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Anti-​heroes in Cyberpunk

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Tech­nic­ally an anti-​hero lacks the attrib­utes of the hero, of the “knight in the shin­ing armour” type. I believe that one par­tic­u­lar aspect of not being a (clas­sical) hero is the use decep­tion, liv­ing double lives, etc.

In The Mat­rix, Neo lives a double life: he works a dull cubicle job by day, helps his land­lady take out the garbage; by night he’s involved in illegal inform­a­tion trade. He is trapped into this double life and he looks for an exit: an answer and a saviour (Morpheus).

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Cyberpunk

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Sci­ence fic­tion — before the cyber­punk split — was more or less dif­fer­ent retell­ings of the same arche­types where ali­ens replaced ghosts and mon­sters, space replaced the oceans and tech­no­logy replaced magic. This provided the grounds for sci­entific speculations, — and for a long time that was the main theme — and that was the fuel of the (tech­nical) ima­gin­a­tion of the man­kind. We reached the Moon in a story first in Kepler’s “Som­nium,” then with Jules Verne’s “From Earth to Moon.”

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