Word Finder - cyberpunk

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A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.

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A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.

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The film “The Matrix” redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.

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A writer of cyberpunk fiction.

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A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.

Cyberpunk Reloaded brings together a varied compilation of articles to satiate the appetite of the most avid fans.

The word cyberpunk was coined by writer Bruce Bethke, who wrote a story with that title in 1982.

The term cyberpunk was first coined by Bruce Bethke in his short story Cyberpunk published in 1983.

There I said that it's refreshing to see something new happening in the cyberpunk genre.

Whatever the reason, cyberpunk marked a sea change in American science fiction.

Max Headroom was televised cyberpunk, in an age that didn't even have a term for 'cyberpunk'.

Of all the sci-fi genres, cyberpunk is the one that has drawn the most outside media and literary scrutiny.

If so, you have stumbled into Cyberpunk territory.

Totalitarian control, thought police, grim, humorless masses - if Orwell had anticipated computers, he could have invented cyberpunk.

As it was, it is fair to say that 'Orwellian' certainly applies to many cyberpunk works.

Coincidentally, William Gibson's novel Neuromancer, published in 1984, is widely considered to be the first cyberpunk novel.

It set the parameters of cyberpunk as surely as Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade series defined the hard-boiled 'tec genre.

Cyberpunk is almost always an earth-based sci-fi genre.

If cyberpunk action enters 'real space', it is more likely to be the crowded and dirty streets of a noir Chicago, gritty Toyko or hostile Los Angeles.

One rarely sees a rural setting in cyberpunk.

But no - Cyberpunk is all about urban decay.

If written cyberpunk is all about the feeling - loss and hopelessness in the face of The Machine - then filmed cyberpunk is all about the 'look'.

Max Headroom was perhaps the first view American audiences had of cyberpunk.

The Matrix series is also considered cyberpunk, and the first movie quite clearly is.

The term steampunk derived from cyberpunk and was originally used slightly tongue-in-cheek.

Cyberpunk is '40s noir films, jaded cynicism and nihilism.

Some later steampunk loses much of it in favor of a more cyberpunk bleakness.

His style of writing was a blend of cyberpunk bluntness and gothic richness, and as a result the worlds he creates are vivid and interesting.

Steampunk owed a nod to cyberpunk, an earlier genre that rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s.

Cyberpunk was known for dystopian futures with alienated loners who lived on the fringes of society.

In cyberpunk novels, computerized information and technology run rampant, consuming humanity with it.

The film The Matrix makes a cyberpunk argument where all of humanity is marginalized as loners, each but a cog in the great machine the Earth had become.