The fortunate fall (1996)

Maya works as a human camera, broadcasting experience through a brain-linked network while another person screens the feed. Reed makes that job’s invasion of privacy inseparable from political memory, intimacy and the possibility of changing a person from inside. Choose it for cyberpunk that follows the consequences of access to a mind with unusual emotional seriousness. Its dense future history and morally difficult revelations reward slow reading; detailed summaries can spoil its effect.