Beyond _Blade Runner_ (was Empire...)

[Max Sawicky]

. . .
When reality is as dystopian -- decaying postwar suburbs, the great 
unbroken plains of aging bungalows, stucco apartments, and 
ranch-style homes -- as Mike Davis suggests, who needs a cyberpunk 
novel or movie?  The actual American dystopia we live in is not 
spectacular, for it is neither urban nor urbane.  It's suburban & 
sprawling, policed by zoning.  Yoshie

A good picture of the actual dystopia is in
Tom Wolfe's A Man In Full.  For all the b.s.
elsewhere in the book, the renderings of
working class neighborhoods and workplaces
are pretty good, IMO.

mbs