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Apple is turning William Gibson’s Neuromancer into a TV series (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

https://youtu.be/xxG-YfedrfU

Predestination, an Australian movie based on Robert Heinlein's "All You Zombies..."

One of the things I like about this movie is that it's set in Heinlein's "futuristic" version of the 1970's, not the 1970's we got.

If they do Neuromancer right, it'll have pocket sized VCR machines and the televsion screens will be grwy, not blue.

[–] grozzle@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hope so! Shadowrun, which is basically Gibson's sprawl plus magic, set in the 2050s in original editions from around 1990 -

Later editions added wireless computer connections to keep up with present technology, but wifi just doesn't feel cyberpunk, so they later added some weird lore reason to go back to needing to plug in, for recent editions. Good change.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Read [or reread] "Damnation Alley" by Roger Zelazny. You could argue that it's the original 'punk' science fiction novel. A hard bitten Hell's Angel is chosen to drive across the post-atomic wasteland to deliver a life giving serum to the last city on the East Coast.

When I think about it, I decide that the Atomic War took place circa 1970 and keep all the background details in that era.