The Cybergypsies : A True Tale of Lust, War, & Betrayal on the Electronic Frontier
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (984 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670886300 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 394 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Cybergypsies is the story of "Bear," an advertising writer with a wife, children, and a rambling house in the English countryside, who's about to sacrifice everything to his addiction. Naked Lunch meets Confessions of an Opium Eater in the virtual world: A mesmerizing first-person account. Phantasmagoric tragedies are woven into the dark patterns of his life, building to a personal moral crisis. Two centuries ago, Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater exposed the fantastic world of the opium addict. Some cybergypsies are geeks, technoanarchists who swap computer viruses like baseball cards. It is at once technopuzzle, confession, and strikingly original literary debut.. Along the invisible pathways of the technonight wanders a strange tribe undetected by the millions of everyday net users. The Cybergypsies does the same for the virtual world of the cyber addict. Games leak into their real lives, often with disastrous results. On a continuum from William Burroughs and William Gibson, Bear's odyssey takes us into an intoxicating world--alternately terrrifying and ridiculous--where reality and imagination are indistinguishable. Bear's real and imaginary lives fuse in a series of bizarre (and often hilarious) adventures. Whatever you have heard, read, or fantasized about the Internet, the truth is stranger, funnier, more horrifying. As the net closes in on him, Bear makes one last
The story of bad behavior--fanaticism about small debates, gender-disguised "Netsex," the spending of other people's money on vast phone bills--has been told by others. In The Cybergypsies: A True Tale of Lust, War, and Betrayal on the Electronic Frontier, Indra Sinha tells the same story in a British context where the poverty and uncertainty of the Thatcher era made everything that much more intense and obsessive. This is a moving and wise book about a man who loved games and came to feel that he could no longer, in good conscience, play them; there is real pain here, in his rejection of a sort of beauty. --Roz Kaveney, . These were als
Fragments Michael J. Tresca Back when Indra Sinha was addicted to Shades, I was a kid sneaking into college computer labs to play Ivory Towers. We were both playing Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs). In fact, Ivory Tower players loathed Shades players with a passion, who were a bloodthirsty, violent lot - they came to Ivory Towers in waves when Shades was down and slaughtered everyone in sight with unbridled glee. It didn't give me a good impression of Shades.That's not the impression Sinha gives in . "An autobiographical metafictional narrative useful if you have a specific interest in Sinha or" according to E Costello. An autobiographical metafictional narrative useful if you have a specific interest in Sinha or an intellectual interest in developing concepts of cyberspace in the earlier days of the world wide web. A bit of a slog to read though, at times. That said, it is conceptually very interesting and an important contribution to understanding Sinha.. "Wise man's gentle warning to us all" according to Joe Atkinson. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, for two reasons. Firstly, I should declare a personal interest: I was a colleague of Mr Sinha's during the period in which the events (all true, I believe) described in the book took place. Secondly, as a person of similar mindset, The Cybergypsies helps me to keep uppermost in mind the importance of balance, perspective and 'all things in moderation'. It was a privilege to work with Mr Sinha, and a great pleasure to read his powerful