Talk:Damien Broderick

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Someone who knows about these things should crosscheck the entry on virtual reality, including my comments in the discussion section. It would be good to have a consistent story on the origin/coinage of the term "virtual reality". It looks to me as if Broderick may well have coined it, though it was popularised with its more usual usage (a "reality" created by use of computers or computerised equipment) by Lanier a few years later. Metamagician3000 05:58, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

All that red is distracting. I suggest that we remove it. If someone wants to create an article on any of those books they are welcome to, but meanwhile the page is almost unreadable. Metamagician3000 05:13, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Note to self: The Last Mortal Generation needs to be added to the list of publications when I've checked its publication date. Metamagician3000 00:12, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Was it not Jaron Lanier who coined the term "virtual reality"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier [Wix] 22:33, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

Chandler Award
Maybe add something about Damien winning the Chandler Award in 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_Award 203.56.94.11 (talk) 08:04, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

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"Generation Time Machine"
I can't find any mention of this phrase online apart from in this article and sites that mirror this article. The cited book and page (The Generation Starship in Science Fiction, Simone Caroti, p 201) don't mention time travel at all, here's the entirety of what it says about this novel:

"Only seven generation starship narratives appeared between 1980 and 2000, a substantial drop from the previous era. Moreover, a look at their chronological distribution will quickly reveal an anomaly: the first story, Damien Broderick’s The Dreaming Dragons, was published in 1980, while the second, Thomas Hubschman’s Space Ark, appeared in 1981" (It goes on to discuss other books using this narrative). The only other mentions of the book or author are in the bibliography and index, and there are only two mentions of "time machine" - both referring to H G Wells's work of that name. On the broader subject of generation starships (the main subject of the book), it does of course cite many examples that occurred before 1980.

I'm inclined to think that the coining of this term is both non-notable and unsourced, perhaps added by a fan looking to pad the author's accomplishments. 222.152.197.94 (talk) 06:15, 24 February 2024 (UTC)