![]() ![]() Now the term is a cliche itself, then it was a fiction that had a relevance the wider genre had largely lost.ġ986 also saw the publication of Gibson’s follow up to Neuromancer, titled Count Zero. ![]() In two short years a new sub-genre had been created, cyberpunk. He discarded star spanning empires, distant planets and the generic trappings that readers had grown used to and instead presented Neuromancer – a novel set just around the corner which drew far more on the traditions of crime (particularly hardboiled and noir) fiction than it did on its SF predecessors.Ī year later Bruce Sterling published his spectacular novel Schismatrix and in 1986 the famous Mirrorshades anthology was published. In 1984 William Gibson reinvigorated the science fiction genre. ![]() ![]() When genre is its own end, it’s irrelevant as fiction. There are times though in the life of a genre where that conversation becomes insular, where compliance with the genre rules becomes more important than what the genre was trying to talk about in the first place. It’s been said that genre is an ongoing conversation between a group of writers and readers with similar concerns. ![]()
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