I’m a fan – read a lot of William Gibson when I was a young’un, played/read quite a bit of Shadowrun, Snow Crash and the Diamond Age were faves, I loved Windup Girl, and then moved on from them to read a lot of steampunk. Watched a lot of cyberpunk movies back in the day (the original Ghost in the Shell, the Matrix, even saw Johnny Mnemonic for reasons I don’t understand).
At the same time, I think cyberpunk is very tied to its origins in the 90s, certain assumptions about the way it thought tech and society were going to go, and so as with grimdark, there’s a need for a post-cyberpunk that does a bit of a rethink of some of those ideas/themes/attitudes.
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