OCPHP: What is Cyberpunk?

cyberpunk
  
  cyberpunk:  /si:'ber-puhnk/ [orig. by SF writer Bruce Bethke and/or 
  editor Gardner Dozois] n.,adj. A subgenre of SF launched in 1982 by 
  William Gibson's epoch-making novel `Neuromancer' (though its roots
  go back through Vernor Vinge's `True Names' (see the Bibliography) 
  to John Brunner's 1975 novel `The Shockwave Rider').  Gibson's near
  -total ignorance of computers and the present-day hacker culture 
  enabled him to speculate about the role of computers and hackers in
  the future in ways hackers have since found both irritatingly na"ive
  and tremendously stimulating. Gibson's work was widely imitated, in
  particular by the short-lived but innovative "Max Headroom" TV 
  series.  See cyberspace[1], ice[2], go flatline[3].

Bruce Bethke on Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk Word Definitions (SLANG)

Alt.Cyberpunk FAQ

A Cyberpunk Timeline -- published in Cyber Noodle Soup (Intro)

Hacker's View - Poem

Boston Globe Terminal Chic

The Hacker's Dictionary -Jargon File Access by Searchable Index

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