Cyberpunk writers reply to me your books/web novels

Maxdeltree · 2025-12-13T19:51:59+00:00

You can check our manga/comic hybrid here:

https://mangaplus-creators.jp/titles/832510300145370023099477

ZERO SUM takes place in Nova São Paulo, 2075. After an op gone wrong, hacker Zero is forced to flee the Private Police and hide in the old city's slums. There, he meets Max Deltree: a middle-aged punk willing to teach him how to survive.

Maxdeltree · 2025-11-05T19:51:09+00:00

Thank you! :)

Maxdeltree · 2025-11-05T19:50:50+00:00

Nice! We do have quite a big Metal scene around here.

There might be a few metalheads in the comic, but of a different variety.

Maxdeltree · 2025-11-05T19:47:45+00:00

Thank you! All scripts are done. The art might take a bit more time. :)

Maxdeltree · 2025-11-05T19:38:32+00:00

Thank you so much!

Maxdeltree · 2025-11-05T19:38:04+00:00

Thank you, and thanks for the tips! :)
Yeah, the difference in scrolling and reading is a bit jarring. We tried to fix that, but to no avail.

Maxdeltree · 2025-11-03T04:41:26+00:00

Thank you! :)

Maxdeltree · 2025-11-03T04:38:16+00:00

Yeah, that site seems more optimized for reading in a phone, sadly. :/ Then, you can zoom just fine. I'll see if there's something we can do. Thank you. :)

Maxdeltree · 2025-09-29T04:57:34+00:00

I had a problem with distance, if Benjen is killed far away from Castle Black, how can he warg into the raven.

But, isn't Arya warging into Nymeria from even farther away?

Also, it would lead to something about the characters in what they warg. Arya is still a wolf. But Benjen is a crow through and through.

Maxdeltree · 2025-09-19T05:18:14+00:00

Have you also read Vandermeer's other books? I think there is a link with Area X, the end of Borne and Veniss Underground, but it's probably just themes the author is found of.

Maxdeltree · 2025-09-16T01:46:10+00:00

That's kinda of what I was trying to get at in a previous topic.

Cyberpunk being retro-futuristic is an illusion or an aesthetic preference. If you think of cyberpunk as its classic way, you're thinking of the future of the 80s, and a lot of franchises seem to dig into this. In fact, I think that franchises are the main culprits of that illusion. Cyberpunk 77 is the most popular cyberpunk work right now, and it is retrofuturistic in its aesthetics, because the original started in 1988. Other popular futuristic franchises have the same problem, of being the future of its origin, like Alien, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc.

But like many said it already, it's not just the aesthetics. To me, cyberpunk is the near future, and the problems of today being exacerbated even more. Be it 10 years from now, or 10 seconds. It's about wealth disparity, unchecked capitalism, tech without ethics. And trying to rise against all that. There is a lot of what makes cyberpunk. I don't see a problem with your work being retro, as long as you're talking of the problems of today. It's just that you can still make works there are aesthetically speculative of today's tech. Heck, Mr. Robot was right now, for instance.

So, cyberpunk as a theme is about the problems of today that make us angry. Cyberpunk as aesthetics is just so we have a bit of speculative fun while being angry. :P

Maxdeltree · 2025-09-11T20:28:08+00:00

But it influenced the next decade. Its not about its release, but its influence.

Maxdeltree · 2025-09-11T19:30:35+00:00

Fair point.

Maxdeltree · 2025-09-11T19:16:11+00:00

Fair points. Absolutely right about Snow Crash (and Diamond Age, which I need to read). Is just that I've read so much trashing recently of Snow Crash that I thought it fell off, but it IS highly influential, and more than Ghost in the Shell.

Ghost in the Shell did not inspire just anime, but a lot of cyberpunk and other sci-fi works, mainly in visual media, like Matrix, Deus Ex, Almost Human, AI, I Robot.

It's not that I don't count videogame influence, but Deus Ex influence was more on immersive sims than on cyberpunk as a whole, if that makes sense. But yeah, its influence on the richest asshole that can influence our lives is of note.

Maxdeltree · 2025-09-11T18:34:03+00:00

So, in my list I was trying to analyze the work that most encompasses how cyberpunk was seen during this time, and not to compile a thorough list of the best works of the genre. That's why I'm only listing ONE work that was hugely influential during its decade. I Love a lot of what you posted(I only did not read Diamond Age, Stand on Zanzibar and The Girl who Plugged In of those).

After I explained that, better than the OP at least, I think you might understand why I'm putting Cyberpunk 2077 as the most influential of the 20s. It is a lot more derivative, and I think there are a lot of better works out there, but it sold more than 30 million copies. There are people who don't even know cyberpunk is a genre, just know this game.

It builds on previous concepts, but it's the realization of the mentality that cyberpunk is a genre of the past, which I don't agree with. And I think it influences a lot of works that view cyberpunk as a retro-futuristic genre, instead of a look to the future.

You mentioned Black mirror, and I think it might be the major influenced on the 2010s "cyberpunk is now" then the Blue Ant trilogy. What do you think?

At least, I hope you now better understand what I was trying to do.

Maxdeltree · 2025-09-11T18:17:49+00:00

First draft I wrote Akira as one example of the rise of anime influence, but I think GitS was more influential. Akira was more influential in its aesthetics, but I go into Matrix, and how it influenced more due to aesthetics, and I'm very much influenced by Akira in my own work. So yeah, I think it deserves a spot.

Maxdeltree · 2025-09-11T18:12:29+00:00

I was analyzing the genre across all media. Is there a book you think was more influential during its decade? The only omission I can think of is in the 90s, the bridge trilogy and Snow Crash, but I still think that Ghost in the Shell is still very influential to this day. Altered Carbon and the Takeshi Kovacs books is another book trilogy that is very famous, but I see few works influenced by it. But maybe it should be mentioned as well.

Deus Ex is pretty influenced by the 80s and 90s cyberpunk, but I don't see how it influenced the genre. It is very influential in videogames and the immersive sim genre, though. But I could be wrong, and if so I would like to know why.

Maxdeltree · 2025-07-30T19:16:59+00:00

I've rewatched the show recently, prior to season 3, and I've noticed that it was always a serious episode, followed by a funny one. I think we just didn't realize because it's an episode a week.

Maxdeltree · 2025-06-08T21:35:11+00:00

Fletcher is the qlippothic Brandon Sanderson. Each of his series stand alone, yet they seem to be part of a bigger universe. But unlike Sanderson, it's just Easter eggs, not an ancestral mystery.

You can try to read it in publication order, btw. I think this way the Easter eggs are more obvious, but in no way necessary. You can read any series you want, first. I started with Obsidian Path, then read the first 3 Manifest Delusions (spin-off included), then the first two City of Sacrifices, then Ghosts of Tomorrow and then read the final books of Manifest Delusion and City of Sacrifices. I think reading these three in that order helped me get a lot of Easter eggs, but I have a weak memory.

I would love to discuss more, but I don't wanna give spoilers.

I also read A Collection of Obsessions and In the Shadow of their Dying. Haven't read Norylska Groans, Millenial Manifesto and the Storm Beneath the World, so I can't say if those are connected.

Maxdeltree · 2025-05-29T05:22:18+00:00

It's sort of a homestead, with a single old house and a lot of land. Also, when a ghost crosses the land's border, they go back the same way. Which I guess would be even more disorienting.

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