His vision of the not-so-distant future, managed by the fascist System of Federated Nations and their powerful police, exists in economic chaos, spawning rampant poverty and a vibrant criminal element. In his debut novel, The Electric Church, Jeff Somers attempts to create a 21st century cyberpunk novel. In the post-cyberpunk literary world, numerous works continue to be produced, influenced by the tropes and styles of cyberpunk, often under the guise of "near-future thriller." Neal Stephenson's 1992 Snow Crash marked the last significant cyberpunk book.
As cyberpunk pioneer Bruce Sterling so aptly put it, they were "writing fifteen minutes into the future." With the rise of personal computing, the advent of the Internet, and the proliferation of portable devices, that future has become our present. Pop culture ran rampant throughout the works, and unlike its sci-fi forefathers, the future was tomorrow, not hundreds or thousands of years away.
Both a product of the Eighties and a movement steeped in the lore and tradition of the science-fiction field, cyberpunk, like the music of the punks before it, returned to the roots of the genre – albeit from a gritty, street level. In 1984, William Gibson's Neuromancer ushered in the cyberpunk era.
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