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# whats the novel about?
(, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 11:57, archived)
# It's a post-cyberpunk novel,
so it's got butch-but-troubled men, kick-arse women, computers, secrets and memories, and a fair bit of violence, all set in a world where it's very dirty and rains at narratively convenient moments.
(, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 12:01, archived)
# how is that post-cyberpunk? sounds very-cyberpunk
(, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 12:05, archived)
# nah
cyberpunk would have more mirrorshades
(, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 12:15, archived)
# Damn!
That's the difference!

Although the bad guys do wear goggles and the good guys do wear leather jackets occasionally, although the latter was done as a tribute to the early cyberpunk stuff.
(, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 12:18, archived)
# No one goes into cyberspace,
and occasionally it's sunny (which might be more important!).

Cyberpunk was really a literary movement which had its time then styles changed. My book has lots of elements of Cyberpunk in it but I'm about a decade and a half late to be true Cyberpunk. Maybe it's 'cyberpunk' with a small 'c', or something.

You know, for someone who did a doctorate about William Gibson, I really should be able to answer that question more easily.
(, Fri 18 Jan 2008, 12:16, archived)