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| | Cyberpunk as a Science Fiction Genre |
 | | Cyberpunk is a literary movement, born in the 1980's, that seeks to completely integrate the realms of high tech and of pop culture, both mainstream and underground, and break down the separation between the organic and the artificial. |
 | | In cyberpunk stories' settings, there is usually a 'system' which dominates the lives of most 'ordinary' people, be it an oppressive government, a group of large, paternalistic corporations, or a fundamentalist religion. |
 | | Cyberpunk literature focuses on these people, and often on how they turn the system's technological tools to their own ends. |
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