post-cyberpunk

(adj.)
Referring to science fiction that employs many of the themes associated with cyberpunk, especially the effects of highly advanced computer technologies on societies, but generally lacking the alienation and dystopianism characteristic of cyberpunk. Also as n.

• 1990 Whole Earth Rev. Fall № 61/1: A high quality post-cyberpunk science-fiction magazine. Good writing, great artwork.
• 1991 N. Spinrad Isaac Asimov's SF Mag. mid-Dec. № 167/1: Midas is right out there on the post-cyberpunk cutting edge and then some, with its unique and gritty extrapolation of the down and dirty Third World realities interfaced with an exploration of the moral and spiritual implications of virtual replicated personalities confronting an all-too-real world.
• 2000 G. Dozois Michael Swanwick: Chameleon Eludes Net M. Swanwick Moon Dogs № 12: Swanwick is now widely accepted as having written one of the two main "Post-Cyberpunk" works with Stations of the Tide (the other is Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash) — but [...] you can see that he was writing stuff that resembles "post-cyberpunk" then, before the Cyberpunk Revolution had even really gotten underway.
• 2002 J. VanderMeer Toxicology Why Should I Cut Your Throat? (2004) № 188: "Tales" being an appropriate word for Aylett's post-cyberpunk technology-invested stylizations.
• 2004 B. Stableford Historical Dictionary of SF Literature № 82: The "punk" elements of the thriller format were carried forward into a "post-cyberpunk" phase that relied even more heavily on the cynical tone of "noirish" crime fiction.

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