{"id":644,"date":"2009-01-16T16:02:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T16:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/01\/16\/news-to-me\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:19:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:19:31","slug":"news-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2009\/01\/16\/news-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"News to me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

At Lewis Shiner’s Fiction Liberation Front<\/a>, I stumbled across this interesting piece of info in the author’s notes<\/a> that accompanies the legendary essay "Confessions of an Ex-Cyberpunk."<\/a><\/p>\n

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In the original 1991 New York Times<\/span> op-ed piece Shiner wrote:<\/p>\n

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As one reader told me: "We’re the first generation that spent our entire lives around computers and video games. We don’t see computers as threats; we see them as toys. Cyberspace [computer-generated reality] is just an enhancement of video games. We can see the future. We can see this happening."<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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In his notes among several other interesting tidbits, Shiner divulges this "shocking" information:<\/p>\n

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By the way, the "one reader" I quote is my friend Rick Klaw, who’s gone on to write a lot of criticism.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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This was certainly news to me. I’m very familiar with the essay. It elicited some serious discussion within the sf field. And even though I was hanging out with Shiner at the time, I did not realize that "reader" was me until I read his revelation<\/span>. <\/p>\n

If you’ve never read "Confessions of an Ex-Cyberpunk," it offers a unique insider’s account of the rise and downfall of the Movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Lewis Shiner’s Fiction Liberation Front, I stumbled across this interesting piece of info in the author’s notes that accompanies the legendary essay "Confessions of an Ex-Cyberpunk." In the original 1991 New York Times op-ed piece Shiner wrote: Quote: As … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n