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PianoMap
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: victoria, british columbia
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 Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:04 pm |
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| boojiboy7 wrote: |
| digi wrote: |
TETSUO: THE IRON MAN
though I guess if you just mean the slick, gadget-y techno stuff then Ringworld is pretty cool.
also I consider BLAME! to be pretty effing cyberpunk |
Ringworld as cyberpunk is pretty amusing. |
I know eh it's like there's no way I could justify really putting that in a bookstore in a cyberpunk section but it just keeps coming to mind over and over when I try to think of cyberpunk stuff.
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boojiboy7
narcissistic irony-laden twat
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: take me on a blatant doom trip.
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| Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:44 am |
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| digi wrote: |
| boojiboy7 wrote: |
| digi wrote: |
TETSUO: THE IRON MAN
though I guess if you just mean the slick, gadget-y techno stuff then Ringworld is pretty cool.
also I consider BLAME! to be pretty effing cyberpunk |
Ringworld as cyberpunk is pretty amusing. |
I know eh it's like there's no way I could justify really putting that in a bookstore in a cyberpunk section but it just keeps coming to mind over and over when I try to think of cyberpunk stuff. |
Probably because cyberpunk tends to get super hard scifi about modern computer shit, and Ringworld also learns towards the hardness. |
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fixoid
Joined: 26 Dec 2006
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boojiboy7
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Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:59 pm |
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apparently people try to argue for Gravity's Rainbow as cyberpunk, at least according to wikipedia. So, um, lol, read that.
It is a really good book, at least. |
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Dracko
a sapphist fool
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:05 am |
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Has anyone mentioned Richard Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs series yet? It's like pure cyberpunk male wish-fulfilment. Completely over the top stuff: The guy's basically Master Chief meets Indiana Jones. It's also totally about a guy getting perpetually fucked over and used by the system, along with everyone else, though it's the only thing he can ever do. It's even funnier when you consider that Morgan wrote the two Black Widow mini-series Homecoming and The Things They Say About Her, which have been considered massive works of militant feminism in mainstream comics.
The books are titled, in order, Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies.
You can also read Neal Stephenson's Jipi and the Paranoid Chip here. It's part of the Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon line of historical fiction universe, but it's clearly cyberpunk.
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shrugtheironteacup
man of tomorrow
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
Location: a meat
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| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:12 am Post subject: pay no attention to |
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shnozlak
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: pushing crates in the sewer level
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| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:19 am |
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Rise of the Dragon for sega CD is enjoyable cyberpunk pont-n-click esq game with a side of delightful cheese. Also its the only point and click Ive ever played where there are multiple ways to do just about every thing, constant passage of time and you can infact screw yourself over.
The Blade runner game Ive always heard was good but never played.
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falsedan
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:43 pm |
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| Daphaknee wrote: |
| i still dont fucking know exactly what cyberpunk is |
gritty dystopian sci fi with lots of technology
| Daphaknee wrote: |
| or steampunk |
gritty dystopian alternate history with lots of technology anachronisms The Difference Engine
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