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> Steam Punk Cyber Punk?

• flohofwoe 3y ago
  Probably a typo, but Gibson also co-authored The Difference Engine, which is as Steam Punk as it gets :) (and according to Wikipedia "...is widely regarded as a book that helped establish the genre conventions of steampunk.")
  • danjoredd 3y ago
    Im going to have to read that now. Loved Neuromancer, and Steam Punk is one of my favorite genres
    • justsomehnguy 3y ago
      Another one of today's lucky 10000. It's a hard piece but overall I enjoyed reading it.
    • flohofwoe 3y ago
      Difference Engine starts great but then towards the end kind of fizzles out (IIRC, maybe I should read it again).
      • Apocryphon 3y ago
        It was a Gibson-Sterling joint but you almost have to wonder if Stephenson ghostwrote the last bit.
  • jjkaczor 3y ago
    ... Well, I think many of the genre conventions were established enough that there was even one tabletop Steam Punk RPG that predated the publication of "The Difference Engine" (1990): Space 1889 - (first published in 1988/89) However - I think it was essentially just a convergence of cultural zeitgeist within about an 8-year period. (Myself, I preferred "Castle Falkenstein" (1994) - but that was because I liked just about anything Mike Pondsmith/Talsorian released)