Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems as though the Net itself has become conscious," says William Gibson, the science-fiction writer who coined the term cyberspace and used it, most famously, in his 1984 novel Neuromancer. "It may regard itself as God. And it may be God on its own terms." Gibson hastens to add, however, that he is "carefully ambivalent" about whether anything that exists solely on the Net applies to the real world...
...next day I swang by Newbury ("Shop here, die happy") Comics on my way home from class. I circled the store twice, browsing the trendy t-shirts, the beatnik literature, the Pulp Fiction posters and, of course, the tons and tons of CDs. Rock, reggae, rap, folk, country, jazz, blues, classical, comedy, spoken word, soundtracks, compilations--yet amazingly, I couldn't find what I was looking...
...most popular syndicated talk show. Mitchard had no idea what this news meant: "I was so surprised that it really was Oprah, because there is not much of a tradition of writers on talk shows. Even as a writer I wouldn't want to hear myself talk about fiction for an hour...
...novel, an account of the sudden disappearance of a three-year-old child, sold about 100,000 copies before Oprah recommended it to her 15 million to 20 million daily viewers. Now The Deep End of the Ocean has become entrenched at the top of the New York Times fiction best-seller list, ahead of works by Sue Grafton, Danielle Steel, Mary Higgins Clark, Scott Turow and Stephen King. As she watched her novel sweep past such household names, Mitchard says, "I felt I was having an out-of-body experience...
...Knopf; 355 pages; $25) rehearses this unhappy history with a lot more than instant publicity in mind. Part memoir, part detective story, part meditation on the kind of men who kill and the women who die at their hands, Ellroy's new book displays a reality more chilling than fiction...