Cyberpunk Science
Fiction Style
You've tasted it before, probably many times: "in rock video, in the hacker underground, in the jarring street tech of hip-hop and scratch music, in the synthesizer rock of London and Tokyo".
-- Bruce Sterling, in Intro to "Mirrorshades";"The cyberpunks did not originate their vision, but picked up bits and pieces of what was actually coming true, and fed it back to the readers who were already living in Gibson's Sprawl, whether they knew it or not."
-- Steve Brown
These papers try to define cyberpunk as literary/science fiction style:
- Cyberpunk Literary Style
- What is Cyberpunk as literary style?
- The Style That
Defines Cyberpunk
- By Patrick A. Bonner.
- Cyberpunk Definitional
Paper
- By Todd English <toddenglish@mail.utexas.edu>
- The Cyberpunks Reinvent Science Fiction
- An essay by Daniel Riche.
- Towards a Definition of Cyberpunk
- Motifs of cyberpunk science fiction genre: posthumanism, postindustrialism,
postnationalism.
- Blade Running to Cyberpunk
- What is and what isn't cyberpunk science fiction?
- Cyberpunk Not Defined as "Anything That Cyberpunks Write"
- Everything that "cyberpunk gurus" write is not cyberpunk.
- Authors' Definitions
- Various excerpts from cyberpunk science fiction authors about
what cyberpunk is.
- The Future in Cyberpunk
- Defining characteristics of the cyberpunk literary genre.
By Serhat Guven. - Cyberpunk: Today Squared
- The concept of cyberpunk. Today vs. the future.
By Michael Gunderson. - Cyberpunk's a Label Like Any Other
- What this "cyberpunk" thing really is? Is it a genre? Is it
a passing fad? Is it a one-man literary wrecking squad? And,
should it matter?
By Jason Snell. - Virtual is Real
- Postmodern Vision of the World in the Short Stories of the
Sprawl Series by William Gibson. An essay by Paul "nEo" Martin.
- Cyberpunk and the Post-Industrial World
- The post-industrial world as a setting for cyberpunk literature.
- Cyberpunk and Neuromanticism
- An article by Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, published in 1996
in Mississippi Review.
- Dark Images of Cyberpunk
- Cyberpunk, an entirely different genre of science fiction,
placing more emphasis on the darker future of life on Earth.
By Carlo Savino. - Razor girls
- Genre and gender in cyberpunk fiction. An essay by Lauraine
Leblanc.
- The Women of Cyberpunk
- Burgundy Nails and Rose Tattoos.
- Feminism and Cyberpunk
- How feminism in cyberpunk fiction differs from "mainstream" feminism.
Links
- Writing about Cyberpunk
- Course in University of Texas about Cyberpunk Science Fiction.
Lectured by Tonya Browsing and Mafalda Stasi.