From Wikipedia
...The Wild Palms Reader was published by St. Martin's Press before the series aired. It included time lines, secret letters, and character biographies. ABC, concerned that viewers might get "hopelessly lost in the tangled story line", arranged for the primer to be published. It also included writing supposedly from the “world of the series." Contributors included:
Norman Spinrad - radical sci-fi writer of Bug Jack Barron
E. Howard Hunt - Nixon era scandal, writer of spy/sci-fi novels
William Gibson (who appears as himself in the series) - Poet
Brenda Laurel - Virtual reality consultant on the mini-series
Spain Rodriguez - Underground 60’s comics artist illustrates the Mimecom backstory
Hans Moravec - The science of Wild Palms, backdated to the 70’s and an email conversion between the fathers of two characters
looking forward to reading this...spinrad's an incredible (and neglected writer)...the men in the jungle's probably the best cannibalism story going and the iron dream's a hoot...still haven't read bug jack barron though...one day
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