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14990237 No.14990237 [Reply] [Original]

>You can go online, but it requires your nervous system to interface
>Anyone who wants to can kill or maim you through cyberspace

literally WHAT is the point?

>> No.14990245

>>14990237
think of the porn

>> No.14990502

>>14990237
/g/ and /lit/ hyped this book so much but Jesus was it shit
It's just one never ending cliche
>cyberpunk society with futuristic technology. Should I write about the societal implications of this? No, everyone is just a drugged up hedonist
>half the people's behavior is just some weird unexplained sex kink

I don't see any redeeming features in this book except the terminology

>> No.14990510

>>14990502
>half the people's behavior is just some weird unexplained sex kink
Based Gibson :DDDD

>> No.14990514

>>14990502
They are only cliches because you live in a world that was radically changed by the book itself. You live in a world where the book was copied, the copy was copied, the copied copy was parodied, the parody was ironically parodied, that ironic parody was made into a movie, that movie inspired more writers, which then inspired programmers and techies to develop things that would not have otherwise been made. Similar to star trek in a way.

>> No.14990531

>>14990502
>No, everyone is just a drugged up hedonist
>half the people's behavior is just some weird unexplained sex kink
Realistic desu.

>> No.14990546
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14990546

>>14990245
>ywn plug your nervous system into the internet and let an entire anonymous imageboard gangbang you

>> No.14990573

>>14990514
Granted this sort of gratuitous violence was done in sci fi first by Neuromancer, but why is it even held up as the quintessential work of cyberpunk, or even a good work? It has almost zero on talking about the effects of high tech on society, or of a radically different social order in an alternate universe, or about the effects of corporate greed, or any of the meaningful parts of cyberpunk. I don't even understand why people like it, people who do seem to because they express sympathy for the MC.

>> No.14990583

>>14990573
The book is about experiencing the world first hand, not about the ideological underpinnings or ramifications of the future. Thats why people liked it. It allowed the reader to interpret and extract meaning from it to develop everything from internet systems to accelerationism. It was a building block not meant to be a treatise.

>> No.14991517

>>14990510
Well yeah but the most pervy character is a treacherous villain so

>> No.14991535

>>14990237
No risk no reward mane

>> No.14991538

>>14990573
It's a fun heist story but it has a lot of deus ex machina and rambling shit. The scene where Case gets interrogated by the Turing police was like the scene in labyrinth with the head-removing bird people. Added nothing to the story.