The Big Book of Science Fiction
Jeff VanderMeer & Ann VanderMeer
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Introduction
- Cyberpunk usually fused noir tropes or interior design with dark tales of near-future technology in a context of weak governments and sinister corporations, achieving a new granularity in conveying elements of the Information Age. Trace elements of the recent punk movement in music were brought to the mix by writers such as John Shirley. #6973 •
Chapter 76
- On the topic of ambiguity, Fowler wrote in an essay included in Wonderbook (2013), "I don't use ambiguity in a story as a literary device or a postmodern trick…I use it in an attempt to acknowledge that the things we think we know are submerged in a vast sea of things we don't know and things we will never know. I mean to admit to my own lack of comprehension about the world in which we live." #6977 •