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by rocketbop 1294 days ago
> Borne by Jeff VanderMeer, a weird near future declinepunk with bioengineering and evil corporations.

I loved Shriek: An Afterword, and have wanted to read more VanderMeer for a while. Did you just coin the term 'declinepunk'? I've never heard it before.
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prepend 1294 days ago
I don’t know what the right term is but the world is worse than today and on the way down. It’s not apocalyptic, but it’s decaying and declining with loss of services, crime, chaos. But there’s still tech and big companies and stuff.

Similar would be Battle Angle Alita and the last section from Bone Clocks.

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rocketbop 1294 days ago
Nice. The end of that book was pretty depressing. I suppose cyberpunk is usually dystopian anyway.

Came across this nice wiki when googling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives

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