Talk:Cyberprep

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[edit] Any examples?

I was just wondering if anybody had any examples of "cyberprep". I've never heard this term used before anywhere else but here. I was going to suggest maybe the beginning of Starship Troopers, but don't recall any examples of cybernetics in that. --BriskWiki 05:27, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I believe the term "cyberprep" was first used in GURPS Cyberpunk. --Loremaster 16:32, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thank you! I think maybe this should be included in the article if you have any more information about it. I was thinking for a while that somebody just pulled this term out of thin air. I really should get ahold of that book. --BriskWiki 17:53, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

How about Ian Banks's The Culture? --maru 21:15, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I would say that the term "cyberprep" is a term that is evolving now, cybercouture is a fashion genre that is gaining ground and I would expect people to need a term that differentiates the high fashion scene from that of the scavanged cyberpunk scene.

(Fixed maru's link.) I am skeptical about the currency of this term too. It popped up here and there in the late 80s, most notably in connection with Judith Tarr, who I thought was the coiner, and Susan Shwartz--see [1]--but I haven't heard it since. I thought of it then as sort of a joke inversion of cyberpunk, not a real direction. It's not a current topic in SF as far as I know. rodii 02:47, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Old AfD notice

This article was nominated for deletion on December 24, 2005. The result of the discussion was NO CONSENSUS. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

[edit] merge to cyberpunk

I removed the merge tag to cyberpunk; there's no discussion of the merge on either page, and certainly no consensus. Since cyberpunk is a featured article, I'd be loath to merge in a minor topic like this without discussion. Additionally, if this article is correct, cyberprep is seen as its own offshoot of cyberpunk, not a part of it (I studied cyberpunk, and I've never heard the term, fwiw). The two articles are linked -- that seems good enough. -- phoebe 17:50, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

I propose merging this into the Cyberpunk derivatives article.Yobmod (talk) 12:39, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. Ottens (talk) 15:11, 19 May 2008 (UTC)