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Is Cyberpunk dead?

>> No.5507435

>>5507421
And thank god it is.

>> No.5507438

>>5507435
fuck you magical realism faggot.

>> No.5507439

>>5507421
>Cyberpunk
I thought that Polish gaming company were doing a Cyberpunk game? The guys who made the Witcher series.

>> No.5507448

>>5507438
Magical realism is dead too.
And thank god it is.

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5507456

It's my belief that it's now just common place and sci-fi still has too many stigmas attached to it to be taken as a serious literary form. Which is a shame because I belief cyberpunk more accurately predicted what the world would become more accurately than anything.

As time goes on I think this only proves more and more true. Hacking is now becoming a big issue, robotics are developing more and more, trans-humanism is steadily rising with the advent of cybernetic limp replacements and the stranglehold of corporations.

I would like to believe cyberpunk defined our generation but I haven't read any cyberpunk more grounded in reality with current views and analyses at our present state.

>> No.5507463 [DELETED] 

>>5507456
Ho damn man I just love my sentence structure there. Proof reading, what's that?

>> No.5507479

>>5507448
i agree.

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It's my belief that it's now just common place and sci-fi still has too many stigmas attached to it to be taken as a serious literary form. Which is a shame because I believe cyberpunk more accurately predicted what the world would become. It may have not introduced many radical new ideas (aside from hacking and cyberspace), but it painted a very clear picture on how it would look.

I would like to believe cyberpunk will define generation Z which is why it currently has very little interest invested in it. I can see it likely just becoming contemporary drama because of the frighteningly accurate predictions cyberpunk made. Trans humanism, corporate strangleholds, a more fragmented society, and the rise of cyber space and robotics. Some very ground breaking social changes will come within the next two decades I believe.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hugh_herr_the_new_bionics_that_let_us_run_climb_and_dance

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>>5507421
>Is Cyberpunk dead?

It's right outside your window and on your iPad. Only difference is government can still strong-arm corporations when it wants to. It just doesn't want to very often.

>> No.5508660

4chan is dead and so as you all noob fag hipster fags fuck youall

>> No.5510972

>>5507421
No, it has become reality

>> No.5511151

>>5507421
It never lived.

>> No.5511648

>>5507421
Are there any cyberpunk novelists aside from Gibbson and Stephenson?

>> No.5511701

>>5507448
>not liking magical realism

That cold space you feel in the middle of your chest? That's where a heart is supposed to go, anon.

>> No.5511710

>>5511648
Norman Spinrad was a pretty awesome proto-cyberpunk. Bruce Sterling came before Gibson. There are others, most of those 'greatest cyberpunk' lists won't steer you wrong if you enjoy the genre.

>> No.5511728

>>5507421
>/lit/

>>>/out/
>>>/mu/

>> No.5511773

Neuromancer is shit, cyberpunk is stillborn, deal with it and move on.

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5511892

>>5511728
I'm sorry, do you know what cyberpunk is? It's an established sci-fi subgenre. You must be new here.

Please lurk more before you overcompensate to try to fit in, and end up making an ass of yourself in the process

>> No.5511903

brb, getting my Google implanted contact lenses to make sure my blood sugar is okay.

>> No.5511984

>>5511892
>It's an established sci-fi subgenre
Honestly, I feel like you could debate that. Personally, I associate cyberpunk as more of a literary movement thats influence on sci-fi is just inescapable. In the same way "Golden Age Sci-Fi" isn't really a genre, just a movement. In that sense cyberpunk is dead, but it's genes are so infused with current sci-fi, it doesn't really matter.

But yeah, that guy was a retard.

>> No.5512058

>>5511648
It's not novel, but the Mirrorshades anthology is great. I also liked George Alec Effinger's stuff it's more like an old school noir in it's style, but it's nowhere near as cheesy or poorly done as some more recant stuff.

>>5511710
In my opinion, proto-cyberpunk has a lot more quality writers than actual cyberpunk does. Bester, Brunner, Burroughs, Delany, Dick, etc.

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>>5511701
This x1000.

>> No.5512565

Waht about steampunk? ;)

>> No.5512570

>>5512565
is shit.

>> No.5512606

>>5507985
True story. Lots of themes and tropes in Cyberpunk kind of already exist with modern day tech, short of the seedy neon lit back alleys and plugging your consciousness into the internet.

>> No.5512970

no

>> No.5513334

>>5512058
>Delany
>good

>> No.5513391

We won't get cyberpunk or its equivalents with a Democrat in office or an ongoing war.

>> No.5513397

>>5507985
>>5507421
all fantasies die when they become reality
all fantasies, OP

>> No.5513399

>>5507421
Cyberpunk stopped being relevant when everyday life became digital.

>> No.5513401

>>5507985
> can strong-arm corporations
some, not scientology apparently
they have more power than the CIA

>> No.5513402

>>5513334
Delany is one of the few truly brilliant writers in SF.

>> No.5513404

>>5513399
> Cyberpunk stopped being relevant when everyday life became Cyberpunk.
ftfy

>> No.5513469

>>5507439
They are, its called Cyberpunk 2077