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.
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Sue Thomas was born in England in 1951. Both her parents were Dutch but made their home in the UK and her interest in cultural outsiders - physical and virtual, android and androgynous - probably stems from those somewhat confused beginnings. Her books include the novel Correspondence, a mix of flesh and machine short-listed for several prizes including the Arthur C Clarke Award (London: The Women's Press, 1992; New York: Overlook, 1993); Water, a novel of fluids, imaginations and passions (New York: Overlook, 1994; UK: Five Leaves, 1995) and an edited anthology Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women (New York: Overlook, 1994; London: Vintage, 1994).
Sue Thomas is Founder and Artistic Director of the trAce Online Writing Centre based at The Nottingham Trent University, England and a Reader in New Media in the Department of English & Media Studies.
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Published in paper form in 2004 this hybrid text is part memoir, part journal, part critical discussion, part survey of the field. It has stayed current as an overview of the ever-changing landscape of the digital virtual web world. And landscape is the most appropriate word here as Thomas describes her travels in various locations online and off, on trains, by car, navigating MOOs ... The author's style takes us smoothly and easily along with her on this journey, pointing out features, suggesting detours, opening up boxes of tricks, peering behind the interface to share her traveller's tales. Some of what Thomas explores in 'Hello World' are examined in greater depth and detail in her new book 'Technobiophilia', where these earlier thoughts on relations between nature and cyberspace are expanded. So, yes, ten years is a long time in new media development, and the ereader this edition is formatted for wasn't around when it came out on paper, but this book remains a lively and fresh tour of our intersecting worlds, the planet we live on and the cyber net we have woven round it.
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