Cyberpunk (essay) by teleny - Everything2.com
Fri Aug 27 2010 at 19:26:44 Part of the reason why Hollywood never got cyberpunk right was its awkward timing: SF of the Heinlein/Bradbury/Sturgeon school was influenced, for good or ill, by the memory of The Parsonage, where Jack Parsons and his crew maintained a place where sex, drugs and various goings-on were simply another day in paradise. Therefore, any future not strictly dysutopian (and not a few that were) had either non-marital sex or people getting stoned as a central feature. By t...
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