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What Is Cyberpunk? Not What You Think

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Brian Niemeier
Oct 17, 2025
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Ask the average pop culture consumer what “cyberpunk” means, and you’ll get some variation of the same stock answer: rain-slick streets, flickering signage written in kanji, a trench-coated loner hacking a corporate mainframe from a phone booth while street gangs jacked up on designer drugs war for control of a Skid Row street corner.

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