In literary history, has it been more creative literary manifestos, or one famous writer that creates a sudden change in genre history?
With Cyberpunk their was the Cyberpunk manifesto.
Like for me I've tended to prefer to be part of a group of like minded writers with a shared vision, or manifesto than necessarily having one book in said genre.
For example, the High Contrast manifesto, merging (through multiple timelines) the contrast of cultural values between the 19th century and 21st century.
I think my first story was a kind of overt High Contrast fiction.
My interest is in comparing, but not necessarily depicting one better than the other, the difference between pre civil war culture and a kind of post civil war II future these days. An obvious example is the contrast between classic theater and DVDs.
I guess my question is, what made Cyberpunk take steam if there was a best guess?
