A subgenre of ScienceFiction identified by CoryDoctorow, being a bit like a HardSF version of CyberPunk, where the computer isn't just a MacGuffin or a plot device which gives access to a cool metaphorical universe, it's actually a computer. If a story hinges on the reducability of problems from NPComplete to PComplete, then it's probably OverClocked (cough cough CharlieStross cough). Ironically, there doesn't seem to be any description of it on the internet. Except, tangentially, on NiallHarrison's LiveJournal: . It was mentioned in a chat hosted on SciFi.com with Pat Forde, Molly Gloss and Charles Stross: http://www.scifi.com/transcripts/2003/asimovs8.12.html "Gardner: Bruce Sterling says that you're an "Overclocker," which is a critical term he's just come up with. "Gardner: Cory Doctorow has some group-name of his own, which I've forgotten. "ChatMod: How does he define it? "cstross: An Overclocker? That's better than Nerdcore! "Gardner: Ah, Nerdcore, that was it! "Gardner: Awful. "cstross: However, Warren Ellis seems to be trying to revive Technogoth right now, so ... "Gardner: ChatMod, as far as I could tell, Overclocker is defined as: either Charles Stross or Cory Doctorow. "pforde: As opposed to the rest of us Undertickers "Gardner: Or maybe their love-children. "cstross: Mwahahahahaha! Yield to the New Movement! Resistance is futile! You WILL be overclocked! In the future we will all be fifteen minutes faster! There is a case to be made that 'TrueNames' is the primordial work of OverClocked (like FrankensteinOrTheModernPrometheus is to ScienceFiction, according to BrianAldiss); it has a much more technically realistic depiction of the network than most CyberPunk, and technical aspects of human and computer intelligence are crucial to the story. Also, the name of a techie online magazine responsible for the initial propagation of the AllYourBase meme. _References and a more accurate or extensive definition would be good._ See also: NerdCore (or NerdC0re), TechnoGoth, TheNewWeird and the NewSpaceOpera.