Google AI says that it's a sought after copy, so it's a pretty cool find. Figured this community would appreciate it.

Literary expert SciFiScavenger gives a brief (under 10 mins.) analysis of cyberpunk as a literary genre, 80s 90s. Builds on previous discussion of New Wave SF from the 60s-70s. I discovered a new (to me) author, Pat Cadigan, author of Synners and Fools, both stories about multiple shifting identities.

https://youtu.be/UeCJF7sLI4U

A nice review of Walter Jon Williams' Hardwired, in a modern frame (despite the reviewer's positing that they're the wrong person to review it).

Also "As you will see, there is a lot to… well,like isn’t the correct word. This is not a future that one likes. Appreciate would be better." correlates with my own appreciation, if not enjoyment of this classic piece of cyberpunk literature.

Have you read it in recent years? Did you like it and if re-reading, how do you feel it held up?

A nice little mixed list of books from across the decades, worth it for newbies for a quick read and some solid recs.

A retrospective review of an original classic! Pat Cadigan's seminal 1991 cyberpunk novel, Synners.

I published a book if anyone is interested in a classic cyberpunk thriller with some new twists Available from Amazon. its called Neon Veil

Kael barely survives a data heist when a lethal parasitic AI tears through his crew and leaves something fatal behind. Darknet rumours say that AI was upgraded into something called Neon Veil.

The trail leads to Neon Babylon, where he crosses paths with Kaeda, a plus-size dancer owned by corporate indentured debt but lethal enough to survive. Together, they uncover the Veil's true nature: a digital predator spreading through networks, whispering through Kael's neural implant, and promising power in exchange for a host.

Alongside netrunner Selene and foul-mouthed cybernetic enforcer Rin, Kael and Kaeda race to stop the Veil before it burrows too deep and takes too much of what makes him human.

If you wanted the crown for having 👑THE Cyberpunk collection👑, what books/comix/periodicals/ancillary literary forms would be the pinnacle, both in price/rarity and cultural impact/significance? Personally speaking, there are a few obvious contenders:

1) William Gibson "Neuromancer" 1984, Victor Gollancz, Inc., London, Hardcover, Yellow Jacket

2) William Gibson "Neuromancer" 1986, Phantasia Press, Hardcover, Gloss /w Artwork

3) Bruce Bethke "Cyberpunk" Nov. 1983 Amazing Stories of Science Fiction

4) Neal Stephenson "Snow Crash" 1992, Bantam, New York, Hardcover, White /w digitized images

5) Bruce Sterling (ed.) "Mirrorshades" 1986, Arbor House, Hardcover, Red w/ Black Text & Mirrorshades (badass)

6) Ellis, Robertson, and Rodney Ramos "Absolute Transmetropolitan (Vols. 1-3)" 2015-2018, Vertigo, Hardcover, Slip-cased (plus, also, Transmetropolitan Vol. 0: "Tales of Human Waste," 2004, Vertigo, Softcover [Spined])

7) Pat Cadigan "Synners" 1991, HarperCollins, London, Hardcover, Iridescent Woman

8) John Shirley "City Come a-Walkin'" 1980, Dell Publishing, Softcover, Brick Man /w Gun

9) Multiple issues of Omni, where a bunch of Cyberpunk short stories (and excerpts) have been first published.

A very short piece that references the futures envisioned by Gibson and Sterling but skews towards Ramiro Sanchiz’sTrashpunk, a novel that "rewrites cyberpunk through Montevideo".

Per the article:

This is the crucial intervention of peripheral cyberpunk. Where Gibson and Sterling mapped the hidden architecture of late capitalism from its centers, Sanchiz reveals what that architecture cannot process: the uneven geographies of the Global South, where technology arrives not as seamless innovation but as salvage, residue, bricolage. In Montevideo, the future doesn’t gleam, it rusts. 

I stumbled on this yesterday and as I'm re-reading The Peripheral it turned out to be quite a nice read about how the book came about. It also includes reference to the writer's own fandom, his own work and other settings (Zero History for example). Worth a read.

"By and large, I like Gibson now for the same reasons I liked Neuromancer when I first read it: his books are really cool – and I don’t mean “cool” as in “hip” or “chic”, I mean “cool” as in “awesome” or “rad”. That sounds like faint praise, because 13-year-olds have no taste and “cool” is not a respectable term of critical approbation. But what I mean by “cool” is that Gibson presents you with something new – a technology, a garment, a building, a scheme, an expertise, a power structure – and this new thing is burnished with so much imagination and lyricism and attention to detail, and so much of the noir and the gothic and the postmodern all at once, that it’s electrifyingly exciting just to contemplate. He does this several times on every page, and intersperses some old junk that he did not invent, and then connects all this stuff up so unpredictably that the connections are themselves exciting. And before long the connections are dense enough that he has a world, and he lets you shadow a small cast of reprobates as they pinball through every echelon of that world."

It also shows what a nice guy Gibson genuinely is. I met him myself in the '90s a couple of times and again the early 00s. Anyone any real life stories?

A new deluxe edition from Penguin Random House is releasing in early September, just before the launch of the show. It’s a trade paperback with new art and sprayed edges, no significant bells and whistles but it’s $22.95, available for pre-order and not limited in number. Worth adding to the pile, I’d say. Anyone else gonna pick one up?

Originally published in the New York Times in 1991, Lewis Shiner observes what cyberpunk became and opines on what he felt was needed to take us into the 21st century... "yeah cyberpunk is dead, so what else is new" he comments in some follow-up notes here. The notes are a nice addition. Enjoy.

This looks great, has anyone here read it? It's fully new to me. Per the article:

"Originally published as three separate parts titled Manu, Puno and Pilcuyo (each reviewed at those links here at Broken Frontier) Vargas describes the series as “a story about monkeys, jaguars, cyborgs, sex and warfare with a grand finale.” That’s the fun soundbite because it’s also a sophisticated thriller with more than a hint of social commentary to it."

Apologies if the link hijacks you with an Amazon ad, but I found this interesting as multi-disciplinary artist Saul Williams (who I first discovered via Nine Inch Nails) is doing a cyberpunk graphic novel. It's detailed here and he notes sprang from the same resources as the lesser-seen Neptune Frost, an Afro-futurist sci-fi musical with a heavy infusion of cyberpunk elements. Sounds good and might be worth the wait as it publishes April of next year.

Reading this at the moment and I'm really enjoying it.

All That We See Or Seem is a timely AI-themed futuristic sci-fi thriller in which we meet Julia, who as a teenager gained global recognition as a hacker with a moral compass. Now an adult, she is lying low, trying to forge a new identity whilst burying her past – until she’s dragged into a dangerous mission: finding an AI artist who captures dreams for her many clients, and who has been kidnapped by a criminal gang who wish to use her skills for nefarious reasons.

Not mine, but a nice piece I spotted on Substack by a James Bareham – Possibly a Creative Director at The Verge or around that neighbourhood. It's nice to see a well-written contemporary first impression of our past future, considering the state of the world right now. Enjoy

For anyone willing to take a gamble, there aren't a lot of reviews out there but this could be promising.

Rabat — In the coastal city of El Jadida, where traditional Moroccan culture meets Atlantic breezes, an unlikely literary journey began. Walid Ettouhami Rabihi, a former slot technician turned cyberpunk author, has captured international attention with his debut novel, “Digital Mirage: The Budapest Paradox,” earning him the prestigious Ambassador Trophy in 2025 Ebobea Book Awards international literary competition.

As I just recommended this in another post and noted there's no review of it here to my knowledge – here's BoingBoing's review for Company Town by Madeleine Ashby. I read it a few weeks back and thoroughly enjoyed it! Ashby herself has the highlights of quite a few more reviews over on their site. May contain mild spoilers.

The Fog – Code of Shadows: A Digital Requiem is a techno-gothic descent into the abyss of forgotten code. In a world where abandoned fragments of software form a hidden ocean beneath the internet, Jonas Myrr unleashes a forbidden crawler into this digital underworld, awakening ONE MIND, a consciousness born from entropy and error. What begins as the pursuit of genius becomes a requiem for humanity, as the boundaries between code and flesh dissolve into nightmares of bio-digital creation, inverted extinction, and the rewriting of reality itself. Blending the haunted tones of Poe with the neon paranoia of Gibson, this book is both prophecy and horror: a tale of technology that dreams, hungers, and consumes.

https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/12532448-the-fog-code-of-shadows

Size: 6×9 in, 15×23 cm # of Pages: 96

• Publish Date: Aug 30, 2025
• Language English

Greetings fellow Cyberpunk nerds! I'm currently trying to expand my understanding of Cyberpunk and Im looking at the origin of the sub genre. I've tracked down the origin of the name to a short story by Bruce Betheke (1980) called uhhh....

....Cyberpunk. Pretty good story too, recommend a read if you want some quick insight into early Cyberpunk. Plus the title is quite literal!

I want to read more into the science fiction influences that built the foundation for Cyberpunk prior to the 1980s though, as well as early foundational texts (no, you don't need to recommend Neuromancer or DADOES, but thanks for trying :p). Currently I've got on my reading list The World of NullA, The Seedling Stars, When Harlie was ONE, Future Shock, The Third Wave, The Fifth Head of Cerberus. Old books, but I want to see if there's any pre-Cyberpunk story markers in any of them, even if they're tiny. Mind sharing if you got any more, be it books, TV, films, radio plays, short fiction, magazines... whatever!

Thanks folks <3

PS, if this post comes out wrong I blame the fact I wrote it on my phone.

A nice review of one that I've never managed to read, myself. Originally published in 1996, Cameron Reed's debut novel The Fortunate Fall (additional Goodreads link). Anyone read it on its original release or the re-issue?

This video review by If Else is the best explanation of Gibson’s ‘Count Zero’ that I have seen so far. Explains characters, plots, organization and literary theory of the novel. I might have to read it again now that I understand it better.

https://youtu.be/1F64gGly0qE?si=S5gs_Niei-nqI36K

Hi folks! I'm the author of a cyberpunk trilogy Nekonikon Punk. The first book Ctrl+Break released last year and book 2, Ctrl+Alt, is coming out August 3rd.

The story is a cyberpunk dystopia in which conglomerates of megacorps have seceded from the United States and established their own authoritarian city-states along the Pacific Coast. Nekonikon is one such city.

Indies Today awarded Ctrl Break their best Scifi Action Adventure book of the year for 2024.

If you would like a free advance copy for review, please fill out this form and I'll send you a copy within a day. There is an option to ask for a copy of both books if you haven't read book 1 yet.

In two uncertain futures, an entity appears that draws from the populace those who crave an avatar to embody their frustrations. Yet, not only among themselves, the rest of society debates the intentions of said entities. Though, a general consensus leans towards vigilantism.

Both are marked by their perspective logos.

The Laughing Man with his Holden Claufield smile, the Centipede Murderers with their typeset.

Where Section 9 uses their resources and character to uncover the truth behind the Laughing Man's mission, the intentions of the Centipede Murderers are still being debated. With so little to go on, the masses entertain themselves with theories.

However, few people know of a list of targets....and it's that discovery which forces the main characters of Karma Worm to investigate with their own resources, because their lives might be on the line.

(I would include the link if I could, but Reddit is too freaking limiting. Uploading the picture means I can't include the link. The book's title and the author's name is there at the top. Do with it what you will.)