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"Phil - I wish you well on your many projects.\n\nCyberpunk. I read a couple of the key books as a teenager (Neuromancer) in the 80s and some more later in the 90s (Mirrorshades, Snow Crash).\n\nSome comments:\n- I suspect the rise of the internet in the late 90s lead to a backwards reading of these books as \"prophetic\" in a way that they might not have been interpreted at the time of their release - so I'd be interested in what the contemporary view of these books was.\n- There were a whole bunch of authors that were big 20 years ago that have been forgotten. Pat Cadigan was mentioned a lot (never read her stuff). And I was a big fan of Jeff Noon in the mid-90s. Simon Ings' Hot Head was a memorable read when I tracked it down 10 years after publication after a recommendation by Steve Aylett in an interview. I had a brief, intense fascination with Steve Aylett's work that died off quickly when I realised how limited his range was.\n- Is there a particular reason that you don't want to cover the precursors? Do you simply feel that this domain has been over-researched?\n- I'm curious about the impact of the 2000 tech stock crash and 9/11 on reception to and future paths of Cyberpunk. The tech stock crash brought a temporary end to utopian discourses about the internet (which returned with the rise of Google then Facebook a few years later) - did this have any impact of Cyberpunk at all?\n- What's the current place of Cyberpunk with both mainstream culture and the SF community? My impression that in both cases it is seen a 90s thing (with maybe a few years either side). Is that the case?"
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