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Don't forget there's a trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. The other books are just as good, if not better. Although be prepared that i
by ethbr0 5y ago
Don't forget there's a trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive.
The other books are just as good, if not better.
Although be prepared that if you like it too much, there's no more. Gibson typically tires of writing in one style for more than three books.
PS: There's an excellent New Rose Hotel movie that no one has ever seen. Highly recommend reading the short story and watching it. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0133122/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0133122/
- wintermutestwin 5y ago>Don't forget there's a trilogy: Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. Indeed. I wished the article had spent more energy on his masterpiece trilogy...
- prepend 5y agoI actually like the blue ant trilogy better. It was the first novels I read after 9/11 that factored it into the story in a realistic and reasonable way.
- mark_l_watson 5y agoThanks, I just put New Rose Hotel on my watch list. Thanks for the link.
- e12e 5y ago> Although be prepared that if you like it too much, there's no more. Well, there's (most of) the short stories in Burning Chrome, and I don't think the break is that huge for the bridge trilogy. It's a different future from Neuromancer, though. Then again I've yet to read anything by Gibson I didn't like, including the most recent books. So I might not be the best guide... I recommend looking into Bruce Sterling, if you enjoy Gibson - particularly Islands in the Net (if you can find it! I ended up buying an expensive used copy online) and Holy Fire.
- ethbr0 5y agoAFAIK, most of the Burning Chrome short stories were originally published before the Sprawl novels, then later collected in the anthology? (Side note: you can buy original 80s copies of Omni magazine with the first publication for pretty cheap off eBay) Other authors I've enjoyed, coming off Neuromancer-type Gibson: Richard K. Morgan (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies). Closest in tone. For god's sake don't watch the Amazon series for plot. Effinger comes up on a lot of lists, although I haven't read it myself yet. Vernor Vinge (A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, The Children of the Sky). Space opera instead of cyberpunk, but shares early Gibson's "incremental exposition," where you figure things out gradually vs all at once. Tbh, I think the best cyberpunk was always in short story form, and mostly before 1990.
- e12e 5y ago> Richard K. Morgan (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies). Closest in tone. For god's sake don't watch the Amazon series for plot. Also (different setting): Black Man/Thirteen and Thin Air.
- e12e 5y ago> AFAIK, most of the Burning Chrome short stories were originally published before the Sprawl novels I didn't actually realize any of the short stories came out after Neuromancer (1984)(or indeed that the omnibus(1986) did) - but a few were later works: New Rose Hotel July 1984 The Winter Market April 1986 Dogfight July 1985 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome_(short_story_collection)#Contents https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome_(short_story_...
- snovv_crash 5y agoIt's a little different, but I've also really enjoyed Neal Asher (start with Gridlinked) and Iain M Banks (Matter)
- BunsanSpace 5y agoI was of that mind until I read zero history. complete boring slog of a book I had to put down halfway as it didn't get better and I Couldn't do it anymore.
- krylon 5y agoI've seen it. Twice. The first time was a bit of a let-down, but the cast is brilliant, and I have come to appreciate the slow pacing very much.
- 8fingerlouie 5y ago> Although be prepared that if you like it too much, there's no more. There's the entire Bridge trilogi which acts as a kind of precursor to the Neuromancer universe.