Here are tropes commonly associated with the genres Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk, sub genres of Speculative Fiction, in particular 20 Minutes into the Future. Both also have strong ties to Film Noir style. To read more about said genres, go ahead and visit their pages. If you want to know more about how to write one of your own, then check out Write a Cyberpunk Story.
Themes And Concepts
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot
- Arcology
- Big Brother Is Watching
- Corporate Warfare
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
- Cyberpunk for Flavor
- Do Androids Dream?
- Everything Is Online
- Existentialism
- Gaia's Lament
- Good Prosthetic, Evil Prosthetic
- Grey-and-Gray Morality
- Information Wants to Be Free
- Machine Worship
- The Madness Place
- Police State
- The Singularity
- Society Is to Blame
- Technophobia
- Transhumanism
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?
- Your Mind Makes It Real
Settings and World
- Advert-Overloaded Future
- Always Night
- Black Market
- City Noir
- Coolest Club Ever
- Corporate Conspiracy
- Crapsaccharine World
- Crapsack World
- Crapsack World, Escapist Sanctuary
- Cyberspace
- Divided States of America
- Dystopia
- False Utopia
- Hacker Cave
- Hacker Collective
- Hive City
- Industrial Ghetto
- Inside a Computer System
- Japan Takes Over the World
- Layered Metropolis
- Mega City
- Mega-Corp
- The Metaverse
- Neon City
- Next Sunday A.D.
- N.G.O. Superpower
- Nightmarish Factory
- One Nation Under Copyright
- Peace & Love Incorporated
- Privately Owned Society
- Private Intelligence Agency
- Private Military Contractors
- Shiny New Australia
- Skyscraper City
- Techno Dystopia
- 20 Minutes into the Future
- Vice City
- World of Ham
- Wretched Hive
Technology and Story Elements
- Androids and Detectives
- Artificial Human
- Artificial Limbs
- Augmented Reality
- Biodata
- Black Market Produce
- Body Backup Drive
- Brain/Computer Interface
- Brain in a Jar
- Brain Transplant
- Brain Uploading
- Cyborg
- Designer Babies
- Deus Est Machina
- Dueling Hackers
- Electronic Telepathy
- Future Food Is Artificial
- Hollywood Hacking
- Human Popsicle
- The Internet
- Magical Computer
- Mind-Reformat Death
- Morality Chip
- Neural Implanting
- Online Alias
- Rapid DNA Test
- Ridiculously Human Robots
- Schizo Tech
- Sinister Surveillance
- Techno Dystopia
- Unusual User Interface
- Virtual Celebrity
- Virtual Ghost
- Virtual-Reality Warper
- Virtual Sidekick
- Virtual YouTuber
- Voice with an Internet Connection
- Weirdly Underpowered Admins
- Wetware CPU
Character Types
- Corporate Samurai
- Corrupt Corporate Executive
- The Cracker
- Cyber Ninja
- Digitized Hacker
- Evil Luddite
- Hackette
- Internal Reformist
- Mad Scientist
- Playful Hacker
- Private Detective
- Salaryman
- Sociopathic Soldier
- The Stateless
- Street Samurai
Stylistic Elements
- Cool Shades
- Cyber Green
- Badass Longcoat
- Cybergoth
- Cyberpunk Is Techno
- Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain
- Film Noir
- Mechanical Muscles
- The Future Is Noir
- Technology Porn
- Tron Lines
- Urban Hellscape
- Used Future
