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cyberpunk.
i'm not a bit sci-fi person. cyberpunk is kinda dystopian and that appeals to me. but it's not as interesting as j.g. ballard or burroughs in general. no comparable playing with language.
unless i've just not read the correct authors/titles. so suggestions?
if pynchon is anywhere in this cyber/steam grid, he'd be steam. crying of lot 49 is early 60s l.a.. gravity's rainbow is a hallucination about world war 2. v is 60s new york. vineland an interminable wandering through the anderson valley. mason & dixon vaguely 18th century except for the mechanical talking duck. against the day is closest to steampunk proper and centers on the 1892 columbian exposition for a while before wandering away into colorado.
mieville i've heard good things about but haven't yet read. he's on my little list.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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