Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started, as the big ideas in technology often do, with a science-fiction writer. William Gibson, a young expatriate American living in Canada, was wandering past the video arcades on Vancouver's Granville Street when something about the way the players were hunched over their glowing screens struck him as odd. "I could see in the physical intensity of their postures how rapt the kids were," he says. These kids clearly believed in the space the games projected...
...cyberspace." In the years since, there have been other names given to that shadowy space where our computer data reside: the Net, the Web, the Cloud, the information superhighway. But Gibson's coinage may prove the most enduring. By 1989 it had been borrowed to describe not some science-fiction fantasy but today's increasingly interconnected computer systems--especially the millions of computers jacked into the Internet...
Even if I'd known how to write serious fiction, a comic novel would have been the natural form for me to use in recalling that era. Looking back, it seemed so entertaining--all those people in that two-floor hothouse. In the haze of my memory, TIME Edit sometimes floats by as an extended country weekend, enlivened by the fact that some of the guests don't get along absolutely perfectly. It's brought to mind when I hear literary-conference phrases like "the solitary life of a writer" or "the lonely craft of writing." At TIME Edit, loneliness...
Dovey, who split her childhood years betweenSouth Africa and Australia, spends about eighthours a week rehearsing with the Crimson DanceTeam, and then goes on to perform with the troupeevery Friday and Saturday night. She's also acirculation manager for The Advocate and serves onthe literary magazine's fiction board...
While McCorkle described the magic of fiction writing, McNamara offered her perspective on the power of journalism...