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Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area 03/24/09

Back in the early 90s I did a little work with my friends for a 'zine called Mercury Rising. William Gibson used it for background information on us San Francisco bike messengers for his book Virtual Light. He got a little carried away though, and lifted a short piece of fiction word for word from one of my friends. He has copped to it since then and I believe later printings have full credit given.


Whatev. I prefer that other cyberpunk novel with a girl messenger heroine that came out a little earlier, Snow Crash. Reply


Image of Corby Kennard Corby Kennard 03/25/09

@Grey_Area: Hiro Protagonist was a girl? Reply

Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area 03/25/09

@Corby Kennard: Y.T., the female lead, was a girl or maybe a young woman. Reply

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