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Originally Posted by shabbray2.0
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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.