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If you want cyberpunk in a settled solar system, I'd recommend Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling and Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick. Very different fates for Earth in each of them - in the first its a primitive, polluted backwater that spacers shun and in the second its a technologically superior superpower thats only restrained by the fact that they've formed a hivemind that loses its integrity when the distance between its node-people gets too large and the great fear is that they'll get around the speed of light limitation that keeps them confined to the planet.

>>15195881
>Why is space travel so underlooked in cyberpunk media?
is it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismatrix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_Flowers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds

>>14602731
>Neuromancer/The Sprawl written by a guy who had his eye towards projecting the near future and also lived through the Japanese miracle and saw the age of microelectronics.
Neuromancers climax take place on a orbital spinhab resort and Bruce Sterling's Shaper/Mechanist stories are cyberpunk set in a solar system settled by posthumans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaper/Mechanist_universe