An Opinionated Cyberpunk Reading List

An Opinionated Cyberpunk Reading List 2026-07-26T00:50:00+00:00, by Emma Humphries, from Infinite Wishes 🏳️‍⚧️🚀 Since the TV adaptation of Neuromancer’s coming out in January 2027, here’s my cyberpunk reading list. It wears its biases on its sleeve because cyberpunk, in my opinion, is about people trying to survive a world where fascist men leverage technology to colonize and extract value from every aspect of our lives.1 Start with Gibson’s Neuromancer then2: Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott Mirrorshades a cyberpunk anthology edited by Bruce Sterling (Available at Rudy Rucker’s website.) Then read Jeanne Gomoll’s response to Sterling’s introduction to his collection of short stories, Burning Chrome, “An Open Letter to Joanna Russ” in the fanzine Aurora.3 Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson, also this interview with Hopkinson in Clarkesworld The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed (as Raphael Carter) Web of Angels by John M. Ford, which came out before Neuromancer and approaches what…