Cyberpunk
noun
A genre of science fiction that focuses on futuristic society where technology is advanced but social life is in chaos or disorder.
Blade Runner is a popular movie in the cyberpunk genre.
Often appears as...
- cyberpunk literature
- cyberpunk genre
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Academic
adjective
Relating to the ideas and stylistic features of cyberpunk.
The Matrix has a distinct cyberpunk aesthetic.
Often appears as...
- cyberpunk aesthetic
- cyberpunk setting
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Academic
noun
A genre of science fiction that focuses on futuristic society where technology is advanced but social life is in chaos or disorder.
Blade Runner is a popular movie in the cyberpunk genre.
Often appears as...
- cyberpunk literature
- cyberpunk genre
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Relating to the ideas and stylistic features of cyberpunk.
The Matrix has a distinct cyberpunk aesthetic.
Often appears as...
- cyberpunk aesthetic
- cyberpunk setting
Usage tips
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Not Real World
Cyberpunk describes a fictional future, not our current or past society.
Despite its dark cities, cyberpunk worlds are imaginative, not real.
Pro Tip 2/3Technology Contrast
Cyberpunk often contrasts advanced technology with societal decline.
In cyberpunk stories, you may see flying cars but also extreme poverty.
Pro Tip 3/3Anti-Hero Characters
Cyberpunk usually features unconventional, morally ambiguous heroes.
The cyberpunk protagonist isn't a typical knight in shining armor.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Real World
Cyberpunk describes a fictional future, not our current or past society.
Despite its dark cities, cyberpunk worlds are imaginative, not real.
Pro Tip 2/3Technology Contrast
Cyberpunk often contrasts advanced technology with societal decline.
In cyberpunk stories, you may see flying cars but also extreme poverty.
Pro Tip 3/3Anti-Hero Characters
Cyberpunk usually features unconventional, morally ambiguous heroes.
The cyberpunk protagonist isn't a typical knight in shining armor.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Real World
Cyberpunk describes a fictional future, not our current or past society.
Despite its dark cities, cyberpunk worlds are imaginative, not real.
Pro Tip 2/3Technology Contrast
Cyberpunk often contrasts advanced technology with societal decline.
In cyberpunk stories, you may see flying cars but also extreme poverty.
Pro Tip 3/3Anti-Hero Characters
Cyberpunk usually features unconventional, morally ambiguous heroes.
The cyberpunk protagonist isn't a typical knight in shining armor.
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and more specifically, access to technology. We need to ensure everyone can participate in this future metaverse. So around the same time as Love Punks, I began imagining how to scale these digital world-building ideas in my cyberpunk web comic called Nawlz.
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Everyone can participate...
and more specifically, access to technology. We need to ensure everyone can participate in this future metaverse. So around the same time as Love Punks, I began imagining how to scale these digital world-building ideas in my cyberpunk web comic called Nawlz.
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William Gibson
American Writer
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.
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Duncan Jones
English Director
J. G. Ballard is just an example of the writers I like. Philip K. Dick is obviously one of them. I'm a big fan of William Gibson as well. He started cyberpunk with 'Neuromancer.' I've come to know him a little bit over Twitter, of all places, and I was always a huge fan of his. It's very cool to know he even knows I exist.
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Douglas Rushkoff
American Journalist
The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.
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Warren Spector
American Designer
In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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Robert Sheckley
American Author
There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.
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Pat Cadigan
American Author
Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.
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Daniel H. Wilson
American Author
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
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Paul Di Filippo
American Writer
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
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Alastair Reynolds
British Author
I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s.
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Zoe Quinn
American Artist
I'm so tired of cyberpunk that says using machines to make your life better makes you less human.
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William Gibson
American Writer
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.
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Duncan Jones
English Director
J. G. Ballard is just an example of the writers I like. Philip K. Dick is obviously one of them. I'm a big fan of William Gibson as well. He started cyberpunk with 'Neuromancer.' I've come to know him a little bit over Twitter, of all places, and I was always a huge fan of his. It's very cool to know he even knows I exist.
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Douglas Rushkoff
American Journalist
The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.
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Warren Spector
American Designer
In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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Robert Sheckley
American Author
There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out.
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Pat Cadigan
American Author
Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.
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Daniel H. Wilson
American Author
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
Quote examples
Paul Di Filippo
American Writer
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
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Alastair Reynolds
British Author
I always like Iain Banks science fiction stuff and William Gibson's cyberpunk stuff from the 1980s.
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Zoe Quinn
American Artist
I'm so tired of cyberpunk that says using machines to make your life better makes you less human.
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