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...Lune 7."Rex"The Laurels 8."Milk+Melancholy"Rodans 9. "Doubt"Sone 10. "Neurons"King Loser 11. "Over the Floor Out that Door"Monster Truck 5 12. "Stabbing a Star"Guided By Voices 13."American Soul Spiders"New Bomb Turks 14. "No Sleep"Huggybear 15."Doc Ellis"SF Seals 16. "Eye Level"Adickdid 17."(I'm) flipped out over you"Victims 18."I Wanna Be Jack Kennedy"Psyclone Rangers 19. "Bad Year at UCLA"Game Theory 20. "East River Pipe"Hey Where's Your Girl
...cyberpunk look -- a kind of SF (science-fiction) surrealism tweaked by computer graphics -- is already finding its way into art galleries, music videos and Hollywood movies. Cyberpunk magazines, many of which are " 'zines" cheaply published by desktop computer and distributed by electronic mail, are multiplying like cable-TV channels. The newest, a glossy, big-budget entry called Wired, premiered last week with Bruce Sterling on the cover and ads from the likes of Apple Computer and AT&T. Cyberpunk music, including ACID HOUSE and INDUSTRIAL, is popular enough to keep several record companies and scores of bands cranking...
...cyberpunk, curiously, are as much literary as they are technological. The term was coined in the late 1980s to describe a group of science-fiction writers -- and in particular WILLIAM GIBSON, a 44-year-old American now living in Vancouver. Gibson's NEUROMANCER, the first novel to win SF's triple crown -- the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick awards -- quickly became a cyberpunk classic, attracting an audience beyond the world of SF. Critics were intrigued by a dense, technopoetic prose style that invites comparisons to Hammett, Burroughs and Pynchon. Computer-literate readers were drawn by Gibson's nightmarish depictions...
...FEMA's internal telephone directory, Mount Weather is referred to simply as SF, for Special Facility, and that is what it is called by all who are assigned there. "I was ((at the agency)) for almost two years before I heard the term Mount Weather," says Julius Becton, who headed FEMA from 1985 to 1989. The installation has no street address, merely a post-office box in Berryville, Va., a sleepy hamlet eight miles away...