
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.
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Fri 18 Jan 2008, 12:01,
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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.
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Fri 18 Jan 2008, 12:18,
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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.

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.
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Fri 18 Jan 2008, 12:16,
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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.