Cyberpunk is a postmodern science fiction genre noted for its focus on " high tech and low life.

* 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 ).

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 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 ).

Products include Cyberpunk 2020 ; Mekton Zeta, an anime RPG ; Castle Falkenstein, a Sorcery and Steampunk RPG ; Teenagers from Outer Space, an anime universal setting, the first generic anime RPG until the creation of Big Eyes, Small Mouth using the Tri-Stat system ; and several RPGS based around anime Bubblegum Crisis, Armored Trooper Votoms and Dragonball Z.

The Gunmen's Federal Starbase, Aeronautica, and the Facility at the Ferrin Moon harbor a vast collection of Techno-Futuristic and Cyberpunk themes and architecture, although they also seem to contain many designs, most notably textures and architecture, that bear striking resemblance in appearance to some of the works of the Swiss artist ; H. R.

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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 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.

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.

Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller generally follows the conventional gameplay rules of point-and-click adventures, though with a particular focus on solving codes.

* In R. Talsorian's follow up to Cyberpunk 2020, Cybergeneration, one of the player archetype Yo-Gangs was called the " Arcorunner ".

" The name was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story " Cyberpunk ," published in 1983.

Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than the far-future settings or galactic vistas found in novels such as Isaac Asimov's Foundation or Frank Herbert's Dune.

Video games, board games, and tabletop role-playing games, such as Cyberpunk 2020 ( created by Mike Pondsmith ) and Shadowrun, often feature storylines that are heavily influenced by cyberpunk writing and movies.

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.

Cyberpunk depicts the world as a dark, sinister place with networked computers dominating every aspect of life.

Cyberpunk can be intended to disquiet readers and call them to action.

Cyberpunk stories have also been seen as fictional forecasts of the evolution of the Internet.

Cyberpunk further inspired many professional writers who were not among the " original " cyberpunks to incorporate cyberpunk ideas into their own works, such as George Alec Effinger's When Gravity Fails.

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Cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson credits the film as an influence on his novel Neuromancer.

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 incorporated several of New Wave's " ancestors ," namely Burroughs and Alfred Bester and partially embraced New Wave proponents Harlan Ellison and Samuel R. Delany.

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

Cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling discussed the affair in his non-fiction book The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier.

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

* Tisiphone appears as a major supporting character in the WebMage series of Cyberpunk fantasy novels by Kelly McCullough.

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

While frequently focused on how the concepts of " Transhumanism " and " Singularity " will eventually overcome the problems that have, up until now, been endemic to human nature, Cyberpunk subverts this to describe the Dystopian side about should a civilization " self-destruct " in the process achieving Type-I status.

We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

Since German was the lingua franca of science ( and especially of psychiatry ) at that time, Kraepelin's use of Alzheimer's disease in a textbook made the name famous.

The development of transistors made electronic analog computers practical, and until digital computers had developed sufficiently, they continued to be commonly used in science and industry.

Thus, in the Hindu schools, if a claim was made that could not be substantiated by appeal to the textual canon, it would be considered as ridiculous as a claim that the sky was green and, conversely, a claim which could not be substantiated via conventional means might still be justified through textual reference, differentiating this from the epistemology of modern science.

He made major contributions to logic, but logic for him encompassed much of that which is now called epistemology and philosophy of science.

Between July 1898 and 1901 the Romanian professor Gheorghe Marinescu made several science films in his neurology clinic in Bucharest: The walking troubles of organic hemiplegy ( 1898 ), The walking troubles of organic paraplegies ( 1899 ), A case of hysteric hemiplegy healed through hypnosis ( 1899 ), The walking troubles of progressive locomotion ataxy ( 1900 ) and Illnesses of the muscles ( 1901 ).

was conferred upon Brewster by Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 1815 he was made a member of the Royal Society of London, and received the Copley medal ; in 1818 he received the Rumford Medal of the society ; and in 1816 the French Institute awarded him one-half of the prize of three thousand francs for the two most important discoveries in physical science made in Europe during the two preceding years.

In 2012, he was awarded the Erasmus Prize, an annual award for a person who has made an exceptional contribution to European culture, society or social science, " for his ability to translate the cultural significance of science and technology to a broad audience.

Robert Silverberg said that Donald Wollheim was " one of the most significant figures in 20th century American science fiction publishing ", adding, " A plausible case could be made that he was the most significant figure — responsible in large measure for the development of the science fiction paperback, the science fiction anthology, and the whole post-Tolkien boom in fantasy fiction.

Some contend that the amendment devastated American science, since ARPA / DARPA was a major funding source for basic science projects of the time ; the National Science Foundation never made up the difference as expected.

Since the late 1980s, the field has been revived in the wake of progress made in the related fields of psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary psychology, and cognitive science.

Electrical phenomena have been studied since antiquity, though advances in the science were not made until the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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In 1917 Columbia established the Lincoln School of Teachers College “ as a laboratory for the working out of an elementary and secondary curriculum which shall eliminate obsolete material and endeavor to work up in usable form material adapted to the needs of modern living .” ( Cremin, 282 ) Based on Flexner ’ s demand that the modern curriculum “ include nothing for which an affirmative case can not be made out ” ( Cremin, 281 ) the new school organized its activities around four fundamental fields: science, industry, aesthetics and civics.

This Wöhler Myth, as historian of science Peter J. Ramberg called it, originated from a popular history of chemistry published in 1931, which, " ignoring all pretense of historical accuracy, turned Wöhler into a crusader who made attempt after attempt to synthesize a natural product that would refute vitalism and lift the veil of ignorance, until ' one afternoon the miracle happened '".