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18 days agoOh, I did not know that. Thanks for explaining it.
Oh, I did not know that. Thanks for explaining it.
I thought MS Sam was an accessibility feature, that you can enable and disable text-to-speech. Did they use that for NPCs voice-overs?
I think anything with *-punk is some sort of Sci-fi with the best people could predict of the future at the time.
My go to for finding new books and authors is to check the Sci-fi awards nominees: Nebula, Hugo, Locus, … There are also two small book-stores nearby where workers put their reviews on the shelves of books they like and recommend.
Also, science fiction is not trademarked. =p
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells https://marthawells.com/murderbot.htm
Easily my favourite contemporary author.
It is a Sci-fi, but fits the Cyberpunk high-tech low-life aspects you seek, like megacorporations dystopias, slave labour, surveillance state, robot conscience, augmented humans, etc…
I also read Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman recently. A recommendation from one of those book-stores.
Some alien corporation is going to mine Earth’s rare resources and the surviving humans participate in a dungeon crawl reality show. Kind of Running Man meets Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
It is LitRPG - which I am not a big fan but the writing of the first 2 books are good.
I am not a big fan of the last released couple of books of the series, as it feels more like extended power-trips that permeates the LitRPG genre.