`It's not like I'm tooting,' Case heard someone say, as he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of the Chat. `It's like my body's developed this massive meme deficiency.' It was a Fediverse voice and a Fediverse joke. The Catsubo was an instance for professional shitposters; you could lurk there for a week and never see two words of Discourse.
@djsundog This was how William Gibson always intended it, but the technology he needed to bring it to life hadn't been invented yet.
@kara_dreamer @cute_weeds I enjoy most of his work for various bits and pieces but I don't think any will ever be able to supplant the OH moment that reading Neuromancer for the first time gave me so it kind of wind by default forever for me
@djsundog @kara_dreamer @cute_weeds yeah. i..... honestly like some of his later stuff.... better on their own terms...?
except that neuramance is still *neuromancer* and.... yeah, that biases things pretty heckin' hard.
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@kara_dreamer @djsundog Same. I don't even know if Neuromancer would hold up, but the magic of reading it when I was 16 is still there.
@kara_dreamer @djsundog @cute_weeds The Blue Ant trilogy is a surprisingly good series showing his skill at extrapolating into the near future, and parts of it sorta percolate in my brain from time to time (Cayce Pollard’s explanation of jet lag as your soul being unable to move as fast as a plane, for instance, enters my mind every time i fly)
@r4v5 @kara_dreamer @djsundog @cute_weeds the blue jean trilogy
@cute_weeds @djsundog ah, Gibson...did any of his later work really come up to "Neuromancer"? I followed him for a bit but nothing else he wrote really stuck with me.
doesn't matter, Gibson is still a minor hero to me (too bad the false prophet Stephenson came along to steal his glory)