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LESSON 2 · Sci-Fi That Saw the Future

PAUSE TO THINK

Where did the word 'cyberspace' first appear?

In a 1982 short story, not Neuromancer

Gibson coined 'cyberspace' two years before Neuromancer, in his short story 'Burning Chrome.' The novel made the word famous, but it was born in a few lines of earlier fiction.

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