Chris:
> (Flatlined is _Neuromancer_ Gibson, of course, and bleeding machines from
> _Bladerunner_, using my wonky memory without checking sources, but who
really
> cares about sources, hey!)
The Dixie Flatliner wasn't the first.
Think flatlined/flatliner pre-dates Gibson. Doesn't Ian Watson use it in
one of his novels? It's not even specifically cyberpunk, referring as it
does to the EEG scan flattening out at the moment of terminal braindeath.
Dunno when it +first+ appeared though.
Robin
(who does care)
PS -- as you obviously know more about this than me, is there any truth to
the rumour that Guy Debord didn't commit suicide on December 1, 1994 but/or
that it was a Situationist ramp?
R2
PPS. -- I almost thought from what you said in your recent posts that
son-of-genet was an updated Eliza program. Which would link into _Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?_
I am wrong in this, obviously?
D2
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