Rheingold, Howard
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1947- ) US online entrepreneur, editor and author, whose fiction consists of two series: the Sisterhood sequence beginning with Mama Liz Drinks Deep (1973); and the Savage Report sequence, comprising Jack Anderson Against Dr Tek! (1974) and Savage Report #2: War of the Gurus (1974), a Near Future Satire recording the attempts of a conservative conspiracy to take over America. Much of his nonfiction popularizes advances in the internet; he may have invented the term "virtual community", and certainly immersed his readers in uplifting expectations of the new world to come in books like Virtual Reality (1991) (see Virtual Reality). [JC]
Howard E Rheingold
born Phoenix, Arizona: 7 July 1947
works
series
Sisterhood
- Mama Liz Drinks Deep (New York: Venus Freeway Press, 1973) [Sisterhood: hb/]
- Mama Liz Tastes Flesh (New York: Venus Freeway Press, 1973) [Sisterhood: hb/]
- Secret Sisterhood (New York: Venus Freeway Press, 1973) [Sisterhood: hb/]
Savage Report
- Jack Anderson Against Dr Tek!: 1994 (New York: Freeway Press, 1974) [a second title page gives "1994: The Savage Report": Savage Report: hb/Kelly Freas]
- War of the Gurus (New York: Freeway Press, 1974) [Savage Report: hb/Kelly Freas]
nonfiction (highly selected)
- Virtual Reality (New York: Summit Books, 1991) [nonfiction: hb/]
- The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (New York: HarperPerennial, 1993) [nonfiction: hb/]
- Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, Transforming Cultures and Communities in the Age of Instant Access (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus, 2002) [nonfiction: hb/]
works as editor
- The Everyone Can Build a Robot Book (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984) with Kendra R Bonnett and Gene Oldfield [nonfiction: pb/]
- The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools and Ideas (San Francisco, California: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994) [nonfiction: anth: pb/]
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