13 Facts About Cyberpunk

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Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech", featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay.

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Cyberpunk is featured prominently in anime and manga, with Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop being among the most notable.

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Cyberpunk writers tend to use elements from crime fiction—particularly hardboiled detective fiction and film noir—and postmodernist prose to describe an often nihilistic underground side of an electronic society.

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Cyberpunk settings are dystopias with corruption, computers and internet connectivity.

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Cyberpunk can be intended to disquiet readers and call them to action.

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Cyberpunk stories have been seen as fictional forecasts of the evolution of the Internet.

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Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1983 for his short story "Cyberpunk, " which was published in an issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

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Cyberpunk emphasized style, a fascination with surfaces, and atmosphere over traditional science-fiction tropes.

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Cyberpunk made science fiction more attractive to academics, argues Brin; in addition, it made science fiction more profitable to Hollywood and to the visual arts generally.

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Cyberpunk 2020 was designed with the settings of William Gibson's writings in mind, and to some extent with his approval, unlike the approach taken by FASA in producing the transgenre Shadowrun game and its various sequels, which mixes cyberpunk with fantasy elements such as magic and fantasy races such as orcs and elves.

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Cyberpunk has inspired several tabletop, miniature and board games such as Necromunda by Games Workshop.

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Billy Idol's Cyberpunk drew heavily from cyberpunk literature and the cyberdelic counter culture in its creation.

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Cyberpunk works have been described as well situated within postmodern literature.

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