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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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day 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