From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Apr 01 2002 - 21:43:00 MST
At 07:31 PM 4/1/02 +1000, Dwayne wrote:
>BBC yesterday credited Jaron Lanier with coining "Virtual Reality"
>
>When did you first publish this phrase?
>I'll happily send them a correction-type email if you provide details. Maybe
>enough of us can reverse this shocking miscarriage of thingy.
The shame, the horror, the... the...
Really, though, who cares?
I get credited in the 1993 Clute/Nicholls ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION
with first use, in my novel THE JUDAS MANDALA (which also uses the terms
`transhuman' and `matrix', and has an Omega end-of-time god thing, blah
blah) which came out from Pocket Books in NY in 1982. Publication had been
delayed for years, although a chunk did appear (as `Growing Up') in the
short-lived sf zine GALILEO vol 1 no 1 in 1976, republished in my anthology
THE ZEITGEIST MACHINE (Oz: A&R, 1977).
So it goes.
Damien Broderick
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