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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9754608" data-attributes="member: 6671663">As far back as the 1990s, observers like Gregory Feeley and (IIRC) Joe Haldeman advanced the idea that cyberpunk was being so thoroughly absorbed into the general mass of sf influences that it was crashing to be a distinct category at all. Instead, said they, we were moving into a post-cyberpunk era comparable to, say, this post-Tolkienian era where you don’t really have to say much of anything about his influence on your fantasy unless you’re out to hew extra carefully to him or to reject it root and branch. Cyberpunk elements are there for the use without regard to any overall ethos or style, much like, say, post-WW2 rocketry elements without requiring you compose stories like Campbell’s and Heinlein’s. (See, for instance, Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronauts of Mars series.) If we weren’t there in the 1990s, we sure are now. As for work that does use more of the overall package? Hmm. Have to think about that.</blockquote>