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> It would be very hard to tell that story in fantasy. Perhaps Steampunk is closer to this, given that "steam" was part of the first industrial revolution. Ho
by theptip 6y ago
> It would be very hard to tell that story in fantasy.
Perhaps Steampunk is closer to this, given that "steam" was part of the first industrial revolution.
However there are some interesting ideas floating around that you could use to tell a pure-Fantasy cyberpunk story; I'm sure someone's tried a novel, but I am only familiar with the tabletop RPG http://cryptorpg.com/ http://cryptorpg.com/, where magic enables cryptography and messaging. From there you can recapitulate pretty much all of the dystopian power/narrative structures that make Cyberpunk what it is.
Magic-as-technology is a surprisingly under-explored concept, with the right magic system I think you could easily tell a Cyberpunk story.
- nip180 6y ago> Magic-as-technology is a surprisingly under-explored concept This is a very common way to address magic when tradition sci-fi writers try to incorporate fantasy elements into their novels. It’s used in the Shadowrun universe, and in the novel The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O as two popular examples.
- Grimm1 6y agoIt's common outside of sci-fi as well one of the biggest fantasy RPGs Final Fantasy regularly incorporates "Magitech" as they call it into their worlds.
- edmundsauto 6y agoIf you haven't read it before, the Foundation series has this as a theme. There is a priesthood of the atomics, who don't know how it works, just how to run the maintenance manual cargo culting.
- sjellis 6y agoWalter Jon Williams, author of the cyberpunk classic Hardwired, also wrote two books in a setting that fuses cyberpunk and fantasy: Metropolitan and City on Fire.