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How to write a cyberpunk story?
| i'd say some basics are:
-class disparity
-unrestrained consumerism/hedonism/capitalism leads to or is the reason for current state of society
-a rapidly-changing future characters must adapt to or change
-tech is a form of oppresion (over-militarization/surveillance/loss of identity), but also used to fight oppression
| don't limit yourself to those, though. cyberpunk is a very open genre - at its core it's just dystopian fiction. explore some different themes. income equality, political conspiracies, info wars, android wars, or paranoia-filled dystopia that can't be dought against. go wild, gurl.
| as above.
| income inequality* whoops
| Hmm...
| I'd look at it the other way - what's the story you want to tell or the idea you want to explore? Then, what kind of swing would make sense for it?
| Did it ever occur to read the work of William Gibson? Start with Burning chrome then move on to The Sprawl Trilogy.
| The way I see it.
Cyber = Advances in tech cause people to abuse less tech minded people.
Punk = Problems in society caused by this abuse make people rebel against the system.
Now not a hard fast rule or anything. Just what a lot of people see as cyberpunk. Cause a lot of people see cyberpunk just as this 90s aesthetic.
| to abuse *THAT* tech.
... Damn autocorrect.
While I'm at it. I'd like to see a cyberpunk setting adress modern issues. Od course we can't predict the future but I'd wish to see a modern take on automatisation, VR, and space colonisation. How it could help society and how people could abuse it.
| The idea of making an original-feeling unique cyberpunk dystopia seems like its getting way harder and harder as all the ideas have been done already OR theyve been outdone by terrifying IRL dystopian shit happening in the news as we speak
| >>383277 cyberpunk is a criticism/satire of the present using a future setting. so you can always put a futuristic spin on irl dystopian shit to fit your writing needs. exaggeration is key! (don't overdo it, though)
| >>383311 you dont even need to put a futuristic spin on it any more. We have so much tech today and with the current political climate some places are basically living cyberpunk.
| >>383277 wrong, plenty of ideas to explore. Look at the tabletop community for example.
Why do I think a bunch of proselytes are trting to infect the genre because no one will buy their shitty fanfics.
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| Title. What are must-haves in a cyberpunk story?