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Damien Broderick
Australian writer
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- born
- 1944
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 80
- known for
- novelist, writer, science fiction writer
1944 β 2025
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who damien broderick is
Damien Francis Broderick was an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 74 books. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction credits him with the first usage of the term virtual reality in science fiction, in his 1982 novel The Judas Mandala.
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