RafaelFajardo

Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto
by Lawrence Person
“Critics, myself included, persist in label-mongering, despite all warnings; we must, because it’s a valid source of insight-as well as great fun.”
– Bruce Sterling, from the introduction to Mirrorshades

Bud, from Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age, is a classic cyberpunk protagonist. An aggressive, black-leather clad criminal loner with cybernetic body augmentations (including a neurolinked skull gun), Bud makes his living first as a drug runner’s decoy, then by terrorizing tourists for money.

All of which goes a long way toward explaining why his ass gets wasted on page 37 of a 455 page novel.

Welcome to the postcyberpunk era.