Comment on Neuromancer: The Origin of Cyberpunk | A Horrifying Dystopia

Ileftreddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It was good but I was honestly a little bit underwhelmed by it and a little disappointed how heavily the ideas in the book quickly became tropes of the entire genre instead of the genre being more creative.

  Still a very good book and a worth a read, but I was just a lot less impressed than I had hoped to be. The ideas were interesting, but they seem a little old fashioned now, especially.

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  • Ileftreddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It was written in 1984, 41 years ago

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  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You must realize that’s not the fault of the originating work, though… 🙇🏼‍♂️

    Right?

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• Tedesche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What surprised me most about it was how much it takes from detective noir books from decades prior. It reads a lot like a Raymond Chandler novel.

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• MCHEVA4EVA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The sequels are decent too. Maybe not as good as the first but enjoyable. Count Zero has a story about the voodoo deities in cyberspace that was an interesting bit.

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  • Ileftreddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Honestly after I read Neuromancer I just sat down and read all his books. All were interesting, he even accidentally created steampunk

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• Coldcell@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Before the series comes out!

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  • Ileftreddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Aw shucks- like an Amazon series? It should really be a standalone film, the book literally reads like an action movie

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