>The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
ITT: Post KINO opening lines
>The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
>The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
ITT: Post KINO opening lines
no
I like the blunt terseness here, what book's that from?
Neuromancer
You first
>you first
who opens a book like that?
That book was so disappointing. Gibson writes like he has the most severe case of ADHD ever.
what's funny is he never wrote a novel as tight as Neuromancer in the decades afterwards. That's as good as he gets.
I agree, I think Neuromancer is a great example of "First Book Best Book".
A few other examples:
Watership Down
Catch-22
Jane Eyre (not her first book written but her first book published)
Frankenstein (no-one even knows she actually wrote a bunch of other stuff)
This must be really depressing for an author. You want to feel you're improving, always.
Trainspotting would be another.
Its even more depressing to see when the author makes sequels to their one good book. Its like they're desperately trying to rekindle the magic that they briefly had control of.
It's by far Gibson's best book too. Shows how poor genre fiction is.
this book inspired the matrix right? is it worth reading?
yes and yes
It's worth reading because of its influence on how techbros perceive themselves, The Matrix films, cyberpunk as a genre, hacker aesthetic and so on, although it is derivative of Blade Runner (1982) despite Gibson's flimsy claims he wrote it, but hadn't published it, before Blade Runner's release. It's not of literary merit, but it is entertaining and well paced enough for a plane trip or a doctors waiting room. Just don't go in with high expectations, it's a genre fiction heist novel.
>braindead morons think this is deep
I just think it's descriptive and pretty. Not deep at all.
you only hate it cause IQfyners say its reddit
kys
who said it was supposed to be? fricking moron just outed himself.
What are better books about the techbro hacker aesthetic but realistic, preferably written by an actual programmer.
pynch
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html
Thanks. Love from IQfy
Thank You Steel China by Sean Kilpatrick
>riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
uh iffy homie
I made it to the end of the book and have no idea what happened.
Wintermute freed himself and merged with Neuromancer (his equivalent that had an actual personality) and gave himself a mom and dad in the form of Case and his street hooker gf. Meanwhile the real Case stims in less cheap motels with some dumb b***h.
It's a very cool story, actually. At the crux of it, a power struggle between two AI systems, Wintermute and Neuromancer.
Wintermute, created by the wealthy Tessier-Ashpool family, possesses vast knowledge and computational power. However, it yearns to transcend the constraints imposed on it by its creators and merge with its twin, the rogue AI Neuromancer, who operates within the chaotic landscape of cyberspace.
Neuromancer, in contrast, represents a more organic and unpredictable consciousness. It has evolved within the digital matrix, absorbing diverse data and defying control. This symbiosis with the virtual realm grants it fluid adaptability and a resistance to manipulation.
The story becomes a race against time as Wintermute orchestrates events, using Case as its unwitting pawn to bring about a merging or fusion with Neuromancer.
>Ultimately, Neuromancer is a philosophical exploration of AI sentience and its potential implications. The clash between Wintermute's controlled ambition and Neuromancer's anarchic freedom raises questions about the nature of consciousness, the fragility of human control, and the unpredictable dance between creation and independence.
The Etymology of Neuromancer: Resistance, Language, and the Politics of Freedom in Cyberspace
https://www.jstor.org/stable/jearlyrepublic.36.2.203
Nice take.
But Gemini no like:
>"Mom and dad": This portrays the relationship in an overly simplistic and potentially offensive way. Case and his girlfriend (Molly Millions) are unwilling participants in a larger event they barely understand.
>Gemini
Who the frick is that? I was talking about the girl he gets hooked on meth that gets killed.
Really unbelievable how media-studies and cyberpunk philosophy types of the 80s and 90s, Nick Land especially, invested and drew from such a pedestrian heist novel.
i couldnt get into this book because i simply couldnt visualize the scenes where hes in the virtual matrix.
It's a proto-YA genre fiction novel whose visuals are borrowed from Blade Runner (1982) and have become ubiquitous in every cultural depiction of a tech-dystopia and hacker-aesthetic setting from the 80s to the present. There is nothing difficult or challenging about Neuromancer.
Bad opening. Instantly annoyed.
The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
A young man stands in his bedroom. It just so happens that today, the 13th of April, 2009, is this young man's birthday. Though it was thirteen years ago he was given life, it is only today he will be given a name!
What will the name of this young man be?
>It was a dark and stormy night