The Evolution of Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a sub-genre of science fiction that features advanced science and technology in an urban, dystopian future. On one side you have powerful mega-corporations and private security forces, and on the other you have the dark and gritty underworld of illegal trade, gangs, drugs, and vice. In between all of this is politics, corruption, and social upheaval.

1968-01-01 12:18:29

Do Androids dream of electric sleep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (retitled Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in some later printings) is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. First published in 1968, the novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth's life has been greatly damaged by nuclear global war. Most animal species are endangered or extinct from extreme radiation poisoning, so that owning an animal is now a sign of status and empathy, an attitude encouraged towards animals. The book served as the primary basis for the 1982 film Blade Runner. (Wikipedia, 2016)

1982-06-25 12:18:29

Release of Blade Runner

A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth. Blade Runner is considered one of the earliest and most influential cyberpunk films.It can be classified as a cyberpunk film because it depicts a near-future urban dystopia where science and technology have progressed to a dangerous level, alongside terrible environmental degradation and societal collapse.

1982-07-01 12:18:29

Burning Chrome

"Burning Chrome" is a short story, written by William Gibson and first published in Omni in July 1982. Gibson first read the story at a science fiction convention in Denver, Colorado in the autumn of 1981, to an audience of four people. It was later nominated for a Nebula Award in 1983 and collected with the rest of Gibson's early short fiction in a 1986 volume of the same name (Wikipedia, 2016).

1984-07-01 12:18:29

Neuromancer

Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, a seminal work in the cyberpunk genre. Gibson is considered the founder of Cyberpunk.

1988-01-01 12:18:29

Cyberpunk 2020

Cyberpunk, mainly known by its second edition title Cyberpunk 2020, is a cyberpunk role-playing game written by Mike Pondsmith and published by R. Talsorian Games in 1988 (Wikipedia, 2016).

1999-04-08 12:18:29

The Matrix

The Matrix is a 1999 American-Australian neo-noir science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowskis. The Matrix depicts a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality called "the Matrix", created by sentient machines to subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Computer programmer "Neo" learns this truth and is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, which involves other people who have been freed from the "dream world" (Wikipedia, 2016).

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