How could I forget Anna Akhmatova:
Sue! yes! love Akhmatova and Mandelstam.
If we're going modern, I'd drop in Szymborska as well.
but if we're rolling backwards, I'd bring in Lycidas even though it's a pastoral.
::waves back at Raq:: there's good stuff here I haven't read. yippe. thanks for the Sterling link David.
wrt classifying everything dystopian as cyberpunk, yes and no. I don't think the booksellers have any idea what cyberpunk is. Feminine dystopias (I'm thinking Herland) don't normally get pulled in though. OTOH, Candace Jane Dorsey gets put on my list for (learning about) Machine Sex.
here's one that should likely be a crosspost with boxed set. any successful cyberpunk TV shows that anyone can think of?
eta for spelling (though I doubt I got all) oi what a day.
Isn't that Thomas DeQuincey?
You are correct, sir. They were friends (and DeQuincey may have been Coleridge's dealer, so to speak). Damn my confuzzled memory!
Well, they both did plenty of opium and wrote about it.
A couple of years ago, Plei found a seller on eBay that was selling off a stockpile of the Charles of the Ritz "paper white" compacts. I think we each bought two.
I bought... more than two. And the loose powder.
Would "Dark Angel" be considered Cyberpunk?
The show? I kinda think of it as Cyberpunk. Of course, Jillian snarkily said it was as if someone a filmed Shadowrun campaign...
And she didn't even see the episode with the dudes with the implants...
Would Dollhouse, or what we know if it so far, be cyberpunk?
Of course, Jillian snarkily said it was as if someone a filmed Shadowrun campaign...
A poorly-run Shadowrun campaign, don't forget that part.
And she didn't even see the episode with the dudes with the implants...
Oh lord. I shudder to think.
Wow, this was a great bit of reading.
In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires, Radu Florescu
I have a signed copy. We were close friends with his son (same name) and family when we lived in Romania.
Lucia di Lammermoor gets my vote as "Opera Most Easily Made Into A Hammer Film." Wasn't the aria used in
Fifth Element
from Lucia di Lammermoor? So there's a goth--cyberpunk axis.
Would Logan's Run count as cyberpunk TV? It's not so much the Mad Max breakdown of society as what happens after, but after they go on the run they seem to hit some cyberpunk.
The pilot movie of "V" was, but the series NSM.
"Everybody Loves Raymond," totally cyberpunk.
Poemtry: I actually think Wallace Stevens "Blackbird" series is goth, and not just because of the word "black." Is there a genre called "Zen Goth?"
I think some of the suggestions are more Gothic than goth, but as I happily (morosely) span both, I can't complain.
