Because the alternative was letting Tony Stark die. My theory is that Strange saw that the one winning scenario involves Tony heavily, and so despite what he’d said earlier, he needed to trade the Time Stone for Stark’s life. Hence the “It was the only way” line.

Does Wong finally get his tuna-melt/closure?

Biggest problem is that it spans centuries, there’s no real hero (besides the idea of psychohistory), and a lot of it is talk. But that’s the essence of the story. Change it, and it’s just another galactic empire space opera.

He got better.

Snake Plissken? I thought he was dead.

I like the premise, but it’s intrinsically flawed because they have to explain how it is humanity evolved on Earth but then ended up in space with Earth as a 13th Colony of some other planet. The original series ignored the issue, which sucked, and the reboot fudged it.

Yeah! Nova is fucking rad, although it sometimes feels like a Zelazny ripoff.

Babel-17 and triton also have some cyberpunk touches (mostly just books i love and think should be read). Samuel Delany is an amazing writer.

Nova yes... but come on. Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones, out of Driftglass.

Remember... Hawk stepped out of the fire and sang.

I second this... Delany is often cited as a major influence by all the other folks listed above.

Nova (1968), by Samuel R. Delany. Yes, it’s technically a far-flung space opera, but there’s a huge emphasis on cybernetic technology and corporate espionage. Also, Delany’s multicultural interstellar society prefigures the polyglot nature of a lot of cyberpunk — rereading it a couple of years back I realized that…