Cyberpunk horror novels?

[u/oceangothic]

So I know of cyberpunk horror films like Hardware, Split Second, Death Machine, etc, and video games. I love cyberpunk literature but I can't think of any cyberpunk horror novels. Anyone got any good recommendations?

[u/xenotron]

There's a cyberpunk vampire novel called A Trial of Blood and Silicon which I thought was ok, not great. There's also a cyberpunk Silence of the Lambs called Thrill Switch where a detective is trying to solve copycat murders in cyberspace while the original killer is still locked up. And from what I remember, I think ARvekt had some horror elements where the AI that runs everyone's AR has been hiding things from humanity. Xenoform is a lovecraftian cyberpunk novel where a group of organ harvesters have started noticing something odd in the biology of their recent victims. That's all I can think of right now.

Oh, there's also a weird almost cyberpunk book called Of Monsters and Mainframes where the spaceship Demeter keeps having weird encounters with vampires, werewolves, a mummy, etc. The book is written from the perspective of the AI running the ship so it's like a campy horror version of Murderbot Diaries.

[u/oceangothic → u/xenotron]

Thanks! These look really fun, Xenoform in particular is exactly what I was looking for. Also horror camp Murderbot sounds great.

[u/DonSpumoni]

Daemon by Daniel Suarez is horror/intrigue

[u/_streetpaper_]

Toothsucker and for body horror, The Sixth Nik.

[u/oceangothic → u/_streetpaper_]

Ooh The Sixth Nik sounds really intriguing

[u/drxo]

Not quite cyberpunk but horror SF mashup is the Laundry Files by Charles Stross. imagine the Ghostbusters but Men in Black mode dealing with the occult horror

[u/oceangothic → u/drxo]

I used to read a lot of Stross--Accelerando, Singularity Sky, etc--and he does a great job handling ideas in interesting ways, I'll check it out.

[u/Loki545]

Lawnmower Man is the closest I can think of.

[u/Help_An_Irishman → u/Loki545]

novels

If OP is expecting cyberpunk, they'd would be baffled reading the original story that the film was named after.

[u/Loki545 → u/Help_An_Irishman]

Damn, you're right! My bad, I thought OP was looking for movies. Reading comprehension is your friend.

[u/scargods]

Blindsight - Peter Watts

[u/Jalambra]

Ghosts of Tomorrow by Michael R. Fletcher

Gridlinked (and just about anything else) by Neal Asher

Psychomech by Brian Lumley

Watchers by Dean Koontz

[u/Jimmie_Cognac]

Strictly speaking, the Alien franchise counts. And it has spawned a fair number of written works. Though the quality of said works can be a bit ... hit and miss.

[u/djginge]

Rationality Zero by J.M. Guillen