Cyberpunk is also featured prominently in anime, Akira and Ghost in the Shell being among the most notable.

" Cyberpunk is often set in urbanized, artificial landscapes, and " city lights, receding " was used by Gibson as one of the genre's first metaphor s for cyberspace.

The science-fiction editor Gardner Dozois is generally acknowledged as the person who popularized the use of the term " cyberpunk " as a kind of literature, although Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1980 for his short story " Cyberpunk ," which was published in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

Muuss is mentioned in two books, The Cuckoo's Egg ( ISBN 0-7434-1146-3 ) and Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier ( ISBN 0-684-81862-0 ), for his role in tracking down crackers.

* Cyberpunk genre ( and Post-cyberpunk ) is frequently centered on the transitional inter-periods between Type-0 and Type-I status.

Cyberpunk 2020 is a cyberpunk role-playing game written by Mike Pondsmith and published by R. Talsorian Games.

Cyberpunk 2020 is the second edition of the original game, Cyberpunk 2013, often just called " Cyberpunk.

The basic rules system of Cyberpunk 2020 ( called the Interlock System ) is skill-based instead of level-based, with players being awarded points to be spent on their skill sets.

Because Cyberpunk 2020 is skill-based, the choice of skills around the class-specific special ability allows a wide range of character development choices including non-combatants.

This encourages a more tactically oriented and sneaky game play, which is in accordance to the rough-and-gritty ethos of the Cyberpunk genre.

* The 1994 Cyberpunk Anime series Armitage III is set in this year.

The film is also credited as a precursor to the underground Japanese Cyberpunk movement that emerged later in the decade.

The game is based heavily on the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game published by R. Talsorian Games, but also draws additional flavor from the broader cyberpunk genre.

Another social change seen coming from New Media is trends in fashion and the emergence of subcultures such as Text Speak, Cyberpunk, and various others.

* The 1990 Cyberpunk Anime Cyber City Oedo 808 is set in the year 2808.

The offices of Steve Jackson Games are also raided, and the role-playing sourcebook GURPS Cyberpunk is confiscated, possibly because the government fears it is a " handbook for computer crime ".

CyberGeneration is a follow-up to the R. Talsorian's Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game.

It is set in the year 2027, 7 years after the events in Cyberpunk 2020.

GURPS Cyberpunk is a genre toolkit for cyberpunk-themed role-playing games set in a near-future dystopia, such as that envisioned by William Gibson in his influential novel Neuromancer.

Bruce Bethke ( born 1955 ) is an American author, best known for his 1983 short story " Cyberpunk " which led to the widespread use of the term, and his novel, Headcrash.

* The eurodollar is also a fictional currency used worldwide in the setting of Cyberpunk 2020

Cyberpunk made science fiction more attractive to academics, argues Brin ; in addition, it made science fiction more profitable to Hollywood and to the visual arts generally.

* William Gibson, author, credited as the father of the Cyberpunk genre of science fiction

* Cyberpunk, a science fiction sub-genre

The Rheinmetall company name appears in some science fiction role-playing games, including Cyberpunk 2020, Hearts of Iron 2 and the role-playing video game Fallout.

Cyberpunk writers tend to use elements from hardboiled detective fiction, film noir, and postmodernist prose to describe the often nihilistic underground side of an electronic society.

It could also imply a reaction to significant post-war events: the beginning of the Cold War, the civil rights movement in the United States, postcolonialism ( Postcolonial literature ), and the rise of the personal computer ( Cyberpunk fiction and Hypertext fiction ).

Cyberpunk 2020 claims to lend itself to play in the street level, dark film noir genre, but certain aspects of the basic system can influence game sessions toward a high body-count, 1980s action movie style.

In addition to information on setting design and genre handling, Ex Machina also includes four complete game settings for gamers to choose from, each of which takes the Cyberpunk genre in its own unique direction.

the term was coined by author Bruce Bethke for his 1980 short story " Cyberpunk ".

The manuscript for GURPS Cyberpunk was confiscated although this was merely coincidence and not the actual purpose of the raid at all.

* Robo-Punks: rules for running Cyberpunk adventures, including brief systems for cybernetic implants and net-running.

They were rewritten and combined for a publication in the US as Souls In The Great Machine ( 1999 ), which, in turn, became the first volume of the Greatwinter trilogy, a unique mix of the generally anti-genres Steampunk and Cyberpunk.

She was a member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and the author of several books, including The Cyberpunk Handbook ( 1995 ) and How to Mutate and Take Over the World ( 1996 ) ISBN 0-345-39216-7.

Finally, the authors added a Cyberpunk campaign to the game with the publication of the " Earth / Cybertech Sourcebook " and two adventures for the same, " Deathwatch " and " Rotten to the Core " contemporaneous with the Cyberpunk movement of the 1990s.

CyberGeneration was originally published as a supplement for Cyberpunk, but later re-released as a fully featured game in its own right under the title CyberGeneration Revolution 2. 0.

The sourcebook describes them as wiser, more experienced and, ultimately rebels-without-a-cause no more ( CyberGeneration offers the rules to convert old Cyberpunk 2020 characters into adults for the CyberGeneration setting ).

In 1993, GURPS Cyberpunk Adventures — a collection of three RPG scenarios in the GURPS Cyberpunk line — won the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Adventure of 1992.

Their titles include the Cyberpunk 2020 series and for anime-related titles such as Dragonball Z.

Cyberpunk became wildly popular ( by RPG standards ), and received most of the company's attention for much of the rest of its lifespan.

Despite its " major " lines being on hiatus during that period, RTG still supported three licensed anime RPG lines ( Bubblegum Crisis, Armored Trooper VOTOMS and Dragonball Z ) through its ANimechaniX label and occasionally issued reprints for Mekton Z and Cyberpunk 2020.

" The Chrome Berets were founded, and are supervised by David “ Knighthawk ” Simpson, creator of Knighthawk ’ s Cyberpunk Archive, a popular fan site for the game.

There his work was discovered by Billy Idol, who consulted Frauenfelder for his Cyberpunk album.