1. Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive and

2. N E U R O M A N C E R W I L L I A M G I B S O N N E U R O M A N C E R W I L L I A M G I B S O N “A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.” “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

3. William Gibson Born in 1948 “Gene Wolfe once said that being an only child whose parents are dead is like being the sole survivor of drowned Atlantis. There was a whole civilization there, an entire continent, but it's gone. And you alone remember.” Early trauma Became “hyper-bookish”, though performed poorly in school. Moved to Canada Neuromancer, 1984 Count Zero, 1986 MLO, 1988 Hippie

4. // Cyberpunk, the literary movement: /* usually of futuristic dystopia, immensely powerful * organizations ruling masses of the ignorant */ /* existing in the underworld of this society, * an amoral protagonist works the system, eventually coming * to challenge the powers-that-be */

5. Inspiration of Cyberpunk: Punk Culture Technology Popular Culture

6. Punk Culture Expressed in music, fashion, lifestyle Born in 70s England Movement defined by “otherness”, or living on the outside

7. Technology Gibson first wrote of cyberspace in 1981 - Wrote Neuromancer never having touched a computer - First IBM PC released 1978 - Apple IIc released 1984 - ads served as inspiration for cyberspace decks

8. Popular Culture Hard-boiled detective novels, film noir, anime, post-modernist philosophy Authors: J.G. Ballard, William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler

9. Godly Godless

10. Like other science fiction subgenres, cyberpunk has a devoted cadre of fan(atics) :

11. Is this what we’re becoming? Presentation assembled by: Eric Christiansen William Wanjohi