Sublime

It took at least a decade for me to realize that many of my readers, even in 1984, could never have experienced Neuromancer’s opening line as I’d intended them to. I’d actually composed that first image with the black-and-white video-static of my childhood in mind, sodium-silvery and almost painful—a whopping anachronism, right at the very start of

Robert Wright predicted one of its most important consequences. In his essay “Voice of America,” which appeared in the September 13, 1993, issue of the magazine the New Republic, Wright reported on his forays into Usenet, a set of online discussion groups

1977 – A Scanner Darkly ‘Everything in life is just for a while.’ – Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly This novel had a long gestation period. The original idea was developed by PKD in 1972 but it was only in 1973 that the story gained a structure. He wrote an outline of 82 pages which was submitted to Doubleday. Doubleday were interested and

It took a month for the gestalt of drugs and tension he moved through to turn those perpetually startled eyes into wells of reflexive need. He’d watched her personality fragment, calving like an iceberg, splinters drifting away, and finally he’d seen the raw need, the hungry armature of addiction. He’d watched her track the next hit with a

Books: boring. Codes: awesome. These are the people who are running the internet.