| Genre | Science fiction |
| Origin | 1960s |
| Themes | Alienation • Corruption • Social inequality • Transhumanism • Virtual reality |
| Setting | Dystopian future • High technology • Urban • Megacorporations |
| Impact on | Real-world technology • Politics • Fashion • Artificial intelligence • Internet • Ethics of human enhancement |
| Subgenres | Dystopia • Tech-noir • Post-cyberpunk |
| Influences | Cold War • Space Age • Film noir • Counterculture |
| Variations | Cyberprep • Solarpunk • Biopunk • Nanopunk • Steampunk • Dieselpunk • Atompunk • Decopunk • Raypunk • Raygun Gothic • Clockspeed |
| Representative works | Neuromancer by William Gibson • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick |
