I am Gregor Samsa
Eric Korn
- Virtual Reality by Howard Rheingold
Secker, 415 pp, £19.99, October 1992, ISBN 0 436 41212 8 - Cyberpunk by Katie Hafner and John Markoff
Fourth Estate, 368 pp, £14.99, September 1992, ISBN 1 872180 94 9 - Glimpses of Heaven, Visions of Hell: Virtual Reality and its Implications by Barrie Sherman and Phil Judkins
Hodder, 224 pp, £12.99, July 1992, ISBN 0 340 56905 0
In the novels of William Gibson and other writers of cyberpunk, the new SF sub-genre, in the glittery non-realism of the movies, cyberspace is crystalline and neonlit and shiny, a place of infinite depth and detail, of towers and canyons and technicolor hypergeometry, the ‘consensual hallucination shared daily by billions ... a graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity ... clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights receding.’
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