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Interesting quote, but this can also be applied to the novel "Pattern Recognition" from Gibson itself. After devouring the Neuromancer Trilogy, I anticipated so
by maze-le 8y ago
Interesting quote, but this can also be applied to the novel "Pattern Recognition" from Gibson itself. After devouring the Neuromancer Trilogy, I anticipated some of the same vision and greatness in this book. Sadly, this is one of Gibsons "most derivative, most removed from the source, most devoid of soul" Work.
- akanet 8y agoI strongly disagree. Pattern recognition broke new ground for Gibson. It was a novel examining the role of information and aesthetics have in shaping a very near-future society. Neuromancer is a grand, outer-space cowboy adventure, with all sorts of interesting technological ideas, but it's certainly distinct from what pattern recognition achieved.
- WalterSear 8y agoIMHO, still his most derivative and soulless. Moreover, it doesn't say anything new about the subject, and the main plot devices artifice were so implausible that I frequently stopped reading to wonder whether Gibson was really just phoning it in, or actually that out of touch/practice.
- pasbesoin 8y agoI, as well, found it and its two sequels quite engaging. It's a different space -- in some ways -- from the Neuromancer trilogy's space. But Gibson approaches it with the same attention and insight. And these days, good lord, "image" is such an enormous factor in our -- increasingly global -- culture.