Five Cyberpunk Books You’ve Gotta Read

Cyberpunk can best be described as a movement or series of movements. The original movement was made up of a fairly insular group of authors who generated the first wave of cyberpunk literature, published from approximately 1982 to around 1991. These cyberpunk books portrayed the future emergence of the internet and technology as key factors in our daily lives, depicting the resulting dystopian society (and its inhabitants) in a hard-boiled and often-criminal underworld. It’s no accident that the genre is often summarized with the shorthand, “high-tech, low-life.”