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Cyberpunk

  • 29-08-2014 01:40AM
    #1
    JackGM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭


    What are the key stylistic choices one should make in a cyberpunk setting? What imagery and feelings should the descriptions evoke? Should the reader draw parallels between our world and the cyberpunk's? If so, what? I'd like to develop my writing skill, and cyberpunk is a setting I haven't explored as of yet.


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  • #2
    srsly78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭srsly78


    Mirrorshades of course.


  • #3
    RDM_83 again
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭RDM_83 again


    JackGM wrote: »
    What are the key stylistic choices one should make in a cyberpunk setting? What imagery and feelings should the descriptions evoke? Should the reader draw parallels between our world and the cyberpunk's? If so, what? I'd like to develop my writing skill, and cyberpunk is a setting I haven't explored as of yet.

    To be honest, I think unless your very good deliberately setting out for a cyber-punk setting it is going to probably seem very dated, take a critical read of a novel like Snowcrash and the edgyness just seems a bit comical.

    Suggestions would be, Gritty characters existing on the margins of society, urban decay, counter culture message.


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