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Cyberpunk as Naturalist Science Fiction.

The article explores the cyberpunk literary movement in the 1980s and 1990s as a naturalist science fiction (SF). Cyberpunk refers to the science fiction subgenre that maps the social relations generated by information and computer technologies. The role played by cyberpunk SF in perpetuating the tr...

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Published in:Studies in American Naturalism Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 93 - 109
Main Author: Den Tandt, Christophe
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: International Theodore Dreiser Society Summer2013
Subjects:
Cyberpunk culture
Cyberpunk fiction
Literary movements
Science fiction
Computer engineering
Naturalists
Naturalism (Literary period)
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Summary:The article explores the cyberpunk literary movement in the 1980s and 1990s as a naturalist science fiction (SF). Cyberpunk refers to the science fiction subgenre that maps the social relations generated by information and computer technologies. The role played by cyberpunk SF in perpetuating the tradition impelling realist/naturalist artists to provide a chart of new stages of social and industrial development.