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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9751278" data-attributes="member: 6671663">Gibson and Sterling both said explicitly that they saw cyberpunk as anti-dystopian, or at least vigorously non-dystopian. Life is bad for many people, but life goes on, and crucially, life keeps changing. No social, political, or economic power in their worlds can lock them down. Radical change can and will happen, the shape of the world will break open over and over again, on into the foreseeable future.Other writers show the same thing: the post singularity post-humanity in Michael Swanwick’s Vacuum Flowers and the runup to the Singularity in his The Griffin’s Egg, the fringe science/magical changes in John Shirley’s City Come A-Walkin’ (the origin of the Molly Millions mirrorshades look) and A Song Called Youth, his “Shaman” (one of Greg Stafford’s favorite stories), the techno-necromancy of Lucius Shepard’s Green Eyes…and so on. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Lots of these worlds could become dystopias, and some did before the story started, but they’re not allowed to stay that way.</blockquote>