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This is the second in a three part series on Cyberpunk by Mike Dillon. Part One is here .
Cyberpunk literature is written by and written for a generation that occupies “a truly science-fictional world” ( Sterling 1986 , xi), producing work that is immersed in technology and pop cultural values “associated with the drug culture, punk rock, video games, Heavy Metal comic books, and […] gore-and-splatter SF/horror films” ( Carroll 1990 ). No country has experienced as internationally recognized a technological quantum leap as Japan, and with the recent surge in desire for Japanese popular culture,
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