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In the interview/documentary https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Maps_for_These_Territories https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Maps_for_These_Territorie... Gibso
by corysama 5y ago
In the interview/documentary https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Maps_for_These_Territories https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Maps_for_These_Territorie... Gibson is quite self-deprecating. He attributes several aspects of the book that people love to his inexperience as a writer. The main character is cold and vague because he didn’t know how to write a fleshed out character. People jack-in a lot because he was uncomfortable writing scene transitions. Something like “What do you say?? He got up and walked down the hallway to the apartment elevator and out the front door to the sidewalk’?”
- whoopdedo 5y agoReminds me of Gene Roddenberry needing to invent teleporters because the Enterprise couldn't land on a planet.
- noirbot 5y agoWhich is interesting because his descriptions of travel and scene transition in the most recent 5 books of his are deeply flowery and some of my favorite bits of his writing. I suppose writers change and grow over time, and I wonder if some of his style now is due to him trying to fix what he saw as flaws in his earlier work.
- Ekaros 5y agoThey do for example I started to skim through Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon(original release in 1942) and it is pretty horrid, quite badly aged and disconnected... Although it is translation the comments by others aren't exactly praising. Writing is like any pursuit, you just need to do it to develop and become better at it. Just like coding.