NOUN
- a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies
- a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology
- a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism
How To Use cyberpunk In A Sentence
- With my evident interest in sociobiology, this was too good a parallel to pass up, so I figured I'd try to mash together the cyberpunks with the PUAs and see what came out the other end, while addressing some interesting things I noted in Strauss's text. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Gord Sellar
- The emphasis is on rebuilding society, rather than cyberpunk's appetite for destruction.
- Far too many hackers and cyberpunks weren’t programmers at all—they were referred to contemptuously as “point-and-clickers.” The Blue Nowhere
- It takes the cyberpunk circus routines of Archaos and gives then a high-tech edge.
- It's kind of dismaying to realize that Bruce Sterling's recommended cyberpunk canon is almost exactly ten years old. Archive 2006-06-01
- Some people follow the cyberpunk genre quite closely, and for them this novel is a must-read.
- With No Maps, Neale more or less becomes cyberpunk's Errol Morris, a documentary filmmaker who likes his subjects to do the talking while he, armed with a low budget and high aspirations, attempts to visually literalize their speech.
- The result is a collection of songs that shift like sands, with cyberpunk, strings, looped beats and urbane poetry blurring the divide between rock and the experimental.
- On the other hand, it is extremely enjoyable to read especially if you like techno-fiction and are in the mood for some tongue-in-cheek cyberpunk.
- The advent of a blood-powered fuel-cell, intended for use in implanted prostheses, is a real cyberpunkian turn of affairs, rips for plot-twists regardign vampiric blood-farms powering illicit banks of icebreakers and the like. Boing Boing: May 8, 2005 - May 14, 2005 Archives