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Angel: Connor, this is Spike and Illyria. Guys, this is Connor. Connor: Hi. umm...I like your outfit. Illyria: Your body warms. This one is lusting after me. Connor: Oh...no, I--I--it's just that it's the outfit. I guess I've had a thing for older women. Angel: They were supposed to fix that.

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Discussion Threads

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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DavidS - Aug 08, 2007 10:21:00 am PDT #3636 of 28290

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I've read Bear's Blood Music. Creepy and weird. But very good.

Yeah, Blood Music is excellent. But it's not a book I'd reread.

Whereas, like Jessica, I'd gladly reread Queen of Angels because I really enjoyed being in that world.

Got any used bookstores nearby, MM?

Laga - Aug 08, 2007 10:26:02 am PDT #3637 of 28290

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Man we've got Arthurian legends going in the Harry Potter thread and cyber punks going in here. It's just too much for me! I'll be in my bunk.

Miracleman - Aug 08, 2007 10:34:24 am PDT #3638 of 28290

No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

Got any used bookstores nearby, MM?

Yeah. I'll have to put that one on my list.

Polter-Cow - Aug 08, 2007 10:44:09 am PDT #3639 of 28290

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Man we've got Arthurian legends going in the Harry Potter thread and cyber punks going in here.

I should combine the two and be a revolutionary.

Laga - Aug 08, 2007 10:49:57 am PDT #3640 of 28290

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Well there was this.

Atropa - Aug 08, 2007 10:51:35 am PDT #3641 of 28290

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I'm the only person I know of with ovaries who doesn't love The Diamond Age.

There are bits of The Diamond Age that I adore (go on, guess which ones), but for the most part I prefer Gibson to Stephenson. I re-read Idoru the other week, and damn if it wasn't eerily spot-on about what certain aspects of media fandom have become.

DavidS - Aug 08, 2007 10:52:41 am PDT #3642 of 28290

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Well there was this.

Heh - that's where I went too.

Laga - Aug 08, 2007 10:57:03 am PDT #3643 of 28290

You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Not exactly cyber punk but it has... um... been in my bunk.

Jessica - Aug 08, 2007 11:11:28 am PDT #3644 of 28290

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I re-read Idoru the other week, and damn if it wasn't eerily spot-on about what certain aspects of media fandom have become.

Oh, so true! I should reread that.

Volans - Aug 08, 2007 11:21:38 am PDT #3645 of 28290

move out and draw fire

Yeah, I didn't love Idoru or Virtual Light, but I'm thinking I should re-read both.

Walter Jon Williams' Hardwired is also pretty good cyberpunk.

We did an awesome two-session RPG of this, and with Cowboy being played by an actual human, it worked. Man that was a good game.

I quit keeping up with Gibson's blog at some point. Must go look again.

What about Morgan ( Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies )? Cyberpunk? Cybernoir? SciFiNoir? Dystopian?

I've never fallen for Greg Bear, despite multiple attempts, but I've never attempted Queen of Angels. Maybe I should.

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