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.
I have to pushback ands say that SciFi is a genre. It may not be in the eyes of those who write, the authors, but its how your customer base see's things that matters and to them SciFi is a genre and cyberpunk would be a sub-genre of ScFi.
Thanks for these excellent articles! They always make me think about things in a different way.
"You best start believing in cyberpunk stories, Miss Turner... you're in one!"
I have to pushback ands say that SciFi is a genre. It may not be in the eyes of those who write, the authors, but its how your customer base see's things that matters and to them SciFi is a genre and cyberpunk would be a sub-genre of ScFi.