It’s definitely getting harder and harder to draw genre boundaries - cyberpunk quietly infiltrated mainstream scifi to the point where you can find cyberpunk elements in almost any modern scifi. Not bad for a subgenre the corporations and marketers misused and overused until it crashed. I remember people talking about it like a joke in the 2000s so I’m very pleased it won in the end (though I wish people treated it more like a warning than a roadmap).

I can definitely see the inclination not to include Murderbot (I thought twice about including it on the list) mostly because it doesn’t feel cyberpunk. It’s very clean, there’s no sense of decline or collapse the corps are ruling over, and the locations by and large don’t fit the usual. Heck one area is lowkey solarpunk. I think it has a ton of cyberpunk elements, story beats, etc, but it’s almost fridge cyberpunk, you have to walk away and think about it before enough of them line up. And feel is a big part of the genre, I think.

I think Gibson stories are my main reread, partly because I think they work a little better when you already half remember what’s going on.

I also reread the Murderbot books quite often, they’re kind of comfort food stories for me.

I rewatch Cowboy Bebop sometimes for the same reason.

I reread the webcomic Black & Blue fairly often but that’s mostly because the person making it has been absolutely hammering out pages for years now and I almost always need to reread before I can catch up.