''Mondo 2000'' was a glossy

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published in

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during the 1980s and 1990s. It covered

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topics such as

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and smart drugs. It was a more anarchic and subversive prototype for the later-founded ''

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'' magazine.

History

''Mondo 2000'' originated as ''High Frontiers'' in 1984, edited by R. U. Sirius (pseudonym for Ken Goffman) with co-editor and publisher Morgan Russell. R. U. Sirius was succeeded as Editor-in-Chief by Alison Bailey Kennedy, a.k.a. "Queen Mu" and "Alison Wonderland". Sirius was joined by hacker

Jude Milhon Judith Milhon (March 12, 1939 – July 19, 2003), best known by her pseudonym St. Jude, was a self-taught programmer, civil rights advocate, writer, editor, advocate for women in computing, hacker and author in the San Francisco Bay Area. Milho ...

(a.k.a. St. Jude) as editor and the magazine was renamed ''Reality Hackers'' in 1988 to better reflect its drugs and computers theme. It changed title again to ''Mondo 2000'' in 1989. Art director and photographer Bart Nagel, a pioneer in

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, created the publication's elegantly

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aesthetic. R. U. Sirius left at the beginning of 1993, at about the same time as the launch of ''Wired''. The magazine continued until 1998, with the last issue being #17. ''Mondo 2000'' was relaunched as the

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''Mondo2000.com'' in August 2017.

Featured writers

Along with the print version of ''

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'' — with which ''Mondo 2000'' shared several writers, including

Mark Frauenfelder Mark Frauenfelder (born November 22, 1960) is an American blogger, illustrator, and journalist. He was editor-in-chief of the magazine '' MAKE'' and is co-owner of the collaborative weblog ''Boing Boing''. Along with his wife, Carla Sinclair, he ...

, Richard Kadrey, Gareth Branwyn, and

Jon Lebkowsky Jon Lebkowsky (born April 20, 1949) is an American web consultant/developer, author, and activist who was the co-founder of FringeWare Review (along with Paco Nathan). FringeWare, an early attempt at ecommerce and online community An o ...

— ''Mondo 2000'' helped develop what was to become the

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. Writers included

William Gibson William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his ear ...

, Nan C. Druid (pseudonym for Maerian Morris), Paco Nathan,

Rudy Rucker Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (; born March 22, 1946) is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known f ...

Bruce Sterling Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the ''Mirrorshades'' anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre. Sterling's first ...

, Tiffany Lee Brown, Andrew Hultkrans,

Mark Dery Mark Dery (born December 24, 1959)''Contemporary Authors Online'', s.v. "Mark Dery" (accessed February 12, 2008). is an American writer, lecturer and cultural critic. An early observer and critic of online culture, he helped to popularize the ter ...

Douglas Rushkoff Douglas Mark Rushkoff (born February 18, 1961) is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture and his advocacy of open-source ...

Mark Pesce Mark D. Pesce ( ; born 1962) is an American-Australian author, researcher, engineer, futurist and teacher. Early life Pesce was born in Everett, Massachusetts in 1962. In September 1980, Pesce attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M ...

, and

Robert Anton Wilson Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American writer, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic. Recognized within Discordianism as an Episkopos, pope and saint, Wilson ...

. Writers contributing since the 2017 relaunch include

John Higgs John Higgs is an English writer, novelist, journalist and cultural historian. The work of Higgs has been published in the form of novels (under the pseudonym JMR Higgs), biographies and works of cultural history. In particular, Higgs has writt ...

John Shirley John Shirley (born February 10, 1953) is an American writer, primarily of horror, fantasy, science fiction, noir fiction, westerns, and songwriting. He has also written one historical novel, a western about Wyatt Earp, ''Wyatt in Wichita'', and ...

, Giulio Prisco, Hyun Yi Kang, Woody Evans, Michael Pinchera,

, Prop Anon, R.U. Sirius, and interviews with

and

Grant Morrison Grant Morrison (born 31 January 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer, screenwriter, and producer. Their work is known for its nonlinear narratives, Humanism, humanist philosophy and counterculture, countercultural leanings. Morrison has writt ...

Publications

* ''Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge'' Rudy Rucker, R.U. Sirius, Queen Mu ()

References

External links

2017 Relaunch

Mondo 2000 History Project
at

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Mondo2000.net

Acceler8or
RU Sirius blog ca. 2011-2012 *
Acceler8or Mondo 2000 archive

by Jack Boulware. (1995) ''SF Weekly'' / ''Suck'' article. *
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History

Featured writers

Publications

See also

References

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