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"A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he’d taken and the corners he’d cut in Night City, and still he’d see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void . . . The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Paci ic now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like live wire voodoo and he’d cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled in his capsule in some cof in hotel, his hands clawed into the bedslab, temper foam bunched between his ingers, trying to reach the console that wasn’t there." "At first, f inding himself alone in Chiba, with little money and less hope of inding a cure, he’d gone into a kind of terminal overdrive, hustling fresh capital with a cold intensity that had seemed to belong to someone else. In the irst month, he’d killed two men and a woman over sums that a year before would have seemed ludicrous. Ninsei wore him down until the street itself came to seem the externalization of some death wish, some secret poison he hadn’t known he carried. Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button. Stop hustling and you sank without a trace, but move a little too swiftly and you’d break the fragile surface tension of the black market; either way, you were gone, with nothing left of you but some vague memory in the mind of a ixture like Ratz, though heart or lungs or kidneys might survive in the service of some stranger with New Yen for the clinic tanks." "Case was twenty-four. At twenty-two, he’d been a cowboy a rustler, one of the best in the Sprawl. He’d been trained by the best, by McCoy Pauley and Bobby Quine, legends in the biz. He’d operated on an almost permanent adrenaline high, a byproduct of youth and pro iciency, jacked into a custom cyberspace deck that projected his disembodied consciousness into the con sensual hallucination that was the matrix. A thief he’d worked for other, wealthier thieves, employers who provided the exotic software required to penetrate the bright walls of corporate systems, opening windows into rich ields of data. He’d made the classic mistake, the one he’d sworn he’d never make. He stole from his employers. He kept something for himself and tried to move it through a fence in Amsterdam. He still wasn’t sure how he’d been discovered, not that it mattered now. He’d expected to die, then, but they only smiled. Of course he was welcome, they told him, welcome to the money. And he was going to need it. Because—still smiling— they were going to make sure he never worked again. They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin." Check it out man, it's totally in space. Blew my load when I read it. It's all cyberspace, and internet and stuff, nerd. Any other cool sci-fi books you guys know other than the matrix? 
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I would argue this is, technically speaking, the "chillest" book:
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Aug 18, 2014 18:36
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any fly razorgirls out there in the wide world of tomorrowland, holla back. i got 256mb of indo and a post-punk mixtape.
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Aug 18, 2014 18:37
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there's pretty much only one book that any one needs, and that book is "a confederacy of dunces" read that, and you'll agree.
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Aug 18, 2014 18:38
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snow crash was better imo opinion
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Aug 18, 2014 18:40
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i liked the part in snow crash where griffith park is full of drugged up cultists. deffo an improvement over rich horse owners.
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Aug 18, 2014 18:41
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I started reading the second book after neuromancer case zero or whatever and it doesnt seem good. Does it get good?
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Aug 18, 2014 18:41
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i find that the chillest books are the ones with pictures of dogs on the cover unless its a jack london book where some man inevitably has to eat his own arm or something
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Aug 18, 2014 18:42
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Thanks op gonna cruise through this while chillin on dat blue dream.
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Aug 18, 2014 18:46
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Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:there's pretty much only one book that any one needs, and that book is "a confederacy of dunces" read that, and you'll agree. I've read that, and I don't agree. It's funny, and Ignatius is a good character, but overall it's kind of messy and some of the humor in the non-Ignatius scenes is kind of bad.
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Aug 18, 2014 18:46
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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” it's meant to be analogue static. it's dark and rainy. grey. overcast. but nowadays if you tune a digital tv to a dead channel you just get a uniform, unbroken cheerful blue makes u think
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Aug 18, 2014 18:49
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scalded schlong posted:“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” only if you are young.
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Aug 18, 2014 18:51
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killaer posted:I started reading the second book after neuromancer case zero or whatever and it doesnt seem good. Does it get good? I like Count Zero better than Neuromancer in some ways, but it's also chiller than Neuromancer. It's more laid back drama and less crazy poo poo happening constantly. Some poo poo still happens though. edit: Basically if what you liked about Neuromancer was razorgirls fighting cloned ninjas and hackers flying through cyberspace, you might not like Count Zero as much. If you what you liked about Neuromancer was transhumanist themes, Count Zero is just as good. Snak fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Aug 18, 2014 22:42
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i liked Ice T and the dolphn hacking the gibson writes good books
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Aug 18, 2014 22:46
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If you haven't read Neuromancer yet, here's a step-by-step on what you should do: 1. Don't read Neuromancer. 2. Read Snow Crash instead. 3. When you finish Snow Crash, forget about the entire cyberpunk genre. If you read anything by Gibson after reading Snow Crash, you'll be disappointed.
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Aug 18, 2014 22:58
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Gibson signed my copy of Neuromancer. It was great because now it is signed, and I learned on that day how much he hates talking about Neuromancer.
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Aug 18, 2014 23:15
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i feel sorry for gibson. reality ruined his writing career has anyone read spook?
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Aug 18, 2014 23:16
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darkwing cuck posted:i feel sorry for gibson. reality ruined his writing career Pretty sure I got a free copy of that book in like a dumb door prize kind of deal when I went to see Gibson. Never opened it.
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WildWanderer posted:If you haven't read Neuromancer yet, here's a step-by-step on what you should do: thats because cyberpunk pretty much happened now so you need the extra wackiness of snow crash to make it still feel futury
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killaer posted:I started reading the second book after neuromancer case zero or whatever and it doesnt seem good. Does it get good? It's not as balls to the wall intense as Neuromancer, but when you read Count Zero back to back with Mona Lisa Overdrive the story gets really good. The two books pretty much flow into one another so much so that I have trouble differentiating them. The Sprawl gets fleshed out and turned into something bizarre and almost haunting. I think Count Zero was when Gibson really found his voice, for better or worse. His short stories are a lot more like neuromancer and the Bridge trilogy is more like Count Zero/Mona Lisa. Or you could say it's the moment he stopped giving a gently caress about brevity.
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Aug 18, 2014 23:20
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The future is no where near as fun as I expected. Everybody carries an online computer 1000 times more powerful than anything they imagined in the past in their pocket 24/7 with a high def camera, connected via satellite, and we pretty much type "lol" and watch you tube home videos of cats and half heartedly hit on strangers with it
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Aug 18, 2014 23:32
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i like the bridge trilogy they dope
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darkwing cuck posted:i feel sorry for gibson. reality ruined his writing career That didn't happen to Stephenson. Check out Reamde. best part: A chick kills a jihadist by stabbing his eyes out with a fragment of a Love Actually DVD.
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Aug 18, 2014 23:35
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virtual light is p much google glass: dystopia
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Aug 18, 2014 23:35
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theres way too much sh*t about bikes though jfc
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ilikedirt posted:i like the bridge trilogy they dope He should have put more research into bike messengers. Her futuristic bike had multiple gears and brakes and that's a big no-no.
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naem posted:The future is no where near as fun as I expected. Everybody carries an online computer 1000 times more powerful than anything they imagined in the past in their pocket 24/7 with a high def camera, connected via satellite, and we pretty much type "lol" and watch you tube home videos of cats and half heartedly hit on strangers with it WildWanderer posted:He should have put more research into bike messengers. Her futuristic bike had multiple gears and brakes and that's a big no-no. as usual futurists fail to fully account for the true retardedness of man
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That one dude in neuromancer who could project holograms was pretty cool Also yea snow crash is way awesomer in many regards. I really want to see someone attempt a movie adaptation even though I know it would inevitably suck rear end. There are just so many awesome set pieces and so much crazy poo poo going on in that book. Vv it is poppy as gently caress but that's what makes it so good and unique. free hubcaps fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Aug 18, 2014 23:40
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i never cared much for Snow Crash, it was too colorful instead of dark and bladerunnerish
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Man what is wrong with all of you, both Neuromancer and Snow Crash are awesome, we don't need to fight over it.
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Aug 18, 2014 23:44
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Neauromancer is what would happen if everyone stopped aging at 25 and it was culturally 1984, forever
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inkmoth posted:Man what is wrong with all of you, both Neuromancer and Snow Crash are awesome, we don't need to fight over it. So, in other words, the internet is pointless?
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WildWanderer posted:So, in other words, the internet is pointless? No, people that disagree with me are just obviously wrong 
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Aug 18, 2014 23:49
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is pattern recognition any good i wish i had more time to read some of these books but its so easy to just stop reading and never pick them up again ever
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Aug 18, 2014 23:52
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In the neo gritty dark future only programmers can use the Internet even though it is a badly render low polygon video game, also Asian people are spooky and mysterious instead of like normal and all over the place. Also mercenaries are stylish and high tech and sexy and sometimes they are hot girls, instead of being a bunch of bored fat hillbillies who used to be in the army sitting in a tent somewhere being an overpaid security guard playing candycrush
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Aug 18, 2014 23:53
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The worst thing about Gibson's books is his constant fetishising of Japan's high tech innovation (lol)
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Brb communing with the Loa in Cyberspace
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actually, Neuromancer and Snow Crash are both good 
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Gibson has a new book coming out this year, The Peripheral. It's supposed to be more sci fi than his usual stuff? I'm reading COunt Zero right now and it sure does take its sweet time setting things up. I'm like a quarter of the way through the book and the only thing that has happened is people learned what thing they are going to do in the rest of the book.
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Snow Crash is bad and people recommending it are committing a minor war crime. I'll see you motherfuckers in the Hague.
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