> After the horrific events of World War II, people wanted a positive view of the future; an escape from what we had just gone through A ton of the sci-fi from

> After the horrific events of World War II, people wanted a positive view of the future; an escape from what we had just gone through A ton of the sci-fi from after WWII has cold-war undertones, nuclear fallout / post-apocalyptic, block politics, space race between US/USSR, etc. Cyber punk started at the end of the Cold War, when the total nuclear war risk was less present.