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.
And don't you ever stand for that sort of thing. Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back! ... You got the right same as anyone to live and try to kill people.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Laga - Aug 08, 2007 10:26:02 am PDT #3637 of 28200
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Miracleman - Aug 08, 2007 10:34:24 am PDT #3638 of 28200
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 28200
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 28200
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 28200
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 28200
"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 28200
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 28200
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 28200
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.
Liese S. - Aug 08, 2007 11:56:13 am PDT #3646 of 28200
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hee. I posted earlier that I wondered what you all thought of Idoru and its take on fandom and media. Then I got all thinky and deleted it, thinking I'd reform the question later, with references to Pattern Recognition. Then I remembered that I had one more Pepperidge Farm Raspberry Milano cookie, and all else was forgotten. Nom nom nom.