Neuromancer as a First Step Into Cyberpunk

Gibson's Neuromancer holds up as a genuine entry point, not because it's easy but because its disorientation is purposeful. The prose drops you into a dense world and trusts you to orient yourself through immersion rather than explanation. That constraint, having to establish everything through texture and voice rather than exposition, strips the narrative down to what actually matters. For someone curious about the genre, that earned confusion is part of the experience, not an obstacle to it.