John Brunner

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Earthsider n. | 1966 | Long Way to Earth in Worlds of If Mar. 26/2 This was a firm big enough and inarguably profitable enough to tolerate such minor budget items as repatriation of an Earthsider.
holocam n. | 1968 | Stand on Zanzibar (1971) 33 Strung about with Japanind Holocams with…LazeeLaser monochrome lamps.
worm n. | 1975 | Shockwave Rider (1977) 25 Fluckner had resorted to one of the oldest tricks in the store and turned loose in the continental net a self-perpetuating tapeworm, probably headed by a denunciation group ‘borrowed’ from a major corporation, which would shunt itself from one nexus to another every time his credit-code was punched into a keyboard. It could take days to kill a worm like that, and sometimes weeks.