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Cyberpunk
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What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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I think Hardwired is still one of the purest cyberpunk experiences out there, and if anything, the story is actually more relevant now than it was then. We draw closer to that dystopia every day.
And yeah - that reprint cover is awful.
The weirdest thing about it to me is that it appears that part of the goal was to try to tone it down a bit and make it more "realistic," but the original cover, cheesy though it is, is actually the more realistic of the two. Cowboy and Sarah, on the original, actually look pretty much exactly like they were described in the book. Sarah isn't even on the reprint, and Cowboy looks nothing like the way he's described.