Cyberpunk

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Cyberpunk is a genre of science fiction focused primarily on the lives of people living in high-technology near-future societies. Perhaps the most well known author associated with cyberpunk is novelist William Gibson, who has been called the father of the cyberpunk. Gibson's first novel Neuromancer and the subsequent follow-ups that constitute the Sprawl Trilogy are considered by many to be the foundation for the entire genre. More recently the genre has seen an increase in popularity due to works such as Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell and the Wachowski brother's trilogy of Matrix films.