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“A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.”

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

William Gibson

Born in 1948

“Gene Wolfe once said that being an only child whose parents are dead is like being the sole survivor of drowned Atlantis. There was a whole civilization there, an entire continent, but it's gone. And you alone remember.”

Early trauma

Became “hyper-bookish”, though performed poorly in school.

Moved to Canada

Neuromancer, 1984

Count Zero, 1986

MLO, 1988

Hippie

// Cyberpunk, the literary movement:

/* usually of futuristic dystopia, immensely powerful * organizations ruling masses of the ignorant */

/* existing in the underworld of this society, * an amoral protagonist works the system, eventually coming * to challenge the powers-that-be */

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Popular Culture

Punk Culture

Expressed in music, fashion, lifestyle

Born in 70s England

Movement defined by “otherness”, or living on the outside

Technology

Gibson first wrote of cyberspace in 1981 - Wrote Neuromancer never having touched a computer - First IBM PC released 1978 - Apple IIc released 1984 - ads served as inspiration for cyberspace decks

Popular Culture

Hard-boiled detective novels, film noir, anime, post-modernist philosophy

Authors: J.G. Ballard, William Burroughs,

Thomas Pynchon, Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler

<= The Spectrum of Morality =>

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Like other science fiction subgenres,cyberpunk has a devoted cadre

of fan(atics):

Is this what we’re becoming?

Presentation assembled by: Eric Christiansen William Wanjohi