Mark Slouka, in War of the Worlds: Cyberspace and the High-Tech Assault on Reality, laments the "death of reality and the death of time" associated with the cyburbs. He mourns their loss. But Vitanza notes that Slouka himself is "a dead man writing! We are all dead men and women," he says, "flatliners, dead Humanists, writing and perhaps as strolling through a bad B-movie, which might get dis/entitled 'the night of the writing dead'" (78).

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