| From: | Stuart M. Willis hbiki@****.geocities.com |
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| Subject: | OT: Cyberpunk Authors [Was Re: Interesting...] |
| Date: | Fri, 12 Feb 1999 18:44:06 +1100 |
>the table,
>|> and I've yet to figure out why so many people think he's the Second
>Coming.
He brought Cyberpunk out from underneath the rock. I think he's a good
writer, actually, both in terms of his plot and his actual writing style. I
think he's a brilliant short story writer, actually, which is a difficult
art.
> Personally I'm a BIG fan of Gibson and Stephenson, but I think
>the very changing nature of the genre dictates that it divide,
>fragment, and change. To not do so automatically limits it, setting it
>more into 'mainstream' science fiction. These are all just labels,
>once that tend to divide rather than define. Such as when the
>bookseller near where I live propunds the glories of mainstream
>science, and sneers [yes, sneers] at anything smacking of cyberpunk as
>'childish, immature, and dying, if not dead' genre'.
[shrug] Just tell him anything post Gibson is post-cyberpunk. :-)
At least you haven't had lecturers try to tell you waht is an isn't
cyberpunk when they have no interest in the culture itself.
> Cyberpunk found it's roots in the intergration of the realm of
>high tech and the modern pop underground] I agree with Bruce Sterling;
>the genre hasn't died out [as players of such games as Shadowrun can
>attest], but undergone changes, adapted to changing times.
Considering that Sterling has heaped much scorn on Shadowrun in terms of
its 'ideaological correctness', saying that we can attest to the survival
of Cyberpunk is ironic.
>John Shirley
> The Eclipse Trilogy [I can't recommend these enough! Written
>before the fall of the Berlin Wall, they offer a highly prophetic,
>very scary, and highly probable view of the times we live in now.]
I want to set off an EMP bomb in my CBD.
I think I may do that in a Shadowrun, actually.
s.
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