Hardly a day goes by without a cyber-related news story coming across the wires, yet the International Relations (IR) subdiscipline of cyber conflict studies has yet to meaningfully impact a wider discourse. This article examines the impact of five recent scholarly works on the evolution of this subdiscipline that, while quite popular within the general population, remains largely ignored by the broader International Relations (IR) scholarly community. The article dissects the strengths and weaknesses of these works and their place in the evolving literature by a generation of scholars who are moving debates beyond hyperbole. By highlighting cyber conflict studies to date, this roadmap hopefully will help to advance the study of cyberspace within the IR cyber community.