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

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.

* Cyberpunk author William Gibson has a cameo appearance as himself.

" 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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

*" Venus ", a track on Billy Idol's 1993 album Cyberpunk

* 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.

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.

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.

The Cyberpunk 2020 supplement Rache Bartmoss ' Brainware Blowout featured rules on using Netrunner cards instead of the RPG's existing system to simulate netrunning during game sessions.

* Official GURPS Cyberpunk page on the SJ Games website

Bethke's collected thoughts on the cyberpunk subculture are collected on his website, in an essay entitled " The Etymology of Cyberpunk ".

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.

They started publishing games on their own, releasing licensed Cyberpunk 2020 supplements and two Mekton books in the early 1990s.

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

* Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier ( with John Markoff ) ( Simon & Schuster, 1991 ) ISBN 0-684-81862-0

* Mekton II ( 1987 )-converted Mekton to run on the Interlock System, later used in Cyberpunk 2020.

Their artistic videos draw on influences ranging from Cyberpunk through George Lucas ' THX 1138 to Zen Buddhism.

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.

Gunman Chronicles, taking place at an unknown time in the distant future, contains many themes, most notably the design focuses on Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Futuristic and Western.

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.

* 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

" Postmodern Science Fiction and Cyberpunk ", retrieved 2006-07-19.

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.

* 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.