"Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk……" — Paul Di Filippo
"Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image."
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35 Quotes by Paul Di Filippo
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The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.
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That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would…
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What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able…
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The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
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Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.
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As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will…
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Neil Gaiman has reached a masterful stage in his writing where he deserves his own adjective, which could be extended…
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The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
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Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned…
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Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his…
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The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I…
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The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to…
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Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements,…
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Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most…
— Bruce Sterling
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For me as a kid, reading cyberpunk was like seeing the world for the first time. Gibson's Neuromancer wasn't just…
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to…
— Rudy Rucker
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A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want…
— William Gibson
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In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk…
— Daniel H. Wilson
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The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and…
— William Gibson
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It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful…
— Paul Di Filippo
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There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is…
— Robert Sheckley
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Let me tell you a little story about a guy called Johnny. He's got the 2.25 kids, the washer, dryer,…
— Tiga
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