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   From: ghostGARBAGE@bitstreamnetMOREGARBAGE.com   
      
   In article ,   
    "Neo"  wrote:   
      
   > Fine, if you don't want to participate in this project that really   
   > makes no differance to me but I just thought it would be neat to make a   
   > collection of related essays.  If you want to argue about what the   
   > sub-genres should be called.  For me cyberpunk is defined as being   
   > "Fast-paced science fiction involving *futuristic* computer-based   
   > societies."  In interpret futuristic to mean after 2004.  Cyberpunk   
   > dosen't happen in 1900 just because someone invents a simple computer,   
   > that's just late steampunk.   It is high-tech for the time in Victorian   
   > Terms when huge things are introduced to steampunk.   
   >   
   > I don't agree that they are just marketing terms, they define the way   
   > things are written.   
   >   
   > "Don't judge, be judged."   
      
   oi, you still don't quote the source post.   
      
   An essay on Cyberpunk would be fine. An essay on Cyberpunk through   
   different periods of time might even be interesting. I think you will be   
   making a mistake by differentiating them from each other as much as you   
   do. Steampunk is simply a short way of saying Victorian-Age Cyberpunk.   
   Taken in that light, what you're doing is fine, and worth participating   
   in.   
      
   But stating that Steampunk is not the same as Cyberpunk is, in my   
   opinion, a mistake. Steampunk is simply Cyberpunk in a different   
   setting. It's not it's own beast.   
      
   There are several ways you can take that work of writing. One would be   
   to mistakenly attempt to seperate the concepts of   
   Steam/Cyber/Clockwork/Gene/Bio/Nano/Whatever-Punk. Another would be to   
   use them as short term to explore the Cyberpunk Style that came to   
   fruitation in the 80s and even early 90s through the different time   
   periods and settings.   
      
   Cyberpunk is as much attitude as it is chrome. You get the right feeling   
   in any setting and you can make a good Cyberpunk-Style story.   
      
   Cyberpunk is the constant feeling of Futureshock, Cultureshock and   
   Technoshock. All of which can be applied to any point in time.   
      
   [as for the insipid little "don't judge, be judged" ... who's judging if   
   no one is supposed to judge. Shove that up your ass.]   
      
      
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