I was talking to a friend about scifi and he said that he likes cyberpunk, but not much else. So I was trying to think of what OSC would fit into that catagory. So far I've got Dogwalker and A Thousand Deaths from Flux, but I haven't read his other short story collections. I'm not sure if any of his novels fall into cyberpunk. Anybody have any thoughts or suggestions?
Posted by aragorn64 (Member # 4204) on :
Heck, those are the only two I can think of.
I'm pretty sure that OSC actually had a pretty big write up on why he wrote Dogwalker as Cyberpunk in the "Maps in a Mirror" collection, too. Interesting read.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I wouldn't categorize them as such, but I've seen Ender's Game and Speaker for the dead described as cyberpunk, because of Jane and the net manipulations Peter and Valentine did.
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Dogwalker is the only fiction that OSC himself labeled as cyberpunk.
Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :
What about A Thousand Deaths? It's got the all-powerful communist gov't persecuting a rebelious underground with far out sophisticated technology. There's not a whole lot of gatchets and electronics, though. Is that enough to disqualify it from cyberpunk?
quote:I wouldn't categorize them as such, but I've seen Ender's Game and Speaker for the dead described as cyberpunk, because of Jane and the net manipulations Peter and Valentine did.
But that's a good hook to get my friend interested in OSC!
Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
Nah-- it's missing the cyberpunk jargon. And the technology is a backpiece; in cyberpunk, technology is much more influential.
Posted by Steve_G (Member # 10101) on :
I'm not entirely sure what the definition of cyberpunk is, but there was a short story called Closing the Time Lid or something like that that seems to qualify.
Posted by kacard (Member # 200) on :
The only "officially cyberpunk" story OSC wrote was called "Dogwalker."
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
It must be very difficult to get on the official cyberpunk literary registry
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