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"Cyberspace is a metaphor that allows us to grasp this place where since about the time of the second world war we've increasingly done so many of the things that we think of as civilization."
- William Gibson
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| Three Generation Work (Century Piece) | ||
| An artwork created by three consecutive generations of artists, in exactly one century. |
| The two sat at a table of burnished lignum vitae, between them a centerpiece of carved malachite which Magnus Ridolph recognized as a Three-Generation Work from the Golwana coast of the planet Mugh - a product of father, son and son's son, toiled over a hundred years to the minute.*
(The catalogue of Pomukka Dhen, last of the Golwana emperors, listed seven thousand Century pieces, 136 Millennium pieces and fourteen Ten-Thousand Year pieces. A rumor had reached Magnus Ridolph of a Hundred-Thousand Year work nearing completion in the Backlands, a gigantic carved tourmaline.) |
| Technovelgy from The Sub-Standard Sardines,
by Jack Vance. Published by Startling Stories in 1949 Additional resources -
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Compare to the Book of the Kalends from Galactic Pot-Healer (1969) by Philip K. Dick and the Darkdawn City from Dying of the Light (1977) by George RR Martin
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