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From: ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Christopher E. Forman)
Subject: Re: Cyberpunk and "The Mind Electric" (was: My comments on the entries)
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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 15:06:23 GMT
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Damien Neil (damien@lugnut.stu.rpi.edu) wrote:
: >*sigh* William Gibson has never written a book called
: >_Cyberpunk_. Neither has he (as is commonly thought) invented the
: >term.

: Ack!  You are absolutely right, of course.  I must have crossed some
: wires in my brain.  Mea culpa.

But he did coin _Cyberspace_, if I remember correctly.
-- 
C.E. Forman                                      ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
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