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

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[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

I’ve read the 3 bodies problem. Thanks for the other suggestion

[–] misericordiae@literature.cafe 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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)

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago

I’ll look them up. Thanks

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Could try the Nexus trilogy by Ramez Naam. It's more modern cyberpunk though. The author is American, but was born in Egypt.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 1 points 4 days ago

Will look it up, thanks

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

if manga is book-like enough ghost in the shell

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Already seen it and I have already a big back log of anime to watch. ;)

Thank you

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

Wow, Germany doesn't really have international recognition Sci-Fi on a quick glance.

The Swarm by Frank Schätzing comes to my mind.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cyberpunk