Cyberpunk vs. Steampunk

Cyberpunknoun

A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.

Cyberpunknoun

(countable) A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.

Cyberpunknoun

(countable) A writer of cyberpunk fiction.

Cyberpunknoun

A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.

Cyberpunknoun

a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism

Cyberpunknoun

a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology

Cyberpunknoun

a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic compterized societies

Cyberpunk

Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order. Much of cyberpunk is rooted in the New Wave science fiction movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when writers like Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner, J. G. Ballard, Philip José Farmer and Harlan Ellison examined the impact of drug culture, technology, and the sexual revolution while avoiding the utopian tendencies of earlier science fiction.

Steampunknoun

(uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires.

Steampunknoun

(countable) A writer of steampunk fiction.

Steampunknoun

A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.

Steampunkverb

(transitive) To depict in a steampunk manner.

Steampunk

Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era or the American , where steam power remains in mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power.