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cyberpunk  

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  • Cyberpunk is a term used to describe a subgenre of science fiction popularized in the mid-1980s by novels such as William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) and films such as Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982). The word was coined in a short story by Bruce Bethke titled “Cyberpunk” and published in 1983. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender in Media; Cyberpunk]

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