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It's usually seen as the archetypal cyberpunk film, yeah. Joel Send a noteboard - 21/04/2011 10:50:44 AM
i'm not entirely sure i know what cyberpunk is?

Genre boundaries can be somewhat amorophous (rather like the definition of "literature" ), but cyberpunk like any genre has certain characteristics we can look for, and most are present in Bladerunner. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? could obviously be counted as cyberpunk writing, except that it predates what's generally considered to be the birth of the genre. It and Dicks decade later story A Scanner Darkly might be said to have spawned cyberpunk in much the way that cyberpunk spawned steampunk. Beyond what I said above I'm not sure I (or anyone) can tell you what cyberpunk is; at the risk of invoking Morpheus again my suggestion is to RAFO; the Sprawl Trilogy can be done in a day or two if you've got some free time over Easter.
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The Sprawl Trilogy and Thoughts Thereof (or What Ever Happened to Cyberpunk?) - 19/04/2011 10:50:26 PM 2848 Views
Why I prefer cyberpunk in near future settings to (most) of the steampunk sub-genre. - 19/04/2011 10:55:57 PM 1603 Views
The difference is that steampunk, by and large, is very aware of its implausibility. - 20/04/2011 01:32:57 AM 1128 Views
IMO, cyberpunk has become somewhat dated. - 20/04/2011 04:46:55 AM 1390 Views
Actually, I can live with that, though terms like "dated" invite trouble. - 20/04/2011 07:01:50 AM 1230 Views
Re: Actually, I can live with that, though terms like "dated" invite trouble. - 22/04/2011 04:12:20 AM 1295 Views
No, I took your point. - 22/04/2011 03:43:18 PM 1400 Views
so...is bladerunner cyberpunk - 20/04/2011 09:48:15 PM 1099 Views
It's usually seen as the archetypal cyberpunk film, yeah. - 21/04/2011 10:50:44 AM 1421 Views
so cyber is the time and punk is the attitude? - 21/04/2011 12:57:01 PM 1195 Views
I don't think the portmanteau is that precisely defined. - 21/04/2011 08:31:34 PM 1337 Views
I am amazed that no one has referenced this TVTropes page yet... - 23/04/2011 07:45:14 PM 1618 Views
Playing with fire; I should've known TVTropes would exhaustively cover the derivatives. - 24/04/2011 03:11:56 AM 1524 Views
It's always hard to pigeonhole things, especially as they become more specific - 24/04/2011 06:27:28 PM 1164 Views
Precisely. - 26/04/2011 03:04:54 AM 1522 Views
The "dated" idea is interesting. - 23/04/2011 08:08:26 PM 1234 Views
PS the Takeshi Kovacs books are great, and you should all go read them *NM* - 23/04/2011 08:09:54 PM 535 Views
I'll add it to the list then, thanks. *MN* - 24/04/2011 03:19:09 AM 1098 Views

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