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Cyberpunk 2077. Cyberpunk 2077 is a 2020 action role-playing game developed by CD Projekt Red, and published by CD Projekt, and based on Mike Pondsmith's Cyberpunk tabletop game series. The plot is set in the fictional metropolis of Night City, California, within the dystopian Cyberpunk universe. The player assumes the role of V (voiced by ...
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and ...
Cyberpunk is a tabletop role-playing game in the dystopian science fiction genre, written by Mike Pondsmith and first published by R. Talsorian Games in 1988. It is typically referred to by its second or fourth edition names, Cyberpunk 2020 and Cyberpunk Red, in order to distinguish it from the cyberpunk genre after which it is named.
Preceded by. "Burning Chrome" (1982) Followed by. Count Zero (1986) Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson. Considered one of the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, it is the only novel to win the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. [1]
Single-player. VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action (stylized as VA-11 HALL-A; sometimes simply Valhalla) is a 2016 visual novel developed by Venezuelan studio Sukeban Games and published by Ysbryd Games. The game was initially released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on June 21, 2016, and ports were later released for PlayStation ...
Born into a military family, Mike Pondsmith was the son of a psychologist and an Air Force officer, [4] who traveled around the world with the U.S. Air Force for the first 18 years of his life. [5] He graduated from the University of California, Davis with a B.A. in graphic design and a B.S. in behavioral psychology. [3][6]: 207.
The cyberpunk world is dystopian, that is, it is the antithesis of utopian visions, very frequent in science fiction produced in the mid-twentieth century, typified by the world of Star Trek, although incorporating some of these utopias. It is sometimes generically defined as "cyberpunk-fantasy" or "cyberfantasy" a work of a fantasy genre that ...
Steampunk. Original illustration of Jules Verne 's Nautilus engine room. "Maison tournante aérienne" (aerial rotating house) by Albert Robida for his book Le Vingtième Siècle, a 19th-century conception of life in the 20th century. Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired ...