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Old 07-12-2018, 09:13 AM   #36
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Default Re: What do we mean by "Realistic"?

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Originally Posted by evileeyore View Post
C-Punk is close enough to 'real' I don't even need to do any work.
I don't think this is right. It seems to me that cyberpunk is an SF version of noir that presents many of the same tropes (and this goes back to 1960s precursors of cyberpunk such as Dick and Delaney). That is, it's not realistic but a cinematic rendering of the "realism" trope. Grimdark fantasy and iron age supers are other examples of this approach, to my mind.
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