Cyberpunk
Origin
- + punk, coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of a 1983 short story.
Full definition of cyberpunk
Noun
cyberpunk
(countable and uncountable; plural cyberpunks)- (science fiction, uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality.
- (countable) A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.The film The Matrix redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.
- (countable) A writer of cyberpunk fiction.
- 1989, SPIN magazine (volume 4, number 10, January 1989, page 50)... cyberpunks like William Gibson, Lucious Sheperd, Bruce Sterling ...