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"What has allowed so many Psychopathic Personalities to rise so high in corporations and government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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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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