This page is about the subgenre of science fiction. For the 2020 video game, see Cyberpunk 2077.
Cyberpunk is a kind of science fiction. The Cyberpunk genre began in the early 1980s. Bruce Bethke made this word for his 1980 short story "Cyberpunk" by putting together two words: "cybernetics" and "punk rock".Soon, people used this word to describe William Gibson's book, Neuromancer.