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http://www.its.caltech.edu/~erich/cheaptruth/

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 9 April 2007 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

I can't read through all that right now, but is this where the whole "slipstream" thing comes in?

― Laurel, Monday, 9 April 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

nah, not so much, though it is the same dude that coined the term. but i never really "got" slipstream, because i never understood the diff between literary dudes writing weird fiction and what edgar allen poe and the french novelle fantastique writers were doing one hundred years ago.

it IS sort of ground zero for cyberpunk stuff, i think.

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I know "slipstream" was a Sterling invention/campaign, I was just asking if that's the site where the long-ass article is b/c I think I lost it.

― Laurel, Monday, 9 April 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

where do i start w/cyberpunk? snowcrash? all i read are those sf collections from th early 70s for a dollar. i prefer short stuff.

― artdamages, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

oh i have no idea! i just found / started reading those zines myself ...

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

i read this today between 8 am and noon (hooray spring break)

http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/Ace%20singles/sF-series/F-427.jpg

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Art, I'm fond of Melissa Scott's Trouble and Her Friends if you can find it. And obv pretty much any Bruce Sterling with the exception of maybe Heavy Weather which is more about near-future eco-terrorism, or any Neal Stephenson esp Holy Fire, or any William Gibson at all. The latter three are the acknowledged masters, I think.

― Laurel, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i guess i sort of knew that.

this is great:

http://members.aol.com/tishede/morethbc.gif

― artdamages, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

I dug Sterling's "Islands in the Net"

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

this is excellent also

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c1/c6545.jpg

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

review here

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

Another one of mine is titled something about Angels in the Net but I can't find it on search and my mass markets are all boxed up at home. Damn.

― Laurel, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

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