Cyberpunk

290 readers

1 users here now

A place for discussion of all things cyberpunk (not primarily Cyberpunk 2077)

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What's your favorite Cyberpunk work (lemmy.villa-straylight.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

27 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Be it book, film or any other medium, share your favorite works of the genre (and why it's your favorite!)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't. I got tired of Gibson for a little while around the turn of the millennium. I think it was really just that I was too young to appreciate his later work when all I wanted was more neon-filled dystopia. I'll add The Peripheral to my queue.

I love me some Cyberpunk. Maybe it’s not dead, so much as we’re living in Gibson’s 80’s vision of 2023, and the next turn of the wheel is writing the future we want or are afraid of…What does 2083 look like?

I like that perspective!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I hear that! It was especially good if neon-filled dystopia offered a way to be pertinent or at least meaningful in a present devoid of personality. I can make a difference to my collective or chosen tribe. I stand by the idea that saying cyberpunk is dead is akin to saying futurism is dead. It's just that the aesthetic represented by the term requires change.

Officially staking my claim on 'retro-cyberpunk' as a term. I know trademarking it would embody exactly what it avoids so...meh....