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history of cyberpunk
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Samuel R. Delany
The roots of cyberpunk extend past Bethke’s tale to the technological fiction of the 1940s and ’50s, to the writings of Samuel R. Delany . -
Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling wrote the science fiction that addressed the social and scientific concerns of the day -
the origin of the cyberpunk
Bruce Bethke coined the word of cyberpunk and wrote a story with that title in 1982. He derived the term from the words cybernetics, the science of replacing human functions with computerized ones -
the famous father of the cyberpunk
William Gibson wrote the novel Neuromancer, however, did cyberpunk take off as a movement within the genre. -
renowned writers
John Shirley,Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling are all the renowned writers of cyberpunk.
