Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting. The subgenre is rooted in the New Wave science fiction movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Early films in the genre include Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner, one of several of Philip K. Dick’s works that have been adapted into films.
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Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting. The subgenre is rooted in the New Wave science fiction movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Early films in the genre include Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner, one of several of Philip K. Dick’s works that have been adapted into films. Newer cyberpunk media includes Blade Runner 2049, Alita: Battle Angel, and the 2018 Netflix TV series Altered Carbon based on Richard K. Morgan’s 2002 novel of the same name. The video game Cyberpunk 2077 is based on the table-top role-playing game cyberpunk. Cyberpunk plots often center on conflict among artificial intelligences, hackers, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than in the far-future settings or galactic vistas found in novels such as Isaac Asimov’s Foundation or Frank Herbert’s Dune. The settings are usually post-industrial dystopias but tend to feature extraordinary cultural ferment and the use of technology in ways never anticipated by its original inventors. Much of the genre’s atmosphere echoes film noir, and written works in thegenre often use techniques from detective fiction. There are sources who view that cyberpunk has shifted from a literary movement to a mode of science science fiction due to the limited number of writers and its transition to a more generalized cultural formation.
One, Bruce Sterling, later said: In the circle of American science fiction writers of my generation — cyberpunks and humanists and so forth — was a towering figure who was more bitter than us. We knew we were not fit to polish the man’s boots, and we were scarcely able to understand how we could get to a position in which we could do a good job of it. We have used to have bitter struggles over bitter struggles, and now we can do it with ease. We can do this. We are not bitter. We don’t want to be bitter, we just want to do a better job. We want to get to the point where we don’t have to worry about the consequences of our actions. We know how to get there. We just have to go to the place where we are already there, and that’s where cyberpunk is for us. That’s the place to start. It’s a good place for us to start, and it’s a great place to stop. We’re not there yet. We’ve got a long way to go, but we’re getting there, I’m sure. We’ll get there soon. I’m looking forward to the day when I can say that I’ve been there. I’ll be there for a long time, and I’ll have a lot more to say about it, I’ll tell you what I think about it. I hope you’ll believe it, too. I think you’ll agree with me. You’ll have to believe in me, too, if you’re a fan of cyberpunk.”
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