William Gibson
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3 First Quotations from William Gibson
| cyberspace n. | 1982 Burning Chrome in Omni July 72/2 I knew every chip in Bobby’s simulator by heart; it looked like your workaday Ono-Sendai VII, the ‘Cyberspace Seven’, but I’d rebuilt it so many times that you’d have had a hard time finding a square millimetre of factory circuitry in all that silicon. |
| meat puppet n. | 1984 Neuromancer 147 Where’s the meat puppet? |
| Raygun Gothic n. | 1981 The Gernsback Continuum in T. Carr Universe 11 98 Cohen introduced us and explained that Dialta was the prime mover behind the latest Barris-Watford project, an illustrated history of what she called ‘American Streamlined Moderne’. Cohen called it ‘raygun Gothic’. |