An interesting article that talks about the genre and culture from the perspective of 1993.
This is the cover story from the February 8, 1993 issue of Time magazine.
I think I still have a copy of that issue someplace.
Thanks for the link!
By 1993 the cyberpunk community was already divided in describing cyberpunk itself. I shouldn’t be surprised but I am.
Its an interesting piece with an outsider’s perspective. However the author seems to view it as a movement and even calls the collective a cult.
That last line in the article is pretty dumb. “In the future we will all be cyberpunks” That’s not how that works.
I think that’s one of those details that the original journalists didn’t pick up on, because they had a limited amount of time. If they’d been on any of the more active BBSes (or had net.access) and hung out for longer than, if I had to guess, a week doing research they might have picked up on it.
Or maybe their editors cut that part. Hard to say.
