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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
Are you a QOTWer? Do you want to start a thread that isn't a direct answer to the current QOTW? Then this place, gentle poster, is your friend.
( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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William Gibson is good.
But Sci Fi and Fantasy are epically bent. Just because a book is massively long, it doesn't mean you have to be extra clever to read it. There's a very deep strain of hilariously misplaced intellectual grandstanding which is pretty much unique to Sci Fi and fantasy fans.
There's a very good reason that the vast bulk of that stuff is ignored by literature academics. It's because it's shit.
Hope this helps.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:26, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
But Sci Fi and Fantasy are epically bent. Just because a book is massively long, it doesn't mean you have to be extra clever to read it. There's a very deep strain of hilariously misplaced intellectual grandstanding which is pretty much unique to Sci Fi and fantasy fans.
There's a very good reason that the vast bulk of that stuff is ignored by literature academics. It's because it's shit.
Hope this helps.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:26, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
I like Gibson's work because it's not overly-explained
It's also kinda believable, instead of the huge sweep of, say, the Dune books, it takes place in a world you and I could inhabit.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:31, Reply)
It's also kinda believable, instead of the huge sweep of, say, the Dune books, it takes place in a world you and I could inhabit.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:31, Reply)
believabity has fuck all to do with it. Neuromancer's power is in its treatment of the posthuman in the modern gothic.
As any fule kno.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:36, Reply)
As any fule kno.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:36, Reply)
is spouting pretentious bollocks part of you 'persona' or do you mean this shit?
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)
William Gibson is a fucking bent 'cyber' spastic.
Therefore, by association, so are you.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)
Therefore, by association, so are you.
( , Thu 7 Jun 2012, 10:39, Reply)
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