cyberpunk

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While the painting was done well (thanks to the talented Jan Popisil), it does nothing to allude that the book is cyberpunk, and it truly is.

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  1. noun Fast-paced science fiction involving futuristic computer-based societies.

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  • Rudy was an early cyberpunk, and often writes SF in a realistic style that he characterizes as transreal. —  Asimov's SF, June2006
  • Although Kelly had a story (which turns up, in much different form, as a section of Wildlife) in Sterling's Mirror shades anthology, he's not been identified as a cyberpunk and he makes nobody's list of hard sf writers. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 04-05 - October-November 1994
  • And it helps to have some interest in cyberpunk, the Web, William Gibson, riot girls, et al. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 02 - February 1996
  • Subtitled The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook, it's basically a play on all those other handbooks we've seen over the years only this time it purports to teach you everything you need to know to be a cyberpunk --or to fake it. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 02 - February 1996
  • It's fitting that Videodrome and the word "cyberpunk" were introduced in the same year, because the former is steeped in the aesthetic of the latter. —  The Morning News
 

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