I don't do much re-reading these days (because my to-read list is so out of control) but Catspaw has already had many, many rereads; it's one of my favorites ever (as well as the other two books set in its world, Psion and Dreamfall, which are less outright cyberpunk-y, but also some of that post-human layers-of-reality feel - you can read any of them without needing the other two.) ...It's also by a female author and was originally marketed as YA so it doesn't get on the 'classics of the genre' lists like the others.
I would re-read Snow Crash because it's fun and compelling but I will give the caveat that I like it more for its cheap thrills than its inherent virtue; it's got a lot of id-tastic payouts and really interesting worldbuilding, but a sometimes paper-thin plot and emotional arc.
Transmet's actually currently on my to re-read list. If science-fiction-y comics are a thing you can enjoy you should definitely read it (and there was a recent re-release of the trades so there's a fairly good chance your brick & mortar will have it in trades.)
I read Permutation City once, all in one go, and it screwed with my head so much that I was too scared to go back to it. IDK if that's a rec or not. But if you want Inception-y stuff it should definitely be on your list somewhere, it's all about people trying to dig through layers of what reality is after they build their own technological dreamworlds too deep.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was fine and it's definitely a foundational classic of the type (and quite short for a novel!) so it's probably worth it if you can get it easily but it's not really a re-read, no. It's the book that was adapted into Blade Runner, which I have never seen, but I understand the movie's very different from the book.
Cyberiad is so odd and intricate that it never feels like a re-read because I find all sorts of new stuff in it.
I can't really say for the other two.
(There's also a lot out here in this line that I haven't read at all, especially if you diverge farther from the core of classic 'cyberpunk' genre and more toward other ways of messing with reality, or if you start looking at newer stuff which I'm way behind on, but those are a pretty good starter kit based on the better stuff from the lists I had about ten years ago. ...I left off all the ones that I liked less than Neuromancer.)
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I would re-read Snow Crash because it's fun and compelling but I will give the caveat that I like it more for its cheap thrills than its inherent virtue; it's got a lot of id-tastic payouts and really interesting worldbuilding, but a sometimes paper-thin plot and emotional arc.
Transmet's actually currently on my to re-read list. If science-fiction-y comics are a thing you can enjoy you should definitely read it (and there was a recent re-release of the trades so there's a fairly good chance your brick & mortar will have it in trades.)
I read Permutation City once, all in one go, and it screwed with my head so much that I was too scared to go back to it. IDK if that's a rec or not. But if you want Inception-y stuff it should definitely be on your list somewhere, it's all about people trying to dig through layers of what reality is after they build their own technological dreamworlds too deep.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was fine and it's definitely a foundational classic of the type (and quite short for a novel!) so it's probably worth it if you can get it easily but it's not really a re-read, no. It's the book that was adapted into Blade Runner, which I have never seen, but I understand the movie's very different from the book.
Cyberiad is so odd and intricate that it never feels like a re-read because I find all sorts of new stuff in it.
I can't really say for the other two.
(There's also a lot out here in this line that I haven't read at all, especially if you diverge farther from the core of classic 'cyberpunk' genre and more toward other ways of messing with reality, or if you start looking at newer stuff which I'm way behind on, but those are a pretty good starter kit based on the better stuff from the lists I had about ten years ago. ...I left off all the ones that I liked less than Neuromancer.)