Charlie Stross on Nostr: npub1eyszu…e6x02 Neuromancer was published in July 1984. So scheduled for ...
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Neuromancer was published in July 1984. So scheduled for publication 12 months earlier meaning written in 1981-82. That was before ANALOG cellphone service started, never mind GSM. Neuromancer predates the CD, the end of the USSR, the Space Shuttle actually flying (and exploding), Coke Zero, Diet Coke, TCP/IP, Wifi, the PC AT, the Apple Macintosh, air bags in cars, the end of leaded gasoline, public recognition of global warming ...
I sing the retrofuturistic fantastic!
Neuromancer was published in July 1984. So scheduled for publication 12 months earlier meaning written in 1981-82. That was before ANALOG cellphone service started, never mind GSM. Neuromancer predates the CD, the end of the USSR, the Space Shuttle actually flying (and exploding), Coke Zero, Diet Coke, TCP/IP, Wifi, the PC AT, the Apple Macintosh, air bags in cars, the end of leaded gasoline, public recognition of global warming ...
I sing the retrofuturistic fantastic!