The mission of Cyberpunk Source Code Online is to provide a comprehensive database of cyberpunk media. In recent years, as cyberpunk becomes more mainstream, pop-culture pedestrians and Cancel Culture have begun to obscure the true spirit and ethos of the movement. The internet is littered with cyberpunk fan sites making ludicrous claims such as Margret Atwood being part of the first wave of cyberpunk authors when she published The Handmaid’s Tale. And don’t get me started on the LitRPG genre.
Cyberpunk is a culture, a genre, and a point of view defined by the following notions:
• High-tech Lowlife.
• Information must be free.
• Anti-Authoritarian.
• Punk’s DIY ethic & “fuck you” attitude.
In this age of ignorance and historical revisionism, we’re seeing these principles paved over with bizarre notions like cyberpunk being inherently anti-capitalist, or even outright communist. Anyone who has read either Walter Jon Williams’ Hardwired or Charles Platt’s The Silicon Man, would be well aware of the strong libertarian streak present in the genre. Likewise, claims that “cyberpunk has always been woke” shows how many of these new “fans” haven’t bothered to actually read the very novels that 
birthed cyberpunk. If they had, they would’ve know of about…
…the short story Are You For 86? in which Bruce Sterling savagely lampoons both radical lesbian feminist and Christian Fundamentalists.
…the less than favorable portrayal George Alec Effinger gives Islam in his classic When Gravity Fails.
…the fact that KW Jeter’s Dr. Adder is possibly the most politically incorrect novel ever published.
Cyberpunk is visceral, gritty, bleeding-edge, and it doesn’t give a damn about modern-day speech codes, trigger warnings, or validating anyone’s identity. Rebels don’t start massive campaigns insisting big government enforce totalitarian laws governing what we can do or say. And they certainly don’t spend hour on the internet trying to get thing canceled. That’s about as un-cyberpunk as you can get.
More importantly, though, I started this site because I was tired of all the “Best of Cyberpunk Books” lists featuring the same five novels:
• Altered Carbon
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
• Ready Player One
• Neuromancer
• Snow Crash
Sure, these are amazing books (mostly), but there’s a whole world of first and second wave cyberpunk authors out there that everyone seems to have forgotten. Well, I haven’t, and you will find their novels cataloged and reviewed here.
Since cyberpunk started in print fiction, that is where most of my time will be spent for the time being. In the future, I will be expanding this site to include everything from music to moves, to manga and graphic novels