I was re-reading William Gibson’s Neuromancer on the weekend, considering all the things he got right (advances in biotechnology, the Internet, cashless society, the rise of artificial intelligence) and all of the things he got wrong (no mobile phones and the high degree of connectivity, no Soviet Union). It then occurred to me that I hadn’t seen a new cyberpunk novel in a long time, and perhaps that is because, with my lazy non-inquisitorial book buying habits, there doesn’t seem to be a successful cyberpunk novel in some time.
Are we now living in a post-cyberpunk era, and the genre is now obsolete?