Best of Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a sub-genre of science fiction where the advancement of technology, especially information technology, and the decay of social order go hand in hand.
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https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/cyberpunk
See also:
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/cyberpunk
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list created July 31st, 2008
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I just don't think of 'The Android's Dream' as cyberpunk at all.

I just don't think of 'The Android's Dream' as cyberpunk at all."
I'm assuming they got that book confused with "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

I just don't think of 'The Android's Dream' as cyberpunk at all."
I'm assuming they got that book confused..."
That's a possibility but 'Do Androids Dream..' is already on here as #4

It's just that good? Really Neuromancer should occupy spots 1 thru 5. ;-)

For me, while the works of William Gibson define the genre, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (i.e. "Bladerunner") lies close to the edge, but definitely within the boundaries of cyberpunk. Wikipedia (by no means definitive) defines Cyberpunk as:
Cyberpunk is a postmodern science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order. Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than the far-future settings or galactic vistas.
Bladerunner has the dystopian near future, class separation, advanced cybernetics, conflicts with AI (albeit androids) and the involvement of megacorporations, but it lacks the net/grid aspect that you see in Neuromancer and Snowcrash as well as in other examples of the genre.

Cryptonomicon (great book, not CP)
Anathem (same)
America's Hidden History (really?)

Cryptonomicon is not cyberpunk. It does not belong on this list. Not even remotely! It's about metro web designers and discussing web startups at cafés, and some derivative history about cracking Enigma that frankly had no purpose in the story. In any event, it's about as cyberpunk as Driving Miss Daisy.
This has been brought up before but "Do Androids Dream..." is also not cyberpunk. Dystopian future, android hunting? Never once does anyone go "online". It's all physical. This could be a "Dystopian Sci-Fi" list.
Orwell's 1984. More dystopia that has nothing to do with the cyberpunk genre.
PKD's High Castle... Does it even mention computers?


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2. a lot on thsi list predates the cyberpunk genre
not saying this is a bad list but there really needs to be a vote down option