Cyberpunk in Polish science-fction

Abstract

Cyberpunk is one of sdence-fiction strams. Its plots are situated in cyber web. Characters are technology funs; they act in virtual reality. The real world and the virtual one are often hard to distinguish. Polish cyberpunk works usually imitate Western patterns, the cyberpunk elements are used just to make a plot more attractive or sometimes for intellectual experiment. Only the last case gives the reader intellectual and aesthetic satisfaction.