From: Omixochitl2002@yahoo.com   
      
   "Neo"  wrote in news:castln$mh0   
   @odbk17.prod.google.com:   
      
   > right, but I still think that cyberpunk is defined as being high-tech,   
   > low-life action in a dystopic near future so I don't see how this  is   
   > supposed to relate to other genres   
   > what are biopunk, genepunk, nanopunk?   
      
   Doesn't have to be *near-future*:   
      
   http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cyberpunk :   
   cy·ber·punk   (si"ber-punk') n.   
   Fast-paced science fiction involving futuristic computer-based   
   societies.   
   cy"ber·punk' adj.   
      
   So some distant future settings, the more-modern-than-IRL Victorian setting   
   of _Difference Engine_, etc. can still count.  ;)   
      
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