post-cyberpunk adj.

The other Dick-like feature of the novel is a group of drug-crazed characters who gravitate about Arthur Horstmeyer, whose weird paranoia/conspiracy theory concerning 'vacuum fish' recalls Dick himself. Unfortunately, Horstmeyer has no depth and serves merely to give this novel of the 80s a feel of the 60s and 70s; references to LSD, Pink Floyd and David Bowie abound. Far from being the forward-looking post-cyberpunk novel one expects, MERCEDES NIGHTS is ultimately backward looking in both its style and content.

With less ambition Reed could have pulled off a perfectly decent post-cyberpunk caper novel instead of stalling in the parking lot.

Edge Detector… A high quality post-cyberpunk science-fiction magazine. Good writing, great artwork.

It certainly should be, for while the translation may be a bit spotty in places, Midas is right out there on the post[-]cyberpunk cutting edge and then some, with its unique and gritty extrapolation of the down and dirty Third World realities interfaced with an exploration of the moral and spiritual implications of virtual replicated personalities confronting an all-too-real world.

The plot never quite reached boiling temperature for me, but the ideas of this post-cyberpunk story are good and the future downtown club scene has some very nice touches.

Nor is it clear what, if anything, the ‘postcyberpunk’ novels of the 1990s have in common. Why is Greg Bear a ‘postcyberpunk’ writer when Greg Benford or David Brin is not? Why is Kim Stanley Robinson’s work not ‘postcyberpunk?’

The post-cyberpunk contingent in Mexico City…encouraged me, with their warm enthusiasm.

These are tales that take place in the same eerie, post-cyberpunk, magic realism-tinged fictional universe as Desolation Road.

Speculative science fiction looking into the near future of the US. Like a more emotionally healthy, post-cyberpunk Succession.