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Posted by imcvspl, Mon Dec-01-14 12:30 PM
>Question, which other Gibson book would you recommend. I
>finished Neuromancer recently, and that book really deserves
>all the love it gets. I appreciated how much space male and
>female voices got within the text and how Gibson, at least,
>attempted to have ethnic or an international feel to the
>narrative, in particular in 1984, when sci-fi was still very
>white.

All of the eraly cyberpunk ones are good so if you dug Neuromancer definitely go for Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, etc.

Distrust That Particular Flavor his nonfiction book is definitely worth reading for some perspective stuff. I particularly love his reconciling his cyberpunk days with the newer stuff, and in that regard I think the newer stuff is well up to par. In particular All Tommorrow's Parties and Idoru.

One thing about Gibson and which he notes when talking about cyberpunk in hindsight is that they all date themselves really quickly. But he sort of embraces that.

I just shot you an inbox if you want to move the writing talk to other channels so as not to go too far off topic here.


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