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Re:The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk by the_af on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @12:48PM (#30921381)
I don't think it's contrary.

First, Blade Runner came BEFORE Neuromancer was released, so it cannot have been a derivative, and there weren't any good representations of the aesthetic on screen either; its visuals broke new ground in many senses. Gibson rightly feared that:

> "BLADERUNNER came out while I was still writing Neuromancer. I was about a third of the way into the manuscript. When I saw (the first twenty minutes of) BLADERUNNER, I figured my unfinished first novel was sunk, done for. Everyone would assume I’d copped my visual texture from this astonishingly fine-looking film."

[source: https://web.archive.org/web/20070926221513/http://www.willia...]

Are there any other visual works of cyberpunk that came after Neuromancer and that Gibson praised? There must have been, but how common were they?

Second, I don't think Gibson's main objection was the aesthetic, but rather, that derivative works didn't do anything with it. They just copied, losing the punk spirit and rebelliousness.

Re:The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk by BTCOG on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @01:01PM (#30921595)
I think that's a great assessment. Other than being great friends with Bruce Sterling I'm not aware of afterward works considered derivative that he's directly praised. Maybe some Stephenson works and Sterling?