William Gibson - A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my ow...

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A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.

William Gibson

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Ein bissiges Label und ein Manifest wären zwei der letzten Dinge auf meiner eigenen Karrierewunschliste gewesen. Dieses Label ermöglichte es Mainstream-Science-Fiction, den Einfluss anderer Dissidenten, so wie es war, sicher zu assimilieren. Cyberpunk konnte dann umarmt und mit Preisen belohnt und auf den Kopf geklatscht werden, und die Science-Fiction-Genre könnte unverändert weiterbestehen.

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