I read Neuromancer by William Gibson a couple of years ago. It is a sort of dystopia, written in the 80s. It is definitely science fiction (well, cyberpunk), which predicts the ways things are going in cyberspace. It's a cross between Tron, Bladerunner and The Matrix. However, I cannot recommend it because I could not follow it (and I was a computer programmer with a technology degree).
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
If you enjoyed 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' you might want to try 'The Man in the High Castle' by Philip K Dick.
+2 regarding J.G Ballard. He was a genius, and once becoming accustomed to Ballardian sentences one realizes that his was a very unique voice.
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