Neuromancer: The Origin of Cyberpunk | A Horrifying Dystopia

A movie adaption scares me. The last attempt that failed, thankfully, wanted to modernize the entire thing. They were boasting about how they were going to change the payphone scene to peoples cellphones going off with different ringtones. It was an aweful idea.

This was before the new Bladerunner movie and cyberpunk 2077, which proves you can make new cyberpunk media with retro tech.

Hopefully if it happens again, we get a director smart enough this time to realize that...

Incredible work thank you!

This book has to be one of top favorite books I've read growing up. It's probably why I love the cyberpunk 2077 and Deus ex games so much.

Thanks Cyber-Usher!

Interesting video. I will come back after reading the book.

Bro, it's been 4 months. Where is Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive?

Definitely cover the next two books. I am so interested to hear what you make of them.

I played the point and click adventure video game of this :-) I wasn't able to finish it.

Nigh City? Ponce stole a lot from Neuromancer?

Cool, the look and feel of cyberpunk was made at the same time with Blade Runner and Ridley Scott. Wouldn't this make Do Andoids Dream of Electric Sheeps be the first and thus birthed cyberpunk?

God bless.

my favorite fun fact about this novel is that when gibson was about to finish and publish neuromancer, the movie blade runner came out. gibson realized that his story was really close to the one of blade runner and rewrote large parts of neuromancer to not be accused of ripping off the movie.

Sorry new here but is your voice over a.I.

Snowpiercer is a french comics

It’s an INTP thing. This is our comfort zone.

The intro song is just so goated, thanks for the video

This….this………….. thank you for this.😮 I appreciate your content and the care you take with the detail of what you are interpreting. It has sincerely been a joy watching your channel.

The book is beautiful. The imagery is vague, but vivid. The ending is one of the most philosophical, surreal, beautiful, and terrifying to think about I've ever read.

oh no, the audio is not synced

tons of amazing japanese cyberpunk stuff

Ballard's rejection of Campbell is rather shocking. It's going to take me some time to absorb that. Future video?

Why they never made neuromancer movie I will never understand ...

Snowpiercer(Le Transperceneige) is French my man :)

When it comes to cyberpunk I rather like technology. I like Ai.
In fact I look forward to humanoid robots that are at least as capable as I am.

Now I don't see it as "Dehumanizing" we're still human even if we treat each other like shit.

You don't have to treat all humans equally in order to treat each other as humans.

nice artwork

this is going to be a random question but would the game Watch Dogs could fall into the cyberpunk genre?
i was trying to of games that would, turns out there's very few and even fewer that are good.

I got to say. The New Wave Sci-Fi guys seemed like pretentious jackasses. First off, J. R. R. Tolkien isn't Sci-Fi. Hes Fantasy, His books are about Good Vs Evil. Not the Social Structures. If going critique Sci-Fi than critique Sci-fi. Not another Genre. Star Trek had been doing social commentary for decades without the Humanity sucks angle. I like Blade Runner and Cyberpunk 2077. But at the same time. Not everything needs to be dystopian. Not everything needs to be about how reality sucks.

is it documented somewhere that Cyberpunk 2077 is actually based on Neuromancer?

Extraordinarily book!

First video of yours I've watched - I couldn't really get into Neuromancer since I found the prose wasn't my style, but you made me interested in giving it another go. I'm really glad that I gave this a watch; you've got a really relaxing voice and I'm a bit jealous of your library; it looks really impressive! You've earned yourself a sub, friend.

William Gibson captured my mind with Neuromancer. I was a lost teen in cowboy boots, raising show hogs for cripes' sake, but Gibson wrote about a future where people could develop their individual talents and by honing those with practiced skill, become superb, sought after, and thusly, could "save themselves". At first it seemed like a bible for narcissism, but Gibson does a superb job of showing how actions can exist on their own, BUT also showed how every human was dependent on the actions of every other human (and/or sentient AI thing). Quinn...you have captured my intellect! Thoroughly enjoy your commentaries and explorations of subject matter. What a great mind you have!!!!

Just bought the Neuromancer trilogy, along with Burning Chrome. Really looking forward to diving into them once I finish the last two ASOIAF books.

Damn I need to get some of those shades. And go for a night ride.

This doesn't get said enough: thank you for the spoiler warning. I've been listening to the audiobook that recently came on Spotify and I am floored by the direct references and plotlines Cyberpunk 2077 takes from Neuromancer. I'll be coming back to this video as soon as I'm done listening to it to hear your take.

Please do cover the other two.

I've come to realize that both the plots of shadowrun, and cyberpunk, are both very closely related to the plot of neuromancer. And i love it

I recently read Neuromancer, but I didn't know it was part of a trilogy

Those glasses are wild man! Lol

Fantastic video basically covers all the questions about the cyberpunk genre 👏👏👏

Nice Sandman's :)

Bladerunner was out before this book, and the book it was based on was out in 68.
not saying Neuromancer didn’t help shape the cyberpunk genre a bit, but it wasn’t the origin

Gibson moved to contemporary fiction. When asked why he said "This is woree than anything i can imagjne"

Try "When Gravity Fails" by George Alec Effinger. Its less popular, but influential. Assuming you check a random post.

have always loved cyberpunk dystopian futures and their huge mega cities and mega corporations etc etc

Just rereading sprawl trilogy after 20 years. Still reads totally fresh, astonishing efficiency of writing

quinn you sir are just killing it

Picked this up in a shop late 84 read the first paragraph, that was it.