Mondo 2000

副标题: A User's Guide to the New Edge : Cyberpunk, Virtual Reality, Wetware, Designer Aphrodisiacs, Artificial Life, Techno-Erotic Paganism, an

ISBN: 9780060969288

出版社: Perennial

出版年: 1992-11

定价: USD 25.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

nmv family and l moved toCalifornia??? one of the first California drivers aren t usually rude--if there is a necessity to
ings 1 did was to visit the City Lights bookstore on merge??? people will pause and wave each other on--but they a re pushy.
olumbusAvenueinSanFrancisco sNorthBeach??? right If you don t take advantage of a hole in traffic??? someone else will
across Jack Kerouac Alley from the funky old beatnik bar/cafe called squirm around you to get at the hole. Once??? in Santa Cruz??? when I
Vesuvio. WheneverlgointoCityLights??? lgetsoexcitedseeingall thecool paused flounderingly in an intersection in our big old Chevy station
booksandmagazinesthatlcanbarelyevenbreathe. One particular nrag- wagon??? twoseparatedrwerscalledmeanasshole. Iwasblockingahole
azine that caught my eye on this visit was a huge pink thing with a Ben- and I was driving an American station wagon with Virginia plates; there-
Day dot picture that seemed to be a cross between ISm Leafy and Art Lin- fore I was an asshole. I notice a fair amount of standoffishuess and impa-
kleher. ArtLinkletterwasthehostofafiftieseandid-cameraTVshowcalled tienceamongCalifornians. It slikeCaliforniansknowt~a hereisthe
\"People Are Funny???\" and he authored the book Kids Say The Darmfest possibility of getting REALLY GOOD STUFF out here??? and when they
Things. Lirddetter s daughter had a mental illness which may or may not have to settle for something inadequate--like seeing a whale-wagon in
havebeencompoundedbytheuseofLSD??? andsheendedupcommitting the middle of an intersection--they get very miffed. When l first got
suicide by jumping out a window??? so Art Linkletter became a prominent here??? I was so happy to see restaurants that weren t Red Lobsters and
spokespersonagainstpsychedelia. Sonowhere`stheseCalifontiaweirdos Pizza Huts that 1 was bewildered by all the \"Very Best Restaurauts\"
putting out this big pink magazine--which is called High Frontiers--and guides I kept seeing in the paper. \"Hell???\" I d sa~???; \"1 don t need the VERY
they have Linkletter s face merged with Leary s??? and out of the mouth is BEST. I m perfectly happy with something that s REASON ABLY ADE-
condng a shaky speech-balloon saying???\"Kids do the d??? m~dest drags!\" And QUATEY But now??? of course??? after six years here??? 1 don t feel that way
if that weren t enough??? walking across the top of the picture is a drooling??? anynmre. I m a Californian??? and I want the very best all the time! My
three-eared Mickey Mouse holding out the logo of the Central Intelli- guiding philosophy in making the selections for this User s Guide has
genceAgency. ThemagaziueHighFrontiersbecameRealityHackers??? wl dch been simply that: to get the very best things I could find in all the
became the magazine MOND02000??? and now I m coediting the MONDO issues of the magazine High Frontiers/Rcality Hackers/MONDO 2000.
2000 User s Guide to the New Edge. Software packages always come with a Some of the first Californians I befriended were fellow science-fic-
book that says \"user s guide\" on it??? even though in the rest of the culture tion writers. There s few enough SF writers that we re always glad to
a \"user\" is usually using drugs. Are people who buy software the same see each other. The one thing that my new SF friends were most inter-
as the tx~ple who buy drugs? People are funny! ested in telling me about was Mark Pauline of SRL (Survival Research
At first California was hard to get used to. My family m~d I were coming Labs) and the cool things Ire did with machines. They knew??? of course???
hum a small town in central Virginia??? you m~derstand??? a place called that I like machines a lot--my novel Software is about the first intelli-
Lynchburg??? the home of that notorious God-pig Jerry Falwdl??? always on gent robots??? and Wetware is about the rnbots using bioengineering
TK preaching fear and asking for money. The main thing you notice first processes to build people like machines. Cyberpunk fiction is really
aboutCaliforniaishowmuchyouhavetodrive. At first l d see aU these ABOUT tha fusion of humans and machines. That s why cyberpunk
little ~topphlg centers along the highways??? mad I d be thinking??? \"Oh??? lbetter is a popular literature for this point in time--this is a historical time
come back here sometime and check out those nice stores.\" It took me when computers are TAKING OVER many human functions??? and
awhile to realize that the little shopping centers??? the strip malls??? were all when humans are TAKING IN much more machine-processed infor-
ilwsame??? andflmttherewasnolx???intingoingintooneexceptforaninstan- marion. There is a massive human/computer symbiosis developing
z tanenus purchase??? In this great American urban mega-suburb??? shopping faster than we cau even think abmtt it realistically. Instead of thinkiug
is a parallel??? distdbuted pro~ess. Shopping for ordinary things??? that is. For realistically??? we cm~ think science-fictionally??? and that s how we end uP
spet.ial things you need special??? nonmallsourcesliketheaddressesinthe writing cyberpunk near-future seieuce fiction. Cyberpunk is really
;- \"Mall\" sectkm at tile back of this User s t;uide??? about the present.