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• kcartlidge · May 21, 2023 · Recommends

  …the Sprawl) are very good too - The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner, about the eco collapse of the US in the 1980s (10 years after it was written) and which William Gibson called a "brilliant novel" - Necrotech by KC Alexander, a brutal and obscene body-mod cyberpunk dystopia (the sequel of which, Nanoshock, has a superbly offensive opening sentence) And a couple of guilty pleasures: - Venus Equilateral by…

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• mindcrime · Mar 13, 2020 · Recommends

  BTW, since we're talking cyberpunk... one recent series I did read that was pretty good, was the Necrotech series by K.C. Alexander. It's pretty edgy and dark by some standards, but some of you might enjoy it.

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• mindcrime · Dec 9, 2020 · Recommends

  …Marvin Minsky (re-read) Engineering General Intelligence, Part 1 by Ben Goertzel The AGI Revolution by Ben Goertzel And on a lighter note, some fun - if bizarre - cyberpunk styled novels I read were Necrotech and Nanoshock by K.C. Alexander.

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• kcartlidge · Dec 28, 2022 · Recommends

  For sheer entertainment value: I've just finished KC Alexander's two "SINless" books - Necrotech and Nanoshock. Both were excellent reads. Nothing heavy, just some extremely filthy and brutal transhumanist SciFi with a hint of cyberpunk in there too (not enough to make it that genre). Fast, frantic,…

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• kcartlidge · Mar 29, 2024 · Recommends

  …elsewhere in the thread whereas these may get missed. - Adam Roberts: New Model Army (2010?) - Hiroshi Sakurazaka: All You Need is Kill (2005?) - Mike Resnick: The Dark Lady (2015?) - KC Alexander: Necrotech (2015?) - Gary Gibson: Stealing Light, Nova War, and Empire of Light (2013?) - Linda Nagata: The Last Good Man (2015?)

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• julianeon · Jul 16, 2025 · Recommends

  When I think of who's carrying the genre today, in books, I think of Cameron Hurley (God's War) and K.C. Alexander (Necrotech). Hurley's books capture its spirit especially well.

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• mindcrime · Aug 25, 2022 · Recommends

  Necrotech and Nanoshock by K.C. Alexander might suit you.

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