Netflix’s brilliant but short-lived sci-fi neo-noir series Altered Carbon is one of the best live-action takes on the cyberpunk genre ever put to screen. As a genre, cyberpunk can be traced back to the New Wave science fiction tales of the 1960s, but it wasn’t fully solidified until William Gibson published his seminal debut novel Neuromancer in 1984.

From there, cyberpunk stories started flooding into comic books with Frank Miller’s Ronin , movies with Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner , and anime with films like Akira and Ghost in the Shell . Cyberpunk is defined by a mixture of low-life and high-tech. These stories often take place in a decaying neon-soaked metropolis in a dystopian future, where amorality runs as rampant as LED screens.

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