Cyberpunk, Difference Engines and Mad Madge with Bruce Sterling
Interdependence
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The Cost of Sci-Fi Writing
The sci-fi literary world is a bit tied pool because there was a ladder, but there wasn't like the mainstream literature ladder. Nobody at Cyberpunk ever wanted to be on the cover of Time magazine or when Wired magazine showed up and started recruiting science fiction writers as reporters. You could be a big frog in sci-fi's pond and nobody else would know anything about it. And what tended to happen was that you would be doing something that caught the public attention and then instead of the ladder arriving suddenly you were sort of carried away on an out of control escalator. I never asked them for anything. No, no, that's not true. I actually asked them for something what
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