# urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 10, Issue 14

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 16 Jun 2005*

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### Jim Raylor
*16 Jun 2005, 05:50*

> thapaguru wrote:

>> I doubt Wolfe is cyberpunk. CP mainly deals with a
>> near future or alternate reality where technology
>> has
>> created a bizarre society or people.

> Not to mention where crime and drug use is so
> prominent, even among the 
> "heroes" of the story....oh wait, have you read "The
> Fifth Head of 
> Cerberus?" :)
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
> < http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

Near Future? Drugs, crime and general bizarre social
disintegration? I've just read Operation Ares - is
this the first Cyberpunk Novel or what?

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