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"I've taken some stick for passages in Altered Carbon which people complained had sickened them, but then violence should be sickening."
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![]() As far as I know, the earliest use of this phrase in science fiction.
Compare to the machine music from The Machine Stops (1909) by EM Forster, the meloderge from Saboteur of Space (1944) by Robert Abernathy, the mechanical tune-maker (1954) from The Last of the Masters by Philip K. Dick and the computer-created dub from Neuromancer by William Gibson. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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