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Vampire Unicorns: From Cyberpunk to "Distractions"

Vampire Unicorns: From Cyberpunk to "Distractions"

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Lawrence Watt-Evans
Jan 03, 2017
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Vampire Unicorns: From Cyberpunk to "Distractions"
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A brief history of how subgenres and jokes resulted in a story.

In the mid-1980s, “cyberpunk” burst onto the science fiction scene.  There was a coterie of cyberpunk authors who published a fanzine ca…

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