Not exactly cyber punk but it has... um... been in my bunk.
Oh, no, oh, no! Spontaneous poetic exclamations. Lord, spare me college boys in love.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
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 10:57:03 am PDT #3643 of 28200
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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.
DavidS - Aug 08, 2007 12:11:11 pm PDT #3647 of 28200
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've never fallen for Greg Bear, despite multiple attempts, but I've never attempted Queen of Angels. Maybe I should.
It's different, I think, from his other work. Very readable and engaging.
beth b - Aug 08, 2007 1:14:30 pm PDT #3648 of 28200
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Some greg Bear I like - aome I don't . Haven't read Queen of Angels . Looking forward to it now.
Virtual Light is my favorite Gibson. I think Pattern Recognition is next. I'm the oddball that didn't get much out of Neromancer
Cashmere - Aug 08, 2007 4:50:46 pm PDT #3649 of 28200
Now tagless for your comfort.
Spook Country is still listed as "processing" at my library, but I've got it on reserve. I'll have to pick up Blood Music, too.
Consuela - Aug 08, 2007 8:36:49 pm PDT #3650 of 28200
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I loved Pattern Recognition; picked it up after Micole recommended it a while back. He's got the best handle of the online social dynamic of any writer I've seen (in a fictional setting, anyway).
DavidS - Aug 09, 2007 10:56:20 am PDT #3651 of 28200
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Anybody ever read The Diamond in the Window by Jane Langton?
sumi - Aug 09, 2007 10:59:11 am PDT #3652 of 28200
Art Crawl!!!
I think I did. . . the title at least is familiar to me but it must have been a long, long time ago.