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"Is he a poet or an author"?
What?
You're funny.
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Edited by author 03-21-2003 07:52 AM
Another novel from 1975 that I've always considered proto-cyberpunk is Samuel R. Delaney's Dhalgren. No computers, but plenty of street uses for tech with the orchids and scorpions and blood red contact lenses. It's one of those books, though, that people either love or hate. More punk than cyber.
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John Brunner is spooky good, "The Sheep Look Up" is the most chilling dystopia I think I've ever read. It really shows how people could have things creep up on them in a very bad way (boiling frog syndrome).
And I agree about The Schockwave Rider, awesome work raising many important questions.
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Of the earliest cyberpunk authors, John Shirley usually got the least attention; his work was less mainstream, more dark and disturbing.
His work isn't poetry, but if put to music, it would have a menacing, snarling guitar in the background.
City Come A-Walkin' was written in 1980, and it was new and different then.
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I always considered John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider, from 1975, to be the first cyberpunk novel. At least it's set in a near-future dystopia, with a hax0r protagonist. Also, although it wasn't SF, and I don't have the author's name handy, I once read a novel from the '70s called "The Programmer" which featured a disgruntled S/360 code cranker leaving behind his job in the city's billing department for a life of computer crime. |
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What the hell does that mean? Is he a poet or an author? Poetry is fine, when you want to read poetry. I don't want to read poetry when I want to read an introduction to a SF book.
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