Variations on a Name: The -Punks of Our Times

Re:Variations on a Name: The -Punks of Our Times by ska on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @09:29PM (#19803666)

I not sure I agree, and read it it is an attempt to map the source material influencing the writing, not the writers eras at all. Steampunk particularly doesn't make sense as a map to writers eras.

At any rate, I understand the confusion now. As you note Cyberpunk proper was having it's obituary written, in some ways, in very early 90s, and the core of it was written well previous to that. So 1990-2000 doesn't fit well as either writers timeline or (in a handwavey sense) technology timeline.

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Re:Variations on a Name: The -Punks of Our Times by saltcured on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:23AM (#19805237)

I may be showing my ignorance, but I think those like Verne and even Shelley were the original steampunk authors. I don't think of it as a totally separate genre as people continue to try to recapture and riff on the same styles and set pieces almost two centuries later. It is born of that era.

Similarly, I think you could still write new cyberpunk. It's not dead, but on hiatus.

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