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EDgAr Hentai wrote:
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> >> 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 !
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> >cynic. yo0u have no imagination. if you continue to be such a grumpy
> >cynic, i shall hit you with a wet GM flounder!
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> Ok then ! Sterling said he will not touch CP anymore.
no matter what he said the choice was taken out of his hands years ago.
Bruce can't touch anything anymore.
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> >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.
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> I like Post-CP because it kind of mean that they have moved on to
> something else. For example Blood Electric form Kenji Siratori. I
> would call that post-CP because it doesn't look like anything that was
> ever done by "CP" authors but still, in it, you can find some of the
> basic rules of CP but it is so much more evolve. Of course we can't
> come up with a genre for every book but still, genre can evolve in
> something else. ?
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> Other example : I am reading Gridlinked by Neal Asher. The book is
> kind of half CP half Sci-Fi. So do I say that it is a Sci-Fi book with
> a dash of CP ? But the genre is actually growing. So what about
> Post-CP ... ?
>
> And what about the matrix and it's so growing number of copycat ? Do
> you consider the matrix to be CP ?
>
> People are so confuse ... in the CP community on Orkut there was a
> tread about "some CP movie" and (I almost vomited then) people
> actually gave names for CP movie such has : The net, Aliens, Hacker
> takedown, The Fifth Element, Mad Max, Trainspotting, 007 ... I will
> stop there I am about to vomit again ....
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> God there is so much confusion between near future, sci-fi and CP ...
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> Anyway i am getting of topic again so I will just stop there and wait
> for an other of your very pleasing and distracting reply !
what was called "cyberpunk" fiction has a wide ranging diversity.. the
common thread through all of it was one simple theme, future shock.
the stuff evolved out of our difficulty adjusting to rapid change. i
don't know how old u are Edgar.. but i am old enough to recall a time
when i could not comprehend the concept of "the internet" .. when it was
all new.. and when none of it made any sense.
anyone who claims a different expierence is either lying, under 25, or
an old hacker from back when "hacker" was still a compliment.
everything changed, it was a massive shift.. the strain of this shift
created CP.. however its been 20 years now.. and CP is gone.
why?
because nothing has stopped shifting. .. there is so much constant
change that change itself has become our idea of normal. so the things
u see in the media now that have "CP" roots (The Matrix, etc) are
nothing special.. its just the usual media hacks mining our culture for
more tired old bullshit to spoonfeed ur neighboors.
cyberpunk was about edge, and that edge has little to do with technology
anymore.. because technology is no longer shocking.. its a fact of life.
the PC is as common and invisible as the telephone.. they truly do not
matter.
so.. IMO u do urself a disservice with the label "Post-CP" .. don't
bother paying homage to the dead.. this is the 21st century man.
creamte the fucker and move on.
..
alias
> Lets email sterling !! bruces@well.com ;)
>
the 1st email i ever wrote was to that address ^^
and i'll say this.. in 1989 he was a good guy.
pity his heart died before the rest of him.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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