Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 10:40:08 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: William Gibson comes to DC
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

>
>>>> wmfrank at stwing.org 05/09/07 10:26 AM >>>
>Also Sprach Michael Walsh:
>
>> Once again, SF as prediction fails.  The opening sentence of
>> Neuromancer:  "The sky above the port was the color of television,
>tuned
>> to a dead channel."
>
>You think that's scary:
>
>http://project-apollo.net/headroom/manga/hed000.jpg
>
>"The sky over the port was the color of a television set tuned to
>PBS."

So ... a giant Cookie Monsterin the sky?

Anyway, I can think of scarier channels to be tuned to ...

mjw