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Originally Posted by johndallman
Just so. Cyberpunk faded away as a sub-genre of SF fairly rapidly, once writers found that there were a limited number of story structures that would work. People becoming much more familiar with computers in the late 1980s and early 1990s didn't help much either: nobody wants brain implants that crash regularly, and become obsolete in three years.
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Well, the whole ethos was that life was going to be nasty, brutish, and short, so why not crank a little harder now? Nihilism and desperation makes for some really poor life choices; who cares if your brainjack's going to fry in five years if you don't expect to live another two?
I think the nihilism is what got tiring. But people still groove to the visual beats.