Found: Science Fiction - Stimming = direct brain stimulation - cyber space
Original topic subject: Science Fiction - Stimming = direct brain stimulation - cyber space
TalkName that Book
Join LibraryThing to post.
1bobhn22
Plot snippets:
A young woman lives with her father in a remote location. Her father is selling his car, and a buyer has come. She realizes this is her last chance to get away, and while her father and the buyer are talking about the price, she packs a suitcase, and leaves with the buyer.
Later in the story she sees his suitcases being taken away on a trolley and realizes he's been killed. She has been selected as a replacement for a "stimming" star. "Stimming" (direct brain stimulation) is a means for people to directly experience the life of the star, which is projected as ideal. Sort of soap opera.
Other characters: a man who's had his skull sculpted & lights fitted as a fashion statement; someone who's uploaded his consciousness to a computer for a sort of immortality and speaks through a grille on a building.
I'm pretty sure this is from the same book: the woman escapes into the wasteland with another man - at some point they're fired on with rifles with laser sights.
She is firm with him: "No funny business", and he co-operates in spite of his horniness. Then at some point she says "Get a shower, maybe a shave."
And this: some sort of cyber-universe exists, and a newcomer appears in it - the existing elements move apart a bit to make room for it.
I read it maybe 1955-2005 - can't be sure than that.
A young woman lives with her father in a remote location. Her father is selling his car, and a buyer has come. She realizes this is her last chance to get away, and while her father and the buyer are talking about the price, she packs a suitcase, and leaves with the buyer.
Later in the story she sees his suitcases being taken away on a trolley and realizes he's been killed. She has been selected as a replacement for a "stimming" star. "Stimming" (direct brain stimulation) is a means for people to directly experience the life of the star, which is projected as ideal. Sort of soap opera.
Other characters: a man who's had his skull sculpted & lights fitted as a fashion statement; someone who's uploaded his consciousness to a computer for a sort of immortality and speaks through a grille on a building.
I'm pretty sure this is from the same book: the woman escapes into the wasteland with another man - at some point they're fired on with rifles with laser sights.
She is firm with him: "No funny business", and he co-operates in spite of his horniness. Then at some point she says "Get a shower, maybe a shave."
And this: some sort of cyber-universe exists, and a newcomer appears in it - the existing elements move apart a bit to make room for it.
I read it maybe 1955-2005 - can't be sure than that.
2DisassemblyOfReason
Possibly Mona Lisa Overdrive? (It's been some time since I read it.)
3bobhn22
>2 DisassemblyOfReason: You're right, some things are there: "she saw Eddy's black gatorclone suitcases go by on a robot baggage cart, and that was when she knew for sure that he was dead"; "she couldn't see why anybody would watch a vid when they could stim just as easy".
Maybe other things I remember were from earlier books in the trilogy.
Thanks!
I mark this book as Found - can't see any other way to do it.
Maybe other things I remember were from earlier books in the trilogy.
Thanks!
I mark this book as Found - can't see any other way to do it.
