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Cyberpunk
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What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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Legit biological vampires, and it's hard sci-fi. I've read both books an embarrassing number of times.
My people.
Fess up. How many time have you read either book? I swear I'm probably at 12-14 for Blindsight. Think I've extracted everything I'm smart enough to understand. Some of the math and statistical terms elude me.
At least 6 reads of each Blindsight and Echopraxia. I'm really hoping for Omniscience to drop one day, but I distracted myself a bit with Freeze Frame Revolution.
Each time I re-read any if them I find a different interpretation. Like a prism you keep discovering facets on or something. I suppose that's the byproduct of how excitingly unreliable the narrators are and how a baseline (like me) would perceive the motives of post singularity artilects.