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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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Publicado en:Studies in American Naturalism Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 93 - 109
Autor principal: Den Tandt, Christophe
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: International Theodore Dreiser Society Summer2013
Materias:
Cyberpunk culture
Cyberpunk fiction
Literary movements
Science fiction
Computer engineering
Naturalists
Naturalism (Literary period)
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Sumario: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.