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From: brad@pheasant.cs.utexas.edu (blumenthal @ home with the armadillos)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: cyberpunk humor
Summary: Let's not get sidetracked
Keywords: humor, Firesign Theatre, Bozos
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Date: 10 Apr 88 05:23:36 GMT
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>What's the definition of cyberpunk, anyway? I had thought that it
>included something like Gibson's cyberspace, not just high tech plus
>	Doug Merritt		doug@mica.berkeley.edu (ucbvax!mica!doug)

Well, we've hashed this up recently, but I wasn't under the impression that
cyberpunk necessarily required the "consesual hallucination" (I love that term)
notion of cyberspace.  Even if it did, I would argue that the amusement park
world in "...Bozo's..." comes close:  it's an environment that reflects the
underlying organization of a high-tech, yet somewhat grim, construct-oriented
society, and it requires a certain amount of cooperation from its non-
indigenous inhabitants (Case cum Worker as opposed to Wintermute cum Artie 
Choke).  

But let's not get too sidetracked here; I really do want to know if anyone
else sees any cyberpunk humor out there.  It's bound to be somewhat black
humor, but I guess I'm easily amused.

Take care,
brad