tailieunhanh - The Mind Like A Strange Balloon

Nature abhors a vacuum. Me, too, I guess I tried to fill it in my usual ways. Drank too much beer, cooked elaborate Mexican dinners, walked aimlessly in the dripping woods under slate-gray Oregon skies. And of course, I watched television: old movies seen in worn prints, music videos with strutting rock stars, baseball games inching to conclusion across bright-green fields Ghost images, ghost voices pulled by my dish antenna from the satellite-thick sky. The void remained: I had a talent growing slack from disuse; I had an empty space in my bed. The image in my living room was real enough, though Toshi Ito had come calling to. | feedboo is The Mind Like A Strange Balloon Maddox Tom Published 1985 Categorie s Fiction Science Fiction Short Stories Source http 1 About Maddox Tom Maddox is an American science fiction writer known for his part in the early cyberpunk movement. His first novel was Halo ISBN 0-312-85249-5 published in 1991 by Tor Books. His story Snake Eyes appeared in the 1986 collection Mirrorshades edited by Bruce Sterling. He is perhaps best-known as a friend and writing partner of William Gibson they wrote two episodes of the X-Files together Kill Switch and First Person Shooter . Maddox is the originator of the term Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics or ICE . According to Maddox he coined the term in the manuscript of an unpublished story that he showed to William Gibson at a science fiction convention in Portland Oregon. Gibson asked permission to use the acronym and Maddox agreed. The term was then used in Gibson s early short stories and eventually popularized in the novel Neuromancer in which Maddox was properly acknowledged. Tom Maddox has licensed his work under a Creative Commons License making a significant part of it available on his website Tom Maddox Fiction and Nonfiction Archive. Source Wikipedia Also available on Feedbooks for Maddox Halo 1991 Snake Eyes 1996 The Robot and the One You Love 1988 Gravity s Angel 1992 Copyright Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and or check the copyright status in your country. Note This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http Strictly for personal use do not use this file for commercial purposes. 2 Electronic License This work is released under a Creative Commons License ht- tp licenses by-nd-nc