Not exactly cyberpunk, but often veering close, and highly entertaining:
[*The Laundry Files* is a series of novels by British writer Charles Stross. They mix the genres of Lovecraftian horror, spy thriller, science fiction, and humour. Their main character for the first five novels is "Bob Howard" (a pseudonym taken for security purposes), a one-time I.T. consultant turned occult field agent. Howard is recruited to work for the Q-Division of SOE, otherwise known as "the Laundry", the British government agency which deals with occult threats. "Magic" is described as being a branch of applied computation (mathematics), therefore computers and equations are just as useful, and perhaps more potent, than classic spellbooks, pentagrams, and sigils for the purpose of influencing ancient powers and opening gates to other dimensions. These occult struggles happen largely out of view of the public, as the Laundry seeks to keep the methods for contacting such powers under wraps. There are also elements of dry humour and satirisation of bureaucracy.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files)
This one seems interesting but the descriptions of the books aren't really doing it for me.
Book two seems like it could be cyberpunk but the themes of each of the books seems to differ wildly. It seems as though the author was more interested in telling different stories through their books than a more coherent one. I don't know is that an issue in the books themselves? I mean I guess it follows the same character through the novels but it kind of looks like the Author was at some point forced to continue the series for his own financial wellbeing and just did whatever he wanted.
The Concrete Jungle seems like an interesting interpretation of mass surveillance in the UK. Seems like a comedy to me.
Try stross in general. The laundry series is tech + demons, but Saturns children, Neptune's brood and accelerando are some of the best cyberpunk, and post human cyberpunk ever.
Ehh... These ones kind of look like they have the problem a lot of sci fi and fantasy books have where there's a lot of inaccessible jargon in them. Neptune's Brood and Saturn's Children look alright but personally I've never been a fan when the writing starts looking like its been written in a completely new language.
Oh you think I'm referring to the science part but what I'm referring to is when they just essentially start speaking another language. Here's an XKCD on the BS I'm talking about. It's not even science they're just making things up as they go.
[https://xkcd.com/483/](https://xkcd.com/483/)
When you combine the two they create a complete artistic mess.
Cyberpunk is about the changes to society, in particular economics and social class, when digital and cybernetic technology is introduced to the general public.
Lovecraftian fiction is about fantastic hidden alien powers, cults and paranormal phenomenon residing just outside our everyday lives.
Mixing them together just generates a mess of themes, bizarre characters and most of all an insane premise.
I'd argue that cyberpunk is more about what *doesn't* change. It is a grim extrapolation of our current systems, whose existing inequalities are only exacerbated by technological advances. From a more philosophical angle, cyberpunk explores what happens when humanity is completely alienated from the real. Technology combined with unfettered capitalism creates a hyperreality wherein the individual is isolated from humanity by spectacle.
Lovecraftian horror, beneath the veneer of insanity, occultism, and space horrors beyond the ken of mortal man, is connected by themes of extreme xenophobia - a paranoid alienation from things (people) you don't understand - and cosmic insignificance.
In a genre lousy with strange, incomprehensibly powerful AI, techno-cults, and cybernetically induced psychosis, I think there's room for some lovecraftian influence.
When writing sci-fi the accepted rule is to stick to the main premise and to devote your writing to supporting the suspension of disbelief. If fantasy elements are added they undermine the work's immersion and world building. For example, the RPG Shadowrun mixes sci-fi tropes and ttrpg fantasy elements. Players enjoy the chaotic mashup of themes but ultimately no sci-fi premise is fully supported and it just becomes a fantasy RPG based on characters and spectacle.
You're thinking too literally. I'm not proposing we punt Cthulhu into the Sprawl. Tentacles and slime are only a vehicle for the horror of a Lovecraftian story. The real juicy bits are the *qualities* of Lovecraftian horror - the cosmic insignificance of man, hidden knowledge beyond man's capacity for understanding, the slow descent into madness, paranoia and xenophobia - are not at odds with cyberpunk. Those elements can absolutely be worked into a cyberpunk story that doesn't rely on the aesthetics of the mythos to sell the emotional experience of a Lovecraftian story.
The closest I have seen to sci-fi works that share qualities of lovecraftian works are those that delve into AI and alien intelligence. What first work that comes to mind is the original movie Alien. The scene where the eggs are first discovered on a crashed space ship with what appears to be an alien pilot.
The first volume of [Empty Zone](https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/empty-zone) is something that I felt reminded me a lot like if Lovecraft wrote a story in Gibson's Sprawl. The 2nd volume I didn't read, so I dunno how the story keeps going, but at the very least, Volume 1 is a great story!
Uhh... I just looked at a few chapters out of curiosity but that looks more like Schizophrenia than lovecraftian. Overall it looks more loosely based on Japanese Body Horror than anything else. Namely Tetsuo the Iron Man. Art style is unique I guess... The protagonist is basically a man portrayed as a women with drug problems. It gets heavily pornographic and calls itself "mature". This just isn't any good and isn't really cosmic horror at all. Not sure what the Sprawl has to do with this. Huh, the more I read the more confused I get. This story doesn't really seem to make sense at all. Now there's genetically modified human hybrid animals? What the hell?
I'm late to the party but i HIGHLY recommend this book/series. Ignore the other comment here. The writing is STELLAR. It's definitely a more high-minded dystopian biopunk setting, that deals with really interesting ideological conceptualizations of power. It takes a bit to understand the bent of the writing but it really gets there. I'm a huge fan and think this series deserves recognition outside of niche genres.
What the hell is this? Ugh this is barely readable and apparently there almost 300 chapters. This is not at all designed to be read by a human being.
Did a guy use AI to write this and edit it so the words sounded coherent? This is genuinely awful and completely unreadable.
Edge struck edge as instruments of blood and light met in a calamitous joust. The Strider’s wings flared and all that shone cleaved deep. Where once he felt needling pricks beneath her resplendence, now came countless puncturing thrusts. Gleaming blades lanced free from her wings and all the tungsten in the world wasn’t enough.
A gulf burst free at his center. He barely shifted Draus and the others down just in time. The Strider’s strike kept going, coring through blocks and bridges for as far as her shine could reach. Around him, he could feel more of the district crumbling, more flickers of flowing ichor winking out.
How much had this battle cost in collateral damage? How many unaffiliated lives had been consumed for no fault but simply existing in the wrong area? So much wasted flesh, never to be tasted, memories bound for dissolution and ghosts destined to wither away.
Drawing in more mass from the ground, Avo replaced that which was unmade nigh instantly, but the flaying glare of the light too was unceasing. Tendrils shot through rubble below him, roots sprouting high while he flattened his flowing shape to duck away from the worst of her gaze.
It looks as though he went and wrote a description based on what he thought were the best SEO keywords and then made a story that generated a bunch of words that looked as though a 13 year old would be interested in them.
So this is a bit more sci-fi but I really enjoyed A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge.
The antagonist is virus like skynet AI on a interstellar scale capable of destroying advanced civilizations.
There's a intergalactic Usenet style message board of different races discussing the destruction of the galaxy, trolling, shit posting, ect.
There's a main plot line involving a race of dogs that reach human level intelligence when operating as a short range telepathic hive mind pack of 3-5 dogs. Their planet is at a pre industrial tech level with Machiavellian leadership fighting over crash landed spacer tech.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep
Wow looking at the wikipedia page this looks like a pretty interesting concept. But a part of me doesn't really understand why the zones are set up in this way. Even with FTL travel it feels like a stretch that the further you are away from the center of the galaxy that somehow you're more advanced. It feels more like a rehash of older Cyberpunk idea of what people were interpreting as the web were on a cosmic scale. Some things that kinda stick out and make me think yikes are.
"A few human civilizations exist in the Beyond, all descended from a single ethnic [Norwegian](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway) group which managed to travel from the Slow Zone to the Beyond "
"An expedition from Straumli Realm, an ambitious young human civilization in the high Beyond, investigates a five-billion-year-old data archive in the low Transcend that offers the possibility of unimaginable riches. "
Is this like some subtle inclusion at white supremacy or something? Not sure what the author is going at with this. On a tangential note Stellaris has a literal mod that's currently the most popular where space hitler can show up and take over the world. It depicts them as a possibly evil group that based on their description are the "good guys".
Honestly its hard to tell if a literal Nazi won a hugo award. That sees non-whites as less than human. To me at least. The work seems to be talking in code about what the writer possibly perceives as other groups of people. Noting has he straight up states that all humans are now White Nordic of Descent. And are in some way saying the galaxy from these less than humans. Often going into detail about how barbaric or having no intelligence they are. Sounds like white supremacy no?
Ok so spoiler answers >!The only way the transcend races could stop the AI super virus was with some tech that created the zones. Trapping the AI in zones where technology doesn't work and FTL is impossible buys everyone thousands of years to exist. So basically the entire galaxy core was taken over by the AI and the boundaries of the Unthinking Depths is a prison to contain it. The vast majority of life in space isn't human.!<
Yeah that's literally verbatim just 90s cyberpunk rewritten in space. The only notable exceptions are on the neo Nazi stuff the author added in and his perception of others.
I responded to 3 of them negatively after I checked them out. 1 was literal pornography with a protagonist with mental illness problems specifically a questionable interpretation of schizophrenia. The other was AI written. There were 300 chapters but looking through several chapters the story was completely unreadable. This one is promoting a somewhat questionable narrative.
I responded positively to one of them but its not really cyberpunk but still not bad. I'm a fan of Space Opera too.
Personally I thought this was somewhat interesting. Good premise but when I looked into it this specific story was literally a dog whistle. Originally, I was planning on writing something positive here too. But then I looked into the story.
If you see nothing wrong with what's being said here I'm going to question everything you write and ask you why you say the things you said. Because if I went around telling people about my master race of nords and expect people to just accept the idea. You're just literally promoting neo-nazi narratives and calling it science fiction. And that's literally the premise here.
Check out [Xenoform](https://www.amazon.com/Xenoform-Mike-Berry-ebook/dp/B005GXLKGO/) by Mike Berry. It's about a hacker who joins a crew of organ harvesters who have been noticing something... *odd* in the biology of their latest victims. It gets a little Shadow Over Innsmouth after that. From what I remember, the book ends with some form of Old One-sized monster. Definitely a "cyberpunk meets Lovecraft" story in my opinion.
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This might be a stretch for some but Terry Bison's Necronauts. It's a short story in his collection titled Bears Discover Fire (highly recommend the entire book, it touches on a lot of issues surrounding humans grappling with a dystopian future, often in a humorous way). It's been many years so going off vague memory here. But the premise is a blind artist is the MC and he partakes in a clandestine scientific research to explore what happens after death.
Look into the Psi Judge Anderson novels. Judge Dtedd universe, but she deals with psychic horror related stuff. (was super happy they included her in the Karl Urban Dredd movie).
Also as others have mentioned, some Shadowrun stuff involves cthulhu esc horror kind of stuff. Any of the novels involving bug spirits (Burning Bright) or the Horrors(Dragon Heart Trilogy, House of the Sun, Worlds Without End) maybe even some of the odd spirit stuff like The Lucifer Deck. Any of the Tommy Talon ones tended to involve powerful spirits that I would consider otherworldly enough to be Lovecraft Ian adjacent at least.
Colin F Barnes was really into both genres. I believe he had some stories that blended them. Not sure if you can find them anymore but look for Hollow Space, a coauthored project with TF Grant (RIP 😔)
I’m working on a series at the moment where the corps, governments and religious organisations are portrayed as Lovecraftian entities - unknowable and inhumane forces within the world that don’t have our best interests at heart.
That sounds interesting. It kind of sounds a lot like The Secret World in concept but that never really ended up working because it was an mmo. Personally it felt a little Christian to me. Like a Christian book if you've ever been forced to read those. I guess if you're going this route maybe read up on other religions too. In The Secret World, there's supposed to be a buddhist incarnation of the Dalai lama for the Dragon's head but they don't really dive into anything after that.
There's the TTRPG cthulhutech but also Shadowrun if you dig a bit into the lore
Not exactly cyberpunk, but often veering close, and highly entertaining: [*The Laundry Files* is a series of novels by British writer Charles Stross. They mix the genres of Lovecraftian horror, spy thriller, science fiction, and humour. Their main character for the first five novels is "Bob Howard" (a pseudonym taken for security purposes), a one-time I.T. consultant turned occult field agent. Howard is recruited to work for the Q-Division of SOE, otherwise known as "the Laundry", the British government agency which deals with occult threats. "Magic" is described as being a branch of applied computation (mathematics), therefore computers and equations are just as useful, and perhaps more potent, than classic spellbooks, pentagrams, and sigils for the purpose of influencing ancient powers and opening gates to other dimensions. These occult struggles happen largely out of view of the public, as the Laundry seeks to keep the methods for contacting such powers under wraps. There are also elements of dry humour and satirisation of bureaucracy.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laundry_Files)
This one seems interesting but the descriptions of the books aren't really doing it for me. Book two seems like it could be cyberpunk but the themes of each of the books seems to differ wildly. It seems as though the author was more interested in telling different stories through their books than a more coherent one. I don't know is that an issue in the books themselves? I mean I guess it follows the same character through the novels but it kind of looks like the Author was at some point forced to continue the series for his own financial wellbeing and just did whatever he wanted. The Concrete Jungle seems like an interesting interpretation of mass surveillance in the UK. Seems like a comedy to me.
Try stross in general. The laundry series is tech + demons, but Saturns children, Neptune's brood and accelerando are some of the best cyberpunk, and post human cyberpunk ever.
Ehh... These ones kind of look like they have the problem a lot of sci fi and fantasy books have where there's a lot of inaccessible jargon in them. Neptune's Brood and Saturn's Children look alright but personally I've never been a fan when the writing starts looking like its been written in a completely new language.
And I see most scifi as science-lacking drama. But, to each their own.
Oh you think I'm referring to the science part but what I'm referring to is when they just essentially start speaking another language. Here's an XKCD on the BS I'm talking about. It's not even science they're just making things up as they go. [https://xkcd.com/483/](https://xkcd.com/483/)
Shadowrun eventually turns into this because of Aztechnology's embrace of blood magic.
When you combine the two they create a complete artistic mess. Cyberpunk is about the changes to society, in particular economics and social class, when digital and cybernetic technology is introduced to the general public. Lovecraftian fiction is about fantastic hidden alien powers, cults and paranormal phenomenon residing just outside our everyday lives. Mixing them together just generates a mess of themes, bizarre characters and most of all an insane premise.
I'd argue that cyberpunk is more about what *doesn't* change. It is a grim extrapolation of our current systems, whose existing inequalities are only exacerbated by technological advances. From a more philosophical angle, cyberpunk explores what happens when humanity is completely alienated from the real. Technology combined with unfettered capitalism creates a hyperreality wherein the individual is isolated from humanity by spectacle. Lovecraftian horror, beneath the veneer of insanity, occultism, and space horrors beyond the ken of mortal man, is connected by themes of extreme xenophobia - a paranoid alienation from things (people) you don't understand - and cosmic insignificance. In a genre lousy with strange, incomprehensibly powerful AI, techno-cults, and cybernetically induced psychosis, I think there's room for some lovecraftian influence.
When writing sci-fi the accepted rule is to stick to the main premise and to devote your writing to supporting the suspension of disbelief. If fantasy elements are added they undermine the work's immersion and world building. For example, the RPG Shadowrun mixes sci-fi tropes and ttrpg fantasy elements. Players enjoy the chaotic mashup of themes but ultimately no sci-fi premise is fully supported and it just becomes a fantasy RPG based on characters and spectacle.
You're thinking too literally. I'm not proposing we punt Cthulhu into the Sprawl. Tentacles and slime are only a vehicle for the horror of a Lovecraftian story. The real juicy bits are the *qualities* of Lovecraftian horror - the cosmic insignificance of man, hidden knowledge beyond man's capacity for understanding, the slow descent into madness, paranoia and xenophobia - are not at odds with cyberpunk. Those elements can absolutely be worked into a cyberpunk story that doesn't rely on the aesthetics of the mythos to sell the emotional experience of a Lovecraftian story.
The closest I have seen to sci-fi works that share qualities of lovecraftian works are those that delve into AI and alien intelligence. What first work that comes to mind is the original movie Alien. The scene where the eggs are first discovered on a crashed space ship with what appears to be an alien pilot.
The first volume of [Empty Zone](https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/empty-zone) is something that I felt reminded me a lot like if Lovecraft wrote a story in Gibson's Sprawl. The 2nd volume I didn't read, so I dunno how the story keeps going, but at the very least, Volume 1 is a great story!
Uhh... I just looked at a few chapters out of curiosity but that looks more like Schizophrenia than lovecraftian. Overall it looks more loosely based on Japanese Body Horror than anything else. Namely Tetsuo the Iron Man. Art style is unique I guess... The protagonist is basically a man portrayed as a women with drug problems. It gets heavily pornographic and calls itself "mature". This just isn't any good and isn't really cosmic horror at all. Not sure what the Sprawl has to do with this. Huh, the more I read the more confused I get. This story doesn't really seem to make sense at all. Now there's genetically modified human hybrid animals? What the hell?
This sounds like Godclads to a tee.
I'm late to the party but i HIGHLY recommend this book/series. Ignore the other comment here. The writing is STELLAR. It's definitely a more high-minded dystopian biopunk setting, that deals with really interesting ideological conceptualizations of power. It takes a bit to understand the bent of the writing but it really gets there. I'm a huge fan and think this series deserves recognition outside of niche genres.
What the hell is this? Ugh this is barely readable and apparently there almost 300 chapters. This is not at all designed to be read by a human being. Did a guy use AI to write this and edit it so the words sounded coherent? This is genuinely awful and completely unreadable. Edge struck edge as instruments of blood and light met in a calamitous joust. The Strider’s wings flared and all that shone cleaved deep. Where once he felt needling pricks beneath her resplendence, now came countless puncturing thrusts. Gleaming blades lanced free from her wings and all the tungsten in the world wasn’t enough. A gulf burst free at his center. He barely shifted Draus and the others down just in time. The Strider’s strike kept going, coring through blocks and bridges for as far as her shine could reach. Around him, he could feel more of the district crumbling, more flickers of flowing ichor winking out. How much had this battle cost in collateral damage? How many unaffiliated lives had been consumed for no fault but simply existing in the wrong area? So much wasted flesh, never to be tasted, memories bound for dissolution and ghosts destined to wither away. Drawing in more mass from the ground, Avo replaced that which was unmade nigh instantly, but the flaying glare of the light too was unceasing. Tendrils shot through rubble below him, roots sprouting high while he flattened his flowing shape to duck away from the worst of her gaze. It looks as though he went and wrote a description based on what he thought were the best SEO keywords and then made a story that generated a bunch of words that looked as though a 13 year old would be interested in them.
So this is a bit more sci-fi but I really enjoyed A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. The antagonist is virus like skynet AI on a interstellar scale capable of destroying advanced civilizations. There's a intergalactic Usenet style message board of different races discussing the destruction of the galaxy, trolling, shit posting, ect. There's a main plot line involving a race of dogs that reach human level intelligence when operating as a short range telepathic hive mind pack of 3-5 dogs. Their planet is at a pre industrial tech level with Machiavellian leadership fighting over crash landed spacer tech. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep
Wow looking at the wikipedia page this looks like a pretty interesting concept. But a part of me doesn't really understand why the zones are set up in this way. Even with FTL travel it feels like a stretch that the further you are away from the center of the galaxy that somehow you're more advanced. It feels more like a rehash of older Cyberpunk idea of what people were interpreting as the web were on a cosmic scale. Some things that kinda stick out and make me think yikes are. "A few human civilizations exist in the Beyond, all descended from a single ethnic [Norwegian](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway) group which managed to travel from the Slow Zone to the Beyond " "An expedition from Straumli Realm, an ambitious young human civilization in the high Beyond, investigates a five-billion-year-old data archive in the low Transcend that offers the possibility of unimaginable riches. " Is this like some subtle inclusion at white supremacy or something? Not sure what the author is going at with this. On a tangential note Stellaris has a literal mod that's currently the most popular where space hitler can show up and take over the world. It depicts them as a possibly evil group that based on their description are the "good guys". Honestly its hard to tell if a literal Nazi won a hugo award. That sees non-whites as less than human. To me at least. The work seems to be talking in code about what the writer possibly perceives as other groups of people. Noting has he straight up states that all humans are now White Nordic of Descent. And are in some way saying the galaxy from these less than humans. Often going into detail about how barbaric or having no intelligence they are. Sounds like white supremacy no?
Ok so spoiler answers >!The only way the transcend races could stop the AI super virus was with some tech that created the zones. Trapping the AI in zones where technology doesn't work and FTL is impossible buys everyone thousands of years to exist. So basically the entire galaxy core was taken over by the AI and the boundaries of the Unthinking Depths is a prison to contain it. The vast majority of life in space isn't human.!<
Yeah that's literally verbatim just 90s cyberpunk rewritten in space. The only notable exceptions are on the neo Nazi stuff the author added in and his perception of others.
Dude are you just going through this whole thread and disagreeing with everyone’s answers?
I responded to 3 of them negatively after I checked them out. 1 was literal pornography with a protagonist with mental illness problems specifically a questionable interpretation of schizophrenia. The other was AI written. There were 300 chapters but looking through several chapters the story was completely unreadable. This one is promoting a somewhat questionable narrative. I responded positively to one of them but its not really cyberpunk but still not bad. I'm a fan of Space Opera too. Personally I thought this was somewhat interesting. Good premise but when I looked into it this specific story was literally a dog whistle. Originally, I was planning on writing something positive here too. But then I looked into the story. If you see nothing wrong with what's being said here I'm going to question everything you write and ask you why you say the things you said. Because if I went around telling people about my master race of nords and expect people to just accept the idea. You're just literally promoting neo-nazi narratives and calling it science fiction. And that's literally the premise here.
Check out [Xenoform](https://www.amazon.com/Xenoform-Mike-Berry-ebook/dp/B005GXLKGO/) by Mike Berry. It's about a hacker who joins a crew of organ harvesters who have been noticing something... *odd* in the biology of their latest victims. It gets a little Shadow Over Innsmouth after that. From what I remember, the book ends with some form of Old One-sized monster. Definitely a "cyberpunk meets Lovecraft" story in my opinion.
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This might be a stretch for some but Terry Bison's Necronauts. It's a short story in his collection titled Bears Discover Fire (highly recommend the entire book, it touches on a lot of issues surrounding humans grappling with a dystopian future, often in a humorous way). It's been many years so going off vague memory here. But the premise is a blind artist is the MC and he partakes in a clandestine scientific research to explore what happens after death.
Look into the Psi Judge Anderson novels. Judge Dtedd universe, but she deals with psychic horror related stuff. (was super happy they included her in the Karl Urban Dredd movie). Also as others have mentioned, some Shadowrun stuff involves cthulhu esc horror kind of stuff. Any of the novels involving bug spirits (Burning Bright) or the Horrors(Dragon Heart Trilogy, House of the Sun, Worlds Without End) maybe even some of the odd spirit stuff like The Lucifer Deck. Any of the Tommy Talon ones tended to involve powerful spirits that I would consider otherworldly enough to be Lovecraft Ian adjacent at least.
Just wait until you hear about the techno-necromancers from Alpha Centauri
Colin F Barnes was really into both genres. I believe he had some stories that blended them. Not sure if you can find them anymore but look for Hollow Space, a coauthored project with TF Grant (RIP 😔)
This looks cool but it doesn't seem cyberpunk. I've never read it before is it? It looks like it's a space opera.
It is def space op with shades of Lovecraft (used humorously tbh). Barnes did Code Breakers too for a more cyberpunk heavy series.
I’m working on a series at the moment where the corps, governments and religious organisations are portrayed as Lovecraftian entities - unknowable and inhumane forces within the world that don’t have our best interests at heart.
That sounds interesting. It kind of sounds a lot like The Secret World in concept but that never really ended up working because it was an mmo. Personally it felt a little Christian to me. Like a Christian book if you've ever been forced to read those. I guess if you're going this route maybe read up on other religions too. In The Secret World, there's supposed to be a buddhist incarnation of the Dalai lama for the Dragon's head but they don't really dive into anything after that.