Creators: Mixed This 1975 book pretty much nailed the contradictions inherent in global networking, long before the network was created. It's full of wiretapping spooks, genius kids, networked churches, fake identities, network worms, encryption, nonprofits that outfox the spooks to help society, the works.
LovedOne of the most important precursor cyberpunk texts is John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider, a novel that imagines a network society, digital identities, corporate control of information, and it even predicts something remarkably close to the internet. But more importantly, it introduces a key cyberpunk idea. Technology doesn't liberate people equally.
Mixedit's one of his more ambitious books one of the more episodic modernist ones published in the mid '70s
MixedI was mixed on it another sort of protoc cyberpunk book it had some interesting ideas but I don't know it felt a little thin in Parts I struggled to connect to it didn't really care about any of the characters
LikedI liked these characters I understood the storyline of what was happening a lot better
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