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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
hahaha. I forgot. my mistake. I like 3 or 4 PKD books. his ideas were better than the writing.
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i agree. i think he’d agree if he was alive. had a bunch of alimonies to pay or something. wrote, knowingly, in a huge rush
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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
I stil contend william gibson is dull as fuck.
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contend all you want but neuromancer alone changed the landscape of the culture forever and helped science fiction break through to the mainstream like never before
sure he had cohorts and predecessors and all that context which should not be forgotten, but there was a before and an after him no doubt. and part of it was because he was hugely readable, not just smart.
plus at heart he’s a bit of a poet which made for his colorful images and vivid descriptions and all that. i mean. the first lines of neuromancer: “the sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel”. brilliant. you’re old enough to remember that picture so well (and the sound).
i contend that your doubling down on “boring” is boring