Bruce Bethke (born 1955) is an American author, best known for his 1980 short story "Cyberpunk" which led to the widespread use of the term, and his novel, Headcrash.
Bethke's collected thoughts on the cyberpunk subculture are collected on his website, in an essay entitled "The Etymology of Cyberpunk".
Bethke lives in Minnesota where he works as a developer for supercomputer software.
Written from an outline by Isaac Asimov in 1990, this novel wa...
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Bruce Bethke (born 1955) is an American author, best known for his 1980 short story "Cyberpunk" which led to the widespread use of the term, and his novel, Headcrash.
Bethke's collected thoughts on the cyberpunk subculture are collected on his website, in an essay entitled "The Etymology of Cyberpunk".
Bethke lives in Minnesota where he works as a developer for supercomputer software.
Written from an outline by Isaac Asimov in 1990, this novel was one of a series of novels set in Asimov's Robot universe.
Bethke's first published novel, Headcrash is the story of Jack, a male in his mid twenties, who lives with his overbearing mother, works a dead-end job at a software firm, and escapes to the salve of virtual reality on the internet. The sites of questionable legalities cause the geeky Jack to find himself in a legal quandary when he is approached to hack into a Super User's company. This novel was awarded the Philip K. Dick Award.
This work is credited with the first use of the word ...
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