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What is cyberpunk? Quickie: It's renegade son of science fiction, William Gibson's father and grandfather Phillip K. Dick (and others here will.) Its themes are the dystopian future where society is globalized, cybernetics, alienated, contrasted, in short, is the nightmare of people and a paradise for entrepreneurs (and not so distant). It is called William Gibson cyberpunk as printed in the 80's with his book Neuromancer a world where rebellion punk blended with technology and to scrap the "cyberspace "-a term coined by the-home.
L'eve Future The Future Eve (1886) Villiers De L'isle Adam
In general (as I) are tracked cyberraíces in the book of the same arribita name as the title, authored by Villiers de l'Isle Adam wrote in 1886 that was futuristic as the telephone and the phonograph to think of souls trapped in metal tubes. Why is cyberpunk? That the reading is inevitable comparison with the plot of the anime Ghost in the shell, in fact, already seen the film as a cross between Blade Runner almost plagiesca and Neoromancer to add now an android whose name is equal to a character in the anime by Mamoru Oshii.
Thomas Edison, worried about his friend Lord Ewald who comes home to ask for help because they feel cornered and can not think of another solution rather than suicide, because it is hopelessly in love with the most beautiful woman ... and more stupid (Oh! ... a few men that history has happened to us ...) Edison,
after listening to your dilemma (which lasts nearly a third of the book ....) joer has advised that the solution, with its science has been able to create the first Andrea! anatomically the most beautiful woman that has a delicious and delicate nature as the most beautiful maiden should have it, how did it? do not ask for spoilers, but the idea of \u200b\u200ba man made entirely of artificial and would deceive the most critical eye, unlike Frankenstein is a man made of trash-the birth of the first replicating fledged. Then take the next anthology of stories called "cyber-fiction" book published by Alfaguara publishing house with a very good storyteller prologue Ricardo Bernal.
(Battle Angel Alita / Gunnm) Second Variety (1952) Phillip K.
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Our beloved grandfather (rest in peace) in 1952 envisioned a future where the Cold War led the U.S. to create autonomous small devices able to repair and copy themselves called hooks, is your purpose? infiltrate behind Soviet lines and their bloody blades shred any trace of human flesh at your fingertips. But the story does not end there, just when they think that the machines make them win the war, Major Hendricks encounters in the wilderness is now Europe ashen a helpless child emaciated and her teddy bear, later discovers the gruesome history the child means a child who is a child, but "one" of the new varieties of hook ...
The muchaha that was connected (1974) James Tiptree
In 1974, an incredible prediction of GPS and broadband network, Tiptree narrates the drama of a girl described as a " aberration of the pituitary gland is hired by a huge corporation to be connected neurally (evangelion style) to the beautiful body of a teenager (which is just that, a body) and control it through the global wireless network to be a kind of Paris Hilton whose task is to wear clothes that show and eating and handling what we give away to promote products indirectly in a future where any type of advertising is strictly penalized. His dream come true beauty, happiness and luxury falls to misfortune when the inevitable psychological problem of wanting to become the girl that controls down to the reality when it is disconnected and it sees itself in the ground in a pool of blood, pus and wires attached all over his body deformed.
Lost in the memory bank (1980) John Varley
A man who is subjected to a common process where the whole brain image is copied and transported through a kind of hub holographic at the head of a lioness in Kenya's Disneyland to spend a weekend like a wild animal, unfortunately his physical body was lost and sent to nobody knows where it is found that while the protagonist has to survive and remain sane in his own mind on the computer saved the company, and everything that happens and it must keep within his own head is fascinating.
Burning Chrome (1982) William Gibson
Gibson Not for nothing is the master and master of cyberpunk. Chrome a mafia mogul and his virtual representation in cyberspace are attacked by a couple of hackers (that would be hackers today) to get all its infinite fortune to stop being petty jeans and retire as millionaires. Full descriptions of dirty streets, neon, drugs, synthetic and metallic implants but especially computers and cyberspace conceived as an ethereal world of geometric shapes that represent people and institutions of the real world. This, the first story where he was born Cyberspace is also the basis for world Sprawl trilogy : Neuromancer, Count Zero and Monalisa Overdrive .
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