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thematically connected
Neuromancer
Gibson invented the word "cyberspace" β the founding text of the genre
1984
Orwell invented the vocabulary every dystopian work still borrows
The Stranger
Camus's absurdist masterpiece β Meursault's radical indifference as a philosophical statement
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The epistolary novel that defined its generation of outsiders
Disco Elysium
A detective RPG that turns ideology into stats and philosophy into dialogue
NieR: Automata
Yoko Taro's meditation on existence, meaning, and androids who choose to feel
The Last of Us
The defining post-apocalyptic story in games
Blade Runner 2049
Villeneuve's sequel expands the philosophical questions of the original
Whiplash
A film about the cruelty and transcendence of jazz mastery
Boyhood
Linklater filmed a boy growing up over twelve years β the most patient portrait of adolescence in cinema
Black Mirror
Brooker's anthology of technology-enabled social collapse
Station Eleven
What survives of us is art β a hopeful post-pandemic fable
Song For No One
Lowercase Noises
Persistence
Depths
Migratory Patterns
Farewell
This Is For Our Sins
Passage
Vivian
The Swiss Illness
James
Marshall