• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    15
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    sci fi is about the present. Atwood said that everything that happened in The Handmaids Tale happened in real life — just not to white people.

    So too, cyberpunk dystopias were happening while being made. Yes Akira has people with magic powers — but delinquent kids, government experiments on children, a brutalist police force that murders without question: all modern day.