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27 Apr
Neal Stephenson wins contest he didn't even enter

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SCI FI WRITER WINS PRIZE CREATED FOR ONLINE VISUAL ARTISTS
By-passing 250 official entries in the Internet category of the Prix Ars
Electronica international computer-arts competition sponsored by the
Austrian Broadcasting Company, the jurors gave the prize to science fiction
author Neal Stephenson ("Snow Crash" and "Cryptonomicon'), who didn't even
enter the contest and isn't even a visual artist.  One juror said
off-the-record: "It was a good way to make the comment that the work we
were seeing wasn't as original, and also to credit Neal Stephenson because
he's directly inspired so many developers." (New York Times 27 Apr 2000)

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