on books and hyperspace
What I want to know, though, is what are the contemporaries of this work, and its descendants. What was next to it on the shelf at Borders Store #1 when I pulled it off the shelf to buy it? Who will nod knowingly when I pull it out of my bookshelf, dust it off, and flip through to find some passage that I might remember? What should go next to it on my own shelves, real or imagined?
from a 2014 review of Michael Benedikt‘s pre-web anthology “Cyberspace: First Steps” (1991/1992),










