Comments on: The Bleak Sentiment Found In Metrophage https://www.cyberpunks.com/the-bleak-sentiment-found-in-metrophage/ High-Tech Low-Lives Thu, 02 Jul 2020 20:46:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 By: Craig https://www.cyberpunks.com/the-bleak-sentiment-found-in-metrophage/#comment-20943 Thu, 02 Jul 2020 20:46:56 +0000 https://www.cyberpunks.com/?p=10850#comment-20943 I was only 6 when Neuromancer was released, so it totally passed me by until I was about 20 or so. By that time I’d gorged myself on as much Cyberpunk anime and film as I could find. Everything from GitS to Robocop, Cyber City Odeo 808 to The Matrix. So by the time I got to Neuromancer it felt very familiar. But each of those works owe a huge debt to the Cyberpunk fiction that preceded them.

And you’re spot on Connor, it’s importance shouldn’t be forgotten, but unfortunately I do see a lot of comparisons against the tropes it helped define. And where newer Cyberpunk media moves past these tropes, it’s often judged as not being Cyberpunk.
Cyberpunk is the oddest genre in that retrospect. I’ve never seen a community more at odds as to what does and doesn’t define its own body of work.

Nevertheless, it’s still the genre that I love more than any other. Hopefully fledgling Cyberpunks can continue to push it forward.

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