Editing Cyberpunk (section)

== Background ==
Lawrence Person has attempted to define the content and ethos of the cyberpunk literary movement stating:

{{blockquote|Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous [[datasphere]] of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body.|author= [[Lawrence Person]]<ref name="Person">
{{cite web |url= http://slashdot.org/features/99/10/08/2123255.shtml
|title= Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto
|author-link= Lawrence Person |last= Person |first= Lawrence
|date= October 8, 1999
|work= [[Slashdot]]}} Originally published in ''Nova Express'', issue 16 (1998).
</ref>
}}

Cyberpunk plots often involve conflict between [[artificial intelligence]], [[hackers]], and [[megacorporation]]s, and tend to be set in a near-future [[Earth]], rather than in the far-future settings or galactic vistas found in novels such as [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[Foundation (Isaac Asimov novel)|Foundation]]'' or [[Frank Herbert]]'s ''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]''.<ref name="Graham">{{cite book |last= Graham |first= Stephen |title= The Cybercities Reader |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=6Oe1m073C-0C&pg=RA2-PT289 |publisher= [[Routledge]] |year= 2004 |page= 389 |isbn= 978-0-415-27956-7}}</ref> The settings are usually [[post-industrial]] [[dystopia]]s but tend to feature extraordinary cultural ferment and the use of technology in ways never anticipated by its original inventors ("the street finds its own uses for things").<ref name="Gibson, William">{{cite book |first=William |last=Gibson |title=Burning Chrome |year=1981}}</ref> Much of the genre's atmosphere echoes [[film noir]], and written works in the genre often use techniques from [[detective fiction]].<ref>{{cite book |last= Gillis |first= Stacy |title= The Matrix Trilogy:Cyberpunk Reloaded |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=bGi9FB3uEXkC&pg=PA75 |publisher= Wallflower Press |year= 2005 |page= 75 |isbn= 978-1-904764-32-8}}</ref> There are sources who view that cyberpunk has shifted from a literary movement to a mode of science fiction due to the limited number of writers and its transition to a more generalized cultural formation.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Cyberpunk and Visual Culture|last1=Murphy|first1=Graham|last2=Schmeink|first2=Lars|publisher=Routledge|year=2017|isbn=978-1-351-66515-5|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars|last=Landon|first=Brooks|publisher=Routledge|year=2014|isbn=978-0-415-93888-4|location=New York|pages=164}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded|last=Gillis|first=Stacy|publisher=Wallflower Press|year=2005|isbn=978-1-904764-33-5|location=London|pages=3}}</ref>