• CoconutOctopus [it/its]
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    3 years ago

    Cyberpunk as a genre in general. Snow Crash took all the tropes that were beginning to be played out by then and dialed them all up to 11.

    • ClathrateG [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I disagree, is the corporatocracy in snow crash really more extreme than that in neuromancer for example? compare the gargoyles and the head antenna in snow crash to the body mod/cybernetics in most cyberpunk, it just doesn't read as a parody to me

      yes it's aware of cyberpunk tropes and deconstructs some of them, but that puts it firmly into the category of post-cyberpunk imo