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   johnnyx to All   
   Re: Cyberpunk/Steampunk/Postcyberpunk Ma   
   18 Jun 04 19:55:20   
   
   From: this@are.email   
      
   In article ,   
   lsmsintelligence@hotmail.com says...   
   > 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.   
      
   labeling is a pastime for those to weak to act.   
      
      
   > I don't agree that they are just marketing terms, they define the way   
   > things are written.   
      
   for the weak, simpleminded and banal.. probably.   
      
   but before every new category there is someone whose brain is on fire   
   with the simple joy of creation.   
      
   its right action, yo.  go for it.   
      
   >   
   > "Don't judge, be judged."   
   >   
      
   then who does the judging?  see above for a description of weakness.   
      
   ..   
   jx   
      
      
   	   
      
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