Cyberpunk

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Cyberpunk is a subgenre within Science Fiction. Stories on this genre are about: computers, robots, hackers and the impact of an information society on individuals and often the alienation advanced technology poses on the individual. In some stories, like in William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy, humanity has got to a technological singularity and thus, to true AI. The heroes are usually hackers, but they are not heroes as in classical stories. Authors of this genre are:

• Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Virtual Light, Idoru, Burning Chrome, among others, by William Gibson.
• Wyrm, by Mark Fabi.
• The Matrix trilogy of movies and Animatrix, by The Wachowski brothers.