From: ross_winn@mac.com   
      
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    3ngine  wrote:   
      
   > Greetings all!  I'm currently doing some research for my Masters   
   > thesis, and would just like a few quick opinions: in my own personal   
   > opinion, I think that the cyberpunk movement started in 1980 with   
   > Shirley's _City_Come_A_Walkin'_ and pretty much ended in '92 with   
   > Stephenson's _Snow_Crash_.  Can anybody come up with any influential   
   > books/short stories to the genre either before 1980 or after '92?   
   >   
   > I'm not sure that Gibson's bridge trilogy fits into the definition of   
   > cyberpunk, nor am I 100% sure that _Heavy_Weather_ by Sterling fits   
   > the bill.  Any thoughts on this?  This is very preliminary research;   
   > I'm pretty much compiling a list of CP books/stories that I'll be   
   > looking at, so feel free to jump in with anything you've got.  Thx.   
      
   Cadigan has some significant works after 1992, as does Stephenson,   
   Gibson, Mellisa Scott (Trouble & Her Friends), John Barnes (most notably   
   Mother of Storms), and Sterling. I think that City Come A Walkin' is a   
   perfect beginning to the CP age. However as a writer and afficianado I   
   have always considered 1999 to be the end of cyberpunk. Not only is it   
   the end of the millenium, there is also the publication of Zeitgeist by   
   Sterling and the release of The Matrix in theatres.   
      
   There is a lot of info on the internet speculative fiction database.   
    http://isfdb.tamu.edu/   
      
   There is also the cyberpunk project online   
   http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/   
      
   best of luck to you in your thesis and defense.   
      
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