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Uh oh, don't tell CD Projekt Red

• aidenn0 7y ago
  The Witcher series was very much not my type of game (I didn't like the Elder Scrolls series either), so I'm unlikely to try Cyberpunk 2077. I think it has a good chance for success though because while cyberpunk is not necessarily big right now, it is a subgenre of dystopian SF, which seems to be on the upswing. However, while HBO's Watchmen is well timed because of the huge popularity of the MCU, there's not currently any similarly well-known cyberpunk body of fiction right now. It will be interesting to see how they adapt it though. It's probably one of the more "ready for screen" books that Stephenson has written, but even there it relies heavily on internal-monologue and brute writing style more than it does on great plotting. Of course if you are going by my theory of dystopian SF being the thing right now, The Diamond Age is probably a better fit, plus it's already populated with a few orgy scenes, which seems to be a plus for HBO. I suppose there are casting issues with the plot centering so much around a young girl though.