Aren't they kind of each others' babies already? I dunno exactly what further breeding would really change about either of them. I can't really think of a cyber-ized steampunk, or a steam-ized cyberpunk, that isn't what steampunk is already.
Alternate response: I thought they already did... (http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Age-Illustrated-Primer-Spectra/dp/0553380966/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5574201-1068857?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190243857&sr=8-1)
Diamond Age is About what I was thinking, but I didn't think nearly enough was done with it.
I would like to see something like a combination of China Miéville's Bas Lag/New Crobuzon with whatever realistic dystopian cyberpunk we can derive from today's headlines. Perhaps NIN's Year Zero, or the seminal Serial Experiments: Lain.
Actually, Lain works as a pretty interesting combination, at certain points, but, again, not enough.
I just don't think I currently have the skill necessary to do it, myself, or I would.
I would like to see something like a combination of China Miéville's Bas Lag/New Crobuzon with whatever realistic dystopian cyberpunk we can derive from today's headlines. Perhaps NIN's Year Zero, or the seminal Serial Experiments: Lain.
This is what I have been trying, and failing, to write, for years now.
Eh. I meant less your first post, and more what this sentence defines, though. The mingled aesthetics, there. I didn't think of Mieville as outright Steampunk until you linked his work with those terms.
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Date: 2007-09-19 11:18 pm (UTC)Alternate response: I thought they already did... (http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Age-Illustrated-Primer-Spectra/dp/0553380966/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-5574201-1068857?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190243857&sr=8-1)
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Date: 2007-09-19 11:27 pm (UTC)I would like to see something like a combination of China Miéville's Bas Lag/New Crobuzon with whatever realistic dystopian cyberpunk we can derive from today's headlines. Perhaps NIN's Year Zero, or the seminal Serial Experiments: Lain.
Actually, Lain works as a pretty interesting combination, at certain points, but, again, not enough.
I just don't think I currently have the skill necessary to do it, myself, or I would.
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Date: 2007-09-19 11:57 pm (UTC)This is what I have been trying, and failing, to write, for years now.
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Date: 2007-09-20 04:57 am (UTC)Well, she's one of them, at least. And even if they don't have babies, I think they need to shag each other rotten.
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Date: 2007-09-20 05:06 am (UTC)With Nano-steam for blood.
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