...& like Lazaras, it rises! (read: SF never died)

[Alan Westrope]

On Sat, 29 Mar, Tony Elias <s_tonye at eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> wrote:

>For all the listers who have convinced themselves somehow that SF has in
>some way-some form, 'died-declined-fallen', or whether "it died for me in my
>teens and early twenties" et. al. Take a look at:

>Neal Stephenson, _The Diamond Age_    ......is breeeeeeeeeeliant!

Yeah, Stephenson's one of a handful of SF authors I enjoy.  Come to think
of it, though, he's not part of the SF scene, or even the cyberpunk genre!
According to the Village Voice, "Neal Stephenson is the Quentin Tarantino
of postcyberpunk..."

How discouraging...I try so hard to stay au courant, only to learn of a
literary pigeonhole I'm totally ignorant of!  To paraphrase St. Eely the
Anadromous, "I am barely literate by postcyberpunk standards"...<sigh>
I hope Paul DiFilippo will inform the list when the poststeampunk age has
arrived -- I don't want to make any more gaffes at cocktail parties! :-)

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