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Honestly, this sounds a bit like some of Philip K Dick's work, which was set in the Bay Area after a nuclear war... he wrote it about 50 years before Gibson, th
by pmoriarty 5y ago
Honestly, this sounds a bit like some of Philip K Dick's work, which was set in the Bay Area after a nuclear war... he wrote it about 50 years before Gibson, though I'm sure Gibson must add something original to the mix.
I once asked Gibson whether he was influenced by Philip K Dick, and he said that he didn't read Dick when he was young, and was more influenced by Pynchon instead. Still, despite his denial, he seems to be retreading a lot of ground first covered by Dick himself.
- Apocryphon 5y agoI just started reading Bleeding Edge, which very much reads like a cyberpunk book in terms of dropping dozens of unelaborated references and allusions, or maybe like Douglas Coupland. Though I’d say it feels more like one of Bruce Sterling’s lighter works- Zeitgeist in particular- than something more like classic cyberpunk. (I’ve always associated the genre with brand-dropping, though that happens a ton in John Brunner’s work, which predates Gibson.) Independently, Pynchon also does that often, even in his novels not about high technology.