Post-Cyberpunk

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Typical postcyberpunk stories continue the focus on a ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information and cybernetic augmentation of the human body, but without the assumption of dystopia. Good examples are Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age and Bruce Sterling's Holy Fire. 

Like all categories discerned within science fiction, the boundaries of postcyberpunk are likely to be fluid or ill defined.

Cyberprep is a term with a very similar meaning to postcyberpunk. The word is a portmanteau combining "cybernetics" and "preppy", reflecting its divergence from the punk elements of cyberpunk. A cyberprep world assumes that all the technological advancements of cyberpunk speculation have taken place but life is happy rather than gritty and dangerous. Since society is leisure-driven, uploading is more of an art form or a medium of entertainment while advanced body modifications are used for sports and pleasure.

Like cyberpunk, but this subgenre features protagonists attempting to halt or reverse the ill effects.

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