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Originally Posted by E. Noisefield
Of course I've consulted Wiki on the subject. It's just gathering data from multiple sources. Why did I ask here? Because I post here... I don't post anywhere else, and I am already the sci-fi geek among my friends. I'm just asking around, not expecting much, but figuring "what the fuck?". It took all of a minute to inquire here, and it has already yielded results I hadn't though of or encountered before.
Thanks for the suggestion. I've read Gibson before, as many here probably have, and I'll check that book out asap.
Just curious as to why you're so curious about finding a random topic in a forum designed for random topics. Is this in any way more abnormal than any other topic?
And I didn't ask about or refer to "cyberpunk" because it's not what I want to know about. Simple.
Anyway, thanks for the assistance. I appreciate it. I read a lot of fantasy and some sci-fi, but have just never gotten around to investigating this subgenre. However, i'm finding that many books I've read (like Verne, Wells, the Prestige, etc.) are considered "steampunk", whether I knew it or not, so it may be I know more than I think I do. Besides, this is specifically about SP literature. I've seen movies and read comics in the area before. I'm looking for books right now.
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Considering wikipedia as only "a gathering of data from multiple sources" might imply you could find some quick references that would lead you on your way to find what you want, in a much faster and efficient way that you would do in a forum which main intent and aspiration is to be the ultimate "soap opera" on the internet or some such shit, according to my own limited and somewhat retarded perception anyway. I am not exactly looking for any confrontation nor against any kind of thread whatsoever, that was just my way of expressing how absurd I do think it is to ask for something in a place with more focus on other themes these days, especially because information is vast, and easy to find, and not exactly prominent in this board if your intent is actually to immerse a little bit deeply in such a branch of art and entertainment. That would be like saying I am interested in quantum physics, and live in a piss-awful neighborhood, but since I'm mostly comfortable with my surroundings and I'm too lazy to go to a library, I reckon I'll just ask that old stinky homeless on the streets (no offense to any of you guys, ha ha). That old bum might be a fucking mastermind able to provide me with the gospel truth on the matter. Maybe your interest is not so serious, though.
Having said that shit, I'm glad you are able to find something useful in this thread (I did too). Even though I reckon I come across as bitter, and I'm really thinking I should have been wiser and avoid posting a mess like this, I do see a bunch of reason in what floatingslowly and demonrail666 have mentioned up to this point and I'm in agreement with their statements even if they seem vaguely contradictory to each other...
Also, my mention of "cyber-punk" was just to acknowledge a knot between the two sub-genres, and just in the same sense of my mention of "The Difference Engine" and also the comic books on the subject, it does imply it might be interesting to explore the forest so to speak, and not only an specific tree. Nothing more than that to it.
Blah, blah. Whatever.