Tuesday, April 18, 2017

neuromancer

Liked it just fine as a thriller. Made me curious to learn more about his vision and its impact; in the Kindle edition there's a postscript, written by another sci-fi author, about how influential Gibson was on the early development of the internet. Haven't finished that, partly because the author waxes a bit too rhapsodic for my taste. 35 years is long enough to make pretty much any kind of futurism seem quaint, but thinking about his vision of cyberspace as a metaphor is still compelling and relevant. Pretty amazing in that sense.

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