The word "cyberpunk" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone or something that is associated with computer-hacking subculture, or a genre of science fiction and a fashion genre that blends punk and cybernetics. Example: "He was dressed in the latest cyberpunk fashion, sporting an array of electronic gadgets."
It's a trick he repeats with a little more brightness on the single Retrograde, whose backing is like some cyberpunk version of Ray Ellis's orchestral arrangements for Holiday.
AS GIANT welding robots go about their business in a modern car factory, the scene looks like a cyberpunk vision of Dante's "Inferno".
But anyone else will find them hard to leave alone.HOMAGE TO GAIA.By James Lovelock.Oxford University Press; 416 pages; $13.95 and £19.99Click to buy from Amazon.co.ukThirty years before cyberpunk science-fiction authors started mixing low-life and high-tech, James Lovelock was bringing deep-frozen animals back to life with microwave equipment bought second-hand in London's red-light district.
There have been films, notably Mona Lisa (1986), and several novels, including William Gibson's cyberpunk Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988) and Canadian novelist Rachel Wyatt's Mona Lisa Smiled a Little (1999), linked to the painting.
Other members of the cyberpunk school include Sterling, John Shirley, and Rudy Rucker.
Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner (1982), based on Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), prefigured the 1980s phenomenon known as cyberpunk.
The word cyberpunk was coined by writer Bruce Bethke, who wrote a story with that title in 1982.
All Tomorrow's Parties (1999) concerns a clairvoyant cyberpunk who labours to keep a villain from dominating the world.
The explosive growth of the computer industry in the 1990s and the new forums for expressing alienation presented by the Internet gave cyberpunk writing a bracing sense of immediate relevancy.
March 17 , 1948Conway, South Carolina William Gibson, in full William Ford Gibson (born March 17 , 1948 Conway, South Carolina, U.S). American-Canadian writer of science fiction who was the leader of the genre's cyberpunk movement.
April 14 , 1954Brownsville, Texas Bruce Sterling, (born April 14 , 1954 Brownsville, Texas, U.S.), American author of science fiction who in the mid-1980s emerged as a proponent of the subgenre known as cyberpunk, notably as the editor of Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986).
