Cyberblade : The City of Five Skies

Want a Cyberpunk 2077 book with a dystopian fiction twist? Then follow Lex Vulcan into a young adult action adventure, deep below the underground cyberpunk city.

In the adventure of a lifetime, Lex is just another high school girl worrying about her next test, before a plans change and Lex is thrown down a rabbit hole of guns, mystery, and shocking revelations. To escape to the surface alive, Lex has to both master the power within and the high-tech tricks of the cyberblade trade. 

In the cyberpunk future of Cyberblade...

... the last of humanity survives deep underground Neo Mars. In the darkest depths of the Troezen Enginestate, cyberpunks stop their endless wars and talkof change. They fill their arms with weapons, their bodies steel, and once capable of shrugging off bullets they receive a new name: cyberblade.

For when the streets are slick with acid rain, only the cyberblades can hope to fight against every threat of monster and man. Yet as the cyberblades transcend the limits of humanity, strange secrets unravel in forgotten places, and a shadowy group implement plans long in the making.

All the while Lex just wants to escape to the surface, with a thinking battle-droid at her side, a family full of secrets, and deadly-determination, she aims to break through the steel skies that separate her people from paradise. She will either reach the surface to live under the Big Blue above or drag her enemies down to Hades where they can burn together.

William Z. Stone's Cyberblade: The City Of Five Skies unleashes the gritty future in all of its neon glory. Troezen is an city-sized engine waiting to blow. His characters burst from the page, stinking of dried blood, and eager to drag you along for an epic dystopian adventure.

Sick since the day she was born, Lex wasn't supposed to last seventeen hours. Seventeen years later, Lex discovers the joy of piloting battle-droids on the eve of her transfer to the surface. If she makes it to the fresh air of Upstairs, she'll save her family, at the cost of her own happiness. But if she fails to score a one-way ticket through the steel skies, Lex will need to fight, and claw, and burn to carve her people a place in the warlike floors of Undercity.

Yet there's a problem in her plans. Like her people, Lex is an Empyrean, a refugee, a minority in this new world and a hated one. Every Red Night for a decade they have hunted Empyreans, forced them to fight to the death, and denied them every chance at happiness. If she stays behind, if she fails to secure them a place Upstairs, her family will die.

Unless Lex can protect them all.