I just returned from a trip that involved a few long flights, and I decided to crack open the new official CDPR-issued novel, Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence, which was just released last week.

There’s little need to rehash the full, mangled history of Cyberpunk 2077 at this point. It had such a fractured, unpolished launch that it has now become an industry cautionary tale as no one ...