Gibson, William. "The Gernsback Continuum"
Summary: A photographer glimpses/visits a timeline where architecture, transport, etc., are all
out of 1930s pulp SF.
Published: In Universe 11 (ed. Terry Carr), Doubleday 1981 and Zebra 1981 (0821711431);
Burning Chrome, Arbor House 1986 (0877957800), Ace 1987 (0441089348BUY);
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (ed. Bruce Sterling), Arbor House 1986
(0877958688BUY), Ace 1988 (0441533825BUY), Paladin 1988 (0586087826BUY), HarperCollins
UK 1994 (0586087826); American Heritage of Invention & Technology Spring/Summer
1988; The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990
(eds. Ursula K. LeGuin and Brian Attebery), Norton 1993 (0393034568); Timescapes: Stories
of Time Travel (ed. Peter Haining), Souvenir 1997 (0285633872); and Steapmunk II:
Steampunk Reloaded (eds. Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer), Tachyon 2010 (1616960019BUY).
Original in: English.
Translation: Nederlands by Alistair Schuchart as "Het Wereldbeeld van Gernsbach", in CyberpunkSF
(ed. Bruce Sterling), Meulenhoff 1989 (9029040475).
Translation: French by Michèle Albaret as "Le continuum Gernsback", in Mozart en verres
miroirs (ed. Bruce Sterling), Denoël 1987 (2207504514), Gallimard 2001 (2070417549).
Translation: German by Reinhard Heinz as "Das Gernsback Kontinuum oder: Der amerikanische Traum", in
Hiroshima soll leben! Die schönsten Alternativwelt-Geschichten
(ed. Karl Michael Armer), q.v.; Spiegelschatten. Die große Cyberpunk-Anthologie
(ed. Bruce Sterling), Heyne 1988 (3453031334); and Cyberspace, Heyne 1988 (3453009932).
Translation: Greek by Christodoulos Litharis as "To Sineches tou Gernsback", in O Mnimonikos
Johnny, Para Pente 1996.
Translation: Italian by Delio Zinoni as "Il continuum di Gernsback", in La notte che bruciammo
Chrome, Mondadori 1989, Interno giallo 1993, Mondadori 1994 (880439031X), Mondadori 1995.
Translation: Portuguese by Eduardo Saló as "O Continuo de Gernsback", in Reflexos do Futuro
(ed. Bruce Sterling), Livros do Brasil 1989.
Translation: Spanish by Pedro Jorge Romero as "El continuo Gernsback", in Cronopaisajes: Historias
de Viajes en el Tiempo (eds. Peter Haining and Miquel Barceló), Ediciones B 2003
(8466611274).
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