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[QUOTE]Originally posted by glassman: [QB] Neromancer won the PK Dick Award. PK Dick wrote the blade runner novel in '68 and then it was made into a movie before Neuromancer was even written. don't get me wrong, i'm not saying it wasn't a great book, but i think the claim that he started cyberpunk or anything else with it is way overblown. for instance? Harry Harrison was writing a series called the Stainless Steel Rat in the 60's& 70's which protrayed all of the same concepts as Neuromancer. [b]The Stainless Steel Rat (1961) At the beginning of the first novel, the Stainless Steel Rat believes he has pulled off a successful bank job, but is out-conned into working for the government. In the Special Corps, the elite law-enforcement and spy agency led by the former greatest crook in the Galaxy, Harold P. Inskipp (a.k.a. Inskipp the Uncatchable), he joins the ranks of an organization that is entirely constituted of ex-criminals like himself. In the novel, he has several adventures during which he believes he has escaped from the Corps, and meets his love interest, Angelina, who is even more sociopathic than he is - she too is a criminal genius but lacks Jim's moral strictures against killing. She is attempting to have an illegal space battleship built on a backwoods planet. It transpires that Angelina was born unattractive and committed crimes to pay for her transformation into a beautiful woman; her psychological traumas are cured when Jim captures her, but she retains her allure and her criminal tendencies and joins Jim in the Special Corps. [/b] Roger Zelazny was doing alot of the same stuff too. the difference was that they were writing novellas instead of trilogies... Phillip Jose Farmer wrote alot of really good stuff. they made his riverworld series into a movie, but it was grade B- at best... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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