I've been on a bit of a cyberpunk kick as of late. I've been slowly working my way through the video game Cyberpunk 2077, but at the same time I have been delving deep int some literature as well. I finished reading Count Zero a little over a month ago and I have been really drawn into this genre as a whole as of late. I think this is in part due to the current state of the world in general. The general disfunction of the world right now has too many parallels to what we see in some of these books. I'll have to give credit to both CD Projekt Red and William Gibson here as they seem to all have nailed the dystopia. Unfortunately, we don't seem to get to wear the cool cyberpunk clothes.
The corporate greed, persistent cost of living and now AI just run deep threads through all of these stories. I can't say that reading any of these will make you feel better, but if you want to draw some surprising coincidences from these stories into the real world, take a shot.
I am wrapping up my full read right now with Mona Lisa Overdrive as the last book in the Sprawl Trilogy.