Neon Leviathan

Before 36 Streets, T.R. Napper wrote a cycle of short stories set in the long future history of his setting, centered on Australia, Vietnam, China, and the memory editing technology of the Kandel-Yu device.

As a cyberpunk fan, these stories are fantastic, easily some of the best additions to the genre in the 2020s. The stories are stark and harrowing, full of addicts, post-traumatic cripples, and renegades who have slipped the bounds of sanity and madness. Napper has a feel for the pacing of a short story which eluded his subsequent novel (which is good, but writing is hard), and allows the beautiful cruelty of his prose to shine.