proto-cyberpunk n.
a writer of proto-cyberpunk works
Rare.
SF Criticism
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1986
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Bruce Sterling
These proto-cyberpunks were briefly dubbed the Mirrorshades Group.
Mirrorshades Pref. p. ix -
1993
Gary Westfahl
There are other science fiction writers—A. E. van Vogt, Jack Williamson, Charles L. Harness, even the weirder Heinlein—who could be legitimately cast as proto-cyberpunks.
in Extrapolation(vol. 34, no. 2) 190 (review of Larry McCafferty’s Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fiction)
Research requirements
antedating 1986
Earliest cite
Bruce Sterling, 'Mirrorshades'
Research History
Jeff Prucher submitted a 1986 cite from Bruce Sterling's preface to "Mirrorshades".We would like cites of any date from other authors.
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