Re: Cyber Gardening
Annette Loudon (aloudon@arc.org)
Thu, 24 Aug 95 11:48:02 PDT
>On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, Michael Carter Llaneza wrote:
>
>>
>> >It's a fun thing to stir old mediums and their philosophies into the mix.
>> >
>> >Although one thing I personally rebel against is being forced to try and
>> >generate things that were another persons vision. In my work place a day
>> >can not pass without a mention of Gibson, or Stevenson. I hate the
>> >limitations that this
>> >style of literature seems to presetn. I'm refusing to read any of it until
>> >i know what my visions of cyberspaces are all about.
>>
>> >annette :)
>>
>>
>> Here's a book we all might want to read:
>>
>> Cyberspace: First Steps
>> Michael Benedikt (ed)
>> MIT Press, 1991
>> ISBN 0-262-02327-X
>
>And another one.
>Its (science...) fiction, by an Australian author, and a lot of you would
>have heard of it.
>
>PERMUTATION CITY
>by
>Greg Egan
>(dont know book details, will find out)
>
>Remember - I dont read science fiction!!
>As far as I am concerned, this is the only book ever written about VR,
>dont bother reading anything else.
>
>Hyperbole out.
>
>If this message actually makes it onto the list, I'll be amazed, all my
>other replies have disappeared into the void.
>
>
>Jon Holdsworth