

Now I just need to find copies of the following books: Damnation Alley and Hardwired

I read both (and probably owned both) long ago. Though I never realised Hardwired was part of a series...

Time for the Chumbata Samba Dance!

(Which was funny to me and my game group when I was 15.)

So, when you are in

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[dadiceguy]

For books I always check Abebooks.com. Varying quality and prices. I have gotten quite a few things from them. And I loved Hardwired. Still have the CP2020 sourcebook for it.

Did you ever read the Marîd Audran trilogy by George Alec Effinger? That is great take on a dark future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%AEd_Audran

[synabetic]

And I've found that there's an Abebooks Canada. Huzzah! Thanks, man. :)

When Gravity Fails is a freaking classic. In fact, they show the edition I picked up-- back in like 1989-- in the Wikipedia article. Been a long time since I read it. maybe one day I can re-read it; although going through the plot summary brought back the whole story to me (which in a way felt like re-reading it).

[ryan_speck]

HardWired was the first cyberpunk book I ever saw.

My friend Joseph had it and showed it to me in 5th grade.

I'm not a big "dark future" person (though I do have all 6 Dark Future books), I've been through a few interesting things in the past year: Snow Crash, Jennifer Goverment, and Outrageous Fortune. They're all social satire in the way, the last two more than the first.

Jennifer Government, and Max Barry's other two books, Syrup and Company, are amongst my favorites. Company is amazingly good.

[synabetic]

I need to read Max Barry's stuff...

[ryan_speck]

Indeed you do.

You might like starting with Jennifer Government.

[kelvingreen]

My favourite cyberpunk book is probably Snow Crash, even if it does wander a bit in the middle. I also really enjoyed Richard Paul Russo's "Carlucci Trilogy" of novels, which do a great job of sketching out the future-San-Francisco.

[synabetic]

I haven't read Richard Paul Russo's books. Noted!

Snow Crash is a classic. When I delivered pizzas years and years ago, me and the other drivers would carry a copy under our seats. Best hero/protagonist name ever, too!

[sdemory]

If I'm in a cyberpunky mood, I hit Count Zero. The hints of a world off its tracks appealed to me, and it felt quietly postapocalyptic.

Never read the Dark Future books, although I played the hell out of the game.

[synabetic]

Count Zero was a fun novel to read.

The DF books are great. If you get a chance to read 'em, please do. I haven't read the new ones, though.