Tribe wrote:
"I agree with Jess that the cyberpunk titles have little noir
sensibility...if anything, they are more hard-boiled in style
and feel, if that."
Then Jim Winter wrote:
>
> So are you suggesting cyberpunk is hardboiled
instead? The lone hero
> raging against the machine?
No, not at all. I find very little of relationship between
so-called cyberpunk and/or noir and/or hard boiled (aside
from the fact that they're books). I mentioned Jeter's Noir
in that vein because a hard-boiled style is self-consciously
and purposefully used as pastiche, as a prop for the the
story.
Any claims to cyberpunk having hard-boiled underpinnings can
be blamed on the Bladerunner film.
Jeter's Noir is not bad...there's an interesting sub-plot
involving a character who is obviously supposed to be based
on Phil K. Dick. The premise of the protagonist being able to
"create" a "film noir" world for himself is an interesting
conceit, but it loses steam for me. But others may
differ.
Tribe
-- http://tribe.textdriven.com/blog Tribe's Blog
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