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Bruce Sterling should also be remembered as a major contributor to the formation of the genre, on par with Gibson and Stephenson. Islands in the Net grounded fu
by Apocryphon 5y ago
Bruce Sterling should also be remembered as a major contributor to the formation of the genre, on par with Gibson and Stephenson. Islands in the Net grounded future speculative tech in emerging real-world geopolitics, and Schismatrix took the genre into far future space, introducing the concept of cybernetics vs. biological augmentation.
- pmoriarty 5y agoAlso see Greg Bear's Blood Music, which came out a year before Neuromancer. There was also an early book about VR, which I can't remember the name of. It was about a reviewer of "apples" which gave the people who ate them something like a VR experience. Finally, the grandaddy of all of these was The Machine Stops[1], by E. M. Forster. Written in 1909, it predicted virtual reality, something like the internet, internet addiction, chat rooms, and more. [1] - https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/the%20machine%20stops.pdf https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/th...
- 8bitsrule 5y agoSterling was also editor 'Vincent Omniaveritas' behind the early 80s zine 'Cheap Truth [0] collected here: [https://web.archive.org/web/19970315042849/http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~erich/cheaptruth/ https://web.archive.org/web/19970315042849/http://www.csdl.t...], where it's described as 'a samizdat' circulated by 'a loose-knit group of SF writers (called by themselves "the Movement")'. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap_Truth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheap_Truth