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Kory Stamper
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No, K. W. Jeter coined it in Locus magazine in 1987 to refer to the Victorian pastiches he, James Blaylock, and Tim Powers were writing at the time. But it *was* a tongue -in -cheek reference to cyberpunk, which was then the new hotness in SF literature. He wasn't advancing a manifesto like many of the cyberpunks