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Cyberpunk vs. Steampunk

Cyberpunk and Steampunk Definitions

Cyberpunk

Fast-paced science fiction involving futuristic computer-based societies.

Steampunk

Science fiction set in an alternate version of the historic past, especially 19th-century England, and involving advanced technologies usually based on steam power.

Cyberpunk

A subgenre of science fiction which focuses on computer or information technology and virtual reality juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.

Steampunk

An aesthetic style inspired by steampunk fiction.

Cyberpunk

(countable) A cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life.
The film “The Matrix” redefined what a cyberpunk looked like.

Steampunk

(uncountable) A subgenre of science fiction that depicts advanced technology combined with Victorian style and aesthetics, such as steam-powered machines and vehicles, visible gears and screws and people dressed in 19th-century attires. Category:en:Alternate history
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Cyberpunk

(countable) A writer of cyberpunk fiction.

Steampunk

(countable) A writer of steampunk fiction.

Cyberpunk

A musical genre related to the punk movement that makes use of electronic sounds such as synthesizers.

Steampunk

A person cosplaying as a steampunk character.

Cyberpunk

A programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism

Steampunk

(transitive) To depict in a steampunk manner.
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Cyberpunk

A writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology

Cyberpunk

A genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic compterized societies

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