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Cyberpunk is one of my favorite subgenres to write.

I like the more superficial aspects: the sights: the glow of hot neon in the dark night reflecting in puddles of toxic rain, the sound of electronic music echoing from a nearby club with a line of people a mile long wanting to get in, people huddled around a streetside food stand waiting for ramen served by a man with cybernetic eyes and a prosthetic arm. This is a world both rapidly changing but also very much lived in. 

But cyberpunk goes deeper than those surface features. It probes the very question of what it means to be human? It allows for the deconstruction of what is human through the multiplication of the transhuman and the posthuman. Cyberpunk is defined as a world that is ever-changing. AI is constantly gaining in intelligence. Synthetic life is being perfected. The fundamental nature of humanity itself is changing in this type of world.