Quote Originally Posted by blaecaedre View Post
i associate the cyberpunk genre with gamma - distrust of centralised authority and group-identity, bleak, violent, philosophical and reflective, bereft of natural beauty, technologically and terminologically complicated
Interestingly enough, one of the seminal novels which introduced cyberbunk was Neuromancer, written by William Gibson, whom I type as Alpha LII. And yes, @blaecaedre, it is and has "distrust of centralised authority and group-identity, bleak, violent, philosophical and reflective, bereft of natural beauty, technologically and terminologically complicated."

Kind of LII, if you ask me.

I absolutely can't read his writing.

On the other hand, Snow Crash was close to cyberpunk, but it was written by Neal Stephenson, whom I type as Gamma ESI. But Alpha did it first and, evidently, best.