The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction 2003
DOI: 10.1017/ccol0521816262.010
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“…Any attempt to draw existing research together in order to construct a working overview of the genre's fundamental qualities, then, must acknowledge the flexibility and subjectivity of the exercise. Cyberpunk is widely regarded as a (if not the) postmodern movement in science fiction (McCaffrey 1991;McHale 1991;Booker and Thomas 2009), and is seen as a rearrangement of previous science fiction concepts, moving the genre forward while reconfiguring its most enduring ideas in new ways (Butler 2003).…”
Section: Cyberpunk and Comic Booksmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Any attempt to draw existing research together in order to construct a working overview of the genre's fundamental qualities, then, must acknowledge the flexibility and subjectivity of the exercise. Cyberpunk is widely regarded as a (if not the) postmodern movement in science fiction (McCaffrey 1991;McHale 1991;Booker and Thomas 2009), and is seen as a rearrangement of previous science fiction concepts, moving the genre forward while reconfiguring its most enduring ideas in new ways (Butler 2003).…”
Section: Cyberpunk and Comic Booksmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The phrase 'high tech, low life' is often used to capture the narratives and characters most common to cyberpunk: these are stories of criminal underworlds, street-level violence and disenfranchised citizens. Multinational commercial conglomerates dominate, if not govern, creating vast social stratification, dividing society between a super-rich elite and a huge number of the desperately poor (Senior 1996;Schaub 2001;Butler 2003). Advanced technology, however, is within reach of everyone and anyone; machines, gadgets, holograms and even robots are ubiquitous at every level of society, regardless of class or wealth.…”
Section: Cyberpunk and Comic Booksmentioning
confidence: 99%