Neuromancer: The Origin of Cyberpunk | A Horrifying Dystopia

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  @logansrun1960 · 3 years ago

  My favorite remark regarding Cyberpunk is from Mike Pondsmith (the creative force behind the Cyberpunk TTRPG): Cyberpunk isn't about saving the world, it's about saving yourself from the world.

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  @mtotheatothedoubled · 3 years ago

  The fact that Gibson wrote this book on a typewriter and had never used a computer always blows my mind

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  @davidintrabartolo5887 · 1 year ago

  &quot;The sky was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.&quot;<br><br>One of the best opening lines ever put to paper. It sets the bleak tone of the world while also setting up the tension between technology and the natural world that defines cyberpunk as a genre.

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  @SoSarchastic · 11 months ago

  It’s genuinely unsettling how Cyberpunk dystopias read less and less like fiction

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  @itsdantaylor · 3 years ago

  I think a great thing about Neuromancer is that the writer (according to various sources) had no background in computers, technology or even knew how most of it worked (there&apos;s a story that he bought a computer once, later returned it because it was making a noise. It was the fan. He had no idea computers had fans) As a result, with his writing, it&apos;s almost like he taps into the essence of how sci fi should FEEL to our imaginations rather then worrying about the constraints of real world science.

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  @alden1132 · 3 years ago

  Oh, man, I LOVED the trilogy. The Matrix before the Matrix was the Matrix. Rogue AIs, body-mod Cyber-Ninjas, psycho meat-puppets, Electro--Voodoo, digital afterlife, Turing-Test Gestapo, Reality TV idolatry taken to it&apos;s logical extreme, Space-Rasta, automated new-age sculptors, billionaire tank-goo ghosts-in-the-machine, and more, all before GUIs were even really a thing. Amazing.

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  @LosferWerds · 3 years ago

  Neuromancer was my deployment book (10 years Army), any time we had to &quot;hurry up and wait&quot; I would pull that copy out and read. &nbsp;It&apos;s been on every deployment, training exercise, range day, school, even jumps with me. &nbsp;I still have that original copy, and a second that I&apos;ve never opened.

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• CO

  @ComaCarrot · 1 year ago

  I heard Dorsett and was like whaaaaaat, cyberpunk 2077 has the first mission saving Sandra Dorsett

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  @Stabngab · 3 years ago

  The thought of highly advanced AI reaching contact with other AI from another star system is always something that has intrigued me beyond belief

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  @brianhirt5027 · 3 years ago

  I remember when Neuromancer came out. It changed <b>everything</b> for me. He visualized a future that not only seemed probable, but felt rapidly imminent. Still does. Though often hailed as a prophet of sorts he&apos;s very quick to derides his own mythology by telling folks if he&apos;d been such a visionary prophet he&apos;d have included cell phones.

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  @TeamKatastrophe · 3 years ago

  Your channel went from game-of-thrones theories to sci-fi reviews/lore and now straight up literature studies. Amazing to see you develop. I&apos;m glad I got to be along for this ride

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  @Zen_Differential8004 · 1 year ago

  Neuromancer really is to cyberpunk what LOTR is to high fantasy.

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