What Was Cyberpunk? In Memoriam: 1980-2020 (2020)

Summary

To wrap up our look at print sci-fi I am going to compare and contrast two books released in 2020 that both have much in common with Mirrorshades, but in very different ways:, Gibson’s (“””the father of cyberpunk”””) Agency and Miciah Johnson’s debut novel “The Space Between Worlds”. I am going to be a little mean to Gibson, but hopefully by the time you’ve read both summaries you’ll understand why. This section has also put me in the unfortunate position of trying to summarize these books so you can understand my point, since they are both recent releases and don’t have adequately in depth summaries online. I will hope you will bear with me for this portion but don't blame you for skipping ahead. https://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1262414621799047175?s=20 [URL=https://i.imgur.com/6PVKHaH.jpg][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/6PVKHaH.jpg[/IMG][/URL] How does this happen? What the fuck happened to this dude? 36 years after “inventing” "cyberpunk" he's on twitter complaining about "dirty hippies" what the hell happened It blows my mind that he is like this. Was he always like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peripheral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(novel) I read The Peripheral (2015) and its sequel Agency (2020). back to back in the same week so I’m going to talk about them as one entity. I only learned today that apparently this is two from a planned trilogy and there is a third coming eventually. They are/will be collectively known as “The Jackpot Trilogy”. So named because one of the few new and interesting ideas in it is an extremely slow (slow for a fictional apocalypse scenario) multi-causal apocalypse referred to as “the jackpot”, where everything that can go wrong on planet earth, does, over the course of the 21st century. Gibson has said that he never attempted to make a complete list of all the things that make up “the jackpot” because it would be too depressing, so some elements of it are left vague. I’d read that Gibson had said “Mozart In Mi...