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From: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: who does it...
Message-ID: <172@yetti.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 13:59:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: yetti.172
Posted: Sat Oct  3 13:59:19 1987
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In article <4319@spool.wisc.edu> bart@speedy.UUCP writes:
>What about Brunner's "Shockwave Rider".  Not as surrealistic as Gibson,
>but has the techo-hackers, futuristic views, decaying civlization, and
>changing social structures.
>						--bart miller

	Good example. Probably the earliest book I know of CyberPunk
	is Vernor Vinge's short "TRUE NAMES". Gibson borrowed liberally
	from Vinge's earlier vision, and brought it to a genre-of-its-own.
	I think Brunner's SHOCKWARE RIDER is in a gray area, sort of
	literati-edition-cyberpunk.

	The really interesting thing to watch for, in my opinion, is how
	well do these authors treat sociological issues as well as the
	technical ones. Some of the CyberP authors do well, and but I am
	convinced that many authors who will inevitably jump into this
	category know zip all about computer science/technology (you need to
	know a great deal to extrapolate properly) and its possible
	sociological impact. It would be sad to see the field degenerate into
	Techno-Nonsense, or CyberFantasy.

	oz
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