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this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2026
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It's been a while since I immersed myself in SF publishing but I think that older terms like "New Wave" and "cyberpunk" were basically marketing terms riding off the hits that spawned them. I believe they were a collaboration between the fandom, magazines and publishers - not in any structured way, but like in music, a term is used to encompass many different acts.
One slubstack does not a genre name, tho. And it's broad enough to be meaningless. For example one of the first authors is Scott Alexander, who is not formally a programmer, just someone who hangs out online terminally. Vinge was a CS prof, but Banks afaik didn't have any formal CS training. Ken McLeod worked as a programmer, as did Charles Stross.
SF is a nerd author paradise and nowadays nerds program, so ... chicken and egg?
I've been programming computers since I was 10, and being a physicist even involved doing that professionally, so I hereby nominate my Daria--Hannibal crossover fic as programmer SF. It's full of science fiction, both real and fictional.
I don't know if I'm more impressed by how many occasions you find to link that or by how often it's relevant. Either way, you're doing the Lord's work and congratulations on the 1/10000 of a Hugo.
This one is actually new. It goes on the top of my pile of absurd Daria crossovers, joining those with Hellraiser, the Amelia Peabody mysteries, They Live and Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land.
So far, no cult followers.