Star Wars is a movie that put a dent in film history for its genius and the imagination of a world made out of robots that are part human that fight each other. It is still an empire that reigns today that also has very specific fans. From the ideas in the trilogy and the large outcome of interest in the movies, Cyberpunk was born. Cyperpunk is a particular type of book genre that started in 1985 that created a new type of Science Fiction. It was a science fiction that we based around the possibilities of human development and modification through computers and technological devices. Unlike many book genres, the movement and interest in the genre was done in a more proactive fashion. While romance and adventure genres were written and made popular on their own, Cyberpunk used a much hands on effort using an article called "Cheap Truth." This article encouraged everyone to start writing this type of drama and the only requirements, as Bruce Sterling puts it, were for it to be 'good' and 'alive' and readable.' This shows a very particular and rare movement in our history that calls for the common man to write books on their fantasies of technological advancement over humans. Just as history repeats itself, the call for the common man to put a dent into this type of genre failed because many argued that writing a book requires practice and theory.
Sterling, Bruce. (1998).
Cyberpunk in the Nineties. Available:
http://www.streettech.com/bcp/BCPtext/Manifestos/CPInThe90s.html. Last accessed 7th October 2011.
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