Smiling man with a hammer
- We were sleeping in bed in a garage that had windows on its door. Mary thought someone was attempting to break in, but we could not see anyone in the dark shadows. There were homeless people outside. A few minutes later, Mary woke me up screaming that someone was breaking in. I looked up and a man casually walked into the room smiling, holding a hammer. I woke up screaming for real and Mary asked me about it the next morning.
- Cyberpunk (Wikipedia)
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting said to focus on a combination of “low-life and high tech”. It features futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cyberware, juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay. Much of cyberpunk is rooted in the New Wave science fiction movement of the 1960s and 1970s, when writers like Philip K. Dick, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny, John Brunner, J. G. Ballard, Philip José Farmer and Harlan Ellison examined the impact of drug culture, technology, and the sexual revolution while avoiding the utopian tendencies of earlier science fiction.