Toxic

thematically connected

Neuromancer

Gibson invented the word "cyberspace" — the founding text of the genre

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1984

Orwell invented the vocabulary every dystopian work still borrows

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The Stranger

Camus's absurdist masterpiece — Meursault's radical indifference as a philosophical statement

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The epistolary novel that defined its generation of outsiders

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Disco Elysium

A detective RPG that turns ideology into stats and philosophy into dialogue

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NieR: Automata

Yoko Taro's meditation on existence, meaning, and androids who choose to feel

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The Last of Us

The defining post-apocalyptic story in games

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Blade Runner 2049

Villeneuve's sequel expands the philosophical questions of the original

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Whiplash

A film about the cruelty and transcendence of jazz mastery

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Boyhood

Linklater filmed a boy growing up over twelve years — the most patient portrait of adolescence in cinema

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Black Mirror

Brooker's anthology of technology-enabled social collapse

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Station Eleven

What survives of us is art — a hopeful post-pandemic fable