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.
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'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."
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
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.
DavidS - Aug 09, 2007 10:59:52 am PDT #3653 of 28200
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Does this jog your memory?
The novel is cast in a favorite traditional form for children's fantasy: Edward and Eleanor Hall, a pair of children in Concord, Mass. (circa 1962), discover a secret attic room in Uncle Freddy's big old house on Walden Street. The room contains a cryptical poem tantamount to a treasure map, and a variety of antique toys that draw them into an eerie and fantastic otherworld that continually impinges on this one through visions, through dreams, and through encounters bizarre and grotesque. There is a haunted harp, a spectral nautilus shell, an evil jack-in-the box, a magic mirror, a missing Prince Krishna of Mandracore . . . and permeating everything, references and reverberations of the Transcendentalists: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Over-Soul. I managed to forget most of the literary references in the 30 or so years since I first read this book, but I have never forgotten the nautilus.