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    Ross Winn  wrote:   
      
   > In article   
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   >  jabberwocky  wrote:   
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   > > No genre is ever constant, there are always changes in them, I therefore   
   > > don't see the need to change something that is already changing   
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   > I may argue that it is constant. The changes with the taste and the   
   > times does not make a change in "The Long Goodbye" or "Gilda" or   
   > "Citizen Kane". Is the genre changing, or is it really the people   
   > consuming the genre that are changing? That is  the question that your   
   > observation brings to mind.   
      
   Or perhaps we merely have snapshots of a genre within certain time   
   periods. Certainly within the venue of 1984 the Cyberpunk Genre has no   
   changed. 1984 Cyberpunk will always be 1984 Cyberpunk, it will never be   
   1996 Cyberpunk and likewise... the whole of the genre of Cyberpunk will   
   have changed from 1984 to 1996, sure.   
      
   As long as you constrain yourself to the idea that a genre is a finite   
   thing contained completely within minute boundries then sure it will   
   never change.   
      
   If the consumers and contributors change, then the genre would naturally   
   follow them along with it. Does that change previous incarnations of the   
   genre? No, it merely places them within a certain time frame.   
      
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