Replay - Das Zweite Spiel

Mass Market Paperback, 411 pages

German language

Published Nov. 11, 2004 by Wilhelm Heyne Verlag.

ISBN:
978-3453520103
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This is going to be an odd comparison, but this book is, in many ways, the opposite of what Neuromancer did to the cyberpunk genre. Allow me to explain myself.

Neuromancer was a massively influential book that directly inspired some of the most memorable pieces of cyberpunk media, including The Matrix, Blade Runner, Cyberpunk 2077, and a host of anime and manga like Ghost in the Shell and Akira. What each of these works did was take some of the best parts of Neuromancer and implement them into their own stories to create a wonderful mural of complementary works that make the genre so incredible.

However, in my opinion, Replay was the rough draft of the "live your life over and make different choices" genre; not necessarily the prototype. Subsequent works that take this trope have vastly improved upon it rather than just doing something different with …

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