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Books Related to VR
The
following list of early Cyberpunk and other VR related books was collected from
posts to Sci.virtual-worlds and CompuServe's CyberForum. I cannot vouch that
they are all truely VR related. The list was collected circa 1993. There was an
explosion of VR related stories after this. [NOTE: add ISBN or links to Amazon
or equiv. A title search of Amzon.com on “Virtual Reality” turned
up approx 200 books!]
Piers
Anthony's "Killobyte."
Stephen
Barnes- Street-Lethal, Gorgan's Child
Greg
Bear - Blood Music
David
Brin - Earth
John
Brunner - Shockwave Rider, The Sheep Look Up, Jagged Orbit
William
S. Burroughs Naked Lunch, Nova Express, The Ticket that Expoloded
Pat
Cadigan - Mindplayers, Synners, etc.
Orson
Scott Card's Ender's Game
Samuel
Delany Nova
Philip
K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Flow My Tears, the Policeman
Said The Game-Players of Titan Ubik VALIS The Divine Invasion The
Transmigration of Timothy Archer
William
Gibson - Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual
Light
Stanislav
Lem - The Cyberiad : Fables for the Cybernetic Age, (and others)
Mark
Leyner - My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
Larua
Mixon - Glass Houses
Tom
Maddox: Halo
Larry
Niven's Known Space series of books - really enjoyable stuff.
Marge
Piercy, "He, She and It"
Thomas
Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow, V, The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland
Kim
Stanley Robinson The Gold Coast
Frank
Robinson - The Dark Beyond the Stars
Rudy
Rucker - Wetware, Software
Lucius
Shepard - Life During Wartime
John
Shirley -The Eclipse triology, Freezone
Bruce
Sterling - Islands in the Net, The Artificial Kid, Globalhead, Mirrorshades:
The Cyberpunk Anthology
Neal
Stephenson - Snow Crash
Amy
Thompson - Virtual Girl
James
Tiptree, Jr. - The Girl who was Plugged In
Vernor
Vinge - True Names and Other Dangers, A Fire Upon the Deep
Walter
John Williams - Hard-Wired, Voice of the Whirlwind
David
Wingrove - Chung-Kuo (series)
Zelaney
& Saberhaven - Coils
"Simulations
- 15 tales of virtual reality", edited by Karie Jacobson, Citadel Twilight
Press. ISBN 0-8065-1406-X
includes: The Crying of Lot 49
1.
"The Veldt" (1950) by Ray Bradbury
2. "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" (1976) by John Varley
3. "Walking the Moons" (1990) by Jonathan Letham
4. "Virtual Reality" (1993) by Michael Kandel
5. "Dogfight" (1985) by Michael Swanwick and Willian Gibson
6. "The Shining Dream Road Out" (1993) by M. Shayne Bell
7. "The Total Perspective Vortex" (1980) by Douglas Adams
8. "Plug-in Yosemite" (1985) by Marc Laidlaw
9. "This Life and Later Ones" (1987) by George Zebrowski
10.
"Steelcollar Worker" (1992) by Vonda McIntyre
11.
"I Hope I shall Arrive Soon" (1980) by Philip K. Dick
12.
"From Here to Eternitape" (1992) by Daniel Pearlman
13.
"Pretty Boy Crossover" (1986) by Pat Cadigan
14.
"A Guide to Virtual Death" (1992) by J.G. Ballard
15.
"The Happy Man" (1963) by Gerald Page
16.
Bibliography of VR in fiction
