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EDIT: Just read the updates on that post. Not sure there could be much of a review with a straight reading of Neuromancer...but it still sounds pretty damn cool.
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Ah, ask your parents. #neuromancer
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Little nervous about this. Dude's only done one feature, and it was Torque. Apparently, though, he's a major Blade Runner fan, so at least it will look interesting.
I'm also waiting for if and when it finally does come out for somebody to say "hey, this is just a ripoff of Strange Days and the Matrix! Cameron and the Wachowskis should sue!"
*cough* #neuromancer
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He was in town a couple years ago, and a friend wanted to take his DVD of the Matrix and get it autographed. I think Gibson would laugh. Maybe. #neuromancer
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Where's he buried?
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The line from Gibson about the Matrix was something like "it was a PKD story with Neuromancer's fashion sense." I think he's a little more stoical about it than Ellison was about Terminator. (at the very least the Wachowskis didn't go around bragging about how they stole the idea).
As well, if Gibson was indeed going to sue, he'd have to wait in line behind Grant Morrison and that lady who actually did sue. #neuromancer
11/17/09
[well it's Gibson, isn't it?]
I think he was always much more concious of his role in drawing on the cultural zeitgeist of '70s and '80s British tribal and punk ethos, that he had immersed himself in when he was a voracious reader of the NME (New Musical Express) and the cross cultural influences on that, from Japanese pop and pre-otaku subculture and Californian surfer, skater, tech and geek subcultures and the feedback loop between them all.
Now he can afford (morally, and hopefully financially) to just shrug and say to himself:
It was there at the start,
I was one of the first to realize it,
I was one of the first to write it,
In writing it I changed it,
I made it something more.
That's what's there at the start for others. #neuromancer
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I always thought the ending was more of a white-out kinda thing. #neuromancer
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amatures. #neuromancer
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Dirk is not an old-school hard-boiled gumshoe. The whole point is that he was kind of a hippie! And the same age as Richard, the ostensible protag of the first book. #dirkgentlysholisticdetectiveag...
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