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   Message 793 of 2,235   
   jabberwocky to ajfriesen@sasktel.net   
   Re: Cyberpunk is dead?   
   13 Dec 03 20:09:07   
   
   From: dalek_killer@excite.com   
      
   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.   
      
   Just look for the writers that where a part of the Futurist of the   
   1920's in Pairs. There where a group comprised of writers panters, etc.   
      
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