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  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    My favorite parts of cyberpunk books are how some things aren't as dystopian in retrospect, and how wildly clashing the tech levels can be.

    There's a part in "Trouble and Her Friends" from 1994 where a character on a bus overhears some people talking about a recent congressional bill, so he heads into a bar to watch the news on TV. This is a setting where people have fully cybernetic brains and go into a fully realized VR world and people still have big tube TVs. I'm pretty sure pagers are mentioned a few times as well.

    Also that book is great and it was the first time I remember seeing openly queer characters in fiction.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      The last time I read Neuromancer was in the 2000s and didn't even get that flat screen TVs were supposed to be futuristic. Of course the most obviously dated part is the 8 MB of hot RAM at the beginning.

      • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I appreciate that Snow Crash still has a nice mix of tech which in retrospect decades later is quaint, plausible and fanciful. E.g. skateboard wheels that shape themselves in realtime to confirm to a scan of the ground ahead of them.