From: ross_winn@mac.com   
      
   > The essential element that most people (read: media) miss in cyberpunk   
   > literature is the punk part. It had little or nothing to do with the   
   > 1980s in that sense, and it had much more to do with the punk movement   
   > as a whole. This, tied with the offshoots of music from that movement   
   > (which brought you the likes of Industrial, Hardcore, Goth, Deathrock,   
   > and other lovely musical generes) created the era that most of the great   
   > cyberpunk fiction was written in. It wasn't originally styled as   
   > predictive SF, that was just hype later on. It was intended to be Punk   
   > Sci-Fi (IMHO). T   
   >   
   > Because of this, the fusion of Sci-fi and Punk can still exist (and   
   > does), and Cyberpunk, like Industrial music, is not ~actually~ dead,   
   > it's just sleeping.   
      
   The core ethos of punk, that is that the individual has the power to   
   reshape the world, is extremely centrall to the seminal works in the   
   cyberpunk genre. However the mix of technology and dehumanization is   
   somewhat dated.   
      
   I personally think that cyberpunk as a literary genre is dated. However   
   there are stilll occasionally anachronistic works that make the formula   
   successful from time to time.   
      
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