After decades of folks attaching the "punk" suffix to their genres like journalists adding "-gate" to political scandals, it's a delight to read a cyberpunk story that understands that "punk" is a word which means something. Political, seedy, born of the underground... but no fear of going overground, getting invited to the fancy parties and then pissing in the sink. It's a snotty, obnoxious, salacious book for bruised romantics everywhere.