Definitions
a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies
Word origin
From cyber- + -punk, coined by American writer and software developer Bruce Bethke as the title of a 1983 short story, and later popularized by Gardner Dozois.
Used in a sentence
“The film The Matrix redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.”
“[…] cyberpunks like William Gibson, Lucious Sheperd^([sic]), Bruce Sterling […]”
“At Meredith we stayed up all night listening to doof doof cyberpunk music and I saw you cry for the first time, at four in the morning bottle of ice tea and vodka in hand I saw your real face and something changed.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Futuristic sci-fi”9 letters
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