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A science fiction genre
A subgenre of industrial rock music
Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized,alienated loners
Cyberpunk plots center on a conflict among hackers,artificial intelligences…
The settings are post-industrial dystopias
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William Gibson,Neal Stephenson,Bruce Sterling,Pat Cadigan,John Shirley
Computer games,board games,role-playing games
Some trends in fashion and music were also labeled as cyberpunk
SETTING :
SETTING Writers tend to use elements from the hard-boiled detective novel,film noir.
Action takes place online,in cyberspace.
Direct connection between the human brain and computer systems.
depicts the world as a dark,sinister place
PROTAGONISTS :
PROTAGONISTS A prototype character is ‘Case’ from Gibson’s Neuromancer
A console cowboy,a brilliant hacker
SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT :
SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT Cyberpunk literature is used as a metaphor for the present days worries.
It can be intended to disquit readers and call them to action
It expresses a sense of rebellion
Cyberpunk stories have been seen as fictional forecasts of the evolution of the Internet
LITERATURE :
LITERATURE Gardner Dozois popularized the term ‘cyberpunk’
Cyberpunk was hailed as a radical departure
It made science fiction more attractive to academics
It made science fiction more profitable to Hollywood and to the visual arts
SUBGENRES :
SUBGENRES A prominent subgenre is steampunk: It combines anachronistic technology with cyberpunk’s bleak film noir world view
Biopunk : a derivative style building on biotechnology rather than informational technology