May 01
Max Bathroom comments: “The Raymond Chandler of SF”, my arse: Gibson’s blatantly doing Ian Fleming in this one.
Published 2000
(Average: 7.62 out of 10)
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Max Bathroom comments: “The Raymond Chandler of SF”, my arse: Gibson’s blatantly doing Ian Fleming in this one.
Published 2000
(Average: 7.62 out of 10)Loading...
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May 1st, 2023 at 10:01 am
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me out.
May 1st, 2023 at 10:40 am
Tony Iommi (or is it Slash) launches his new range off Kinder surprise.
May 1st, 2023 at 1:27 pm
I think we’ve found Christopher Walken’s Shaddam attire for Dune 2.
May 1st, 2023 at 1:40 pm
I think William Gibson is the William Gibson of sci-fi.
May 1st, 2023 at 4:10 pm
Given that the book details a literal war between the Goths and the Casuals, with tanks and everything, you’d think this dude would have either a Lacoste crocodile or Robert Smth hair.
William Gibson was the Gary Crowley of SF.
May 1st, 2023 at 4:11 pm
I’m getting Gary Oldman Dracula vibes
May 1st, 2023 at 4:55 pm
@Biblomancer: perhaps also a sprinkle of Baron Samedi from 007
@fred: completely distracted by the idea of Chris Walken in D2. Yay!!!
May 2nd, 2023 at 1:12 am
Damn, someone beat me to the Kinder Egg joke.
They weren’t counting on Cybersamedi! For a book in one of the founding series of cyberpunk, this doesn’t _look_ very cyberpunk: indeed, Hover Text Person [1] thinks it looks steam-punkish. One and a half out of four stars.
(Read “Neuromancer” last year, and it’s remarkable to see all the cyberpunk tropes it originates or gives a definite form to. I’ll probably be giving this one a look eventually, along with “Mona Lisa on Overdrive”, the three of them forming what’s called the “Sprawl Trilogy.”)
[1] I forget their name.
May 2nd, 2023 at 5:26 am
This is another bad cover for a good book. I mean… who thought this was a good idea (other than the artist who got paid for it).
Looks like he’s posing with a bunch of those clear balloons with toys in them. Why? I get the Baron Samedi look, voodoo’s important in the book.
But it don’t say “cyberpunk” at all.
May 2nd, 2023 at 6:36 am
@JuanPaul
Isn’t William Gibson the William Gibson of being William Gibson? Having invented an entire genre he has a multitude of imitators vying for the title of the William Gibson of SF.
May 2nd, 2023 at 12:05 pm
@Bruce A Munro
You shouldn’t let the godawful covers put you off: Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive are both better novels than Neuromancer, even if neither got the same attention.
May 2nd, 2023 at 5:57 pm
In a very 1990s touch the good Baron is wearing a utilikilt.
May 3rd, 2023 at 2:52 am
@Max: Agreed.
May 5th, 2023 at 7:53 pm
Count Zero says: Do NOT put Q-tips into your ear, they may cause SERIOUS damage.
May 5th, 2023 at 11:26 pm
@A.R.Yngve: that’s where the button to reset yourself to default settings is. Don’t reset yourself to default settings.