I reread Androids after a long, long time recently and it goes WAY HARDER than I remember. The movie is just a kinda grimey and polluted, in the book the world is really close to being uninhabitable.
It's fascinating to me because most cyberpunk properties present a world which, while definitely bad and dystopic, is portrayed as sustainable on some level. Thing could potentially suck as much as they suck now forever.
In Do Androids Dream Of Electronic Sheep, the environment is getting worse and worse and everyone still on earth in a decade or two will be dead.
Well, there's a difference between inevitable doom unless something changes, and inevitable doom that could only have been prevented if something changed fifty years ago.
Like your average Blade Runner or Cyberpunk 2077 or other setting will eventually destroy the planet and kill everyone, sure, but there's still a human agency there that could at some point replace a system leading to that with a system that doesn't.
In Androids, the time to not make a fatal error was before World War Terminus.
I reread Androids after a long, long time recently and it goes WAY HARDER than I remember. The movie is just a kinda grimey and polluted, in the book the world is really close to being uninhabitable.
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It's fascinating to me because most cyberpunk properties present a world which, while definitely bad and dystopic, is portrayed as sustainable on some level. Thing could potentially suck as much as they suck now forever.
In Do Androids Dream Of Electronic Sheep, the environment is getting worse and worse and everyone still on earth in a decade or two will be dead.
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Well, there's a difference between inevitable doom unless something changes, and inevitable doom that could only have been prevented if something changed fifty years ago. Like your average Blade Runner or Cyberpunk 2077 or other setting will eventually destroy the planet and kill everyone, sure, but there's still a human agency there that could at some point replace a system leading to that with a system that doesn't. In Androids, the time to not make a fatal error was before World War Terminus.
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