Cyberia Psychedelia : Timothy Leary and the Counterculture in Cyberspace

Maybe it's a mere coincidence that William Gibson's Neuromancer(1984) was published only a year after Timothy Leary's autobiography Flashbacks(1983). It seems, however, that this coincidence may suggest interesting synchronicity. Neuromancer is a classic, a bible, and a forefather of the 1980s' Cyberpunks, which at once opened up new territory in not only the field of SF but the whole field of contemporary fiction. And in '90s it is still re-presenting itself as a fast-speaking yet trustworthy prophet as the Cyberspace actually keeps expanding towards the closing of the twentieth century. Flashbacks, on the other hand, though ordinary in style compared with Neuromancer, survives as also a classic, if not a bible any more, of those who believe, or believed, in the potentialities of the '60s' Psychedelic Revolution