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   From: ghostGARBAGE@bitstreamnetMOREGARBAGE.com   
      
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    "Neo"  wrote:   
      
   > Hello alt.cyberpunk,   
   >   
   > Since reading Lawrence Pearson's "Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk   
   > Manifesto" I began to wonder if a "Cyberpunk" or "Postcyberpunk"   
   > Manifesto was ever written so after finding out that the closest thing   
   > to this was the introduction to Mirroshades.  I decided that I would be   
   > really cool to create a non-fiction book, basicaly a huge collection of   
   > essays about the "punk" genres:   
   >   
   > - cyberpunk (if you don't what this is, I'll be scared)   
   >   
   > - postcyberpunk (see "Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto", just a   
   > Google search away)   
   >   
   > - steampunk (Victorian dystopic or alternate history material with   
   > stuff about technology that didn't exist during the Victorian period)   
   >   
   > - sandalpunk (same as above but in an Ancient World (Roman Empire) that   
   > never fell into the Dark Ages)   
   >   
   > - clockpunk (simmilar to steampunk but in the Renaissance)   
   >   
   > - any other "punk" genre we can come up with   
      
   biopunk, genepunk, nanopunk   
      
      
   ugh, whatever.   
      
   It's all Cyberpunk - just because you change the wallpaper doesn't mean   
   it's a new house.   
      
   and technically, everthing written in the last, oh, forty years(?) is   
   PostModern writing. and that STILL means jackshit.   
      
   ghost   
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