SEEKER1's RECOMMENDED READING LIST FOR THE CYBERANTHROPOLOGIST

FICTION (science)

Some of these are cyberpunk. Some contemplate technology and the human condition. Some are just good.

Ballard, J.G. The Atrocity Exhibition
Bishop, Michael. The Secret Ascension.
Brunner, John. The Shockwave Rider.
Burroughs, William Nova Express
Card, Orson Scott Ender's Game
Dick, Philip K. VALIS
Radio Free Albemuth
Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)
Gibson, William. Neuromancer.
Count Zero.
Mona Lisa Overdrive.
Lem, Stanislav The Cyberiad
McCaffery, Larry Storming the Reality Studio
Moorcock, Michael The Jeremiah Cornelius Chronicles
Dancers at the End of Time
Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash.
Sterling, Bruce. Islands in the Net.
Vinge, Vernor True Names and Other Dangers

Arbib, Michael A. Computers and the Cybernetic Society. 1984
Lilly, John. The Center of the Cyclone. 1972.
Lilly attempts to describe the human biocomputer (brain), its levels of programming, and attempts at "metaprogramming."
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man. 1964
Panati, Charles. Breakthroughs. 1981
Toffler, Alvin. The Third Wave. 1980.
While Toffler is on Newt Gingrich's assigned reading list, his futurist predictions are not always aimed at comforting the comfortable. Some should make Newt stand on his head.
Weiner, Norbert. Cybernetics & Society. 1967

Dery, Mark. Flame Wars.
Kadrey, Richard. Covert Culture Sourcebook I and II
Kelly, Kevin Signal: Access to Tools and Information
Kroker, Arthur. Data Trash: the Theory of the Virtual Class.
Kroker is also the author of _Possessed Individual_, _Spasm: Android Flesh_, and _The Panic Encyclopedia_, and he edits CTHEORY. All are worth reading.
Mondo 2000. The Mondo 2000 User's Guide to the New Edge
Rheingold, Howard. Virtual Communities
Rushkoff, Douglass. Cyberia
Sirius, R.U., et al. The Cyberpunk Handbook/Fakebook
Strauss, Bill, and Howe, Neil. 13th Gen.

Anderson, Walter Truett. Reality Ain't What it Used to Be
Bey, Hakim. The Temporary Autonomous Zone (T.A.Z.)
Brand, Stewart Fringes of Reason: a Whole Earth Guide
Leary, Timothy. Neuropolitique
Little, Greg. People of the Web.
McKenna, Terrence. Archaic Revival.
Parfrey, Adam. Apocalypse Culture.
Plant, Sadie. The Most Radical Gesture
The history and influence of the Situationist International on punk and other elements of culture
Re/Search. Modern Primitives
Re/Search. Industrial Culture Handbook
Stang, Rev. Ivan. The Book of the SubGenius
Stillings, Dennis. Cyberbiological Studies of the UFO experience
The Archaeus Project and Artifex are no more, but they produced fascinating data while they existed
Wilson, Robert Anton. The Cosmic Trigger II
*READ IT ALL!* CoinciDance, Sex and Drugs, the New Inquisition, Wilhelm Reich in Hell, Illuminatus!, and more. Both fiction and nonfiction are guaranteed to delight.
Zone. Incorporations

Aboba, Bernard K. The Online User's Encylopedia: BBSing and Beyond
Bamford, James. The Puzzle Palace
**A good history of the NSA and cryptography research in the U.S
Glossbrenner, Alfred Personal Computer Communications Handbook
Gunderloy, Mike. The World of Zines
Hofstadter, Douglas. Metamagical Themas.
**Hofstadter deftly explores the reflexivity and self-referentiality of various structures.
Myers, Norman. The Gaia Atlas of Future Worlds
Postman, Neil. Technopoly: the Surrender of Culture to Technology
Quarterman, John. The Matrix: networks worldwide
Turkle, Sherry. The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
White, Matthew, and Ali, Jaffer, The Official Prisoner Companion

Did Patrick McGoohan's 60s dystopian vision come to become our reality? You decide.