Tag: William Gibson
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Burning Chrome
Review: This is one of my rare re-reads and it was by design, not something that I read and halfway through figured that I had actually read this before. I did that with a few, remember that 25 years of this reading journal was read through a vodka filter. I first discovered William Gibson when… Read more
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Cyberpunk
Review: Excellent anthology from the best Cyberpunk notables from the last 40 years. 40 years, seriously it’s been that long since the genre was introduced in Omni magazine. Some old favorites here, and ones that are often hard to find like Mozart in Mirrorshades by Bruce Sterling. As I was reading it I observed to… Read more
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Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
Review: Superb. An extraordinary collection of SF stories. At first, I didn’t see how they were post CP and not just straight CP. But after awhile, I saw how they differed, some by a lot, others just a subtle distinction. Gibson and Sterling’s stories were two of their finest, and that’s saying something. The final… Read more
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Pattern Recognition
Review: This is a book that has not aged well. Set in the present, which is 2003, it struggles to appear futuristic with the technology of the time. I lived in that time, and I prophesied that we were getting there, but not there yet. CD-ROMS, limited to what a CD could hold, and a… Read more