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Hinterlands (short story), the Glossary

"Hinterlands" is a science fiction short story written by William Gibson.^[1]

23 relations: Agoraphobia, Biosphere, Burning Chrome (short story collection), Canada, Cargo cult, English language, Exposition (narrative), Fable, Hinterland, Jean Giraud, Lovecraftian horror, Mars, Metaphor, New Rose Hotel, Omni (magazine), Rosetta Stone, Science fiction, Short story, Soviet Union, Space station, The Gernsback Continuum, William Gibson, Wormhole.
1981 short stories
Cyberpunk short stories
Short stories by William Gibson
Works originally published in Omni (magazine)

Agoraphobia

Agoraphobia is a mental and behavioral disorder, specifically an anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms of anxiety in situations where the person perceives their environment to be unsafe with no easy way to escape.

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Biosphere

The biosphere, also called the ecosphere, is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.

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Burning Chrome (short story collection)

Burning Chrome (1986) is a collection of short stories written by William Gibson. Hinterlands (short story) and Burning Chrome (short story collection) are cyberpunk short stories.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Cargo cult

Cargo cult is a term used to denote various spiritual and political movements that arose among indigenous Melanesians following Western colonisation of the region in the late 19th century.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Exposition (narrative)

Narrative exposition, now often simply exposition, is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative.

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Fable

Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or saying.

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Hinterland

Hinterland is a German word meaning "the land behind" (a city, a port, or similar).

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Jean Giraud

Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition.

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Lovecraftian horror

Lovecraftian horror, also called cosmic horror or eldritch horror, is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.

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New Rose Hotel

"New Rose Hotel" is a short story by William Gibson, first published in Omni in July 1984 and later included in his 1986 collection Burning Chrome. Hinterlands (short story) and New Rose Hotel are 1981 short stories, cyberpunk short stories, short stories by William Gibson and works originally published in Omni (magazine).

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Omni (magazine)

Omni was a science and science fiction magazine published for domestic American and UK markets.

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Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Space station

A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains in orbit and hosts humans for extended periods of time.

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The Gernsback Continuum

"The Gernsback Continuum" is a 1981 science fiction short story by American-Canadian author William Gibson, originally published in the anthology Universe 11 edited by Terry Carr. Hinterlands (short story) and the Gernsback Continuum are cyberpunk short stories and short stories by William Gibson.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.

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Wormhole

A wormhole is a hypothetical structure connecting disparate points in spacetime, and is based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterlands_(short_story)

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