Editing Mondo 2000

{{Short description|Culture Magazine}}
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{{Infobox magazine
| title           = Mondo 2000
| image_file      = File:MONDO_2000_Issue_14_Spring,_Summer_1995_cover.jpg
| image_caption   = Issue 14 cover
| publisher       = Fun City MegaMedia
| editor          = [[R. U. Sirius]]
| editor2         = [[Jude Milhon]]
| editor3         = Alison Bailey Kennedy
| firstdate       = 1984
| finaldate       = 1998
| finalnumber     = 17
| country         = [[United States]]
| based           = [[Berkeley, California]]
| language        = English
}}
'''''Mondo 2000''''' was a glossy [[cyberculture]] [[magazine]] published in [[California]] during the 1980s and 1990s. It covered [[cyberpunk]] topics such as [[virtual reality]] and [[nootropic|smart drugs]]. It was a more anarchic and subversive prototype for the later-founded ''[[Wired magazine|Wired]]'' magazine.<ref name=Mondo1995>
{{cite web
|url=http://www.suck.com/daily/95/11/07/mondo1995.html
|title=Mondo 1995: Up and Down With the Next Millennium's First Magazine
|last=Boulware
|first=Jack
|date=November 7, 1995
|website=Suck
|publisher=SF Weekly
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120190309/http://www.suck.com/daily/95/11/07/mondo1995.html
|archive-date=November 20, 2018
|url-status=dead
}}
</ref>

==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".<ref>Kennedy is also known for her theories concerning the use of [[bufotenin]] by the ancient [[Olmec]] of [[Mesoamerica]].  See {{cite journal |author=Kennedy, A.B. |title=''Ecce Bufo'': The Toad in Nature and in Olmec Iconography |journal=Current Anthropology |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=273–90 |year=1982 |doi=10.1086/202831|s2cid=143698915 }}.</ref>

Sirius was joined by hacker [[Jude Milhon]] (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 [[Photoshop]] [[collage]], created the publication's elegantly [[surrealism|surrealist]] 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 [[blog]] ''Mondo2000.com'' in August 2017.

==Featured writers==
Along with the print version of ''[[Boing Boing]]'' &mdash; with which ''Mondo 2000'' shared several writers, including [[Mark Frauenfelder]], [[Richard Kadrey]], [[Gareth Branwyn]], and [[Jon Lebkowsky]] &mdash; ''Mondo 2000'' helped develop what was to become the [[cyberpunk]] [[subculture]]. Writers included [[William Gibson]], Nan C. Druid (pseudonym for Maerian Morris), [[Paco Nathan]], [[Rudy Rucker]], [[Bruce Sterling]], [[Tiffany Lee Brown]], Andrew Hultkrans, [[Mark Dery]], [[Douglas Rushkoff]], [[Mark Pesce]], and [[Robert Anton Wilson]].

Writers contributing since the 2017 relaunch include [[John Higgs]], [[John Shirley]], [[Giulio Prisco]], [[Hyun Yi Kang]], [[Woody Evans]], [[Michael Pinchera]], [[Rudy Rucker]], [[Prop Anon]], [[R.U. Sirius]], and interviews with [[Douglas Rushkoff]] and [[Grant Morrison]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Archive|url=http://www.mondo2000.com/archive/}}</ref>

==Publications==
* ''Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge'' Rudy Rucker, R.U. Sirius, Queen Mu ({{ISBN|0-06-096928-8}})

==See also==
*[[Gracie and Zarkov]]
*[[Kenneth Newby]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.mondo2000.com 2017 Relaunch]
* [https://archive.org/details/mondohistory Mondo 2000 History Project] at [[Archive.org]]
* [http://www.mondo2000.net Mondo2000.net]
* [http://www.acceler8or.com/ Acceler8or] RU Sirius blog ca. 2011-2012
** [http://www.acceler8or.com/tags/mondo-2000/ Acceler8or Mondo 2000 archive]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080924075541/http://www.suck.com/daily/95/11/07/mondo1995.html Mondo 1995: Up and Down With the Next Millennium's First Magazine], by [[Jack Boulware]]. (1995) ''SF Weekly'' / ''Suck'' article.
* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20080904213143/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,312487,00.html Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge]", by [[Tim Appelo]]. (1992)  ''Entertainment Weekly'' magazine review.

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