cyber

• Courtesy of the Merril estate JOHN BRUNNER—British writer of SF and thrillers, whose novels Stand on Zanzibar and The Shockwave Rider are credited with paving the way for the cyber-punk movement because he discussed topics such as computer hacking and genetic engineering and described various bits of software that run by themselves as tapeworms or worms. —  BETTER TO HAVE LOVED
• Ruff's prose and plotting is a fine blend of the quotidian and the Gothic, the painful and the humorous, making for a book that's very hard to put down In To Live Again (1969), Robert Silverberg postulated a future where technology would allow anyone to host multiple souls in a kind of cyber-MPD with dire consequences. —  Asimov'sSF,Jan2004
• For his cyber-conferencing backdrop, Art had chosen an outside image of the starship, its attitude jets fired more and more often, the duration of the burns growing. —  Analog SFF, September 2006
• WTF prefix everything with "cyber" - without at least looking up what the word actually denotes. —  Defense Tech
• - The spread of nuclear and chemical biological and ***** cyber-technologies ***** that could upset the global order and cause catastrophe on an unimaginable scale is real. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular

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