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Random House LLC via Amazon.com has Virtual Light by William Gibson (Kindle eBook) on sale for $1.99. Thanks megakimcheelove
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Gibson's cyberpunk thriller is set in a near future L.A. The author of Neuromancer takes you to the vividly realized near future of 2005. Offer valid while promotion last - Discombobulated
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Amazon and Google Play Store have the Kindle /eBookversion of William Gibson's Virtual Light on sale for $1.99. While not as well known as Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive, this is an excellent piece of science fiction at a slick price.
https://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Li...B009Y4I3J8
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2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millenium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to
https://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Li...B009Y4I3J8
https://play.google.com/store/boo...YUGVbVUZY
2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. Here the millenium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to
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Give us some good book quotes, pleaseeee
"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times."
I absolutely adored Neuromancer, but didn't care as much for the sequels. How does this one compare?
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Ha ha ha.
This is a nearer-future world than Neuromancer -- much more recognizably extrapolated from our own -- but further down the road than Pattern Recognition, which takes place about six months from now. They all feature good plots, with Gibson's go-to "multiple separate stories that tie together near the climax" technique, and the techno-pop culture poetry of his language throughout.
I really dig the main characters of Berry and Chevette, and the setting is cool ... kind of a proto-Dark Angel (tv series *) dystopia, very late stage capitalism and post-industrial. There are the rich and the poor, with little in between, and the signposts between where we stand today and this place are clear and spaced pretty close together.
It reminds me of Stephenson's Snow Crash in the best way, but I don't think it's intentional. It's dryly funny as opposed to the broad hilarity of Snow Crash.
I just bought the series again in paperback, this time for my 16 y/o son because he was quite taken with Ready Player One and there are some similarities.
It's well worth a read (as is Idoru).
* Given the setting and the occupation of one of the main characters, Chevette Washington, it wouldn't at all surprise me to find the Dark Angel tv series was kind of inspired by/informed by this book.
This is a nearer-future world than Neuromancer -- much more recognizably extrapolated from our own -- but further down the road than Pattern Recognition, which takes place about six months from now. They all feature good plots, with Gibson's go-to "multiple separate stories that tie together near the climax" technique, and the techno-pop culture poetry of his language throughout.
I really dig the main characters of Berry and Chevette, and the setting is cool ... kind of a proto-Dark Angel (tv series *) dystopia, very late stage capitalism and post-industrial. There are the rich and the poor, with little in between, and the signposts between where we stand today and this place are clear and spaced pretty close together.
It reminds me of Stephenson's Snow Crash in the best way, but I don't think it's intentional. It's dryly funny as opposed to the broad hilarity of Snow Crash.
I just bought the series again in paperback, this time for my 16 y/o son because he was quite taken with Ready Player One and there are some similarities.
It's well worth a read (as is Idoru).
* Given the setting and the occupation of one of the main characters, Chevette Washington, it wouldn't at all surprise me to find the Dark Angel tv series was kind of inspired by/informed by this book.
Thanks. I haven't read Pattern Recognition, just the Spawl trilogy of Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
I love Neuromancer, and have re-read it and still find it amazing. I didn't enjoy Count Zero or Mona Lisa Overdrive nearly as much, and I honestly can't recall anything about the books now.
It's kind of how I enjoyed Snow Crash, but didn't really enjoy Cryptonomicon.
Since you seem to have read all the above and more, how would you say this compares to those? Would you recommend it to someone like me?
I love Neuromancer, and have re-read it and still find it amazing. I didn't enjoy Count Zero or Mona Lisa Overdrive nearly as much, and I honestly can't recall anything about the books now.
It's kind of how I enjoyed Snow Crash, but didn't really enjoy Cryptonomicon.
Since you seem to have read all the above and more, how would you say this compares to those? Would you recommend it to someone like me?
SInce you enjoyed Neuromancer so much, I'd also recommend:
SInce you enjoyed Neuromancer so much, I'd also recommend:
Thank you. I'll check those out. I'm actually in the middle of watching Altered Carbon and enjoying it so far, but I can see how a book could be better.