5/12/2023 0 Comments Holy fire sterling![]() ![]() However, in 1996, Sterling published his novel Holy Fire, a fiction that materializes the reflections raised by the author in his aforementioned essay. This is the case of series such as Black Mirror, Altered Carbon and the upcoming video game Cyberpunk 2077. ![]() In the essay, Shiner argued that cyberpunk made no sense any more, but, in any case, in 2020, several adaptations and new titles kept the subgenre alive (or at least parts of it). This was all concluded eight years after Lewis Shiner, one of the member of The Movement, the group which created cyberpunk as a genre, had already wrote “ Confessions of an Ex-Cyberpunk” for The New York Times. After all, it’s been some time since “any cyberpunk wrote a truly mind-blowing story, something that writhed, heaved, howled, hallucinated and shattered the furniture.” The essay pondered cyberpunk and its authors, arguing that the “visionary intensity” that was once center to the genre was forgotten as time went by and authors aged - back in the day, they were already 40 years old in average. In 1998, science fiction writer Bruce Sterling published the article “ Cyberpunk in the Nineties” in the magazine INTERZONE. ![]() ![]() In Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling imagines a post-pandemic gerontocracyĭisclaimer: This article was originally published on Tab UOL, in Portuguese. ![]()
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