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1. Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2017 23:22:16 UTC Bob Mottram
   I read Neuromancer when I was in my late teens, and I thought it was ok. Unlike the golden era sci-fi writers who wrote in a very bland matter-of-fact style, Gibson also had poetical elements.
   
   Today I think I live in the cyberpunk world of the 1980s writers. We don't have Wintermute yet or the brain interfaces (not very good ones anyway), but pretty much everything else arrived as predicted.
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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2017 00:21:20 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @bob I read Neuromancer in my early teens and I thought it was nothing short of AMAZEBALLS. So many concepts and such an exotic plot that took you not just through cyberspace but also orbital space. And all the psychological manipulation and the sex and the drugs, the confusion of what's real and what's virtual, I had never read anything like it*.
     
     I worry that if I read it today it would feel clichéd, which would be unfair, because it would be like calling Tolkien run-of-the-mill fantasy.
     
     Uh-huh, dwarves and elves, wizards and gods? I've seen all that before. Ancient artifact, the Age of Men, blah blah.
     
     AIs trying to leave their confined realm? Give me a break. Matrix did it. GitS did it.
     
     Not in 1984 they didn't.
     
     * A couple of years later of course I read "Illuminatus!" and since then every other book feels bland and linear. :-D
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2017 00:29:32 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @deejoe @bob I really should read more Herbert.