![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
My goal on Saturday, besides getting the groceries again, was basically to stay away from just about everyone and recharge. What this means, in practice, is about 12 hours of me sitting on my ass reading cyberpunk short stories or playing Lord of the Rings, broken up by about 40 minutes of the most intense exercise my diminutive frame can muster. On the latter subject, to be totally frank, I really don't know what kind of shape I'm in. I don't or, at least, haven't compared my regimen to anyone else's, and the only people I'm around who talk about it (incessantly, I might add) are Frank and The Jenna. It's pointless to compare how much I can lift to Frank though, just by way of example. He's 100 lbs. heavier and a foot taller. It'd be like asking if you think a featherweight or a heavyweight should be hitting harder.
I really don't have anywhere to go today, either, as it happens. I have the books I want from the library so going down there would be mostly pointless. I might go and see if the park's thawed out though. It's getting to be above 50 degrees after a full week of bone-chilling negative numbers. Yeah, in one day, there's a 60 degree difference in the temperature. Welcome to St. Louis.
There's not much going on in my mind besides my well-honed slacking regimen (a different regimen then the above, clearly), cyberpunk, and, actually, that's it. There's gonna be a one-shot D&D game because half the Mage group can't make Tuesday for reasons that arn't entirely clear to me and that I don't particularly care about.
My initial thoughts involve a little surprise, though. The anthology I'm reading, Mirrorshades, which is edited by Bruce Stirling, was compiled and published in 1986. The first story, William Gibson's 'The Gernsback Continuum' was initially published in 1981 and marks the beginning of Gibson's career. That means that between, roughly, 1981 and 1986, the movement which started with a plethora of names solidified into something that even the authors were forced to call 'cyberpunk', regardless of their wishes. I suppose that's if you want to mark 1981 as the beginning, because Neuromancer itself, the flagship of cyberpunk, saw publication in 1984.
First of all, I don't know if that's meaningful information except to say that if there's any movement that's going to flare and then, maybe, die rapidly due to the incredible flux of available technology, it seems appropriate that it be cyberpunk. Second, though, we don't have a definitive ending date for the movement, obviously. Gibson is still writing. Neal Stephenson is just as prolific (and verbose) as ever. However, if we're concerned with the near future, then we're forced to admit that the tenor has changed. If Gibson is interested in the same things, then his books become less 'near future' and more 'cutting edge current'. If Stephenson is interested in the near future, then is he still writing cyberpunk?
I feel like time frame matters, but I'm trying to get a better handle on this.
I really don't have anywhere to go today, either, as it happens. I have the books I want from the library so going down there would be mostly pointless. I might go and see if the park's thawed out though. It's getting to be above 50 degrees after a full week of bone-chilling negative numbers. Yeah, in one day, there's a 60 degree difference in the temperature. Welcome to St. Louis.
There's not much going on in my mind besides my well-honed slacking regimen (a different regimen then the above, clearly), cyberpunk, and, actually, that's it. There's gonna be a one-shot D&D game because half the Mage group can't make Tuesday for reasons that arn't entirely clear to me and that I don't particularly care about.
My initial thoughts involve a little surprise, though. The anthology I'm reading, Mirrorshades, which is edited by Bruce Stirling, was compiled and published in 1986. The first story, William Gibson's 'The Gernsback Continuum' was initially published in 1981 and marks the beginning of Gibson's career. That means that between, roughly, 1981 and 1986, the movement which started with a plethora of names solidified into something that even the authors were forced to call 'cyberpunk', regardless of their wishes. I suppose that's if you want to mark 1981 as the beginning, because Neuromancer itself, the flagship of cyberpunk, saw publication in 1984.
First of all, I don't know if that's meaningful information except to say that if there's any movement that's going to flare and then, maybe, die rapidly due to the incredible flux of available technology, it seems appropriate that it be cyberpunk. Second, though, we don't have a definitive ending date for the movement, obviously. Gibson is still writing. Neal Stephenson is just as prolific (and verbose) as ever. However, if we're concerned with the near future, then we're forced to admit that the tenor has changed. If Gibson is interested in the same things, then his books become less 'near future' and more 'cutting edge current'. If Stephenson is interested in the near future, then is he still writing cyberpunk?
I feel like time frame matters, but I'm trying to get a better handle on this.
Tags: