different between cyber vs cyberfiction

English

Originally from cybernetics, before becoming a stand-alone word.

cyber (not comparable)

Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative spelling of cyber-
(informal) Cybergoth.
- 1998, Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines, Gothic: four hundred years of excess, horror, evil, and ruin
  She is a high priestess of the Church of the SubGenius, a devotee of the music of Tom Waits and Robert Smith, and of goth and cyber subcultures.
- 2007, Tiffany Godoy, Ivan Vartanian, Style Deficit Disorder: Harajuku Street Fashion, Tokyo
  ...a cross between metal, punk, goth, cyber, and rock.

cyber (third-person singular simple present cybers, present participle cybering, simple past and past participle cybered)

cyber

(singular only) Everything having to do with the Internet considered collectively.
- 2004, Henry Linger, Julie Fisher, W. Gregory Wojtkowski, Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice
  These prefigure the more complex aspects of virtual and real interactions which the cyber will deliver to us in these early years of the new millennium.
- 2012, Sean Swan (Ed), On the Cyber
  The pace and extent to which the cyber is transforming our world increases daily.

cyber- +? fiction

cyberfiction (usually uncountable, plural cyberfictions)

Fiction in a cyber genre, such as cyberpunk.
- 1998, Hank Bromley, Michael W Apple, Education, Technology, Power
  ...cyberfiction by women authors tends to place more positive value on embodiment...
- 2007, Kimberley Reynolds, Radical Children's Literature
  Nadia Crandall draws some illuminating parallels between nineteenth-century versions of gothic fiction and juvenile cyberfiction.

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