Loved his album Dark Metropolis.

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That’s very true. It was much less likely for a cyberpunk novel to be published at all, so anytime you got any cyberpunk it was a big deal. Now we have a flood of mediocre cyberpunk novels uploaded to the Kindle store daily so it takes more to be remembered.

I still think one thing that helps a sci-fi novel stand the test of time is when they accurately predict some aspect of the future. For example, The Machine Stops imagines a world where everyone just sits alone in their bedroom staring at a screen reading other people’s opinions and posting their own opinions. And it was written in 1909. It doesn’t matter what else happens in the story, just that prediction is incredible.

On the other hand, there’s Trouble and Her Friends. I remember seeing some review that said the novel perfectly describes what people in the 90s thought the internet would become in the future. It was open and community-driven with no presence of commerce at all. At the time, it was the dream of what could be. But in hindsight, we know it never happened.

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Not to my knowledge… Does it?

I would say Daybreakers is definitely a sci-fi vampire movie (of which there also aren’t many) but I personally wouldn’t call it cyberpunk. Maybe there’s a twist I don’t remember, but I thought the corporation was simply trying to keep up with demand, not that they were doing anything outright evil to increase profits.

Well, The Breed is an interesting movie. Definitely not cyberpunk at all but it is a noir vampire movie, which I’ve never seen done before.

It was weird how the movie starts by saying “the near future” and yet all clothes, cars, and sets looked like they were from the 1940s. It definitely helped create a “film noir” feel, I just wish they hadn’t mentioned the near future as if this was supposed to be our world when it’s more of an alternate history. Overall, it’s not exactly an award-winner, but like you said, I don’t feel like I wasted my time watching it.

Yeah, as much as I enjoy Blade, I don’t think there’s any way I could justify it being cyberpunk. At least there’s [email protected] for those movies!

That’s true. Priest has an odd mix of cyberpunk city within the walls and wild west outside the walls (even though that makes no sense). Definitely a fun movie, but the vampires never show up inside the cyberpunk city. If only there had been a sequel…

I’ll set my expectations accordingly. I do enjoy vampires and tech-noire settings though, so I think I’ll be able to handle it.

Edit: And it’s on Tubi! I’ll definitely be watching it tonight now.

And how depressing is that?? For Ultraviolet to be the best example of cyberpunk vampires. So disappointing.

I’ve never heard of this movie. 😳

I’ll definitely check it out and get back to you, thanks!

Wow, the story sounds incredibly cyberpunk, the visuals look incredibly cyberpunk… and the gameplay looks incredibly irritating. I’m glad we live in an age of longplays where I can watch the entire game without having to actually play it. Thanks for sharing!

Have you tried using the Mullvad Browser then? It’s literally just the Tor Browser with the Tor parts removed. So it has all the security and anti-fingerprinting stuff but doesn’t connect to the Tor network.

Unless I misunderstood and you’re still connecting to the Tor network…

Ok, thanks. I’ve never read them so I wasn’t sure, but I thought I’d heard some people call it cyberpunk.

There will be soon, anyway.

We’re planning to create two books, six chapters each… The first book, which collects the first six chapters, will be out this summer through Dark Horse Comics.

Is that the one from 1994 or 2019? I haven’t read either, I’m just curious which one is better. The art looks cooler in the 2019 version but for all I know, the story may be worse.

Oh, Deathburger! He’s the guy that made those cool covers for the Sprawl trilogy. I didn’t realize he had a narrative book, neat!

Perfect, thank you!