Original CyberpunkMovies: Blade Runner, Freejack, Total Recall, Johnny Mnemonic
Novels: Neuromancer, Snow Crash
Six categories of Cyberpunk
Classification
In my opinion cyberpunk and dark sf novels and movies can be categorized in six groups.
Many of them belong to more than one group, so I classified them according to their most
dominating theme or atmosphere.
Original Cyberpunk
Movies: Blade Runner, Freejack, Total Recall, Johnny Mnemonic
Novels: Neuromancer, Snow Crash
Post-apocalyptic
CP/Dark SF
Movies: Mad Max I-III, Waterworld, Steel Dawn, The Juggers, Slipstream, the future scenes
in Terminator
Novels: Dune (the story is set after the human revolution against robots)
CP/Dark SF with focus
on urban setting
Movies: Strange Days, The Crow, Split Second, Escape from NY/LA, Eraser
Novels: Random Acts of Senseless Violence
CP/Dark SF with focus
on totalitarian regimes
Movies: Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Wedlock, Deadlocked, The Fortress, TC2000
Novels: 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451
CP/Dark SF with focus
on tech (hacking/VR)
Movies: Sneakers, Hackers, The Lawnmower Man, Virtuosity, Hologram Man
Novels: the biogaphies of Mark Abene, Kevin Mitnick, Pengo etc. !
CP/Dark SF with focus
on cybernetics/genetics
Movies: American Cyborg, Terminator I,II, Prototype, Nemesis, Circuitry Man, Terminal
Force
Novels: Asimov's novels
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