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Subject: Re: who does it...
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Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 10:59:21 EDT
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laura says:
>My vote for earliest cyberpunk goes to Samuel Delaney's *Nova*.  
>Anybody have an earlier one?

I agree somewhat. While Nova characters did have jacks, they had them
to control machinery with motor-neural impulses, not to interface
directly with computers. Delany did not perceive such an interface
itself as interesting, he was more interested in the social effects
of the work ethic (I forget the name) which inspired this. 

But the jacks do take sensory inputs, one of the main plot elements of
the novel, so Nova is halfway there....
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