Digital Wanderer

Programmers often swear under their breath because of bugs.
Every time, our designer reassures us:
"Everything will be all right. She’ll come back and you’ll get married"

And every time I reply: "By then he’ll have changed sex and, after massive doses of drugs, turned to Scientology, while she’ll have become a cyborg with part of her brain amputated and no ability to feel emotions"

This is all because I read Vadim Panov’s book  Moscow Club, which is supposedly "Russian cyberpunk". If you ignore the obvious absurdity of the term (cyberpunk ceased to exist long ago, and it never existed in Russia at all), the book is not bad, except that it is spoiled by a slight touch of mysticism. In the comments on Aldebaran, someone disappointedly recommended Fallen Angels of the Multiverse as "truly awesome cyberpunk".

So I read that one too. I found nothing truly awesome apart from the descriptions of technological gadgets and battle scenes. Truly, it is a book for fans of carnage and action, which is amply reflected in the comments there as well.
Overall, both books are decent, but they fall short of Western post-cyberpunk giants like Neal Stephenson.