Following our podcasts about home computing in the 1980s, we turn our attention to the emerging culture of ‘Cyberpunk’ and how it shaped a new imaginative space – especially for gaming.
We look at Neuromancer by William Gibson, with writer Alister Davison who has added the novel to Appendix G, the list of media that has inspired us. Do you have any suggesions?
Judge Blyhty is in to Roome of Role-Playing Rambling to look at Cyberpunk Red and its influnce.
Love the grognard files and back in the day we switched from runequest, judge dredd, cyberpunk and call of cthulhu with the odd golden heroes. Manchester arndale gw was our shop with beaties and odyssey 7 always a must visit. Keep up the good work. Regards Jason
The first addition should be Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson. If Neuromancer has one of the greatest opening lines in Science Fiction, Snowcrash has open of the greatest opening paragraphs.
This is a great gift on Father’s Day. Thank you, gentlemen.
I’m afraid I’m excused rap-anger matches on account of general unfitsness and being as old as Blithy makes out he is. I can’t speak for my partner, Mr Bell_West, but I believe his women-folk keep him on a tight leash and if he did get excited he would trip over his beard.
The thing about Cyberpunk that always strikes me is that it transposes the politics of noir films from the forties into the near future. The near noir future. And I worry that the memetic effect goes some way to making the machinations of right wing billionaires seem just like the natural thing to happen.
(And on the other hand in the 1930s people were predicting the next world war would be just like the last with barbed wire and trenches spanning continents and poison gas everywhere. You just have to wait to see how it turns out.)
Are there any provisions in CYBERPUNK RED for corporate bosses who actually pay you what they promised? Who don’t screw over the street scum just because they can?