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- Subject: Cyberpunk Nonfiction List (last updated 23 Feb 1992)
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- Cyberpunk Nonfiction List
- Last updated 13 Jan 1992
- Compiled by jonathan drummey (dutchman@wpi.wpi.edu)
-
- The following list of nonfiction that relates to cyberpunk has been
- compiled over the past year from various mentions on alt.cyberpunk and
- elsewhere.
-
- Please email all comments, criticisms and more books or whatever to
- dutchman@wpi.wpi.edu.
-
- NOTE - I'm trying to get all of the ISBN numbers for the books, so if
- you have copies of the books currently without numbers please send the
- numbers to me. Thanks!
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- Bagdikian, Ben H.
- The Media Monopoly (looks at the "shrinking media")
- 0-8070-6163-8, BP672 1984
- 0-8070-6171-9, BP759 1987 (2nd. ed.)
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- Benedikt, Michael
- Cyberspace: First Step (looks at the realization of cyberspace)
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- Belsito, Peter, Ed.
- Notes from the Pop Underground (interviews with SRL, Robert
- Anton Wilson, Jello Biafra, others)
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- Brand, Stewart
- The Media Lab (MIT's Media Lab)
- 0-670-81442-3 1987
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- Drexler, Eric
- Engines of Creation (nanotech)
- 0-385-19972-4 1986
- 0-385-19973-2 1987 (paper)
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- Dublin, Max
- Futurehype - The Tyranny of Prophecy 0-14-011488-2
- (looks at predicting the future and how it has changed society)
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- Gardner, Howard
- The Mind's New Science (overview of cognitive science)
- 0-465-04634-7 1985
- 0-465-04635-5, PL5182 1987 (paper)
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- Hafner, Katie and Markoff, John
- Cyberpunk - Outlaws and Hackers on the Electronic Frontier
- (a biography of Kevin Mitnick, Pengo, and Robert T. Morris)
- 0-671-68332-5
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- Hofstadter, Douglas
- Godel, Escher, Bach : "An Eternal Golden Braid"
- (all sorts of stuff, won the Pulitzer Prize)
- 0-465-02685-0 1979
- 0-394-74502-7, Vin 1980
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- Hofstadter, Douglas (ed.)
- The Mind's I
- 0-553-34343-2 1982
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- Hopper, Judith and Dick Teresi
- The Three-Pound Universe (overview of neuroscience)
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- Kidder, Tracy
- Soul of a New Machine (describes a Data General team building
- a computer)
- 0-316-49170-5 1981
- 0-380-59931-7 1982
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- Leary, Timothy
- Info-psychology
- 0-941404-60-9 1987 (Falcon Press ?)
- Neuropolitique
- 0-941404-61-7 1987 (Falcon Press ?)
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- Levy, Steven
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (the title says it all)
- 0-385-19195-2 1984
- 0-440-13405-6 1985 (paper)
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- McCafferty, Larry, ed.
- Missippi Review
- [Issues 47/48 (vol. 16, #2 and 3) examined CP. To be published as
- _The Cyberpunk Controversy_ by Duke University Press. Some fiction.]
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- Minsky, Marvin
- Society of Mind (AI, other issues)
- 0-671-60740-5 1987
- 0-671-65713-5 1988
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- Moravec, Hans
- Mind Children (AI, future)
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- Raymond, Eric (ed.)
- The New Hacker's Dictionary
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- Rheingold, Howard
- Virtual Reality (self-descriptive)
- Tools for Thought: The History & Future of Mind-Extending Technology
- 0-13-925108-1 1986
- Tools for Thought: The People & Ideas Behind the Next
- Computer Revolution
- 0-671-49292-6 1985
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- Sterling, Bruce
- The Hacker Crackdown: The True Story of the Digital Dragnet of
- 1990 and the Start of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
- (not quite out yet)
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- Toffler, Alan
- Future Shock (lots on the future)
- 0-394-42586-3 1970
- 0-553-24649-6 1971
- The Third Wave
- 0-688-03597-3 1980
- 0-553-24698-4 1981
- PowerShift (his latest)
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- Trow, George W.S.
- The Contect of No Context (mass marketing, media)
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- Author unknown
- Technoculture (commentary and interviews with various major CP types)
- Future Stuff (a "high tech toy catalog")
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