Meanings
- uncountableliteratureA subgenre of science fiction which, like cyberpunk, focuses on technological advancements, but which presents life as utopian and leisure-driven rather than gritty and dangerous (as in cyberpunk).First known use 1987
Cyberprep is one answer to the Cyberpunk movement, a peachy keen one.
1987 May 1, Mark L. Blackman, APA-Filk, number 34, published 23 April 19872 more examples
The cyberprep movement (such as it is, ha ha) takes as its motto: "Whatever you do, remember, be polite".
1987 September 27, Laurence R. Brothers, “Early Cyberpunk?”, in alt.cyberpunk (Usenet)Cyberprep is thematically more optimistic, a broad difference expressed in small changes in the text, such as the likelihood chat body modification in a cyberprep work is done for the sake of aesthetics, rather than function or need. Put simply, cyberprep offers “a slick, clean, rosy view of the future to contrast cyberpunk's dirty, grim dystopias” (Bell 4).
2014, Tanya R. Cochran, Sherry Ginn, Paul Zinder, editors, The Multiple Worlds of Fringe: Essays on the J.J. Abrams Science Fiction Series, McFarland & Company, Inc., pages 156-157
Origin
From cyber- + prep, as a response to cyberpunk.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
cyberprep. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberprep
“cyberprep.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberprep. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cyberprep,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cyberprep.
Source: cyberprep on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.