List of cyberpunk works
This is a list of works classified as cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction. Cyberpunk is characterized by a focus on "high tech and low life" in a near-future setting.
Print media
Novels and novellas
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- True Names by Vernor Vinge
- Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Dr. Adder by K. W. Jeter
- The Sprawl trilogy by William Gibson – popularized the concept of cyberspace, exemplifies the genre.
- Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
- Eclipse Trilogy by John Shirley – includes Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, and Eclipse Corona
- Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams
- Mindplayers by Pat Cadigan
- The Glass Hammer by K. W. Jeter
- Voice of the Whirlwind by Walter Jon Williams
- When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger – part of the Effinger's Marîd Audran series
- Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
- A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger – part of the Effinger's Marîd Audran series
- ' by Walter Jon Williams
- My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner
- The Exile Kiss by George Alec Effinger – part of the Effinger's Marîd Audran series
- Synners by Pat Cadigan
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- The Bridge trilogy by William Gibson
- Heavy Weather by Bruce Sterling
- Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott
- ', ', and ' by K. W. Jeter
- The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
- Night Sky Mine by Melissa Scott
- Noir by K. W. Jeter
- Tea from an Empty Cup by Pat Cadigan
- One of Us by Michael Marshall Smith
- Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
- River of Gods by Ian McDonald
- Accelerando by Charles Stross
- * Glasshouse
- Daemon by Daniel Suarez
- The Mirrored Heavens by David J. Williams
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
- Blackstar by Josh Viola
- Cash Crash Jubilee by Eli K.P. William
- * The Naked World
Short stories, anthologies, and single-author collections
- Cyberpunk by Bruce Bethke
- Burning Chrome by William Gibson
- Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology edited by Bruce Sterling
- Patterns by Pat Cadigan
- Crystal Express by Bruce Sterling
- Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction edited by Larry McCaffery
- Hackers by Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois
Graphic novels and comics
- Judge Dredd by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra
- The Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Akira by Katsuhiro Ōtomo
- Black Magic by Masamune Shirow
- Ronin by Frank Miller
- Appleseed by Masamune Shirow
- Dominion by Masamune Shirow
- Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow
- Neuromancer by Tom de Haven and Bruce Jensen
- Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro
- Barb Wire by Chris Warner
- Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis
- by Hiroki Endo
- Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei
- * NOiSE – prequel to Blame!
- * Biomega
- Singularity 7 by Ben Templesmith
- The Surrogates by Robert Venditti
- The entire line of Marvel's 2099 is an example of the cyberpunk genre in comics, especially Ghost Rider 2099 and Spider-Man 2099.
- Marvel's Machine Man Vol. 2
- Batman Beyond
Magazines and journals
- Mondo 2000
- Ctheory
- Cheval Noir
Audiovisual media
Films
Most of the films listed are cyberpunk-related either through narrative or by thematic context. Films released before 1982 should be seen as precursors to the genre. Animated films are listed separately in the Animation section below.- Alien
- Escape from New York
- * Escape from L.A.
- Burst City
- Tron
- Blade Runner
- * Blade Runner 2049
- Brainstorm
- Videodrome
- Terminator
- * The Terminator
- * '
- RoboCop
- The Running Man
- Gunhed
- Circuitry Man
- Hardware
- Megaville
- Total Recall
- 964 Pinocchio
- Until the End of the World
- Nemesis
- Freejack
- The Lawnmower Man
- * '
- Cyborg 2
- Demolition Man
- '
- Death Machine
- Hackers
- Johnny Mnemonic
- Judge Dredd
- Strange Days
- Deathline
- The Fifth Element
- Nirvana
- Andromedia
- Pi
- Skyggen
- Dark City
- eXistenZ
- The Thirteenth Floor
- Bicentennial Man
- The Matrix Trilogy
- * The Matrix
- * The Matrix Reloaded
- * The Matrix Revolutions
- I.K.U.
- The 6th Day
- Avalon
- Electric Dragon 80.000 V
- Cypher
- '
- Impostor
- Minority Report
- Resurrection of the Little Match Girl
- All Tomorrow's Parties
- Code 46
- Natural City
- Paycheck
- Avatar
- Immortal
- I, Robot
- Paranoia 1.0
- Æon Flux
- Ultraviolet
- A Scanner Darkly
- Chrysalis
- Eden Log
- The Gene Generation
- Babylon A.D.
- Sleep Dealer
- Tokyo Gore Police
- District 9
- Hardwired
- Surrogates
- Repo Men
- '
- Priest
- Dredd
- Elysium
- The Zero Theorem
- Automata
- Transcendence
- Chappie
- Ex Machina
- Hardcore Henry
- Ghost in the Shell
- Bleeding Steel
- Ready Player One
- Upgrade
- Hotel Artemis
- '
- Human Cargo
- Anon''
Animation
- Megazone 23
- Neo Tokyo
- Black Magic M-66
- Bubblegum Crisis
- * Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040
- Akira
- '
- '
- Dominion
- * Dominion
- * New Dominion Tank Police
- * Tank Police Team: Tank S.W.A.T. 01
- Appleseed
- * Appleseed
- * Appleseed
- * Appleseed Ex Machina
- * Appleseed XIII
- * Appleseed Alpha
- A.D. Police Files
- Cyber City Oedo 808
- Æon Flux
- Silent Möbius
- Genocyber
- Macross Plus
- Armitage III
- Ghost in the Shell
- * Ghost in the Shell
- * '
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- * '
- * '
- * '
- Ghost in the Shell: Arise
- * '
- * '
- Cowboy Bebop
- '
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Gundress
- Batman Beyond
- Metropolis
- The Animatrix
- Code Lyoko
- Heat Guy J
- Parasite Dolls
- Texhnolyze
- Wonderful Days
- Burst Angel
- Fragile Machine
- Aachi & Ssipak
- Ergo Proxy
- Paprika
- Renaissance
- Dennō Coil
- Vexille
- '
- Real Drive
- Mardock Scramble
- Accel World
- Psycho-Pass
-
Television and web series
- World on a Wire
- Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin
- Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
- ', British television movie
- * Max Headroom, American television series based on the UK TV movie
- Wild Palms
- TekWar
- '
- VR.5
- Welcome to Paradox
- The X-Files, two episodes of the series were written by William Gibson and contain cyberpunk themes:
- * Kill Switch
- * First Person Shooter
- Harsh Realm
- Total Recall 2070
- Dark Angel
- '
- Charlie Jade
- '
- Power Rangers RPM
- Dollhouse
- Caprica
- Person of Interest
- Continuum, set in the present with a protagonist who has time traveled back from a cyberpunk future in 2077
- '
- RWBY, volume 7 is set in the fictional cities of Altas and Mantle, which incorporate cyberpunk themes
- Almost Human
- '
- Mr. Robot
- Humans
- 'Westworld'
- Incorporated
- Altered Carbon
- Love, Death & Robots
- Upload
Sculpture
- Asher
Music
- Angelspit
- Buck-Tick
- Clock DVA
- Covenant
- Death Grips
- Deltron 3030
- Drezden
- Fear Factory
- Front Line Assembly
- Grimes
- Haujobb
- Headscan
- JPEGMafia
- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
- Kraftwerk
- Left Spine Down
- Nine Inch Nails
- Oneohtrix Point Never
- Psydoll
- Sigue Sigue Sputnik
- Starset
- Voivod
- Yellow Magic Orchestra
- Nero
- Perturbator
- Blade Runner by Vangelis
- Cyberpunk by Billy Idol
- Drezden by Drezden
- Outside by David Bowie
- Transverse City by Warren Zevon
- Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails
- 新しい日の誕生 by 2814
- Demanufacture by Fear Factory
Video games
- The Screamer
- Imitation City
- Megami Tensei series
- * '
- * '
- * '
- * Shin Megami Tensei IV
- Metal Gear series
- * Metal Gear Solid
- * '
- * '
- Akira
- * Akira
- * Akira Psycho Ball
- Neuromancer
- Snatcher
- Genocide
- DreamWeb
- Flashback
- Gadget: Invention, Travel, & Adventure
- Shadowrun series
- * Shadowrun
- * Shadowrun
- * Shadowrun
- * Shadowrun Returns
- * '
- * '
- * '
- Syndicate series
- * Syndicate
- * Syndicate Wars
- * Syndicate
- Beneath a Steel Sky
- Sindome
- '
- '
- Delta V
- '
- Live A Live
- Rise of the Robots
- Policenauts
- Appleseed series
- * Appleseed: Oracle of Prometheus
- * Appleseed EX
- System Shock series
- * System Shock
- * System Shock 2
- '
- Johnny Mnemonic: The Interactive Action Movie
- Einhänder
- Osman
- Blade Runner
- Final Fantasy VII
- * Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
- * Final Fantasy VII Remake
- Ghost in the Shell
- Xenogears
- Deus Ex series
- * Deus Ex
- * '
- * '
- * '
- * '
- Oni
- Uplink
- '
- .hack series
- * .hack//IMOQ
- * .hack//G.U.
- * .hack//Link
- Neocron
- Enter the Matrix
- Æon Flux
- Dystopia
- System Rush
- Mirror's Edge
- '
- Cyber Knights series:
- * Cyber Knights
- * Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
- Gemini Rue
- Cypher
- Remember Me
- Transistor
- Watch Dogs series:
- * Watch Dogs
- * Watch Dogs 2
- * '
- '
- Dex
- Technobabylon
- Satellite Reign
- Invisible, Inc.
- Mirror's Edge Catalyst
- VA-11 HALL-A
- Observer
- Ruiner
- The Red Strings Club
- Astral Chain
- Cyberpunk 2077
- The Last Night
Tabletop games
- Cyberpunk
- * Cyberpunk 2020
- Shadowrun
- GURPS Cyberpunk
- Corporation
- The Sprawl
- Carbon 2185 A Cyberpunk RPG
- Interface Zero 3.0
Related nonfiction
- A Cyborg Manifesto, by Donna Haraway
- Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction, edited by Larry McCaffery
- No Maps for These Territories, documentary about William Gibson