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"We each live in a somewhat unique world of our own psychological content."
- Philip K. Dick
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| Cyberpunk | ||
| A person who codes without concern about law or social norms; the term is used exclusively to name a sf genre of stories featuring such persons. |
As far as I know, this is the first use of the term, but only in the title.
| Title only. |
| Technovelgy from Cyberpunk!,
by Bruce Bethke. Published by Amazing Stories in 1983 Additional resources -
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Here's a very early use of the term, in The Light Fantastic, a book review column by Orson Scott Card, published in Worlds of If in 1986:
Another early use by Bruce Sterling:
William Gibson’s NECROMANCER won just about every award they give, primarily because of Gibson’s vigorous style and his believable, well-extrapolated near-future setting. Supposedly he is representative of a style of writing called “Cyberpunk” because of its melding of artificial intelligence with burned-out, drug-blown punk culture. The trouble is that when you look for other exemplars of the Cyberpunk movement, nobody but Gibson really belongs. It ain’t every writer who can be a whole movement all by himself.
But of all the labels pasted on and peeled throughout the early Eighties, one has stuck: cyberpunk.
(Mirrorshades by Bruce Sterling)
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