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  • I think anything with *-punk is some sort of Sci-fi with the best people could predict of the future at the time.

    My go to for finding new books and authors is to check the Sci-fi awards nominees: Nebula, Hugo, Locus, … There are also two small book-stores nearby where workers put their reviews on the shelves of books they like and recommend.

    Also, science fiction is not trademarked. =p

    The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells https://marthawells.com/murderbot.htm
    Easily my favourite contemporary author.

    It is a Sci-fi, but fits the Cyberpunk high-tech low-life aspects you seek, like megacorporations dystopias, slave labour, surveillance state, robot conscience, augmented humans, etc…

    I also read Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman recently. A recommendation from one of those book-stores.

    Some alien corporation is going to mine Earth’s rare resources and the surviving humans participate in a dungeon crawl reality show. Kind of Running Man meets Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

    It is LitRPG - which I am not a big fan but the writing of the first 2 books are good.
    I am not a big fan of the last released couple of books of the series, as it feels more like extended power-trips that permeates the LitRPG genre.