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From: mcb@lll-tis.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: who does it...
Message-ID: <21733@lll-tis.arpa>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 17:38:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: lll-tis.21733
Posted: Thu Sep 24 17:38:12 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 13:59:48 EDT
References: <4319@spool.wisc.edu> <3036@hoptoad.uucp> <3045@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: mcb@lll-tis.arpa (Michael C. Berch)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA
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Summary: First cyberpunk...

In article <3045@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
> In article <3036@hoptoad.uucp> laura@hoptoad.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
> >My vote for earliest cyberpunk goes to Samuel Delaney's *Nova*.  
> >Anybody have an earlier one?
> 
> Nice try, but it has to be Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius novels.

My vote's for William S. Burroughs work of the NOVA EXPRESS / NAKED
LUNCH / THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED era.  Predates the British new wave, 
I think, right? 

Michael C. Berch 
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