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...striking image clearly showed a segmented, tubelike object, with a width about a hundredth that of a human hair, and to the untrained eye clearly resembling a life-form. Apparently to some trained eyes also. "When I took it home and put it on the kitchen table," says Everett Gibson Jr., a geochemist at the Johnson Space Center, "my wife, who is a biologist, asked, 'What are these bacteria...
Again the U.S. has come to the rescue of a corrupt puppet, a man disliked by his own people because he has brought them only misery. You said, "Democracy triumphed." Hardly! ESTELA GIBSON Cypress, California...
...British soldiers who have been trying to contain Protestant marchers have made a 180-turn in their strategy to contain violence that has broken out in Northern Ireland since Sunday. Instead of trying to prevent the marches, which celebrate 300-year-old victories over Catholics, TIME's Helen Gibson reports that police have decided it's safer to keep Catholic protesters at bay and let the marches go through. About 1,300 Orangemen, an Ulster Protestant order, were given permission to march down the disputed Garvaghy Road to the beat of a single drum, along the same route they have...
Then there's cyberpunk, the Net-based genre whose grim, dehumanized vision of the future dominated sci-fi during the late '80s. Its seminal work was the 1984 classic Neuromancer, by William Gibson, who never was happy being pigeonholed as a cyberpunk writer. "It wasn't our term," he says. "It's one of those labels." And although he did invent the word cyberspace, says Gibson, "I had to spend years and years figuring out what it meant." In the past few years, cyberpunk has lost some of its glitter, perhaps because cruising the Net has become so commonplace...
...creators are focusing on fresher paranoias: Gibson's new novel, Idoru (Putnam), due in September, is a ghost story of sorts. And a second September book, Holy Fire (Bantam), by Bruce Sterling, another godfather of cyberpunk, is about intergenerational war. It's set 100 years in the future, in an age ruled by a wealthy centenarian gerontocracy whose disenfranchised children are readying a revolution based on the terrifying new cognitive landscapes offered by man-computer interfaces...