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>Cyberpunk dates at least a decade before Neuromancer No, it doesn't. Proto-cyberpunk ideas existed, certainly (and more than 10 years before Neuromancer; you
by Sangermaine 8y ago
>Cyberpunk dates at least a decade before Neuromancer
No, it doesn't. Proto-cyberpunk ideas existed, certainly (and more than 10 years before Neuromancer; you can trace the roots back to 60s New Wave SF), but the word itself only predates the book by a year. Neuromancer was very much a crystallization of ideas that had been floating around the zeitgeist.
Or 3 years, depending on how you consider it. The word was coined by Bruce Bethke for his short story Cyberpunk, which was written in 1980 but not published until 1983. Gibson began writing Neuromancer in 1981, though it wasn't published until 1984.