/lit/ - Literature

>>16731735
>How to write Cyberpunk when you have very little Scientific knowledge?
You are ready to write cyberpunk

>>16731750
Not true I've read a lot of cyberpunk stories and they are all peppered with scientific terms.

>>16731735
Get a 7th grade textbook on biology and chemistry and you'll instantly have more scientific knowledge than most Cyberpunk writers.

>>16733095
That doesn't mean they are used correctly

>>16733095

Kek.

Bro the hyperflux initiator isn't synergetic with the procedurally generated AI drones. What do we do?

>>16733140

One word: bioengineering

>>16733140
>He didn't reverse ionise the organic oxidation circuit

>>16731735
Just make shit up.
Remember what Arthur C. Clarke said, "time travel makes you gay. "

>>16733140
Maybe try to SPREAD SOME SEMEN ON IT FAGGOTNIGGER

>>16733140
I don't know what this means

>>16731735
>>16733140
>Case took the pink handset from its cradle and punched a Hongkong number from memory. He let it ring five times and hung up. His buyer for for the three megabytes of hot RAM in the Hitachi wasn't taking calls.
Actual excerpt from Neuromancer, still gives me a chuckle.

>hmm well there's a simple problem you haven't eh transvalvated the main compositor shaft into the redox valve A1B, so a simple paraiodico-actinogenic solution aerosolized into 0.4 mmHg with a P-value index of 5.35 microNeros should get the job done according to the Lemming-Fukushima maximum action potential equation, averaged and divided by the error coefficient 2.54 to produce the most accurate results and...

People get into debt to speak like this

>>16733140
>Have you tried turning it off and on again?

>>16731750
Pretty much this. This isn't hard science fiction, this is GhettoxMachine. Write some shit about streetrat racers on tricked out monocycles getting drafted by the local gang to run contraband past high tech security or something. You could honestly watch Hackers, suffer through a couple Gibson novels, and be considered gifted in the realm of cyberpunk. Hell, even Hackers references Gibson.

>>16731735
hard sci fi writers are fags and miss the whole point of sci fi.

>>16735569
Oh, and don't forget to play some Watch Dogs games. They won't really help, but nothing really hurts.

>>16735586
For bonus cringe, throw in some l33t sp34k.

TO WRITE «SCIENCE FICTION» VERY LITTLE SCIENTIFICAL KNOWLEDGE IS NEEDED, AND, REGARDING «CYBERPUNK» IN PARTICULAR, VIRTUALLY NONE; WHAT IS NEEDED IS TECHNOLOGICAL SAVVINESS, NOT EVEN TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE, BESIDE GOOD IMAGINATION, OBVIOUSLY.

>>16731735
PoVs are your regular Joe Underclassman from luddite rural community or a bimbo who wants to score a corporate employee and become his trophy wife. Cyber is just the settings, no scientific knowledge required if your characters are dummies.

talk to someone who is working in the field. You can find randos all over the internet.

the best cyberpunk was done with enough of an understanding of the scene at the time. Intimate technical knowledge is not needed and would actually date anything you write

I finished Mirrorshades and realized Gibson is the only interesting cyberpunk author not counting works like Snowcrash

>>16731750
fpbp

>>16731735
The same way William Gibson did it I suppose.
He knew (knows?) basically nothing about computers.