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william gibson has gone full grandpa, tactical cargo crocs https://twitter.com/greatdismal/status/1476753625779109892?s=21
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wonder how much it costs to get him to endorse hulk hogan meat shoes
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qirex posted:william gibson has gone full grandpa, tactical cargo crocs i love him and will defend him, with Arms, if needed
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Jonny 290 posted:i love him and will defend him, with Arms, if needed Pretty sure it’s his legs on trial
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qirex posted:william gibson has gone full grandpa, tactical cargo crocs Unca Will'm, has Santa been!? Well, lets have a look little Johnny   https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003298429311.html 
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the tactical diaper bag is still my favorite
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qirex posted:the tactical diaper bag is still my favorite  oh my god
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hes probably just being old and dumb online but like he should be one of the few old people who should know not to be dumb online
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he's a giant lib, very disappointing
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a7m2 posted:he's a giant lib, very disappointing you read agency too, huh?
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a7m2 posted:he's a giant lib, very disappointing what does lib mean in this context. im not super familiar with canadian politics, but i know what liberal means in america (center left lol) and in denmark (solid right). are you saying he votes for rob ford? my biggest issue with agency was the characters telling each other what was happening in the other, which could be fine, it just wasnt well written compared to all the other books he wrote
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https://twitter.com/dezeen/status/1476561713411641350 what is...dezeen?
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Alan Smithee posted:https://twitter.com/dezeen/status/1476561713411641350 Dezeen Uts
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Carthag Tuek posted:my biggest issue with agency was the characters telling each other what was happening in the other, which could be fine, it just wasnt well written compared to all the other books he wrote it wasn't, but i think the problem the cspam set have with it is it implies that electing hilary clinton avoided catastrophe it felt like the blue ant books, but with even less of a point and absolutely no agency on the part of the protagonist infernal machines fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Dec 31, 2021 |
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infernal machines posted:it wasn't, but i think the problem the cspam set have with it is it implies that electing hilary clinton avoided catastrophe NoneMoreNegative posted:The last Gibbo novel, AGENCY
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if the title was ironic, it's brilliant, but he's definitely operating on a level i'm not on
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i picked it up when it came out but haven't cracked it open yet. i just started City Come A Walkin' tonight.
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infernal machines posted:it wasn't, but i think the problem the cspam set have with it is it implies that electing hilary clinton avoided catastrophe wthats weird cause the jackpot happened in "both" worlds just minor differences
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going from a very fuzzy memory here, but the jackpot happened in most of the worlds they can reach. in the protagonist's world it hasn't happened, yet at least, trump's election being one of the triggers. the protagonist of agency, and the timeline they exist in, weren't a part of the peripheral
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oh rightyeah some of them think they can postpone in one world the jackpot as if that will help anyone
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i think that's it, they're playing around because that's what they do, so there's a world that missed the first trigger, and now has a human intellect AI in it. assuming it's going to be a trilogy like his other stories, i'm interested to see how it ends
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infernal machines posted:i think that's it, they're playing around because that's what they do, so there's a world that missed the first trigger, and now has a human intellect AI in it. assuming it's going to be a trilogy like his other stories, i'm interested to see how it ends yea they're good so far imo tho the second one could've used a bit more technical editing re people repeating stuff across the peripheral
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i liked peripheral, didnt like agency currently reading: Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
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shaggar is gonna finish it too because the Europeans think it's bad
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Carthag Tuek posted:hes probably just being old and dumb online but like he should be one of the few old people who should know not to be dumb online he's written about the merger of fashion and tactical gear in his books, so it feels like a split between being a gag gift and him genuinely being amused by the absurdity of them tbf, I've scoffed for years at coats festooned with pockets but come the pandemic got a good winter one and could carry spare everything which came in handy many times
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I've been coasting through agency and finally got around to listening to his short story collection, burning chrome. agency has a lot going on that feels too exposition-y for him. i suspect it went through more rework prior to release under the guise of the 2016 election requiring rewrites, because so far it barely matters besides some throw away comments burning chrome is all rough, fast ideas and the bones of his early novels so far and I like it a lot. the gersback continuum toes a pkd flow my tears line and I really appreciate it just sorta being
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yeah I think he's just old now but the books are atoll good all the shorts especially hinterland are fantastic
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i love the man, he's been my favorite living author since i was in high school in the 90s.
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there's a reason why i have several thousand books and movies in my house and never post in the forums for either on this board.  i'm probably never going to end up in the same area code as him anyway, he doesn't do a ton of appearances and i've recently learned that speculative fiction fandom is somehow even worse than i remember it being so unless i bump into him at the airport it'll never happen.
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im just being online glib, hes still excellent imo
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infernal machines posted:you read agency too, huh? just his twitter feed around the US elections. he's not a bad guy or anything, it's just a little weird and disappointing seeing the biggest cyberpunk author be a centrist (by north american standards)
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probably the best author of that* generation tbh * younger than my dad, older than my cousin
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