Comment by o-mo-ka-saaaay
5 hours ago
I think what is confusing some people is that those novels and authors are all American and they can’t seem to believe another country beat us to it. It’s like they expected God had made it so that America would be the leader in techno culture evolution. It would be endearing if it weren’t for their impotent rage response to enable fascism for their own ends.
Asian superpowers feature so heavily in the genre that it's a cliche. Also Ballard was British.
...And he grew up in Shanghai, China
> I think what is confusing some people is that those novels and authors are all American and they can’t seem to believe another country beat us to it.
Gibson's novels predicted Asian ascendency (insomuch as you can have ascendency in a dystopia). Through a quirk of the time period in which they were written they happened to present it as emanating from Japan rather than China.
J.G. Ballard was not an American. He grew up in China and spent most of his life in the UK. He has a very subtle British sensibility to a lot of his work.