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Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive and
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The sky above the port was the color of
television, tuned to a dead channel.
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A graphic representation of data abstracted
from the banks of every computer in the
human system. Unthinkable complexity.
Lines of light ranged in the
nonspace of the mind,
clusters and constellations of data.
Like city lights, receding.
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William Gibson
Born in 1948
Early trauma
Became hyper-bookish, though performed
poorly in school.
Hippie
Moved to Canada
Neuromancer, 1984
Count Zero, 1986
MLO, 1988
Gene Wolfe once said that being an only
child whose parents are dead is like being
the sole survivor
of drowned Atlantis.
There was a whole civilization there,
an entire continent, but
it's gone. And you alone remember.
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// Cyberpunk, the literary movement / usually
of futuristic dystopia, immensely powerful
organizations ruling masses of the ignorant
/ / existing in the underworld of this
society, an amoral protagonist works the
system, eventually coming to challenge the
powers-that-be /
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Punk Culture
Technology
Popular Culture
Inspiration of Cyberpunk
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Punk Culture
Born in 70s England
Movement defined by otherness, or living on
the outside
Expressed in music, fashion, lifestyle
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Technology
Gibson first wrote of cyberspace in 1981 -
Wrote Neuromancer never having touched a
computer - First IBM PC released 1978 -
Apple IIc released 1984 - ads served as
inspiration for cyberspace decks
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Popular Culture
Hard-boiled detective novels, film noir, anime,
post-modernist philosophy
Authors J.G. Ballard, William Burroughs,
Thomas Pynchon,
Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler
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lt The Spectrum of Morality gt
Godly
Godless
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Like other science fiction subgenres, cyberpunk
has a devoted cadre of fan(atics)
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Is this what were becoming?
Presentation assembled by Eric Christiansen
William Wanjohi