A clone of the city makes up the bulk of the setting of The Carlucci Novels by Richard Paul Russo.
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville is heavily influenced by KWC, but the city in the book (New Crobuzon) isn't an exact copy of the city like in the other novel, just built similarly.
If you like that kind of stuff then you must read Richard Paul Russo's Carlucci trilogy, which you can get in one volume. It's excellent gritty, noir cyberpunk at its best.
Ship of Fools is a very bleak look at the fate of a generation ship, tasked with looking for alien life, that lost its sense of purpose after many, many years of fruitless searching. The book is at once depressing, cynical, and terrifying.
Again, as is Russo's style, Carlucci is a bleak and depressing noir take on near future America set in San Francisco. If you liked Blade Runner, you'll find a lot to love in this book - it nails the setting perfectly and realistically. America, a bit into the future, doesn't undergo a catastrophic collapse. Instead, it kind of just wastes away. Corporations have far more power than the government, and the average citizen is used to a world that's more violent, more exploitative, and more abusive. This is the part that I really identified with. The world hasn't descended into chaos, but the little things add up. Global warming has severely affected the climate, but the world hasn't ended. It's much harder to find a home and a job, but it's not impossible. Day-to-day life isn't incredibly dangerous, but people just shrug at the fact that violent crime is much more common. When someone's sister gets stabbed to death while sitting in her back yard, it's not a horrifying one-in-a-million crime. It's a thing that most people have experienced, whether personally or through friends and family. Also, there's cyborgs.
A clone of the city makes up the bulk of the setting of The Carlucci Novels by Richard Paul Russo.
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville is heavily influenced by KWC, but the city in the book (New Crobuzon) isn't an exact copy of the city like in the other novel, just built similarly.
If you like that kind of stuff then you must read Richard Paul Russo's Carlucci trilogy, which you can get in one volume. It's excellent gritty, noir cyberpunk at its best.
Some obscure ones I would recommend are Noir by K.W. Jeter and Richard Paul Russo's Lt. Frank Carlucci series.
There's a Carlucci omnibus of all three novels available.
Here's two from my favorites by an incredibly obscure author, Richard Paul Russo:
Ship of Fools/Unto Leviathan (Kindle/Paperback)
http://www.amazon.com/Ship-Fools-Richard-Paul-Russo/dp/B000LC7Z50/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
Ship of Fools is a very bleak look at the fate of a generation ship, tasked with looking for alien life, that lost its sense of purpose after many, many years of fruitless searching. The book is at once depressing, cynical, and terrifying.
Carlucci (Out of print, cheap used copies)
http://www.amazon.com/Carlucci-3-in1-Richard-Paul-Russo/dp/0441010547/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3
Again, as is Russo's style, Carlucci is a bleak and depressing noir take on near future America set in San Francisco. If you liked Blade Runner, you'll find a lot to love in this book - it nails the setting perfectly and realistically. America, a bit into the future, doesn't undergo a catastrophic collapse. Instead, it kind of just wastes away. Corporations have far more power than the government, and the average citizen is used to a world that's more violent, more exploitative, and more abusive. This is the part that I really identified with. The world hasn't descended into chaos, but the little things add up. Global warming has severely affected the climate, but the world hasn't ended. It's much harder to find a home and a job, but it's not impossible. Day-to-day life isn't incredibly dangerous, but people just shrug at the fact that violent crime is much more common. When someone's sister gets stabbed to death while sitting in her back yard, it's not a horrifying one-in-a-million crime. It's a thing that most people have experienced, whether personally or through friends and family. Also, there's cyborgs.
It's been quite a while since I read it, but I really liked Carlucci, and think it fits here.