The Once and Future is War
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Tuesday, 2008-05-13 | Cyberpunk
| "...the best argument for fact is the unaffordability of fiction." |
I was recently explaining a curious consonance between two pieces of widely-read C20 Arthuriana when it occurred to me that I was describing an important part of Roots Cyberpunk.
Here are two new additions to the Roots Cyberpunk reading list:
The Once and Future King by TH White ( 1938 - 1958* ).
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ( 1889 ).
* White released four novels over the course of 20 years.
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Thesis: automation, i.e. consumer science and consumer culture, were recognized first by Twain as the road to Skynet, then by White.