CYBERPUNKCharacterized as:

“high-tech” & “low-life” Anti-hero/the “Robin Hood”

originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story

"Cyberpunk," published in 1983

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NEUROMANCER BY WILLIAM GIBSON IS THE FIRST MAJOR WORK COINED UNDER THE CYBERPUNK GENREThe novel tells the story of a washed-up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to pull off the ultimate hack.

BLADE RUNNER

ANIME CYBERPUNK

Two of the Most Influential Movies in the Cyberpunk Genre are Akira

and Ghost in the Shell

CYBERPUNK ALSO GETS IT INSPIRATION FROM HARD-BOILED DETECTIVE NOVELS, FILM NOIR AND POSTMODERNIST PROSE

PostCyberpunk•Focus on computerized info and cybernetic augmentation of the human body, but without the assumption of a dystopia

The mod artist wanted to see Bud’s yuks before he installed thegun, which in other surroundings might have been construed as aninsult but was standard business practice here in the LeasedTerritories. When he was satisfied that this wasn’t a stick-up, hetheezed Bud’s forehead with a spray gun, scalped back a flap ofskin, and pushed a machine, mounted on a delicate robot arm like adental tool, over Bud’s forehead. The arm homed in automaticallyon the old gun, moving with alarming speed and determination.Bud, who was a little jumpy at the best of times because of hismuscle stimulators, flinched a little. But the robot arm was ahundred times faster than he was and plucked out the old gununerringly. The proprietor was watching all of this on a screen andhad nothing to do except narrate: “The hole in your skull’s kind ofrough, so the machine is reaming it out to a larger bore—okay, nowhere comes the new gun.”

STEAMPUNK•Centers around the Victorian Period (1820-1910)•Less dystopian•An aesthetic & lifestyle

The Steampunk AestheticAlso known as Neo-Victorian and comprises punk and goth

styles, rivet style and has a community of fans into the fashion, music and home decor

TESLAPUNK

ATOMPUNKPRE-DIGITAL 1945-1965

The rise of military/industrial powers with a retro-futuristic world.

Atomic Age, Space Age, mid-century paranoia, Neo-Soviet

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DIESELPUNK1920-1945

Sometimes called Decopunk for its Art Deco Style.

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BIOPUNK Emerged in

1990s Characters

products of human experimentation

Totalitarian governments or mega corporations misuse biotech for social control or profit

Nanopunk

Elfpunk

Mythpunk

Nowpunk

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