Neuromancer
Load Bearing
Neuromancer
Bodies leased, memories licensed and loyalty drafted as an option contract is the mode's founding document, and its own name has never been written up.
Guide building
Trope guide
Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a reader-facing story pattern in the Riley Locke vocabulary. This page currently gathers 2 books with published claims and shows the reason for each placement.
- Books
- 2 Published placements
- Load-bearing
- 2 Shapes the book
- Present
- 0 Meaningful but not organizing
- Genres reached
- 1 Across canonical genre bindings
2Load-bearingThe pattern helps organize the book’s core promise.
0PresentThe pattern matters, but the book is not built around it.
0Performs-onlyThe surface resembles the trope without fully delivering its usual promise.
Riley Locke definition
What “Cyberpunk” means here
The vocabulary entry is not complete yet. The published book reasons remain visible below, but this page stays out of search results until an original definition is approved.
Books with published reasons
2 books use this trope
Each reason belongs to the book record. Open the book page for the full summary, content guidance, edition identity, and related claims.
Neuromancer
Snow Crash
Load Bearing
Snow Crash
Everything the mode later stood accused of inventing is already present and already satirical, though the slug naming it remains a reservation rather than a page.
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Tropes often found nearby
These are co-occurrences across the books above, not claims that the terms are interchangeable.