Cyberpunk literature is a short-lived yet still influential movement from the 1980s. As the first comprehensive examination of the near-future worlds of cyberpunk literature, this book demonstrates how the genre incorporates, fictionalizes, and ultimately continues media-theoretical concepts with its central themes of the merging of human and machine. In addition to exploring cyberpunk and 20th-century media theory, Jiré Emine Gözen provides a detailed overview of German and Anglo-American science fiction research, as well as the artistic implementation of postmodern aesthetics and representations of reality.