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   From: goobs23_nospam_@hotmail.com   
      
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   > Cyberpunk is a genre. The genre was very big in the 1980 and 1990 ...   
   > it actually was a big frenzy then !   
      
   yes, and no. Science fiction is a genre.  Cyberpunk is a subgenre.  that   
   aside, science fiction is not dead just because Aasimov isn't writing it.   
   it has evolved since then, many times over.   
      
   >   
   > Now this usenet group was also very crowded a long time ago and now it   
   > is virtually empty.   
      
   it does that often.  as with every newsgroup, it swings in and out of   
   popularity.   
   you want to find the eager beavers that were here 10 years ago? go check out   
   alt.computer.science they all have jobs nowadays.  it doesn't make them less   
   interested, just busier.   
      
   >   
   > CP was put down by reality. Yes you do use some of the technology that   
   > was described in some CP novel but that doesn't mean that we live in a   
   > CP world.   
      
   well that's bloody obvious.  cyberpunk is fiction set in the near future...   
   it can never be now.  the problem with cyberpunk is not a timeline, it's a   
   lack of imagination.  it will take one big breakthrough in imagination to   
   bring it forward.  Give an author a new idea, and the genre will be revived.   
      
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   > I mean look at the number of people trying to imitate Elvis !? Is   
   > Elvis coming back ? are we living in an Elvis world ? No (Thank god !)   
   > :)   
      
   Elvis as you might have guessed, is not a genre.  he is a man.  men can not   
   be returned to life at this point in time.   
      
   >   
   > You can like CP has much has you want it just won't make it come back   
   > ! Even the precious Gibson doesn't write CP anymore !   
      
   cynic.  yo0u have no imagination.  if you continue to be such a grumpy   
   cynic, i shall hit you with a wet GM flounder!   
      
   >   
   > There is a couple of author that write CP some bad, some good, some   
   > awful crap .... but there is also some writer writing play in the   
   > Shakespeare  style but it doesn't make them avant-gardist at all, mere   
   > copy cat .   
   >   
      
   yet again, i feel i am telling you something you already know, Shakespeare   
   was not a genre.  he was a man.  and he was not the only good writer from   
   that era   
   see: John Ford; Robert Greene; Thomas Heywood; Ben Jonson; Thomas Kyd.   
      
   i especially like Ben Johnson.  some of his plays were far superior to   
   Shakespeare's, it's a shame that he isn't wider known.  Volpone is   
   brilliant!   
      
   > Of course there is some very good Post-CP writers but they kind of   
   > moved on to something else and I don't think that it should entirely   
   > be refereed to has CP.   
      
   and i don't believe it is.  however, i am unsure that "Post-CP" is an   
   official term?  you can't have Post Romance, or can you? Post science   
   fiction?  it all sounds like crap blown out of the arses of a couple of   
   media exec's snorting too much cocaine.   
      
   just my 2p   
      
   goobies   
      
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   > My 2 cents anyway ...   
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