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Click for larger imageMax Bathroom comments: What do you mean, photo covers don’t work for cyberpunk novels?
Published 1994
(Average: 8.57 out of 10)
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Max Bathroom comments: What do you mean, photo covers don’t work for cyberpunk novels?
Published 1994
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September 28th, 2020 at 9:16 am
It’s rare that the people responsible for a book cover get such large credits just below the author’s name.
September 28th, 2020 at 9:58 am
“You’re not a teenager anymore, mom!”
September 28th, 2020 at 11:08 am
Worst. Cyberspace. Ever.
GSS, @ A.R. Yngve.
September 28th, 2020 at 12:03 pm
Was the sequel called “Fools: I Shall Destroy Them All!”?
September 28th, 2020 at 12:17 pm
The color coded lines got jumbled up at the printers and the title seems to have disappeared.
September 28th, 2020 at 12:20 pm
I pity whoever made this cover. (Yeah, I know that’s from the 80s but that’s where this cover is stuck. Not that it would have been acceptable even then, merely excusable.)
September 28th, 2020 at 4:48 pm
The return of Bimbo Akimbo.
September 28th, 2020 at 7:36 pm
@Francis Boyle: so you pity the fools?
September 28th, 2020 at 7:48 pm
“Those aren’t the Virtual Reality glasses, mom. That’s the RoboVac and it’s about to suck your eyes out!”
September 30th, 2020 at 4:39 am
OMG.
I am slightly acquainted with Pat and I can hear her cursing and then cackling at this. She has a great cackle. Last time I saw her she greeted me with “(real name) how the hell are ya?”
She is much better than this. I’m sure she had many interesting things to say about this in 1991.
@ARY: GSS!!!
October 16th, 2020 at 4:52 am
Another reason to love Pat:
Cory Doctorow blithered breathlessly this week on Tor.com about cyberpunk then and now, name-dropping madly and pontificating wildly.
The second comment was:
“2. Pat Cadigan
Cyberpunk and technology––it all sounds so interesting. Are there any women?”
Since of course she was writing while Cory was in short pants.
No emoji, no “hey what about me”, no “your article is a sausage fest”. Just perfection.
Comment #4 mentioned one of her novels. Not this one.
October 16th, 2020 at 7:15 am
@GSS ex-noob: heh.
Alas, much of the SF commentariat suffers from a curious form of retrograde amnesia: works by female authors and fans mysteriously vanish from their memories after about 20 years, so women writing fantasy/SF is always a recent phenomenon. (JK Rowling is the first important female fantasy writer, for instance).
October 17th, 2020 at 12:16 am
@Bruce: someone responded, rightly, that the percentage of women in computer sciences has gone down; the boys, especially libertarian techbros, are afraid of girl cooties and put up a NO GURLZ ALLOWED sign on their clubhouse.
October 23rd, 2020 at 4:43 pm
@GSS
That vile “sad puppies” fiasco that was staged to mess up the Hugo nominations at a couple of WorldCons probably didn’t help any either.
October 24th, 2020 at 4:16 am
All part and parcel of the same strain. Insecure man-boys having sadfeels that women aren’t always second-class citizens. (see also: Party, Republican)
November 2nd, 2020 at 2:17 am
Go find some Pat Cadigan books. Read them. She is very good.
She’s also got terminal cancer so could probably use the royalties.
And know that women were writing kickass cyberpunk good and early.
(Obligatory snark: Art directors in the early ’90s had very strange ideas of where computers would take us. The woman on the cover appears to have got her head stuck in a bit of styrofoam packing. Also, watch out for cybergoldfish.)