Finish line

[fay_e]

I may have finished a novel and it may have been before Chinese New Year. O_O

Of course this isn't quite the end of the month, but it's good to have a milestone to look at. Just over two months to write over 52k words, which are in 13 chapters now. Of course what it will look like after editing, I have no idea. But that is AFTER Chinese New Year. I need a break from writing.

Now to do genre research. I'm regretting reading Neuromancer because OMG so white guy, but since it's a ebook I don't really want to throw my phone across the room. I'll take recommendations of any other book that makes people think of the Matrix or Inception, if anyone knows any.

Comments

[melannen]

A novel! congrats!

Stuff I would suggest from my days of trying to do a cyberpunk genre review, in order of increasing white-guy-ness:

Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Transmetropolitan (comic) by Warren Ellis
Permutation City by Greg Egan
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick

Honorable Mention:
The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem (not usually classed as cyberpunk but wonderfully mind-and-reality-twisty)
Shockwave Rider by John Brunner (this is a sort of cyberpunk precursor and I read it so long ago I don't really remember what it's about, but I remember liking it more than I expected to, given what it is?)
Otherland by Tad Williams: Have not read, but it got put on my list after someone on DW reviewed it in a way that sounded very Matrix-y and surprisingly un-white-guy.