From:	Eve Forward <lutra@******.COM>
Subject:	Re: Striper Assassin
Date:	Fri, 8 Sep 1995 06:47:58 -0700

>> I've just finished reading Striper Assassin, (I picked it up on
special at the local bookstore during the week I've just spent skiing -
gloat! gloat!), and while I enjoyed it enough to want to keep reading, Nyx
Smith's method of writing in the present tense really irritated me after a
while<<

From what I've seen, writing in present tense is one of the traits of
cyberpunk fiction. _Hardwired_ (THE rigger book) by Williams is an
example, and other people (possibly imitating Williams) also do it. It
-is- different and a little irritating, which I guess is something
else that can be seen as contributing to the "otherness" of cyberpunk
fiction. Not all cypunk fiction is present tense, of course.