BonesOfTheMoonWhat other great opening lines do you know?.
BlueZenit hits differently these days, but:
“The sky above the port was the color of a television, tuned to a dead channel” -William Gibson, Neuromancer
I need to read that one of these days
I read it ages ago and enjoyed it immensely. Its influence on everything cyberpunk is clear.
It is a great book and the other two in the trilogy are just as good. I’m going through all of Gibsons works right now. Currently in Agency and loving it.
It’s a trilogy? I didn’t know that. Cool!
A very loose trilogy. They don’t follow the same characters, not really. The world is the same, as are the themes.
Alright, thanks!
Alright that was really good, thank you for sharing it with me!!
I’ve been waiting for the third book in the Jackpot trilogy for what feels like a decade. I hope he finishes it soon.
RememberTheApollo_Just starting his Jackpot trilogy. I watched the series, they canceled it just as it was getting good. Wonder if that has anything to do with the incomplete books.
I believe that the show was cancelling due to a combination of the writers/actors strike and Amazon just having a nagging tendency to cancel expensive shows. The Peripheral does stray from the books a bit, but it was so good. The cancelling of their good shows and their bullshit extra fee to not see ads made me just stop watching Prime Video completely.
The books are excellent though, super excited about the last book (whenever it comes out). They are my favorite books of his since the Sprawl trilogy (aka Neuromancer books).
The characters were great, and the cast worked well, too. Second season people had settled in to their roles and it flowed better. Especially liked Alexandra Billings’ Lowbeer. That androgyny and smiling threat with presence brought to the character was awesome.
Neil Gaiman makes a reference to that in Neverwhere, using ‘TV tuned to a dead channel’ to describe a cloudless blue sky.
Lovely books, horrible human being, apparently. Such a shame
tetris11Never turn people into heroes, it’s an unearned pedestal. People who create works of art are expressing their ideals not their reality.
Separate the art from the artist, and if you do not wish to enrich the artist then torrent their works
Which is why I only own one Gaiman book, and even that was a gift. Even streaming music made by cunts feels bad nowadays… but I remind myself that there’s thousands others out there… so I just block the cunts and move on. (Black metal especially has quite a bit of nazis, unfortunately)
Never turn people into heroes, it’s an unearned pedesta
My approach is similar, but I limit it to living people. Once they’ve passed it’s unlikely much of anything will come to light in the future that changes one’s perspective