Okay, cyber-punk fans; I'm looking for two books I read over twenty years ago. Please help.?

[Jon B]

The first is a William Gibson type (but not Mr Gibson himself or it’d be easy), about a social media figure, possible a singer, who is cloned one night without her knowledge, I’m fairly sure it involves some guy discovering AI, but that is about all I remember. The second is a pulp fiction cyber punk type, about a guy with no memory who ends up working for some kind of underground movement in a corporate future city, barely remember anything about this one, except that a car he drives is sponsored by a cosmetic company, there are various clichés and gangs including vampires/vampire wanabees, and some sort of giant spider/alien threat, oh, and near the end he tells a story to a group of dinner guests eating clam chowder about a man who drinks a spittoon. I will admit that both of these are probably a bit of a challenge, but let’s see if there is someone out there who really knows their early-90s cyberpunk novels. Thank you for your help, I’d really love to read these books again.

[Rose D]

The first sounds like something Pat Cadigan would write, but I'm not having any luck finding a direct match. Could it be a short story as opposed to a novel?

Goodreads has a decent list of cyberpunk novels at https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/487....unk#304806 that may help spark your memory. If nothing else, it might give you some good new reading material.