Examples include Nicholas Christopher's Veronica and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude . A genre that extrapolates from current scientific trends. The technology of a science fiction story may be either the driving force of the story or merely the setting for a drama, but all science fiction tends to predict or define the future. A term often used for science fiction primarily by people outside the field. Serious readers of science fiction prefer the abbreviation sf.
Cyberpunk explores the fusion between man and machine.
A key element is the perfection of the Internet and virtual reality technology. In a cyberpunk novel, characters can experience and interact with computers in a 3D graphic environment so real that it feels like a physical landscape. The society in which cyberpunk is set tends to be heavily urban, and usually somewhat anarchic or feudal. Eos authors defining this ever-evolving virtual reality include Neal Stephenson and Rudy Rucker. Basically, the armed forces in space.