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The webcomic is set in the near future where technology is more advanced than ever before. Security precautions are practically unbreachable. Cars drive themselves, drones circle above monitoring traffic, and more fun technological advances can be found within the story.

What pops into your mind whenever you think of cyberpunk? A futuristic metropolis? Body augmentations? Government surveillance? Underneath a lot of neon luster, Katana Zero has all this and more.

Walkaway is a book about many things, but fundamentally this is what it wants you to think about, the rest is a thought experiment viewed from a few different characters’ eyes. On paper, this book has everything I want from a post-cyberpunk book, including callbacks to the first-wave cyberpunk books.

Altered Carbon: Resleeved is a Netflix original movie, available to stream now. A Japanese anime movie spin-off, it is set in the Altered Carbon Universe and features Takeshi Kovacs and Taneda Hideki on planet Latimer.

If all this tech-noir, computer-babble sounds interesting to you, the cyberpunk books listed below are what we’d consider the definitive crash course in cyberpunk reading. Please note that the selections do not fully represent the diverse landscape of cyberpunk writers and texts that can be encountered in the genre; with that in mind, CyberPunks.com is proud to tell you about FIVE CYBERPUNK BOOKS YOU’VE GOTTA READ.

We know cyberpunk movies, so let us tell you what you’re missing. What’s timeless? What didn’t age so well? Share this article, and we’ll make the case for Hackers.

Steven Kotler’s Last Tango in Cyberspace makes culture a character to be explored in equal measure as the main character. Lion, an empathy-tracker, or em-tracker for short, uses his unique talent to consume curated content provided by clients and extrapolate a future. Not at an individual level, mind you, rather as a glimpse at the cultural significance regarding the content in the future.

So . . . these guys at RoboRazer in Kiev wanted to make a uniquely cyberpunk knife in honor of the release of Cyberpunk 2077 in September of this year.   Much like the mantis-blades from the cyberpunk lore, the blade on the Inertix lies in hiding.  I must disagree with their marketing team, though, as the knife appears less like “a space shuttle of the future” and more like the key-fob to my steampunk airship.

It can take decades for something to become a cult classic. When it was released in 1994, System Shock was a commercial failure, despite widespread critical praise. Let’s find out why this cyberpunk horror flop is now so highly revered and has served as  inspiration for games like Deus Ex and BioShock. The remake is due later this year.

1990 saw the return of Robocop in Robocop 2. The sequel doesn’t suffer from a lack of talent – Peter Weller and Nancy Allen return as their roles of Murphy and Lewis, with Tom Noonan as Cain, the main antagonist.