{"id":1030,"date":"2010-03-18T12:17:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T17:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2010-03-18T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T17:17:58","slug":"bruce-sterlings-other-evil-twin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Sterling&#8217;s <i>Other<\/i> Evil Twin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austin skiffy fans with long memories may remember that I won the Bruce Sterling Rant Off at an Armadillocon lo these many years ago. This means that I am authorized to act as a Low Calorie Bruce Sterling Substitute, should the need arise.<\/p>\n<p>What you may not know is that Bruce Sterling has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/beyond_the_beyond\/2010\/03\/swift-canny-book-scanner-bodes-publishing-mischief-a-plenty\/\"<i>another<\/i> evil twin<\/a>, or at least one Sandeep Gupta, who blatantly plagiarized the text of Bruce&#8217;s book <b>The Hacker Crackdown<\/b> and republished it as <b>Hacking in the Computer World<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>And for those that didn&#8217;t know it, Bruce released the entire book as literary freeware back in 1994, a copy of which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/101\/101-h\/101-h.htm\">can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sayeth Bruce: &#8220;This is awesome! I always wanted to be a globally-aware Indian-writing-in-English. Me and Rushdie, man! From now on I\u2019m gonna be &#8216;Sandeep Gupta&#8217; whenever I please!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin skiffy fans with long memories may remember that I won the Bruce Sterling Rant Off at an Armadillocon lo these many years ago. This means that I am authorized to act as a Low Calorie Bruce Sterling Substitute, should the need arise. What you may not know is that Bruce Sterling has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,298,299],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-bruce-sterling","tag-plagerism","tag-the-hacker-crackdown","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}