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Hello World: Travels In Virtuality
Hello World is the story of a life online. Part travelogue, part memoir, Sue Thomas draws on her online travels as well as her physical journeys in the USA, Australia, Spain and England. While the book is non-fiction, it is a direct descendent of Correspondence, Thomas' extraordinary novel that also deals with the synergies between digital and physical worlds. Like its fictional counterpart, Hello World will trigger feelings in readers of recognition and will stimulate debate on the nature of the physical in a wired world for years to come.
272 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2004
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Sue Thomas
84 books11 followersI'm currently pitching my 3rd novel. It's about what happens when the mysteries of technology and nature intersect. 'The Fault in Reality' is set in 2016, the year everything started to go horribly wrong for the UK and the US. Restarting in fiction when you haven't had an agent for 20 years is hard to do but I hope to find a friendly publisher.
My first novel was 'Correspondence' (short-listed for the Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 1992, The James Tiptree Award, and the European Science Fiction Award). In 1994 I published my second novel, 'Water', and edited the anthology 'Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women' (1994).
After that I turned to nonfiction: 'Creative Writing: A Handbook For Workshop Leaders' (1995); the cyberspace memoir/travelogue 'Hello World: travels in virtuality' (2004), and 'Technobiophilia: nature and cyberspace' (2013), a study of nature metaphors in internet culture and language.
My most recent book is 'Nature and Wellbeing in the Digital Age' (2017), which explains the psychology behind our love for nature and offers practical advice on how to feel better without logging off.
I've contributed to a wide range of anthologies and journals and written for The Guardian, Orion Magazine, Slate, and many others.
I was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1951. My parents were both Dutch but had settled in England. I founded the trAce Online Writing Centre at Nottingham Trent University in 1995, and became Professor of New Media at De Montfort University in 2005. Since 2013 I've been a Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University.
My first novel was 'Correspondence' (short-listed for the Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 1992, The James Tiptree Award, and the European Science Fiction Award). In 1994 I published my second novel, 'Water', and edited the anthology 'Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women' (1994).
After that I turned to nonfiction: 'Creative Writing: A Handbook For Workshop Leaders' (1995); the cyberspace memoir/travelogue 'Hello World: travels in virtuality' (2004), and 'Technobiophilia: nature and cyberspace' (2013), a study of nature metaphors in internet culture and language.
My most recent book is 'Nature and Wellbeing in the Digital Age' (2017), which explains the psychology behind our love for nature and offers practical advice on how to feel better without logging off.
I've contributed to a wide range of anthologies and journals and written for The Guardian, Orion Magazine, Slate, and many others.
I was born in Leicestershire, England, in 1951. My parents were both Dutch but had settled in England. I founded the trAce Online Writing Centre at Nottingham Trent University in 1995, and became Professor of New Media at De Montfort University in 2005. Since 2013 I've been a Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University.
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May 9, 2023
I received a paper copy from the author.
As the author herself points out the 2 word phrase Hello world is a common output line for beginning programmers of new computer languages (started with Ritchie's C language).
The book as it stands now is a bit dated from the early history of the Internet and web, so take a grain of salt.
The most amusing bit are the one-liners of what Brits think Americans are doing to their language. Not all positive.
At the time of authoring, Sue was an active member of Second Life (I was never, but I do know its founders). This was the pre-Facebook era.
This Sue Thomas is not the American novel writer Sue Thomas. If you wish to find this Sue, the readers must add additional keywords to search. At this moment, I'm having problems inserting links for some reason. I should get back to that.
As the author herself points out the 2 word phrase Hello world is a common output line for beginning programmers of new computer languages (started with Ritchie's C language).
The book as it stands now is a bit dated from the early history of the Internet and web, so take a grain of salt.
The most amusing bit are the one-liners of what Brits think Americans are doing to their language. Not all positive.
At the time of authoring, Sue was an active member of Second Life (I was never, but I do know its founders). This was the pre-Facebook era.
This Sue Thomas is not the American novel writer Sue Thomas. If you wish to find this Sue, the readers must add additional keywords to search. At this moment, I'm having problems inserting links for some reason. I should get back to that.
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