Science Fiction Hall Of Fame: William Gibson And Rod Serling, Together At Last

Spook Country author William Gibson and Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling will be turned into life-size animatronic statues, which at some point will gain sentience and battle to the death. At least, that'll be the case if the Science Fiction Hall Of Fame is as animatronic-happy as the Rock'n'Roll Hall Of Fame, which it really should be. The two will be honored, along with Betty and Ian Ballantine and weird cyber-artist Richard M. Powers, at the Sky Church in Seattle on June 21, at a ceremony hosted by Connie Willis (Doomsday Book). [Big Dumb Object]

2:14 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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dumanue at 03:03 PM on 05/02/08
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William Gibson is finally due for recognition...

Now if only they wouldnt fuck up Neuromancer the movie as they're fucking it up right now, I would be a happy man...
workingonyourinvoice at 05:07 PM on 05/02/08
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@dumanue: Who's fucking up Neuromancer??!

/Rolls up sleeves
workingonyourinvoice at 05:13 PM on 05/02/08
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/Returns from CHUD

DAMNIT.
dumanue at 05:14 PM on 05/02/08
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@workingonyourinvoice: oh you didnt know? theyre making a Neuromancer movie scheduled for release 2009, but you should see who the producers got for directing the movie and who they hired to play Case...

It's a travesty I tell you...first they ruined Johnny Mnemonic and now theyre ruining Neuromancer...

[www.imdb.com]
braak at 08:09 PM on 05/02/08
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Connectedness Index: 990

Oh, holy shit this headline gave me a heart attack.

I thought you were going to say that William Gibson was dead.
Silver_Back at 11:50 PM on 05/02/08
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@dumanue: You're kidding me! D:<
Silver_Back at 11:51 PM on 05/02/08
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*looks at IMDB* WHAT!?!?! Case is being played by.....!! O_o *faints*
dumanue at 03:14 AM on 05/03/08
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@Silver_Back: yup yup, sorry to get you all worked up but its all true...

whoever is producing the movie needs to be shot on the spot :/
royen at 03:48 AM on 05/03/08
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Guy: - I wish... that... someone would make a Neuromancer movie!
Genie: - Done!
Guy: - Great... Wait, what? That's not what I wished for!
Genie: - You should have been more specific.
workingonyourinvoice at 02:05 PM on 05/03/08
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chris Cunningham where are you when we need you most????!!
Torley at 04:05 PM on 05/03/08
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@workingonyourinvoice: WISE. I was gonna say that too, the first time I heard echoes of that... like, what, 7 years ago? While kinda big-screen untested like a Blomkamp-directed Halo, I had faith in Cunningham's vision. I was quasi-secretly hoping Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) would do the soundtrack, too.

Then again, given the non-events thus far, more's subject to change!

Now, if only we could find out whatever happened the lost Philip K. Dick android.
oldandintheway at 06:52 PM on 05/03/08
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Whats the big deal about Neuromancer...anyway???
dumanue at 09:38 PM on 05/03/08
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@oldandintheway: Whats the big deal about neuromancer? are you kidding me? one great work of cyberpunk noir fiction...

maybe Philip K. Dick was one of the founding fathers of scifi and cyberpunk, but William created the dark dystopian noir style...he was the one that put the punk in cyber and I think the one who coined the internet as the matrix...way before there even was an internet...
lazyeight at 07:32 AM on 05/05/08
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Just reread Neuromancer this weekend for the nth time. A question to ya'll...Molly said her former lover, Johnny, rented space in his head. Is he THE J. Mnemonic, or is there another story I'm missing.
snodipous at 08:30 AM on 05/05/08
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@lazyeight:
Yes.

All that talk about the yakuza catching up with them and getting revenge was in reference to Johnny Mnemonic. The story, not the movie, of course.
Cin at 08:45 AM on 05/05/08
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@lazyeight: In the short story anthology Burning Chrome, 3 stories take place in the Sprawl, the same setting for the Neuromancer Trilogy.

1. Burning Chrome (about Case's mentors)
2. New Rose Hotel (also made into a terrible movie... but it had Chris Walken in it so it's ok)
3. Johnny Mnemonic

And yes, Molly Millions, Sally Sheers, etc, they're all the same woman. The storyline of Johnny Mnemonic matches the backstory that Molly briefly mentions in Neuromancer perfectly, thereby giving the unfortunate epilogue to the short story.