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Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk. Cyberpunk Derivatives. Characterized 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. Neuromancer by William Gibson is The First major work coined under the Cyberpunk genre.

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Cyberpunk

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  1. Cyberpunk Cyberpunk Derivatives Characterized 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

  2. Neuromancer by William Gibson is The First major work coined under the Cyberpunk genre The novel tells the story of a washed-up computer hacker hired by a mysterious employer to pull off the ultimate hack.

  3. Blade Runner

  4. Anime Cyberpunk Two of the Most Influential Movies in the Cyberpunk Genre are Akira and Ghost in the Shell

  5. Cyberpunk also gets it inspiration from hard-boiled detective novels, film noir and postmodernist prose

  6. 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 the gun, which in other surroundings might have been construed as an insult but was standard business practice here in the Leased Territories. When he was satisfied that this wasn’t a stick-up, he theezed Bud’s forehead with a spray gun, scalped back a flap of skin, and pushed a machine, mounted on a delicate robot arm like a dental tool, over Bud’s forehead. The arm homed in automatically on the old gun, moving with alarming speed and determination. Bud, who was a little jumpy at the best of times because of his muscle stimulators, flinched a little. But the robot arm was a hundred times faster than he was and plucked out the old gun unerringly. The proprietor was watching all of this on a screen and had nothing to do except narrate: “The hole in your skull’s kind of rough, so the machine is reaming it out to a larger bore—okay, now here comes the new gun.”

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

  8. The Steampunk Aesthetic Also 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

  9. Teslapunk

  10. Atompunkpre-digital 1945-1965 Superheroes The rise of military/industrial powers with a retro-futuristic world. Atomic Age, Space Age, mid-century paranoia, Neo-Soviet

  11. Dieselpunk1920-1945 Sometimes called Decopunk for its Art Deco Style.

  12. The Dark Knight

  13. Biopunk • Emerged in 1990s • Characters products of human experimentation • Totalitarian governments or mega corporations misuse biotech for social control or profit

  14. More Derivatives Nanopunk Elfpunk Mythpunk Nowpunk Splatterpunk

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