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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder how much of "the cyberpunk movement" in SF was authors getting sick and tired of "woo" psi powers etc. For me personally it really felt like a breath of fresh air.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Wonder if the big cyberpunk authors wrote about that, somebody prob knows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Bruce Sterling is active on social media but he's pretty forward-looking. I tried complimenting his Heavy Weather from the early 90s and get a self-deprecating dismissal.

Early Gibson short stories are tinged with late 70s SF, not surprisingly.

Incidentally superhero movies are current western SF/fantasy hybrids.