^^I actually dig some of the tunes on that record...shame on me
whats on the floppy`?

there is such thing as cyberpunk? what the fuck.
I'm aware of cybergrind, that's about it.

I gave up on cyberpunk as soon as I saw a photo of William Gibson.

he kinda kicks ass in the 80ies.
see cyberpunk documentary Ive posted on the first post of the htread. he reminds me of a younger kinda cooler version if willie tanner (dunno if hes spelled correct, I mean the guy from alf)

i am taking a course in literature called ghostwriting that deals ith ghosts in literature. i am supposed to write a seminar paper in it and i have decided to write about cyberpunk. i do not have that much knowledge in the field, i have read a few PKD books and seen videodrome and stuff like that. i am about to read neuromancer, but i am welcoming any advice in the field. you people seem to know a lot about it so any advice will be much obliged.
thanks
FF

Did you give up on fantasy as soon as you saw a photo of J.R.R.Tolkien?

At least Tolkien isn't wearing pleated khakis.

I would really like to know what William Gibson had to look like for demonrail666 not to give up on cyberpunk.

Maybe if William Gibson looked like this?

At least I can declare P.K.Dick as one cool looking motherfucker:

He looks like a geography teacher.

PKD's not really cyberpunk though

that's true, yes.

Demonrail666 is fucking retarded if he gives up on literary genres over what the authors look like.

you need to read k-punk ! Google it and there's a search on the site - try m.r. James hauntology spectres of marx the word ghost william gibson etc. I can't link cos i'm on mobile internet but you'll find everything you need there

spectres of marx as is deridda's book? or is that all one thing?
and thanks a lot!

I suppose deep down I sort of wanted him to look a bit like this:

reading spook country by gibson at the time, and hell how I enjoy it.
only minor cyberpunkish by the way. but I still enjoy him.

anybody read zero history, the 2010 book by him?

reading Burning Chrome for the Nth time.

each Gibson book is my favorite as I'm reading it.

AGREED! Always looked at this picture thinking "Damn.. this guy is really cool.. and he passed away in '82!". His aura just radiates originality, as he was completely from any "scene" that was going on at the time.


The Cyberpunk band...

 

 

nice dress.

finally about to finish my 29 page paper on cyberpunk. ended up writing about neuromancer and videodrome. was a pretty fun paper to do, even though i am so sick of it and really just want to end it already.

any chance to read this online?

i ended up getting a good grade on my 30 page cyberpunk paper. super happy.
and shabbray, i could email you it if you want.
pm me if interested.

from the link above
"The name is derived from cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story “Cyberpunk,” published in 1983,[1] although the style was popularized well before its publication by editor Gardner Dozois. It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or a radical change in the social order."

I've been reading cyberpunk since 88 or so. I've never heard of the 2 people above. My understanding is cyberpunk originally revolved around a core of 5 writers: Gibson, BRUCE STERLING, RUDY RUCKER, LOUIS SHINER and JOHN SHIRLEY. Vernor Vinge is thought to have written the first actual "jack-in" type story. did Dozois work with Sterling? But they refer back to some of the 'new wave " of scifi from the 60's, people like Norman Spinrad or Charles Platt or PKD. I don't believe PKD was in anyway cyberpunk, if anything he was a metaphysician disguised as a novelist. John Shirley's recent "lost cyberpunk" Black Glass was pretty cool, but City Come a Walkin was actually published in 1980 - 30 years ago! If you haven't read the core books of this group from the 1980's youre talking around the subject.

I was looking through my cyberpunk books last night and realized there is a strong link between pkd and cyberpunk and that link is KW Jeter. PKD wrote the intro to Jeter's Dr Adder, which came out in 84 but had been written in the 70's. Jeter and Tim Powers among others were part of literary scene based around pkd. Dr Adder was held in high regard by cyberpunk fans, I am pretty sure it is on Branca's list.

Jeter's a definite link. I've only read Dr Adder but that seems to tap into a lot of contemporary sf, particularly areas interested in aspects of body modification.

I reading Count Zero and should finish it soon. I like it. My favorite line is when Lucas and Bobby are standing in front of Finn's brownstone and Lucas says "first thing you learn, is you always gotta wait."

Next up on the list is The Illuminatus! trilogy. Anyone here read it?

yes Ive read it. but thats almost 12 years ago. always wanted to re-read them! remember them as pretty fucked up