I'd argue that cyberpunk wasn't primarilly about the net or cyberwear, it was about: * a visual aesthetic * a "street" / punk / outsider aesthetic * a sense of rootless anomie Recall that Gibson was influenced by "Beats" : people who don't fit in and thus fall into intersticeshttps://twitter.com/DaddyWarpig/status/1205257697429352450 …
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2/ I recently started re-reading Neuromancer and it struck me entirely differently at age 48 than at age 13. It's not - primarily - a story about a guy with cyber implants. It's about a guy with no friends, far from home, trying to kill himself. That's more "Beat" than SF.
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3/ I was thinking recently about Blade Runner. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is set in an underpopulated world because of plagues. Blade Runner has very dense street scenes - overpopulation? And yet, it FEELS lonely. I thought about how and why that is.
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Book vs movie: practically inverse of each other, yet tell the same story/message.
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