/lit/ - Literature

>protagonist pays a quarter to use the public vidfone
has there ever been a sci-fi novel whose world building aged well?

How would you write technobabble?

>I'm just gonna reverse the polarity on the positronic sensor

>>11727517
The Sprawl

>>11532116
I was a superhacker, but then some businessman wanted to monopolize people's minds, maaaaan. I had top stop him!

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>>11066494
It must be
>super high tech
>dystopian
>usually ruled by corporations
>gritty
>postmodern
>individualistic
>lonely
Or at least thats what I think

Ubik
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Neuromancer and the Sprawl trilogy
Snow Crash
Software (Rudy Rucker)

>>9755707
Lojban is clearly superior.

>>9298028
The world IS more and more cyberpunk, but our aesthetics are seriously lacking.

>>8594965

Why is Cyberpunk such a limited genre within literature, but so thoroughly embraced by other media? It seems like true-to-form cyberpunk literature is something that happened within the blink of an eye in the 1980s and then immediately became more of a toolshed where writers of other genres could borrow some easy plot hooks and themes.

Maybe I'm wrong but it seems like every "top X cyberpunk novels" list is 50% classics that all happened within said blink, and 50% works that only borrow from cyberpunk, without actually belonging to the genre.

>>8093427
It has elements of post-cyberpunk rather than cyberpunk... but I guess it depends on if you're living the average life or if you're living in a ghetto somewhere with a smartphone. Still pretty weak.

>>7902394
*autechre

>>7880971

Are there any good novels which present a hypothetical incarnation of the Illuminati in which they are a benevolent hidden force trying to manipulate world events not merely for their own ends, but to enlighten and better humanity as a whole?

What about any other decent Illuminati literature?

pic not entirely related - not looking exclusively for future/near-future representations.

>>6897356

>>6872738
why post this shitty version, did you make it yourself?

>>6665675
>You will never fuck America Shaftoe

I'm no philosopher, but I found the reasoning to be sound.

I enjoy these type of threads and was looking forward to some solid counter-arguments and debate.

Instead the thread was derailed by this junkie lunatic. What a shame.