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Can we have a Cloud board about apples?
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01-04-1999 1:17pm#1
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Heathen!!
OK. Maybe Lord of the Rings was not a good start, so how about something a little closer to home?
Neuromancer by William Gibson.
Famed for his vision of the internet of the future, including the VR aspects Gibsons book is absolutely brilliant. He doesn't bother explaining every little word and phrase but lets the reader catch up in his own time. I'm reading it again for the third or fourth time (secondhand book but someone has underlined passages like they were writing a school project on it or something! Very annoying). Enough about the atmosphere! Just for you bubbles, I'll list the basics,
Sex - yes
Violence - yes
Computers - yes
Quakelike scenes of mass carnage - no
Concise enough?
Anyway, has anyone else read this book? Is his other book, Mona Lisa Overdrive any good? Any roleplayers out there who play Shadowrun or any Cyberpunk genre should definitely read Gibsons books (I'd actually be suprised if you have not already).
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I thought William Gibson was a bit of a
plonker who ripped his ideas from others.
Actually went to one of his book signings
with some other IRC heads and I wasn't
impressed with him at all.
Read SnowCrash, excellent book. Neal
Stephenson, much better Author IMHO
[This message has been edited by Hobbes (edited 08-04-99).]
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