Not as in Language but as in author
I’m in a run of reading oldish 80s cyberpunk stories. The Neuromancer (Sprawl) Series, Schismatrix+ and Island in the Net, (I’ve read a long time ago) the Budayeen Cycle.
And I was wondering if non-European/american/canadian author have written cool cyberpunk stories
I haven’t read anything where I personally know that the author came from outside of Europe/Northern America, but I’d think that it’d be easy to search for.
kagis
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/1cwedld/any_german_cyberpunk_authors_writing_in_german/
Any german cyberpunk authors, writing in German language or living here? I’m writing cyberpunk for years now, living in Berlin and looking for people to connect and collaborate.
As far as I’m aware it doesn’t really exist. Cyberpunk is a fairly niche genre. For the most part it didn’t really take off in Europe. Most groups that existed formed in America and Japan respectively. In a sense you wouldn’t really find a Korean Cyberpunk Group but you could easily find a Korean European Fantasy one. Cyberpunk doesn’t really seem to exist in Europe. Well, I’ve seen some Anarchy groups but Anarchy is not Cyberpunk and isn’t really the same thing. What makes this harder is that in Europe the regions are often splintered by language. I’ve heard of some interesting things going on in Slavic countries by chance and even some South European ones think Balkan but these were often soloists. From what I’ve heard it wasn’t really possible to communicate with them simply due to language barriers.
That doesn’t sound very promising, I suppose that the Japan pointer might have something that you want.
kagis
Could try the Nexus trilogy by Ramez Naam. It’s more modern cyberpunk though. The author is American, but was born in Egypt.
Try translated Chinese web serials.
Try 40 milenniums of cultivation. It’s half fantasy though, with it’s own magic system. Actually, most web serials I read are fantasy, I haven’t seen much sci fi.
There are also actual novels though, like the 3 body problem, which was popular enough to get adapted to a netflix series but I only really care about web serials.
I don’t see people mention the Budayeen series very often, but I remember it being great!
Not sure how good these are (or how truly cyberpunk-y they are), as I haven’t read them, but here you go:
- Club Contango by Eliane Boey (Singapore)
- Stormblood by Jeremy Szal (Australian by nationality, Middle-Eastern/Slavic ethnicity)
- House of Gold by C.T. Rwizi (Zimbabwe/South Africa)
- The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan (India)
Wow, Germany doesn’t really have international recognition Sci-Fi on a quick glance.
The Swarm by Frank Schätzing comes to my mind.
