Scifi Thoughts

It was the 1960s.  Young science fiction readers and writers were tired of the usual space travel and adventure tales.  They yearned to read something that used what was happening around them which was too edgy for the earlier fiction which tended to be cleaned up for young adult readers.  The fiction of the New Wave incorporated and even focused on the gritty parts of humanity that most people never saw or only read about in the scandal sheets--drugs, crime, casual sex, corporate malfescience, dishonest governments.  If it was bad and dirty, it'd show up in one of these science fiction novels.  Many of them incorporated the promises of new computer technologies and how they would be used to improve the human condition, make it faster, smarter, more acute.  Then how these cybernetic tools would be used for abuse and for retaliation to abuse.  These high tech low lines, these punks were put into enough stories that a new genre emerged, called cyberpunk.  These stories more frequently took place on Earth and wi