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From: mwtilden@orchid.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: earliest cyberpunk?
Message-ID: <11016@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: Sun, 4-Oct-87 00:53:32 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  4 00:53:32 1987
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References: <1588@rayssd.RAY.COM> <1450@steppenwolf.rutgers.edu>
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In article <1450@steppenwolf.rutgers.edu> masticol@steppenwolf.rutgers.edu.UUCP writes:
>M. Joseph Barone writes:
>> 
>> Can anyone think of something older than Tolkien with cyberpunk
>> references in it?
>> 
>Sure. "Metropolis," directed by Fritz Lang in the late 1920's.
>Can anyone come up with an older movie?

Sure. "R.U.R" (Rutherfords' Universal Robots) 1917, but like Metropolis,
it doesn't count as cyberpunk, just visionary science fiction.

The short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) by E. M. Forester has 
definite cyberpunk overtones (although, I'll grant, some rather niave ones).
Good story for those of you who might want to really delve into
cyberpunk roots...



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