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Started by Shibboleet The Annihilator, May 18, 2011, 05:58:17 PM

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#30
July 03, 2011, 12:00:57 AM
Quote from: Captain Swampass on June 24, 2011, 08:36:58 PM
Quote from: Uncle Wallified on June 24, 2011, 07:20:16 PM
For what it's worth, I think an animated adaptation in which the clouds are represented by static in the sky would look very, very cool.

But then you're getting all surreal. Which may or may not be good for a cyberpunk.

Bah! Genre conventions are for pussies!
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Da6s

#31
July 04, 2011, 02:35:47 AM
Reading this thread means i'm watching Akira tonight.
We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

Triple Zero

#32
July 04, 2011, 02:05:10 PM
Quote from: Cryo on June 28, 2011, 05:28:43 AM
Read all of the sprawl before attempting to understand what he meant.  Between him and Bruce Sterling, they have created a reality that isn't matched by today's or even tomorrow's technology, but for some reason, it's become a church of its own, much as Heinlein and even elron.  Really, I barfed a little in my throat reading this.

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Hey, if you know so well what it means, spill it!

Unless it's bad spoilers cause indeed I haven't read the other two parts of the Sprawl trilogy yet.



BTW doing some image searching for that quote yields a treasure trove of atmospheric industrial urban landscapes. Such as this:

Ex-Soviet Bloc Sexual Attack Swede of Tomorrow™
e-prime disclaimer: let it seem fairly unclear I understand the apparent subjectivity of the above statements. maybe.

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Faust

#33
July 04, 2011, 02:15:48 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on July 04, 2011, 02:05:10 PM
Quote from: Cryo on June 28, 2011, 05:28:43 AM
Read all of the sprawl before attempting to understand what he meant.  Between him and Bruce Sterling, they have created a reality that isn't matched by today's or even tomorrow's technology, but for some reason, it's become a church of its own, much as Heinlein and even elron.  Really, I barfed a little in my throat reading this.

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</first troll>


Hey, if you know so well what it means, spill it!

Unless it's bad spoilers cause indeed I haven't read the other two parts of the Sprawl trilogy yet.



BTW doing some image searching for that quote yields a treasure trove of atmospheric industrial urban landscapes. Such as this:



Link?
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Triple Zero

#34
July 04, 2011, 03:11:10 PM
Ex-Soviet Bloc Sexual Attack Swede of Tomorrow™
e-prime disclaimer: let it seem fairly unclear I understand the apparent subjectivity of the above statements. maybe.

INFORMATION SO POWERFUL, YOU ACTUALLY NEED LESS.

Cain

#35
July 04, 2011, 05:14:15 PM
I've heard Charlie Stross is a pretty good author, and some of the premises of his "20 minutes into the future" cyberpunk seem interesting.

I'm going to investigate further.

Da6s

#36
July 05, 2011, 03:15:42 AM
In regards to the Snow Crash references earlier, has anyone read Diamond Age? How did it compare?
We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

LMNO

#37
July 06, 2011, 04:24:34 PM
It's a fairly good overview of how computer languages work.

No, really.

Doktor Howl

#38
July 06, 2011, 04:27:30 PM
Cyberpunk:  Drivel for emo trekkies.

That is all.
Molon Lube

Cain

#39
July 06, 2011, 05:50:34 PM
Oh, Dok, I'd been meaning to ask....concerning Jerry Pournelle, do I want to start with the War World series?

Doktor Howl

#40
July 06, 2011, 05:51:24 PM
Quote from: Cain on July 06, 2011, 05:50:34 PM
Oh, Dok, I'd been meaning to ask....concerning Jerry Pournelle, do I want to start with the War World series?

Start with High Justice.

I'll write the list in chronological order when I get home and have the books in front of me.
Molon Lube

Cain

#41
July 06, 2011, 05:56:39 PM
Cool, thanks.  I couldn't find the other thread where you discussed him, so I thought here would be as good a place as any.

Golden Applesauce

#42
July 07, 2011, 03:11:54 AM
Quote from: Da6s on July 05, 2011, 03:15:42 AM
In regards to the Snow Crash references earlier, has anyone read Diamond Age? How did it compare?

Diamond Age was good.  Diamond Age was much less mystical than Snow Crash, and went "out there" in terms of what a screwball high-tech anarcho-tribal society might look like.
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