Neuromancer

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Permalink Reply by Criss on April 28, 2008 at 4:57pm

*crickets*

I'm guessing this group has a lot more scifi film and TV enthusiasts than literature. Or maybe I'm way out in left field with the 80's cyberpunk reference.

Ah well, there's no accounting for taste.

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Permalink Reply by Baff on April 28, 2008 at 11:15pm

Sorry, closest thing to cyberpunk I have read is Tad Williams. Most the sci-fi I read is the older stuff (Asimov, Heinlein, Doc Smith, etc).

I did take a look at the director for Neuromancer. I see he directed a couple videos for Britney Spears: Greatest Hits. Sounds like he is well qualified to make a sci-fi movie.

Look on the bright side, at least it's not Uwe Boll.

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Permalink Reply by Kurt on July 3, 2008 at 6:24am

yeah this is going to suck. I read Neuromancer, it was a little too heady for my taste. I loved Snowcrash though!

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Permalink Reply by Harbard on July 17, 2008 at 5:30pm

The whole cyber punk genre is......well I don't like it. (trying to be polite).

FYI, the term Cyberpunk was invented by Bruce Bethke. You can download his book "Cyberpunk" here: http://rantingroom.blogspot.com/

He happens to be my neighbor....but I still don't really like his books. (Sorry Bruce.)

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Permalink Reply by meow meow on July 21, 2008 at 4:51am

Well, it's been a while but I've read and liked most of Gibson's books. I started out reading Sci-Fi, and I'm sure there are still plenty of us here that can read... and that even enjoy reading books... right, guys? guys?
But seriously, I love a good SF book, but it's hard to know which way to go after all the obvious talents have been digested, Dick, LeGiun, Heinlein, Asimov, whatever, the list goes on an on.
Is that older stuff, does that mean we're old, Baff?
Point being, eventually I end up in a bookstore where all the shiny covers look the same, and I don't know where to begin to find a new good book. Either that or I'll buy a grocery bag full of used paperbacks at a thrift store; the success rate on that is about 50%, not a great return on time invested. But hey, I'm always up for recommendations. Maybe we -and by we, I mean you :) -could start a thread for a SF book club? We could discuss, recommend, etc.
You know, I first started this group as a Stargate fan club -but quickly realized how limiting and dull that would get. So I changed it to include ALL Sci-Fi, so that we could benefit from having the widest range of topics and conversations. I think it's a good idea to have a thread/forum spefically for discussing SF books.

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Permalink Reply by x3n on September 16, 2008 at 5:50pm

I absolutely loved Neuromancer. Cyberpunk, in my opinion has simply suffered from bad adaptations and consequently thrown to the side. I do think there are a lot of hit movies that owe cyberpunk a huge 'thank you' and have somehow overshadowed its literary roots. "Matrix" trilogy anyone?, please!

I remember X-files doing a couple of particularly crappy episodes, one of them might have been written by Gibson.

J. Kahn might be a sci-fi geek but his credentials betray a future disaster if he's working on Neuromancer, I'm sorry. A fanboy does not a good director make.

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