Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!rpw3
From: rpw3@amdcad.AMD.COM (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: cyberpunk humor
Keywords: humor, Firesign Theatre, Bozos
Message-ID: <21078@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 88 09:45:10 GMT
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Reply-To: rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock)
Organization: [Consultant] San Mateo, CA
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Well, the cover blurbs claim that Rudy Rucker's two novels "Software"
and "Wetware" are "cyberpunk", though I disagree. (Basic background is
that robots on the moon escape their Asimovian programming, become an
independent form of life, and eventually start competing with humans.)
Still, they have a certain slapstick humor, and the future they portray
of the humans left on Earth has its grim/sick aspects....

So call it borderline cyberpunk humor.

(Hmm, better graph that:	humor
				  \___cyberpunk
					  \___borderline  )


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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