cyberpunk
A science fiction genre. Basic themes include the dehumanizing effects of technology, and the accompanying societal breakdown. Think dark and dirty, with lots of wires and neon.
Cyberpunk is a postmodern dystopian genre noted for its focus on ”high tech and low life". The name is a portmanteau of cybernetics and punk, and was originally coined by American science fiction author Bruce Bethke as the title of his short Sci-Fi story Cyberpunk, written in 1980.
Cyberpunk can cover numerous themes and motifs but generally involve reflecting on the current anxieties of society and amping them up to an extreme; things like mass surveillance, corporate monopolization, climate change, mass media, artificial intelligence and any other themes can thus be accomodated by a cyberpunk setting.
For the series of the same name, see Cyberpunk (series).
Notable Cyberpunk franchises
- 2000 AD
- A.D. Police Files
- AKIRA
- Armitage III
- Appleseed
- Baldr
- Battle Angel Alita
- Black Mirror
- Blade Runner
- BLAME!
- Bubblegum Crisis
- Burst City
- Cyberpunk (series)
- Cyber City Oedo 808
- Deus Ex
- Dominion
- Dragon's Heaven
- Dredd
- Elysium
- Equilibrium
- Final Fantasy VII
- Future Cop: LAPD
- Ghost in the Shell
- Lady BattleCop
- MATRIX
- M.D. Geist
- Megazone 23
- Metal Skin Panic Madox-01
- Metalhead
- Metropolis
- Metropolis (Osamu Tezuka)
- Midnight Eye Gokuu
- Neuromancer
- Ninja Slayer
- PLUTO
- Policenauts
- Psycho-Pass
- RoboCop
- Snatcher
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Shadowrun
- STRAY
- Techno Police 21C
- Total Recall
- VA-11 Hall-A