You might like to see my post regarding Linda Nagata's Atriums at
http://www.lucifer.com/exi-lists/extropians.96/0246.html
<Linda Nagata's 1995 novel "The Bohr Maker" describes an artificial
organ called an 'attrium' grown by nanotech 'makers' in human brains to
provide direct immersion in virtual realities, communications on the Net
and remote sensing by linking to similarly augmented people, animals and
mechanical sensors at distant locations.>
and also Anders Sandberg's response at
http://www.lucifer.com/exi-lists/extropians.96/0259.html
Damien Broderick wrote:
<... my March '97 science fiction novel from Avon, THE WHITE ABACUS.
(BTW, I don't write `sci-fi', and neither do Swanwick or Simmons. We
write sf.)>
I just ordered it from Amazon.
(Noting most other DB titles there are 'special order' or 'hard to
find'.
You guys keep writing the sf and we'll keep reading the sci-fi (-: )
Mark