# Whatever happened to cyberpunk science fiction?

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**Created:** [June 8, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-cyberpunk-science-fiction/788412 "2017-06-08T02:34:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-cyberpunk-science-fiction/788412/1 "2017-06-08T02:34:15Z")

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I was re-reading William Gibson’s _Neuromancer_ on the weekend, considering all the things he got right (advances in biotechnology, the Internet, cashless society, the rise of artificial intelligence) and all of the things he got wrong (no mobile phones and the high degree of connectivity, no Soviet Union). It then occurred to me that I hadn’t seen a new cyberpunk novel in a long time, and perhaps that is because, with my lazy non-inquisitorial book buying habits, there doesn’t seem to be a successful cyberpunk novel in some time.

Are we now living in a post-cyberpunk era, and the genre is now obsolete?

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**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-cyberpunk-science-fiction/788412/2 "2017-06-08T02:45:13Z")

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Didn’t we just do this a month ago? Granted, the thread title didn’t actually include the term “cyberpunk”:  
[Anyone up for a philosophical discussion about science fiction?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=824845&highlight=cyberpunk)

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-cyberpunk-science-fiction/788412/3 "2017-06-08T02:45:30Z")

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[We just did this thread about a month ago](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=824845). Good answers there.

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**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-cyberpunk-science-fiction/788412/4 "2017-06-08T02:48:40Z")

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Jinx!

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**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-cyberpunk-science-fiction/788412/5 "2017-06-08T07:04:24Z")

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Oh. Whoops.